Unlike most forging, which is performed hot at temperatures nearing or exceeding 2300 degrees F, cold forging is performed at below the re-crystallization temperature of the metal, at anywhere from room temperature to several hundred degrees F. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Anchor Harvey
Freeport, IL | 815-233-3833Anchor Harvey is a one-stop, fully-integrated aluminum forge shop with in-house engineering to assist our customers bring their products to market faster. We’ve been producing dependable products since 1923, and we serve industries including aerospace, medical devices, recreational vehicles, and heavy equipment. When you choose Anchor Harvey, you choose dependability, competitive pricing, and the shortest lead time in our industry.
Anderson Shumaker Company
Chicago, IL | 800-932-0357Although 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.
American Handforge
Rialto, CA | 909-546-1900You should choose American Handforge for your forging needs because we are your one stop shop for titanium, aluminum, and stainless steel open-die forgings. Industries served include aerospace, defense, industrial, electronic, semiconductor, and nuclear. With over 100 years of experience, our our team of engineers, metallurgists and forge masters will work with you to meet your specifications. Contact us today!
Ferralloy Inc.
Cleveland, OH | 440-250-1900For 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.
Ken Forging
Jefferson, OH | 888-536-3674Here at Ken Forging we are a family-owned business who offers our customers high quality forgings. We require no minimum orders and our forgings come in a variety of materials including: stainless steel, carbon steel and more. We provide outstanding technical support and our teams are here to meet your needs by providing same day shipping. You can trust the experts at Ken Forging. Contact us today for more information!
Milwaukee Forge
Milwaukee , WI | 414-744-4565Milwaukee Forge offers products such as gears, shafts, pinions, knuckles, spindles, spiders, yokes, king pins, sprockets, couplings, rings, covers, tie downs, nuts, valves, elbows, flanges, end caps, bearings, ground engaging tools, and many more. It is our mission to be the premier forging partner by demonstrating superior customer value through as many value added services as possible. Contact us today and we'll help you find what you need.
Cold Forging - Anderson Shumaker CompanyCold 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.
Cold Forging - Anderson Shumaker CompanyIn 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.
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.