The Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation (FIERF) works to connect educational institutions and the forging industry through future workforce development, promoting the advantages of forged products, facilitating technology transfer and promoting applicable research.

Derek Stake is the forge manager at Mid-West Forge Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio.

FIERF is proud to announce its new website, www.fierf.org, which is meant to be a resource to connect students, parents and educators to the forging supply chain with information tailored to their interests and needs.

One of FIERF’s missions is to promote the education of future engineers who will serve the forging and related metals-processing industries. To this end, one of the Forging Foundation’s major annual philanthropic projects is the financial and logistics support it provides the ASM Materials Camp for Teachers.

Incredible industry disruption is accelerating the rate at which major auto suppliers must spin off, divest and merge businesses related to the internal combustion engine.

For those who have been keeping tabs on the automotive industry, the electrification of cars is not news. What may surprise you, however, is just how quickly, ruthlessly and thoroughly electrification is taking over the industry.

This FIERF-sponsored project experimentally investigated some of the fundamental aspects of using forging or other deformation techniques as post-processes to additively manufactured (AM) metals.