Josh Darakdjian
@JDarakd
God bless the USA | @noxmetals
Most shops can track a spindle in real-time, but not a $20,000 steel order Materials: the most expensive blind spot in manufacturing
We’re hiring a factory-deployed engineer at Nox Metals. You’ll build quoting, automation, and tracking systems from inside the supply chain. Based in Detroit, shipping real metal every day. jobs.industrion.co/job/1780457-fo…
CNC machining is a $100B+ industry. But before the spindle turns, shops spend hours per job just buying and cutting raw stock. Every year in the U.S.: >$20B in aluminum & tool steel >30%+ waste from offcuts, over-ordering, slow quoting >60% of shops still order material…
I am a cold outreach machine and pamplemousse La Croix is my petrol
Don’t be a stranger. Shoot me or Zane a message and we’ll get material to your shop faster than you can say “United States of America”
HEY MACHINISTS: DM ME YOUR METAL NEEDS. We got into YC to blow up slow, overpriced metal supply for people who machine parts. Let us speedrun your metals supply so you can focus on making parts. Every factory I know waits days for quotes and overpays for blocks and plates.…
There needs to be a highly technical counterintelligence investigation and codebase review. Including a line by line codebase review of every commit made by any engineer in China under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party*. *that would be all of them
Microsoft says it will no longer use engineers in China for Department of Defense work | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/mic…
banger and moreso fail to have any history/comps on the steel. which they pass on to their end customer
Supplying Detroit manufacturers with metals at warp speed & driving supplier competition through the roof after just a few weeks in the space
i love executing. every day i wake up and execute. sometimes i dream about executing. you cannot out execute me
you and your absolute boys can just buy a flatbed truck to next day deliver/pickup raw metals
more factories soon 🇺🇸 🏭 @zanehengsperger is an absolute dog building the fastest processing metals factory in North America at @noxmetals this is how we win, lfg
Is anyone selling a 26ft long flatbed truck? Asking for a friend whose name is NOX
>try to schedule meeting in dc >”sorry I’m at Reindustrialize” >this has happened 11 times Fine, I’m coming to Detroit
The factory of the future is being built today in the good ol’ US of A. Can’t wait to see how this develops
4mo ago: We bought a used forklift & strapped an Ai kit to it 4mo later: We’re moving hundreds of pallets a day in a customers warehouse Yesterday I got 3 requests totaling 100+ forklifts We have to scale right now V2 coming soon
Spoke with hundreds of CNC & injection mold shops over the past few days, the biggest takeaway: “standard” steel/aluminum block lead times often leave machines sitting idle, costing big $$$. Working on a solution @noxmetals
found all the blocks at a customer site visit today
Coming to a machine shop near you @noxmetals
Our first order is complete!!! Now loaded up and time to ship. Time to supply america’s industrial base at the lowest costs and highest speeds. 🇺🇸🪚🏭🤠