Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp., announced plans to invest $386 million in its Columbus, Ga., facility to increase the production of parts and maintenance services and to reduce costs for new and existing engine programs.

SMS group received an order from China’s Western Superconducting Technologies Co. Ltd. for a high-speed, two-column, push-down open-die forging press.

Through savvy management and an aggressive product-development strategy, China’s Shandong Wenling Precision Forging has grown from a private company making simple forgings into a publicly traded enterprise making sophisticated precision automotive forgings.

Weber Metals Inc. of Paramount, Calif., ordered two furnaces as part of its 60,000-ton press expansion project.

ThyssenKrupp Rothe Erde GmbH (TKRE), a global manufacturer of slewing bearings and a producer of seamless rolled rings, placed an order with Siempelkamp for a new 6,000-ton upsetting and piercing press.

During World War II, one of the industrial machines sent by the U.S. to the Soviet Union was a large 9-inch high-duty upset-forging machine designed and built by National Machinery Co. of Tiffin, Ohio.

Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd. (SFIL) won a casting contract worth approximately $1.4 million from Ajax-Ceco.

Servo presses have traditionally been used in the sheet-metal-forming industry and are gaining acceptance in the automotive sector by stampers that take advantage of their high output, programmable slide movements and flexibility.

On Oct. 21, 2014, TimkenSteel ran the first heat of metal through its jumbo bloom vertical caster (JBVC) at its Faircrest Steel Plant in Ohio.

Siempelkamp received an order for an open-die forging press and a ring-rolling mill from Union des Forgerons.