SMS group received a contract from Avic Guizhou Anda Aviation Forging Co. to supply an additional ring-rolling machine. It will be installed at the company’s plant in Anshun, China. Production is scheduled for mid-2019. The new ring-rolling machine is capable of rolling seamless rings with diameters up to 98.5 inches (2,500 mm) and a maximum height of 31.5 inches (800 mm).

Gulfco Forge Company (GFC) of Beaumont, Texas, purchased the assets of Gulf Coast Machine & Supply Co., also of Beaumont.

VSMPO-AVISMA Corp. granted Germany’s SMS group the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for the supplied ring-rolling plant.

SMS group received an order from China’s Shandong Iraeta Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. (SIHI) for the supply of a newly developed ring-rolling machine for the production of seamlessly rolled rings.

Italian companies Felb, a forging company, and EnginSoft, a design company, collaborated on a simulation for a profiled rolled ring using FORGE NxT^® simulation software by Transvalor. 

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Forgia Rapida, a ring producer based in Bologna, Italy, placed an order with SMS group for a radial-axial ring-rolling machine.

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

This article presents a look at current seamless ring-rolling technology and how it has advanced at Muraro Presse in Italy.