Forgers rely on a wide range of equipment to operate efficiently. This includes (but is not limited to): presses, industrial furnaces, material-handling equipment, and testing and measurement equipment.
The Equipment section of the Buyers Guide is broken down into the following eight subsections:
- Facilities & Repair (air pollution control equipment, cooling equipment, hydraulic systems, lubricating equipment, pneumatic systems, vibrating control equipment, welding equipment)
- Forging Equipment (hammers, headers, process monitoring/control equipment), in-press automation devices, radial forging machines, ring-rolling machines, swaging machines, upsetters)
- Furnaces (heat treating, continuous, fuel-fired, induction, resistance, vacuum arc remelting (VAR), walking beam)
- Material Handling (barrel units, conveyors, cranes, die handlers, hoists, manipulators, robots)
- Post-Forging Equipment (boring mills, cleaning equipment, CNC mills, descaling equipment, grinding equipment, lathes, machine tools, parts washers, quenching equipment, vibratory units)
- Pre-Forging Equipment (bar-end heaters, electric heating elements, ovens, saws, shears)
- Presses (hydraulic, mechanical, multi-ram, open die, plate forming, rotary, screw, transfer, trim)
- Test & Measurement (laboratory equipment, temperature measuring equipment, testing equipment, thermocouples)
EQUIPMENT
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