Our Mission Statement

Dixie Machine Tools exists as a partner with manufacturers in the metalworking industry, by offering solutions, lending advice and providing quality machine tool products with exceptional price/performance value, and excellent customer service to help our customers be as sound and productive as possible. 

Since our inception in 1964, Dixie Machine Tools objective has been to provide our customers with the highest quality, state of the art machine tool lines, machine tool accessories, plus quality service and replacement parts when needed.
A family owned and operated company since 1964, Dixie Machine Tools has grown, according to our strategic planning, many times larger than our anticipation. We are privileged to represent some of the very finest machine tools available on the market today on an exclusive franchise basis.
Dixie Machine Tools market stretches from the northern part of Georgia through all of South Carolina, North Carolina and Southern Virginia.

E. Weldon Childress is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dixie Tool.
Mr. Childress's background in the manufacturing industry began in the 1950's with a career in sales. After realizing that there was a need for a distributor business that specialized in metalworking supplies, he founded Dixie Tool in 1964.
Dixie grew over the years, with two divisions eventually forming; Dixie Tool and Abrasives, which dealt in metalworking cutting tools, abrasives and supplies, and Dixie Machine Tools, which deals with the sales and service of metalworking manufacturing equipment.
Under Mr. Childress's direction, both of these divisions grew, as well as did the trade area that Dixie covered, expanding from the upstate of South Carolina to the majority of both North and South Carolina.
In 1978, Mr. Childress founded Dixie Equipment Leasing, Inc., which was formed to assist customers in financing machine tools through a lease/purchase agreement. This company has created a real service to customers and has assisted in many shop start-ups.
In 1991, Dixie Tool sold its Dixie Tool and Abrasives division and began to concentrate solely on the machine tool and machine tool accessory business.
Mr. Childress has been involved in several community projects and has served as past Chairman of the Greenville-Spartanburg Chapter of SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers.)
Dixie Machine Tools now covers the trade area of South Carolina, North Carolina, southern Virginia, and northeast Georgia with showrooms, offices and service departments in Easley, South Carolina, and Burlington, North Carolina.