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Jernberg Industries Inc. had begun the conversion from its traditional batch forging and finishing processes to a lean manufacturing operation when management decided to conduct a plant-wide energy assessment. Plant [...]

Listed are products and services used in the forging industry alphabetically by product category within headings listed above. Company addresses and phone numbers may be found in the Suppliers Guide. [...]

Listed in this section are addresses and phone numbers of companies that supply materials, equipment, supplies, and services to the forging industry. Listings are alphabetical by company name. Boldfaced companies [...]

After a series of annual forecasts in recent years, in which most forgers predicted they would stay even in the upcoming year, a majority of respondents--53.8% to be exact--are saying [...]

Listed are products and services used in the forging industry alphabetically by product category within headings listed above. Company addresses and phone numbers may be found in the Suppliers Guide. [...]

Listed in this section are addresses and phone numbers of companies that supply materials, equipment, supplies, and services to the forging industry. Listings are alphabetical by company name. Boldfaced companies [...]

Presented here is a list of terms commonly used in the forging industry as selected and defined by Ask Jim columnist H. James Henning. For a more comprehensive listing of [...]

Significant savings in manufacturing costs can be realized by using high-performance hot forged tooling, say officials of Carpenter Powder Products (CPP). CPP employs a proprietary powder metallurgy (PM) consolidation process [...]

Every three years since 1970, the Forging Industry Association has held its Forge Fair, featuring a technology trade show and symposium program. The latest edition in this series is coming [...]

Kropp Forge, Cicero, IL is a forger of aerospace components, known for its expertise with difficult-to-forge materials like titanium, high-temperature nickel and stainless alloys. A vital part of its extensive [...]

Presses built in the mono block design, with a large pitman and cast-steel ram, continue to be the solid basis for precision forging. Today, however, these presses are equipped with [...]

With the financial strength of The Carlyle Group behind it, Firth Rixson Limited is a company on the move. The latest move was revealed on July 26, 2004 when the [...]

There will be winners in the North American forging industry, but there will be losers too. That was one of the predictions of Timothy D. Leuliette, chairman, president, and chief [...]

FORGING's twelfth consecutive annual census is our latest effort to identify and count companies that forge metal in North America. Some industries are able to measure their size and scope [...]

Italy's Fomas industrial group has acquired the French operation, Ovako La Foulerie, formerly a part of SKF. Fomas is a worldwide leader in open-die forging and ring-rolling for the power [...]

ATI Allvac recommissioned its Richburg, SC, superalloy and specialty steel plant, following a project that expands operating capacity and increases value-added processing capabilities. According to Allvac, the improvements include a [...]

Horizon International Group, Taylor, MI, selected Plexus Online as its new Enterprise Business Solution. Horizon produces metal components for a variety of industries using cold forming and machining at divisions [...]

Earlier this year, Rimrock Corp. acquired the assets of Lubrimation Inc., a supplier of die lubrication and automation equipment to the forging industry. Forging interviewed Mike Forster, who joined Rimrock [...]

Wozniak Industries, with forging and other metal working divisions in suburban Chicago, St. Louis, and Tennessee, may be a textbook study of how to conduct business successfully in today's market [...]

Nakamura Iron Works, Nagoya City, Japan, has placed an order with SMS Meer, Monchengladbach, Germany, for the supply of an 8,000-t open die forging press. This strategic investment, the largest [...]

Seventy-eight forging companies participated in the Occupational Injury and Illness Survey and Awards Program of the Forging Industry Association for the 2003 calendar year. When the survey results were tallied, [...]

Workplace air quality has become an important issue to employers and employees. Bath simple and complex manufacturing processes generate pollutants that produce harmful airborne particles throughout the workplace, affecting bath [...]

The Forging Industry Association recently released 'The Forging Advantage, Critical Component Technology,' a new CD-ROM that presents the forging process in a fast-paced, easy-to-understand format. Available for purchase and use [...]

Q What can you tell us about the design of tooling for cold or warm forging of parts that are similar to bevel gears, spur gears, and universal joint crosses. [...]

Utica Metal Products, Utica, NY, is a major supplier of high-end nameplates, aluminum wheel caps, and aluminum forgings to the automotive industry. The company owns a 40,000-sq-ft plant and has [...]

Precision Castparts Corp. (PCP) achieved solid operating margins across its four segments during the first quarter of fiscal 2004, despite continued weakness in aerospace and industrial gas turbine (IGT) markets. [...]

