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Power Source & Utility Input
Utility power arrives at medium voltage and gets stepped down at the campus substation.
We’ve machined and plated the busbar, forged the terminals and grounding hardware, and cast the enclosures.
INDUSTRIES / POWER SYSTEMS
Electrification
& Energy
The components behind the grid — and the AI build-out on top of it.
Manufacturers of switchgear, busway, transformers, cooling systems and battery storage build with our parts — across three continents.
MES delivers the die cast, machined, forged and extruded components that critical power equipment is made of, with our own engineers inside the supplier factories in eight countries, on the day your parts run.
GLOBAL PRODUCTION
REC // MES ENERGY
SYSTEMS // ACTIVE
8
MARKETS SERVED
Data centers · grid · storage · power conversion · generation · renewables · EV charging · industrial
200+
COMPONENTS
Machined, cast, forged and extruded across the power chain
±0.013 mm
ON CRITICAL FEATURES
Verified by CMM in the plant that made the part
5
PROCESSES
Die casting · investment casting · machining · forging · extrusion
SWITCHGEAR
BUSBAR
COLD PLATES
TRANSFORMER HARDWARE
UPS ENCLOSURES
BESS CABINETS
COPPER
ALUMINUM
BRASS
ZINC
SWITCHGEAR
BUSBAR
COLD PLATES
TRANSFORMER HARDWARE
UPS ENCLOSURES
BESS CABINETS
COPPER
ALUMINUM
BRASS
ZINC
COMPONENT MAPS
Seven Tiers. We Make Parts in All Seven.
A data center is a compressed copy of the grid, built indoors on a two-year schedule. Roughly a third of planned 2026 openings slipped, and it was electrical equipment that held them up — not chips. Here’s where our components sit in it.
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Power Distribution & Transformation
Transformers and switchgear move power through the building.
Machined copper conductors for medium-voltage breakers — a thousand parts recovered in eight months when a supplier shutdown hit an active program. Plus mechanism housings, cradles and enclosure framing.
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Backup Power Generation
Generators carry the site when the utility drops.
Engine and alternator brackets, exhaust manifold flanges, radiator coil frames and canopy framing. We supply the metal around the engine, not the engine.
04
Power Conversion & Storage
UPS systems and batteries condition power and bridge to generator start.
Machined and plated interconnect busbar, die cast module end plates under compression load, cooling plates and cabinet framing.
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Cooling Systems
Liquid cooling moved from the room to the rack to the processor.
Skived copper cold plates, machined CDU manifolds, investment cast pump volutes, extruded heat sinks.
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IT Infrastructure & Rack Systems
Racks hold the equipment and route power to it.
Extruded frames and mounting rails, die cast structural brackets, cable management, forged seismic anchors.
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IT Hardware & Workloads
Servers and accelerators — where the heat is generated.
Heat sinks, cold plates, chassis and structural parts. The thermal and structural content, not the electronics.
Seven Tiers. Five Processes. One Contract.
Most component suppliers appear in one tier, which is why a data center build touches a dozen of them. Sourcing across all seven from one partner means one qualification, one set of documentation, one planner — and one number to call when a tier goes quiet.
TRUSTED BY
When the Schedule Was Already at Risk
Nobody changes a component supplier because things are going well. They change because a plant closed, a lead time doubled, or a part that was never a risk suddenly became one. That is the call we usually get. Here is what happened next.
Eaton — a thousand parts, eight months, no line stoppage
A sudden manufacturing shutdown hit Eaton’s VCP-W medium-voltage circuit breaker program. MES qualified replacement supply and cleared a backlog of nearly one thousand parts in under eight months, taking annual output from 3,000 units to more than 40,000.
The parts were high-tonnage aluminum die castings with selective tin and silver plating. We nearsourced them to a partner in Eaton’s own backyard — cutting lead times and removing tariff exposure in the same move.
Eaton — twenty-plus locations, one inventory program
Eaton operates in more than 170 countries. MES now runs a fully managed inventory program across twenty-plus of their facilities, holding stock against their build schedule rather than our shipping schedule.
Acuity Brands — twelve weeks of working capital released
The component was right. The supplier was qualified. The tooling was dialed in. And twelve weeks of inventory was sitting behind it because nobody had revisited the program since it launched. MES restructured it and released the capital without touching delivery performance.
WHY MES
Why Power Equipment Manufacturers Change Suppliers
Because the parts that stop a build are never the ones anyone was watching.
A core assembly gets a sourcing manager, a dual-source plan and a quarterly review. A twelve-dollar bracket gets a purchase order. That allocation is rational on cost and backwards on schedule — and it is why plants go down waiting on hardware nobody had on a risk register.
We make the parts nobody was watching. Five processes, one relationship, one set of documentation.
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WE REVIEW THE DRAWING BEFORE THE TOOL IS CUT
A plating callout with no thickness. A bore that cannot hold as-cast. You hear it in five business days, at no cost, while it is still a print.
