Experts in Forging
Different products require different metalworking processes. American Handforge provides open die forgings, special shape or bent forgings, and forged rings. Depending on your product needs and specifications, we're happy to work with you in finding your solution.
For forgings and special-cut forgings, American Handforge can process your material in a way that optimizes its performance characteristics. Whether cold work, cross-grain, hot forge, upset, upset & cross-grain, or warm work, talk to us about which method will work best for you.
Forging Techniques
Permanent plastic deformation of a metal at a temperature below its recrystallization point — low enough to produce strain hardening. Usually, but not necessarily, conducted at room temperature. Also referred to as cold forming or cold forging. Contrast with hot working.
To restrike a forging cold in order to hold to closer tolerance, sharpen corners or outlines, reduce section thickness, flatten a particular surface, increase hardness, or add lettering.
Preliminary working of forging stock in alternate planes, usually on flat dies, to develop mechanical properties — particularly in the center portions of heavy sections.
Same as hot working — plastically deforming an alloy at a temperature above its recrystallization point, i.e., high enough to avoid strain hardening.
A method of forming parts by pressing a heated slug, cut from wrought material, in a closed-impression die.
A combination of Cross-Grain forging — work done on alternate planes — and Upset Forging, used to increase the cross-sectional area of a portion or all of the stock.
(1) A forging made by upsetting an appropriate length of bar, billet, or bloom. (2) Working metal to increase the cross-sectional area of a portion or all of the stock. (3) A forging formed by heading or gathering material by pressure upon hot or cold metal between dies operated in a horizontal plane. This method is not used as frequently for copper alloys as it is for steels, for example, due to the ability of copper to be easily extruded.
Deformation at elevated temperatures below the recrystallization temperature. The flow stress and rate of strain hardening are reduced with increasing temperature; thus, lower forces are required than in cold working. For steel, temperatures range from about 1000°F to just below the normal hot working range of 1900 to 2300°F.
It's important, when designing a new product or redesigning an existing one, that you select the process that will deliver the right material properties for you. Our vast forging capacity means American Handforge can handle your work — whether it's an order of 1,000, or one.