Benefits — Economical

Precision Flowforming is a chipless, cold forming process, capable of forming high strength and hard-to-form metals to the desired geometry with tight dimensional controls throughout. With the ever increasing costs of metal, many customers have come to greatly appreciate our ability to flowform to net shape.

NO WASTE: we start with a short, thick preform and typically flowform it four to six times its starting length. Material waste and labor cost are minimal. If your program is burdened by the costs and waste associated with gundrilling/trepanning of solids and/or the machining of extrusions, you are a good candidate for flowforming.

NET SHAPE: in almost all cases, we can flowform to net shape, maximizing material utilization while eliminating post-forming machining.

SEAMLESS: our process is seamless. At times we can also integrate more than one of your components in the same flowformed component. Cost of welding, related problems and necessary testing are all eliminated.

HARDENED METALS: with flowforming we can form your component from pre-hardened metal to your specified mechanical properties. If this approach is feasible for your part, you will eliminate the high costs of finish-machining and/or grinding a most likely heat-distorted component to its final accuracy.

FLANGES: we can eliminate your costs of manufacturing, circumferential welding and related testing of end flanges or stub ends by integrating them as part of the seamless flowformed component