Forging / Open-Die Forging
Open-Die Forging Services
Open-die forging shapes heated billets between flat or simple-contour dies to produce massive shafts, blocks, discs and cylinders with continuous grain flow. Monmet supplies open-die forgings across a wide range of tonnages in carbon, alloy and stainless steel grades, with the inspection and acceptance criteria stated on your drawing.
Process & Capability
Heated ingots are forged between flat or contoured dies into round bars, stepped shafts, hollow cylinders, blocks and pancake discs. Open-die work consolidates the centerline porosity of the parent ingot and aligns grain flow with the part's principal stress axis.
Alloy Range
Carbon and low-alloy steels (4140, 4340, 8620), stainless steels (austenitic, martensitic, duplex and precipitation-hardening families), tool steels, nickel-based superalloys and titanium. Each heat is supplied with the material certification your drawing or purchase order calls for.
Heat Treatment & Test
Normalize, quench-and-temper, solution-anneal and age treatments coordinated through our partner mills. Test pads, prolongations and sacrificial coupons are machined to customer specification for the testing scope named on your drawing or purchase order.
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