Hot Metal Forging has evolved over centuries from the ancient blacksmith with a hammer and anvil, into a modern engineered process that uses sophisticated production equipment.
Using great pressure, metal is pressed, pounded, or squeezed into high strength parts known as forgings. Hot forged components and parts can vary in size, shape, and sophistication. Anything from a hammer and wrench to components in a NASA space shuttle.
Hot Forging is able to produce heading bolts and other fasteners that are much stronger than an equivalent cast or machined part. It is for this reason that forgings are often used where reliability and human safety are critical.
OUR HOT FORGING MACHINES
Hammers have a driving force of up to 50,000 pounds and use that force to pound the metal into the desired shape with controlled high pressure impact blows.
Hot Forging Presses have a driving force of up to 50,000 tons and use that force, in a controlled high pressure environment, to squeeze the metal into the needed shape vertically. Upsetters are basically hot forging presses used horizontally. Ring rollers turn a hollow round piece of metal under extreme pressure against a rotating roll, thereby squeezing out a one piece ring without requiring any welding.
- 3″ Ajax Upsetter
- 3″ Acme Upsetter
- 3″ National Upsetter
- 2″ Hill Acme Upsetter
- 1 ½” National Upsetter
- Sutherland 660 Vertical Press
- Bliss 308 Punch Press
- National Maxi-Press
- Bliss 21½M Punch Press
- Niagara A52 Punch Press
- Ferracute Punch Press
- 1 ½” National Upsetter
