If you have interests in the metal parts industry, then forging is not a new thing. The forming technology has been growing popular over the last decades. This is mainly because of the advantages it has over the old forming technologies.
Today, cold forged parts are almost everywhere in the market. Almost everyone is using the technique to produce metallic for various uses. The fact that cold forging can work on a range of metals, including steel, is what has increased the application of cold forged parts.
We are going to look at some of the fields where cold forged parts are widely used. Here are some of the areas you will find these machine parts:
Automobile Industry
Let’s start with the automobile industry because it is the most common to all of us. You have a car, and if you haven’t, then you have been using them every day. You could also be an owner of a motorbike and just a bicycle. All these machines are made from cold forged parts, which is actually the biggest percentage of the parts. From the crankshafts, levers, gears to connecting rods, all these parts of your automobile are cold forged.
Critical Aircraft Parts
The aircraft industry is another area where cold forged parts are widely used. If you look at most of the critical aircraft parts, they are forged. From the landing gear, shafts for jet engines to turbines, they are forged, and more so, cold forged. The reason for this is the benefits that come with forging, including harder and more reliable forgings, which are extremely important factors when selecting airplane parts.
The Construction Industry
The modern construction industry is using metals parts than ever before. The use of metal beans for the structure of the buildings has become a norm in modern architecture. All these beams that you see are made from forging, and cold forging is one of the widely used, especially for most steel and aluminum alloys.
Transportation Industry
In this part, we are going to look at one of the most popular mass transport systems, the railroads. The trunk systems and all other rail-related transport systems are now heavily relying on cold forged parts to construct and maintain the rails and wagons. This is one industry that uses a lot of metal parts hence the heavy reliance on forging. The metal ingots making the rails are, in most cases, cold forged.