Mecolpress hydraulic presses solve problems

Choosing the hydraulic presses of ME series for brass hot forging not only gives a technical advantage, but it can also represent a competitive advantage for your Company for the responsiveness on the market and for the speed your Company can reacts with to the unexpected necessities of the market.

This is the case of a customer of ours, Italian, based in Brescia, brass forger as subcontractor supplier for many years, with an increasing success thanks to the long experience of both the Company management and of the people in charge of the productive departments, first and foremost the brass hot forging one.

For years, quietly, without overdoing, but with perseverance and professionalism, our customer could manage optimally the different situations of the group, between forging and mechanical machining. Even if he is always looking for the hardest, most technical and logistic challenging orders, he could gain his position of full respect in the panorama of subcontractors (that are many in our province).

And in order to keep a high level of service and to receive in return a high loyalty of the customers, sometimes it is necessary to be able to take important decisions, in a very short time.

It happened so: in mid-November 2018, 15 days after they ordered us a 450 tons continuous cycle mechanical eccentric press, our customer had a meeting with one of his most important German customers, a very well-known company in the heating sector and civil hydraulic plants, who put on the table a series of new parts, in a brass alloy they invented, for which no one had forging experience.

In short, a challenge for our customer:

“These are the new parts to produce, the sizes go from the small junction to the one that weights various kilos, and if you want the order you must be able to produce the whole range, and be ready to start in very short time”

The customer came to us asking indications on the forging technique for this alloy with high copper content, in order to know which press and which energies are necessaries, but also which furnace and which temperature would be necessary.

Our reaction was making available what we always have in our company, since we are always ready for these eventualities: hot forging presses, induction and gas heating furnaces, and obviously all the collaboration of our staff.  We immediately organized some forging tests and realized first samples of the parts: thanks to Calipso system for process data collecting and analysis, our customer could understand which forces and temperatures are needed for forging this special copper alloy.

All this process has also led to understand that the new press just ordered by our customer would not be suitable for these products, that in order to be efficiently forged, need an accurate check of the material flow in the die.

The solution? Turning the order of an eccentric press at continuous cycle into a hydraulic press of ME series, that thanks to its construction technology and to a sophisticated software, permits a total programming of the forging process.

Moreover, at Mecolpress the hydraulic presses are available with very short delivery time, even starting from 4 weeks for some models. This happens because, with the market experience we have accumulated in years and after many sold presses, we are able to anticipate the customer’s needs and to have quite ready the presses we will sell in the future.

Then, our customer could go back to his German customer and confirm him that just in 3 months from the date of their first meeting, he would be able to satisfy him, with a new forging line, at high technology, dedicated to his product and able to grant the quality of the forged parts.

A won challenge for our customer, and a satisfaction for us for having helped him and to reinforce his imagine of supplier of very high reliability among his customers.