Germany’s Lightweight Forging Initiative continues with its Phase II, in which a light commercial vehicle is dismantled and its appropriate component parts are examined for weight-saving by forging, material selection and design parameters.

Gear life depends on many factors, and steel cleanliness is a critical one.

The Lightweight Forging Initiative was formed to emphasize the contributions that forging makes to the automotive megatrend of lightweight design.

Like any advanced manufacturing process or enterprise, process controls are critical in meeting the demanding customer requirements of forged products.

In the 1930s, Friedrich Singer started using a zinc-phosphate coating as a lubricant for semi-finished products in cold-forming processes.

Grain flow is the orientation of grains and inclusions/particles within the metal caused by plastic deformation.

The use of precast refractory is a growing specialty in the refractory industry.

Flash-reduced forging is a promising alternative for the forging of complex heavy-duty parts.

This article – the fourth in our series – concentrates on advanced raw materials, which add shape and value to materials ranging from specialty and microalloyed steels to metal-matrix composites.

Commercial testing laboratories perform a variety of tests that help a forge verify the quality of its output and certify test results to the forge’s customers.