A 50,000-pound hammer has become operational at Canton Drop Forge in Perry Township. The hammer is part of an $18.5 million investment, allowing the company to produce larger parts. Canton Drop Forge ...

This section of the industry may be classified as jobbing with quantities generally small varying from one off to perhaps 100 off. Tooling for producing open die work may consist of flat or shaped ...

I visited master blacksmith Torbjörn Åhman to forge a rounding hammer. Watch the full hammer-making process and see the ...

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First, welding began to replace riveting in ship-and plane-building (TIME. Dec. 15). Now cast steel is replacing forged steel, and in tanks it is replacing both riveted and welded armor plate.

Regular readers will recognise this as the third part of a series exploring blacksmithing for those who have perhaps always fancied having a go but have never quite known where to start. It’s written ...

Tool company works with researchers to use scrap metal in small-scale forging process. Specialized equipment from Germany-based Schuler Group GmbH is part of a process forging titanium scrap to make ...