20th International Forgemasters Meeting - IFM 2017

Michael A. Kamnikar1, John Cain2 and John R. Paules3 1 North American Forgemasters, New Castle, PA, USA e-mail: mkamnikar@naforgemasters.com, Web page: www.naforgemasters.com 2 Scot Forge, Spring Grove, IL, USA e-mail: jcain@scotforge.com, Web page: www.scotforge.com 3Ellwood Group, Inc., Ellwood City, PA, USA e-mail: jpaules@elwd.com, Web page: www.ellwoodgroup.com North American...

FUJI OOZX Inc. (OOZX), who are pursuing their global growth in the field of automobile engine valve production, further improving quality of the valves, had installed the world's state-of-the-art Multi-functional Hydraulic Press that made it possible to make wide variety of forging. This report describes the characteristics of the state-of-the-art equipment and of the effect of quality...

Production of calibrated rolls for steel industry in the Forge Division began in 70’s and have lasted incessantly. Rolls made of forged steel are able to work in extreme conditions and can transfer heavy loads. In the past few years technology of roll production has changed in Forge Division of CELSA Huta Ostrowiec. Now we are able to offer rolls with improved properties. We produced...

Electroslag Remelting (ESR) furnaces with electrode exchange techniques offer the possibility to produce large-sized ingots with homogenous, dense structures, high cleanliness levels and desired mechanical properties for high quality materials. ESR units that form one large ingot from multiple electrodes require electrode exchange techniques and typically utilize an ingot withdrawal system....

**ABSTRACT** In recent years, regenerative burner is adopted to improve the combustion efficiency for heating furnaces. Typically, the heat storage media for this burner have the shape of ball or honeycomb, and are made from alumina or cordierite. TYK focuses on Silicon Carbide (SiC) for heat storage media. It is because SiC has lower thermal expansion, higher strength, higher thermal...

Continuous demand for improvements in the forging industry makes life-cycle-cost of industrial equipment an essential focus for the plant operator. As the forging process by nature is an extremely energy consuming process, one of the biggest parts of the operating costs are energy costs. In conventional hydraulic press drives for forging presses the pumps are running on fixed speed and the...

A key point to satisfaction in the industrial sector is energy savings as well as maintenance friendliness as far as vital part of a production is concerned. DANGO & DIENENTHAL has proven over decades to be ahead in this field. All machinery is customized and of modular design. This ensures a most compact and flexible solution, which in turn generates the least-expensive operating cost in the...

High pace rate progressive reduction is the core of traditional radial forging process. Design based on eccentric shafts or crankshafts with mechanical synchronization of the 4 hammers has no equal in terms of precision, rigidity, speed. However, each single deformation is short and typically does not allow the plastic field to reach the center of the work piece. Therefore, unless hollow...

Danieli’s mission is to provide the most technologically advanced Forging plants with new installation and with appropriate modernization using parts of existing plants. Increase, the capacity 'of the existing plant is one of the goals more' challengers for the Danieli Team. In this direction such as the most challenging is surely the opportunity 'to increase in existing plants: -1) ...

The open-die forging unit consists of a respective forging press with hydraulic drive and one or two forging manipulators. A properly conceived manipulator increases productivity and quality in the sphere of open-die forging significantly. In addition to the proces of manipulation with ingot and forging throughout the forging operation, the manipulators are included in the integrated forging...

Continuous development in materials, processing and joining technology opens up new possibilities for the application and optimization of forged parts with more complex structures. In particular, extrusion processes and the use of higher-alloyed, or micro-alloyed steels, which are becoming increasingly important in the production of high-quality forgings, present challenges for the...

There are three important points in heat treatment: agitation – agitation – agitation ! However, the speed in handling plays an important role in such a plant as well. The necessity to change the product range and sometimes also the layout of a plant some times, generated an idea of a movable tank in a self supporting structure with an integrated handling system to quench the material in less...

Danieli’s mission is to provide the most technologically advanced Forging plants available in terms of machinery and production processes in order to meet market challenges. The value in Danieli FORGING TOOLS technology is to enable the processing of materials at technological limits, execute automatic forging sequences, guarantee process repeatability, higher productivity and ultimately...

Various routes for manufacturing of high quality steel grades at small to medium batch sizes are examined. Special attention is paid to process features with respect to refining flexibility and production costs. It will be shown how the combination of cost effective melting furnaces with subsequently performed refining processes in a Vacuum Induction Degassing (VID) unit provide means to...

The energy efficiency in forging technology is an ongoing task for the forging industry due to global challenges (resource availability, environmental impact), legislative decrees (eco-design of products) and national projects (energy transition). An eco-design of energy-using products is required as described in the European directive 2009/125/EC. As continuously rising energy prices put a...