April 6-12 18th Intl. Forging Congress Nagoya, Japan April 13 Safety Workshop & Roundtable Chicago May 7-10 FIA Annual Meeting Phoenix May 17-18 Fundamentals of Forging Metallurgy Cleveland June 13-16 [...]

Raising the awareness of the forging industry among public officials is one of the objectives of FIA's Strategic Plan and operating goals. To that end, a second annual FIA Lobby [...]

The Forging Industry Association will hold a two-day clinic on 'Real-World Solutions for Non-Ferrous and Ferrous Forging,' February 8-9, 2005, in Newport Beach, CA. The program for the first day [...]

November 4 Induction Heating Workshop Cleveland November 9 Gathering Intl. Competitive Intelligence Cleveland November 11 Die Lubrication Workshop [...]

The Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation (FIERF) has announced the FIERF Forging Achievement Award Recipients for 2004. These students, under guidance of their professors and forging industry company partners, [...]

Dr. Joachim Schonbeck, formerly a division head at SMS Demag AG, Dusseldorf, Germany, has moved to the management of SMS Meer Gmbh in Monchengladbach. He will assume the chairmanship from [...]

Haynes International Inc. has emerged from bankruptcy a little more than five months after filing for protection from more than 7,000 creditors with debt of $362 million. The move resulted [...]

J. Dan Lazar, formerly with Bemcor Inc., has established Lazar Sales, in Hammond, IN, to manage forging equipment sales for Bemcor. Lazar Sales offers the Ficep Forging Equipment as well [...]

Firth Rixson Ltd. has acquired Schlosser Forge Co. Schlosser, in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, specializes in forging seamless rolled rings, primarily for aerospace applications. The terms of the deal were not [...]

Forging Industry Association was honored by R&D Magazine in its annual R&D 100 Awards, presented each year to the 'most significant technological innovations.' FIA was recognized for the Advanced Heating [...]

Q I have been manufacturing a slotted hex nut out of 4340 alloy steel heat-treated to Rc 32-38, for a government customer. I buy the material in bar form and [...]

A one-day seminar on induction heating for forging will be held at the Sheraton Cleveland Airport Hotel on Thursday, Nov. 4. Training will be generic and applicable to all sizes [...]

Company managers, sales and marketing executives and representatives, and anyone else interested in hearing about the key issues impacting sales and marketing in the forging industry should attend the FIA [...]

Important subjects are combined with a new condensed format for the 2004 Fall Meeting of Members at the Itasca/Chicago Doral Eaglewood Resort (formerly known as Nordic Hills Resort) on October [...]

Todd Wozniak, 36, was promoted to president of Wozniak Industries, Oakbrook Terrace, IL. The company owns Commercial Forged Products in Bedford Park, IL and other manufacturing operations in St. Louis, [...]

The Forging Industry Association will sponsor a special one-day seminar on 'How to Gather, Interpret, and Apply International Competitive Intelligence in Your Business.' The seminar will be presented by Robert [...]

Firth Rixson Limited, a provider of engineered forged, cast, and other specialty metal products and a holding of The Carlyle Group, has announced it has signed an agreement to begin [...]

Lincoln Forge, a closed-die impression forger in Wyandotte, MI, has announced its successful certification to TS-16949:2002. Monica Magnusson, vice president business operations, states, 'TS was difficult to obtain, but worth [...]

When the Forging Defense Manufacturing Consortium scheduled a one-day Jobshop Lean orkshop for Cleveland in February, it found that the event was so popular it had to be scheduled for [...]

Final revised figures showing 2003 sales of metal forgings produced by independent (custom) forging plants in the United States, Canada and Mexico have been released by Forging Industry Association (FIA). [...]

Four trustees have been elected to Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation's (FIERF) board of trustees for three-year terms. They are: Joseph F. Cipriani, president, Keystone Forging Co., Northumberland, PA; [...]

Over 180 people attended the 25th Forging Industry Technical Conference held in Detroit April 19-21. Participants came away with the latest developments in industry research, new networking contacts, and table-top [...]

APRIL 19-21 Forging Industry Technical Conference Detroit MAY 11 Die Lubrication Workshop Chicago MAY 15-18 FIA Annual Meeting Vancouver, BC JUNE 14-17 Basic Principals of Forging and Die Design Cleveland [...]

The FIA will hold its 35th Basic Principles of Forging and Design course at the Residence Inn in Cleveland on June 14-17. To date, more than 1,000 people in the [...]