Many of the North American forging industry’s most talented technical people recently gathered for two days of technology updates and presentations at the Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center in Columbus, Ohio.

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.

With increasingly stringent CO₂-emission standards in the U.S., OEMs and system suppliers are seeking lightweight solutions.

A drawing press that is suitable for both cold- and hot-forming processes has been developed for the forming of titanium parts.

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.

Ellwood Closed Die Group completed a new manufacturing complex at its Navasota facility.

A Turkish manufacturer of high-quality forged products commissioned SMS group to supply a fully automated closed-die forging press.

On a campus-like setting within Warren is Weldaloy Products Company, a copper, aluminum and other nonferrous metal forging and machining company that manufactures custom products according to its customers’ specifications.

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.