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Facilities
The techniques of forging metal may be thousands of years old, but to remain on the cutting edge of the industry today requires the relentless pursuit of the most advanced, innovative processes available.
ATI Portland Forge has been doing this for almost 90 years in Portland, Indiana.
In 1991, in Lebanon, Kentucky, the Company completed one of the world's most modern, fully integrated, screw press forging facilities.
While increasing forging capacity, the equipment and processes in the new facility position ATI Portland Forge to meet the increasingly complex demands of global forging customers.
ATI Portland Forge supplies carbon and alloy steel forgings to a wide range of customers in the automotive, off-highway, railroad, farm equipment, mechanical power transmission, oil field, and aerospace markets.
The needs of these markets are served through utilization of hammers and upsetters in our Portland facility.
The technological features of the screw presses allow production of forgings from traditional materials for traditional markets with greater customer value.
This value is generated through part design features that reduce part weights and reduce or eliminate customer machining operations.
ATI Portland Forge's ISO 9002 and QS 9000 Certification was achieved in 1997.
This QS 9000 Certification has positioned ATI Portland Forge to meet the high quality expectations of our customers.
QS 9000 allows us to continue service and to expand our major accounts.
We will continue to exploit to the fullest our reputation as a high quality producer of forged products, to bring the highest possible value to customers.
Die designers at ATI Portland utilize the latest in CAD technology to design forgings and forge dies from customer supplied part drawings.
CAD/CAM technology is employed to create programs to control CNC machining centers to produce forge dies.
Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM) are utilized to verify die geometry for die-to-die and part-to-part variance control.
The CMM's are also used for dimensional checks of complex forged parts.
The Company's production units include precision forging cells, consisting of induction heating units, hot shears, billet descalers, and programmable 1600 and 2500 ton screw presses.
This modern technology combination permits high product quality, part-to-part consistency, and near-net shape capabilities.
Hammers, rated from 2,000 pounds to 10,000 pounds, and upsetters, rated from 3-inch to 8-inch, provide the traditional forging capabilities required to satisfy the varied demands of the diversified forging market.
Forged components over 200 pounds can be manufactured by these varied processes.
ATI Portland Forge has positioned itself to lead the forging industry by employing resources to provide an optimum level of technology-enhanced customer value.
Three (3) separate forging methods and full design capabilities provide part geometry diversity.
Metallurgical resources and material forgeability development programs provide material diversity.
These features, combined with rapid-change tool handling methods, provide the flexibility to produce any volume of custom engineered forged products.
Additional services available to customers are certified heat treating, part cleaning, machining, corrosion treating, magnetic particle inspection, spectrographic analysis, laboratory analysis, and other post-forging operations to meet specific customer requirements.
With a tradition of unequaled customer service, a customer-intimate marketing philosophy, one of the most modern facilities in the industry, and employees dedicated to the pursuit of continuous improvement, ATI Portland Forge is ready to serve the needs of yet another generation of customers all over the world.
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