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AAM Forms Joint Venture in China

American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) and Liuzhou Wuling Automobile Industry Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Guangxi Automobile Group Co. Ltd...

Forged Components Inc. Acquires Forge USA Assets

In a recently announced deal that occurred last year, Forged Components Inc. (FCI) of Humble, Texas, acquired hammer-forge and heat-treat...

ATI to Expand Isothermal Forging, Heat-Treating Capacities

Allegheny Technologies Inc. announced that its board of directors approved an investment to expand its isothermal forging and heat-treati...

Republic Steel Positioned to Restart Facility, Bring Back 1,000 Jobs

Republic Steel announced that it is positioned to restart its Lorain, Ohio, facility, including its idled electric-arc furnace,...

Dana to Combine with GKN’s Driveline Division

Dana Incorporated of Maumee, Ohio, signed agreements to combine with the Driveline division of GKN plc (U.K.) to create Dana plc, a globa...

Advanced Quench-and-Temper Facility in Full Production at TimkenSteel

The new advanced quench-and-temper facility (AQTF) heat-treatment line supplied by SMS group to TimkenSteel at its Gambrinus Steel Plant ...

Bodycote, Safran Enter into Agreement

Bodycote entered into a long-term agreement with Safran, a Tier-1 supplier of systems and equipment in the aerospace market. Under the ag...

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Presses

New Designs in Ring Rolling

Georg Obermaier Simon Scherrenbacher

After several successful projects in the field of train-wheel manufacturing, Schuler Group is now offering complete systems for the production of seamless rings. …

Residual Stresses: Friend or Foe?

M. Burak Toparli Sezgin Yurtdas Emrah Kılınçdemir Barıs Tanrıkulu

Residual stresses are inherently introduced to forged products during their deformation. These stresses influence the integrity of load-bearing parts. Their effects depend on their nature (tensile or compressive), location and …

Simulation/Information Technology

Simulation as a Sales Tool in Forging: When is it Worth it?

Ralitsa Peycheva

Simulation in the forging business has numerous advantages. Increasingly, manufacturing companies are acquiring state-of-the-art software products so that they are able to understand, discuss and digitally represent a customer's design …

Forging Quality Control

Gaining Competitive Advantage in 2018 and Beyond

Ron Beltz

Forging companies are often faced with the decision about whether to add services to offer their customers. The investment in and addition of, for example, heat treating or machining service …

Forging Quality Control

Failure Analysis to Discover,Mitigate Disastrous Crack Propagation

Michael Bak

Structural cracks are everywhere. What can be done about it, and how do we identify them? We will learn how to determine the potential for failure from crack propagation due …

Heating

Achieving High Value in Kiln Insulation and Furnace Refractories

Steve Chernack

In any manufacturing process involving a kiln or furnace, the need for consistency is key to ensuring right-first-time components, whether this applies to processing temperatures, atmospheric content or the overall …

Heating

Hybrid Heating: Induction + Gas Furnace vs. Gas Furnace + Induction

Dr. Valery Rudnev

Under certain circumstances, hybrid heating using both gas and induction furnaces can be desirable and cost-effective. The issue of whether to use induction followed by gas heating or gas heating …

Partners

Technology and Workforce Development Summits

Two of the most pressing issues in our industry are the development of technology and finding the next generation of employees who will be using that technology to grow companies' global competitiveness.

Legal Ease

Gun Rights in the Workplace

David Resser

This month's column will include six points to take into account for the creation or modification of any gun-possession regulations that your company may be contemplating.

Classifieds

Commentary

FIA Lobby Day to Discuss Key Forging Industry Issues

On April 17-18, FIA members will participate in the 15th annual FIA Lobby Day to meet with their members of Congress to discuss key forging industry issues that directly impact their business.

Editor's Page

Tariffs Enacted

Dean M. Peters

On March 1, the U.S. and global business communities, their financial markets, the U.S. Congress and many in the Trump Cabinet and White House were surprised to learn that the President was considering the imposition of tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.

Commentary

FIA Moves Forward in 2018

James R. Warren

Thank you to everyone in the forging industry for the warm welcome, including our friends at FORGE magazine, which provides an excellent outlet for our association's news and programs.

Commentary

Ripple Effect: The Spreading Influence of FIERF Funding

By encouraging cooperation among academia, industry and government, Forging Industry Education and Research Foundation (FIERF) funding provides the seeds for widespread strengthening of the forging industry.

FORGE Magazine

2018 April

The April 2018 issue of FORGE features our cover story on new designs in ring rolling, along with features on simulation software as a sales tool, residual stresses, and much more.

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