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As part of our portfolio of services, High-Performance Alloys, Inc. offers open die forging. Our equipment resources include a 750 ton Lake Erie forging press on which we process small lots, which is advantageous for projects that involve prototype, research, and low volume requirements. This press is outfitted with three material handling manipulators and programmable controls with manual override, which allows the operator to manipulate the process to accommodate a broad range of requirements. Along with producing round, square, and rectangular bar, we perform upsetting and planishing of billet, reduce extruded bar to improve grain structure, and convert materials into useful sizes and lengths. We also leverage our forging press to manufacture products such as gears, flanges, shafts, tools, and other items with high strength requirements.

With variable press rate adjustment, our forging process fits many corrosion-resistant, wear-resistant, and high-temperature alloys. Examples include Hastelloy®, Inconel®, Monel®, and Nitronic®. We also process cobalt-based alloys, stainless steel, tantalum, titanium, and others. Our forging press capacity enables us to produce output measuring from as small as 3" in width x 1" in height or as large as 18" in width x 18" in height. Maximum input weight is 3,000 lbs.

Forging improves the grain structure and the density of the raw material. With the grain flow oriented to the shape of the output, properties such as fatigue strength, ductility, and toughness are enhanced. Our engineers can work with you to vary metallurgical properties through alloy selection, output configuration, and other processes. We offer full metallurgical testing for characterizing each batch and confirming it meets your specifications and performance requirements. Other services we provide along with forging include cleaning, grinding, heat treating, machining, and polishing. We produce forged products in compliance with many industry standards. To learn more about our forging capabilities or obtain a quote, contact us directly.
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Specifications

General Capabilities

 N/A Small Parts

Materials

 N/A Cobalt-Based Alloys Corrosion-Resistant Metals High-Temperature Alloys Hastelloy® Inconel® Monel® Nickel Nickel Alloys Nitronic® Stainless Steel Superalloys Tantalum Titanium Wear-Resistant Alloys

Products

 N/A Bars Bearings Blades Flanges Gears Hubs Machine Tools Rods Shafts Shapes Sleeves Tools Upsets Vanes Weldless Rings

Secondary Forging Processes

 N/A Cleaning Grinding Heat Treating Machining Polishing

Additional Services Provided

 N/A Conversion Engineering Metallurgical Testing

Tolerance (±)

 N/A 0.25 in

Equipment List

 N/A Lake Erie 750 Ton Open Die

Production Volume

 N/A Blanket Orders Low Volume Prototype

Lead Times

 N/A Emergency Services Available Quoted on Job By Job Basis Rush Services Available

Efficiency

 N/A Just-in-Time

Forging Weight

Minimum Forging Weight

 N/A 30 lb

Maximum Forging Weight

 N/A 3,000 lb

Forging Width

Minimum Forging Width

 N/A 3 in

Maximum Forging Width

 N/A 18 in

Forging Height

Minimum Forging Height

 N/A 1 in

Maximum Forging Height

 N/A 18 in

Additional Information

Industry Focus

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Industry Standards

 N/A ANSI (American National Standards Institute) ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) AWS (American Welding Society) ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Mil-Spec (Military Specifications) NADCAP (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program) RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances (Compliant)) SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)

File Formats

 N/A AutoCAD (DWG, DWZ) BMP (Bit Mapped Graphics) DXF (Drawing Interchange Format, or Drawing Exchange Format) GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification, ANSI File Format) JPG or JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) PDF (Portable Document Format) SolidWorks (SLDPRT, SLDDRW, SLDDRT) TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

Production Method

Production Method

 N/A Cold (Cold forging involves either impression die forging or true closed die forging with lubricant and circular dies at or near room temperature.)

Die (Open and closed die forging.)

Flat Die (Preferred method for individual forgings. The shaping of a metal, or other material, by an instantaneous application of pressure to a relatively small area.)

Hammered (Forging with the hammer is carried out in a succession of die impressions using repeated blows.)

Hydraulic (Hydraulic forging presses, in which high-pressure fluid produced by hydraulic pumps drives a ram, are about 100 times slower than hammers. They are used for large or complex die forgings and for extrusion.)

Open Die (In open die forging, the workpiece is not completely confined as it is being shaped by the dies. The open die process is commonly associated with large parts such as shafts, sleeves and disks, but part weights can range from 5 to 500,000 lb.)

Press (The process in which a slow continuous pressure is applied to the area to be forged. The pressure will extend deep into the material and can be completed either cold or hot.)

Rotary (Rotary forging produces hollow tube forging, with dimensional control comparable to a machined press forging. A heated preform is transferred to the rotary forging machine, where it is automatically forged into a hollow tube, using numerical control. The machine uses a mandrel to control the internal diameter and concentric hammers.)

Upset (Upset forging is a metal shaping process in which a heated workpiece of uniform thickness is gripped between split female dies while a heading die (punch) is forced against the workpiece, deforming and enlarging the need of the workpiece. A sequence of die cavities may be used to control the workpiece geometry gradually until it achieves its final shape. This is a rapid "cold forming" process.)

Warm (The temperature range for the warm forging of steel runs from above room temperature to below the recrystallization temperature, or from about 800 to 1,800 ºF.)