Kentucky Facility
"ATI Portland Forge brings technology and supporting management systems to bear on the 'Ancient Art of Forging' in such a way as to provide the best value for the customer."
The structure that houses ATI Portland Forge's Lebanon facility was developed to accommodate further expansion to keep pace with the challenges demanded by world wide competition.
From concept to production, our experienced team knows that development of the die and prototypes during the die construction phase is very important and will strive to help reach the optimum tool design, production, service, and customer partnership in the most cost effective way.
The advanced facility is designed for the production of custom impression die hot forgings and incorporates the forging industry's most comprehensive integration of technologies.
The ATI Portland Forge team has responded to the changing requirements of the forging user.
With the flexibility of dual facilities, ATI Portland Forge is determined to continue its leadership as a producer of high quality forgings.
Lebanon, Kentucky Facility Systems: The Schematic and photos below describe the in-line forging cell systems.
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Material is moved from indoor storage racks to the bar descrambler, the beginning of the forging cell.
Surface condition, chemistry, and other properties have been thoroughly verified to meet customer requirements.
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Bar stock is automatically fed from the descrambler table to the induction heater.
Here, the material is rapidly brought to a consistent and precisely controlled forging temperature.
This allows the flexibility for ATI Portland Forge to meet customers' needs on short notice.
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Hot cutoff of the forging bars allows the weight of workpieces to be adjusted during a productionrun to achieve precise die filling without excessive waste.
The sheared billets then travel through the billet descaler.
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The clutch-controlled screw press drives the ram at a constant speed with precise programmable force and stroke distance.
Die closure tolerances are less than half that required for hammer forgings, and smaller draft angles are needed due to the press ejector system.
All of this gives the customer forgings that are much closer to the shape and size of the final part.
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The hydraulic trim press contributes to greater precision by holding the part under pressure while the trimming operation is carried out.
This prevents distortion of the hot part during this operation.
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ATI Portland Forge is also equipped to process microalloy steels.
These steels can achieve certain desired physical properties without the need for separate heat treatment.
Controlled, accelerated cooling equipment is used to deliver to the customer a uniform and metallurgically proper forging.
This process reduces the total cost of the finished machined part.
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These factors enable ATI Portland Forge to provide the customer improved product quality, part-to-part consistency, and near-net shape forgings.
Satisfying tighter dimensional tolerance, forging a broader range of part geometries, developing capabilities to forge high-temperature and corrosion resistant alloys while maintaining tremendous flexiblity allows ATI Portland Forge to meet the customer demands for higher quality forgings.
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