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Cold Forging Manufacturers and Companies

IQS Directory implements a thorough list of cold forging manufacturers and suppliers. Utilize our listing to examine and sort top cold forging manufacturers with previews of ads and detailed descriptions of each product. Any cold forging company can design, engineer, and manufacture cold forging to meet your companies specific qualifications. An easy connection to reach cold forging companies through our fast request for quote form is provided on our website. The company information includes website links, company profile, locations, phone, product videos and product information. Customer reviews are available and product specific news articles. This source is right for you whether it's for a manufacturer of cold steel forging, forging cold materials, and cold forging process.

  • Cleveland, OH

    For over 30 years, we have provided metal forged products for a wide variety of industries, including the aerospace, military, food service, medical, and automotive industries. Our customers know they can trust our forgings for quality and affordability. We will never try to make you pay more than you should for our products. Contact us by phone or email to find out more!

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  • Chicago, IL

    Although we have over 100 years of experience, we are committed to continually expanding our offerings in all industries. We are not content to remain as we are, but we continually work to improve our products and processes each and every day. We will work with you to create the ultimate products for your needs. Find out more on our website, or you can give us a call today!

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  • Spring Grove, IL

    As the leaders in open-die and rolled ring forging, Scot Forge has a 127-year track record of success. From the wheels of NASA’s discovery Mars Rover, to mission critical components for nuclear submarines, to large hydraulic cylinders for the largest mining trucks on the planet, Scot Forge creates the precision forged parts used in demanding applications all over the world. Get in contact with an industry specialist today, and discover how Scot Forge can help with your most critical initiatives!

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  • Traverse City, MI

    Great Lakes Forge specializes in stainless, carbon, H-13 FM open die forgings and alloy steel forgings. We produce ISO-certified blocks, bars, rounds, crankshafts and step-down shafts. We offer rough turning, milling, heat treating and testing. For more information, see our website.

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Cold Forging Industry Information

Cold Forging

Cold forging, also known as cold heading, is a metal forming process that involves the plastic deformation of metal by squeezing the material through an open die using an unheated billet and causing the finished part to assume the shape of the die. Unlike most forging, which is performed hot at temperatures nearing or exceeding 2300 degrees F, cold forging is performed at below the recrystallization temperature of the metal, at anywhere from room temperature to several hundred degrees F.

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Advantages of Cold Forging

Cold forging can have some disadvantages due to requiring high forging pressures, needing several pre-forming steps, and in some cases necessitating several more annealing steps during the process. However, cold forging of a material results in improved material strength because cold forging does not heat stress a material, or change the structure of the material's grain flow as radically. Cold forging services are very precise and also offer a better surface finish than hot forging.

Materials Used With Cold Forging

Cold forging is ideal for the fabrication of many metals including selected aluminum alloys, 300 and 400 series stainless steel, carbon steel, electrolytic copper, brass and bronze. The metal amounts must be fairly small, rarely exceeding 25 lbs., and the ingot, or semi-finished solid metal form that has been cast into a circular shape must be fairly symmetrical. Industries that use cold forging processes include automotive, mining, oil and petroleum, aerospace, electronics, hardware, appliance, agricultural, construction and industrial.

Process of Cold Forging

In the cold forging process an ingot, also known as a slug or billet, is punched through a cold forging die in order to re-form the ingot by means of high pressure rather than high temperatures. The ingot typically requires lubrication in order to be cold forged.

Cold forging is most commonly done using closed die forging. In the closed die or impression forging process metal is pounded or pressed into a desired shape through the use of a press or hammer. Two tooling dies are attached to an anvil and contain a negative 3-D image of the product's end shape. The metal undergoes plasticization until its enlarged sides touch the die sidewalls and then flows to take on the shape of the two dies.



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