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Cleveland was revisited as the site of Forge Fair 2017 April 4-6. More than 1,600 attendees made their way to the shores of Lake Erie to see the best and brightest that the forging industry had to offer.
For the second consecutive time, Cleveland hosted Forge Fair during the first week of April. The event was a rousing success, as forging industry executives and technical experts from around the world converged on the shores of Lake Erie for three days of exhibitions and technical sessions.
Schuler, based in Göppingen, Germany, received a major order from a U.S. automotive supplier to supply a total of 15 presses, including automation, to plants in the U.S. and Mexico.
SMS group received an order from Zhejiang Wanliyang Transmission Co. Ltd., a gear manufacturer from Hangzhou, China, for a fully automatic, closed-die forging press.
South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction installed a new 17,000-ton steel forging press at its forging plant in Changwon. The press, which replaces a 13,000-ton press, is expected to increase the Changwon plant’s forging capacity by 34%.
Forge Fair 2017 is a full exposition and technical program designed to keep producers and users of metal forgings current on the technologies that affect the industry.
The Cleveland Convention Center will open its doors on April 4 to begin the first day of Forge Fair 2017, which will offer a full trade show and symposium programming.
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.