Nox Metals

Nox Metals is a Detroit-based company building tech-enabled factories to streamline the supply of custom-cut metals for North America's industrial sector. Founded in 2025 by Zane Hengsperger, the company aims to resolve inefficiencies in the traditional metal sourcing process. Hengsperger identified that factories often waste time and resources on quoting, sourcing, and cutting materials like aluminum blocks, which creates a slow, manual workflow that negatively impacts margins and throughput.

The company has developed proprietary software to automate and manage quoting, scheduling, and factory operations. This system is designed to significantly reduce lead times and costs for metal fabrication businesses that require custom-cut materials for processes like CNC machining. By integrating artificial intelligence, Nox Metals automates repetitive tasks such as cut planning, inventory selection, and quality assurance, converting hours of manual labor into seconds. Their technology stack includes React, Next.js, Python, Firebase, and Supabase, alongside CAD tools and optimization logic.

Nox Metals participated in the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch, securing $500,000 in an accelerator funding round. The company's business model focuses on supplying custom-cut aluminum blocks, using its software and automation to shorten delivery times from days to seconds. They serve the advanced manufacturing and industrial supplies markets, providing essential components to factories across the United States. Clients can use the company's website to get a quote by entering material type, dimensions, and quantity, with a 3D viewer to visualize the custom block.

Keywords: advanced manufacturing, metal fabrication, software automation, custom-cut metals, industrial supply chain, CNC machining, production management, aluminum supplier, Y Combinator, rapid prototyping