About Hot Forming

Here at MacLean-Fogg Component Solutions’ Metform division,  things get a little hot around here, like 2200 degrees F hot inside one of our 10 Hatebur horizontal  hot forging presses.  Our hot Forge process works by:

• Start with Hot Rolled Bar Material
• Induction Heated up to 2200 degrees F
• Processed in a multi-station hot forging machine with an output up to 180 pieces/minute.

The benefits to the customer of this process is:

• Very complex shapes and contours of components can be accomplished.
• Very efficient raw material usage via near net forming technologies with minimal scrap.
• Very consistent, uniform material flow and grain structure with less stress induced in the material.
• High precision and high output hot forging process due to fully mechanical hot forging equipment.