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WE MEASURE IN THE PLANT THAT MADE IT
CMM at source on the parts that ship — not on your dock, and not on a first article made under conditions the production run will never see.
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WE OWN THE INVENTORY UNTIL YOU DRAW IT
Stock in Columbus, Monterrey and Poland. Your line pulls in days, on min-max or consignment, from inventory on our balance sheet.
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WE EMPLOY THE ENGINEERS IN THE FACTORY
Eight countries, our own payroll, on the floor the day your parts run. Not a quarterly audit the factory prepared for.
CAPABILITIES
What We Make, and How
A single medium-voltage switchgear cabinet needs all five processes. Sourcing them separately means five qualification cycles, five audits and five sets of documentation.
Die Casting
Mechanism housings, enclosures, tap-off boxes, cooling plates, fan shrouds. Aluminum and zinc, thin wall, EMI shielding inherent.
Investment Casting
Trip latches, contact carriers, valve bodies, pump volutes, exhaust flanges. Near-net shape in 17-4PH, CF8M and high-temperature alloys.
CNC Machining
Copper busbar, bushing wells, cold plates, manifolds, heat sink bases, turret flanges. Multi-axis in copper, brass, aluminum and stainless.
Forging
Lifting and jacking lugs, operating shafts, terminal lugs, anchor rods. Grain flow following the load path, certified per heat lot.
Extrusions
Radiator panels, heat sinks, busway housings, cabinet framing, rack rails. Custom profiles, precision straightened where the standard is not tight enough.
METALLURGY
The Right Metal for the Job
This is the sector where material choice is an electrical decision, not just a structural one.
Cu
Copper
C11000 at 100% IACS. Busbar, bus stabs, bushing studs, cold plates, ground pads — plated at the joint face, where the current actually crosses.
Cu+Zn
Brass
C36000 where machinability governs over conductivity. Terminal studs, port fittings, quick-disconnect bodies.
Al
Aluminum
6101-T6 for conductors. 6063 and 6005A for housings and structural framing. A380 for die cast enclosures. 6061 for machined thermal parts.
Zn
Zinc
Zamak 3 and 5 for intricate cabinet hardware and cycle-rated latches. Note it is 2.4 times the density of aluminum, which surprises buyers on freight.
Fe
Steel & Stainless
Galvanized forgings for outdoor load-bearing hardware. 17-4PH for high-cycle fatigue. CF8M and 316 where corrosion or hot oil demands it.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Are We a Fit? Here Is Both Answers.
Procurement teams are told yes constantly. The fastest way to be believed about what we can do is to be highly specific about what we cannot.
Where We Are The Right Answer
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Capacity that scales globally.
Die casting, investment casting, forging, extrusion and CNC machining under one contract, across eight countries, with our own engineers on the floor.
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Live shortages and supplier failures.
When you need someone qualified against a live shortage rather than a leisurely planning cycle.
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Consolidating complex assemblies.
When one assembly needs three or four processes and you are managing three or four relationships to get it.
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Revisiting legacy hardware.
When the part has to be right for thirty years and nobody has looked at the drawing since it was released.
Where We Are Not
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Domestic melt and pour.
If your specification requires it, a domestic mill wins. We will say so on the first call and point you toward one.
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ITAR and NQA-1 nuclear.
Not our lane. Pretending otherwise costs you six weeks of schedule and significant qualification burden.
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The parts inside the parts.
Core laminations, windings, bushings, power electronics. We make the custom structural metal around them.
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Very low volume hard-tooled parts.
Below a few hundred pieces a year, the tooling amortization rarely works in your favor. We will tell you.
Most of the time none of these negative constraints apply, and we get on with it.
Why
MES
The MES difference
How
most suppliers manage quality
How
MES manages quality
Inspect
at the receiving dock
Verify
at the source, inside the factory
Rely on
the supplier's self-reporting
Put MES
engineers on the production floor
Discover
defects after delivery
Catch
and correct drift during the run
Hand you
the documentation to chase
Deliver
CMM, FAIR, and material certs with the order
Escalate
only when something breaks
Communicate
status proactively, every step
Every account gets a dedicated supply chain specialist and planner who own quality, inventory, and on-time delivery as one program.
FAQ
Electrification & Energy FAQs
Across four equipment families: transformer and switchgear hardware including bushing wells, relief valves, forged lifting lugs, radiator sections and mechanism housings; critical power components including copper busbar, bus stabs, busway housings, tap-off boxes and UPS enclosures; liquid cooling components including cold plates, CDU manifolds and heat sinks; and storage and standby components including cabinet framing, module end plates, interconnect busbar and generator enclosure hardware.
GET STARTED
Send Us One Drawing.
Quote in 3–5 business days. Full cost breakdown including tooling, piece price, and logistics.
Manufacturability feedback in 5. A plating callout with no thickness, or a bore that cannot hold as-cast — you hear it while it is still a print.
Straight answers. We will tell you what will hold as specified, what will not, and where we are the wrong supplier entirely.
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