Complete line for hot forging of metals

Mecolpress has the abilities and the experience to develop complete forging lines.

We have designed and composed various forging lines, taking care of the whole project:

From the initial choice of the machines and related interconnections, to the installation and commissioning, taking full responsibility of the service and of the after sales warranty of the whole line.

Mecolpress therefore, in addition to in-house designing and manufacturing of the hot forging presses, is able to provide to the customer a full turn-key plant, from the raw material bars to the forged piece (including of course the eventual trimming, sandblasting…).

The productive core of the line is clearly one of our presses, being a mechanical or an hydraulic one.

In the video shown as example here below, you can see a line with a mechanical press of the SEO range.

Forging line with mechanical press SEO

Forging line with hydraulic press ME-G

The ME-G hydraulic presses are particularly suitable to be installed in a complete forging line.

Are machines specifically designed to be used in the hot forging of brass, but have already proved to be extremely flexible and therefore suitable for other materials as well, like aluminium.

With this kind of presses, Mecolpress has introduced in the year 2010 a fully new production method for the hot forging processes.

 

This technic, called “inverse extrusion”, allow to forge parts even with the most complicated geometries, where the deformation of the material is obtained by means of a pre-determined and controlled flow of material.

This is generated by a programmable advancing of the punches into the die, after that the pre-heated billett has put deposited in the die and this has been fully closed.

The ME-G hydraulic press can be connected and interfaced with:

  • Bars sawing / shearing machines,
  • Traditional gas or electric induction heating furnaces,
  • Furnaces designed for the shearing of the hot bar,
  • Automation arms or external robots and of third parties automations for the loading and unloading of the press,
  • Flash trimming presses, sand blasting machines…

 

The interfacing possibility is very useful for example when, in case of an alarm from the furnace side, the press has to be put in a stand-by status and has to record the reason for the production interruption.

In turn, the ME-G can send to the furnace the information “start / stop billet feeding” and can exchange signal of operating status with other components of the forging line, as well as the production parameters with the customers’ own factory supervisor systems.

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