SMS group received an order from China’s Sichuan Liuhe Forging Co. for a high-speed, 50/55 MN open-die forging press. The press is a two-column, push-down design and features a table shifter and die shifting unit. Operating with a press force of up to 50 MN and a maximum upsetting force of 55 MN, it is suited to forging high-quality products with finished dimensions within the close tolerance range of ±1 mm.

The forging industry has achieved an impressive place in the North American industrial economy by producing components with unique benefits that are difficult to duplicate by any other metalworking process.

In a recently announced deal that occurred last year, Forged Components Inc. (FCI) of Humble, Texas, acquired hammer-forge and heat-treatment facilities from Houston-based Forge USA. This added eight additional heat-treatment furnaces to FCI's existing furnaces located at its Humble and Navasota, Texas, forging locations. The acquisition, which also included a 16,000-pound polymer quench tank and 30,000-pound water quench tank, has added 300,000 pounds of heat-treating capacity to FCI’s Humble and Navasota sites.

Union Electric Steel Corp., a subsidiary of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp., has been selected by Zhongwang High Precision Aluminum Industry Co. Ltd. (Zhongwang Aluminum) to supply rolls for its new hot-rolling mill. The $4.4 million agreement, which includes forged finishing work rolls and forged roughing work rolls, follows a successful series of trials at Zhongwang Aluminum’s existing manufacturing plant. Shipments are expected to begin in the first quarter of 2018.

Dango & Dienenthal, headquartered in Germany, is a long-standing machinery manufacturer that has a presence in many processes that directly or indirectly involve metal forging.

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

DANFORGE+ is dedicated to the control and automation of open-die forging plants.

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.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp. announced the acquisition of ASW Steel Inc., a specialty-steel producer based in Welland, Ontario, for approximately $13.1 million.