20th International Forgemasters Meeting - IFM 2017

It has been a long time since the tragic accident in Fukoshima. Immediately all large projects went ‘on hold’ for an ‘X’ amount of time, since nuclear power was in question instantly. The skepticism proved to be wrong, since this world needs more energy soon. One efficient possibility is nuclear power, for which many large size forgings are needed. Large presses have been available already during the last century. With turn to 21st century forge masters have decided to use more and more large scale forging manipulators in order to make the production of such large size forgings even more efficient, safe cost and heats. This paper gives some insight to another successful collaboration between plant engineering companies as well as one of the most respected forging units within Asia. Some large size forgings are being discussed and compared to other routes of manufacturing – from forging with a mandrel only, forging with one huge manipulator up to forging with two very large size manipulators at one press.