Founded in 1969, Rolf Kind GmbH produces customized open-die forgings and machined components from demanding high-alloy, nickel-based, and titanium materials. The family business handles the full production chain, tailoring hot-forging processes to customer requirements and making shapes ranging from shafts and rings to unusual one-off geometries. Today, the company is presented by two brothers and is also developing work for fusion technology in cooperation with CERN.
Forge Products CorporationFamily-owned since 1962, Cleveland’s Forge Products Corporation makes customized open-die forgings for industrial customers, with parts weighing up to 5,000 pounds. Started by Charles Thayer and his father, the company remains in its third generation of family ownership and is supported by a cross-trained workforce whose average tenure is 20 years. Its quality program meets or exceeds MIL-S-45208A and MIL-I-45662A standards, with customers including aerospace and heavy-equipment manufacturers.CLEVELAND, OH
Burke Forging & Heat Treating, IncEstablished in 1987, privately owned Burke Forging & Heat Treating makes open-die forgings and seamless rolled rings in Rochester, New York, serving customers across the United States and Canada. Its team translates customer prints into process drawings and uses in-house metallurgical oversight to monitor forgings from order entry through final inspection. Burke produces parts from 2 to 8,000 pounds and can supply them machined or smooth forged, with a stated mission to “Make it Right the First Time.”ROCHESTER, NY
ALRY Tool & Die Co., IncALRY Tool & Die Co., Inc. is a family-owned forging company founded in 1944 as a tool-and-die shop by Peter Allen and Martin Ryan. Its 30,000 square feet of workspace and equipment support production of up to 2,000,000 forgings per year, including shorter production runs. The company has served defense, robotics, aircraft, marine, commercial, and hand-tool markets.TONAWANDA, NY
Ellwood City Forge GroupFounded by brothers David and Jonathan Evans in 1910, Ellwood City Forge Group makes large open-die forgings and takes many of them from steelmaking through heat treatment and machining at its western Pennsylvania facilities. The company’s two forging plants produce custom components weighing up to 70,000 pounds and stretching 57 feet, with particular experience in demanding applications such as fluid-end blocks for oil and gas. ECFG employs more than 400 people and supports its technical work with in-house metallurgists and accredited testing laboratories.ELLWOOD CITY, PA