Why Vertical Integration Matters in a Forging Partner
While many forging companies outsource portions of the forging process, Weldaloy can provide raw materials, sawing, forging, heat treating, machining, testing, and shipping all under our roof. This leads to an increased ability to meet customer needs in terms of timing and cost-efficiency. Watch our video on vertical integration for a step-by-step tour through our process.
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00:00:06 our expertise comes from being so vertically integrated we know what it takes to go all the way through the process we house raw material we saw the material we Forge it we heat treat it we machine it and we ship it and we do it all Under One Roof that allows us to meet our customers requirements and generally speaking that allows us to also have cost savings because we can do
00:00:27 it all in house we have a constant St of commonly used materials we have oxygen-free copper various copper Alloys we have brass we have aluminum we stock it to benefit our customers and to reduce lead times so it's it's at our expense that we stock that material so that we can quickly respond to customers requirements our saw operation consists of six different saws we can handle
00:00:54 anything up to 32 in in diameter as well as up to 10,000 lb we have specific saws set up for more automated Services as well as specialty services and we typically do a lot of test bar cutting we can respond to that very quickly and efficiently with the equipment that we have open die forging is generally making simple shapes closed eye forging that's trying to create a more near net
00:01:21 shape on a product and it's part specific for many years we've created seamless rolled rings and that's the ability to upset a material punch a hole in it and be able to roll it to a defined Dimension that allows us to produce Parts quickly and efficiently and and in a very consistent manner in heat treat it's basically recipes what's in the public domain on
00:01:46 copper Alloys is so Broad and so wide you will ruin a lot of copper and a lot of parts before you find a sweet spot for example uh if I tell you I want my brownies cooked in your oven but I tell you the range of that UE has to be between 200° and 500° fhe and you're going to cook it somewhere between 10 minutes and an hour you're going to burn a lot of brownies before you come up
00:02:11 with a good recipe that's analogy to the Metallurgy some people want things a little overaged and a little tighter a little stronger others want the metal a little softer uh not so strong but they don't want the brittleness and we've learned that through designs of experiments where we purposely at our own cost set up an array of testing where you know the Metallurgy has good
00:02:31 hardness good strength good mechanical properties good electrical conductivity and uh we've been able to learn some good recipes on how to achieve those results here at woy products we have 15 CNC laid turning machines ranging from 15in diameter Chucks all the way up to 63in Chucks we have three Mills all three of those Mills have fourth axis ability with tables on them that can be
00:02:59 switched at any time and three manual machines for roughing out or squaring up before we go to CNC tight turning there's no point in making a large complicated expensive part and having it not show up to its destination and so we actually have our Engineers create packaging for each and every part that we
00:03:22 produce at that point generally have an inspection at the dock to ensure that all customer requirements have been met and our shipping guys are very Adept at producing whatever the customer requires and making sure that everything arrives safe and sound well has been a leader in Machining because that's what we do that's all we do as nonfer materials the
00:03:48 copper the brass the aluminum all of our tooling all of our machines all of our settings and Rees are all designed around that seen it we've done it for so long that's what we've set ourselves to be good at that and we are [Music]