Canton Drop Forge, Inc.

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Canton, OH  |  330-477-4511

Canton Drop Forge located in Canton, Ohio was founded in 1903 and has been part of the forging industry for over 100 years. We have been leaders in the innovation of railways, aerospace, and the automobile industry. In the early years of what was known as The Canton Drop Forging and Manufacturing Company, we manufactured parts for railroad tools and horse and buggy hardware from a small 50’X100’ building with two forging hammers. Our forgings are used in critical applications where there is zero tolerance for failure. As a modern forging company, we specialize in manufacturing precise and durable forgings for different markets including Aerospace, Transportation, Off-Highway and others. In this section, you can browse through the markets we serve and see a sampling of the products and forging solutions we provide for some of the world's leading companies. Canton Drop Forge is committed to providing our customers with information about forging and our forging processes. Learn about the history of forging and some of the new techniques and technology that continues to fuel the industry.

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Cold Forging

Cold Forging

Cold forging is a metal shaping & manufacturing process in which bar stock is inserted into a die and squeezed into a second closed die. The process, completed is at room temperature or below the metal‘s recrystallization temperature to form a metal into a desired shape or configuration...

Forging

Forging

Forging is a metal working process that manipulates, shapes, deforms, and compresses metal to achieve a desired form, configuration, or appearance outlined by a metal processing design or diagram...

Open vs Closed Die Forging

Open vs Closed Die Forging

In this article, there are key terms that are typically used with open and closed die forging and it is necessary to understand their meaning. Forging is a process in manufacturing that involves pressing, hammering, or...

Rolled Ring Forging

Rolled Ring Forging

Rolled ring forging is a metal working process that involves punching a hole in a thick, solid, round metal piece to create a donut shape and then squeezing and pressuring the donut shape into a thin ring...

What is Forging?

What is Forging?

The ancient art of forging falls into two distinct categories – hot and cold where hot forging has been around for centuries while cold did not begin until the industrial revolution of the 19th Century. Though they are quite different ...

Aluminum Casting

Aluminum Casting

Aluminum casting is a method for producing high tolerance and high quality parts by inserting molten aluminum into a precisely designed and precision engineered die, mold, or form. It is an efficient process for the production of complex, intricate, detailed parts that exactly match the specifications of the original design...

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