At Somers Forge we are proud to be one of
Europe’s leading open die forgemasters and provide services to many industries
such as marine, power, oil, sugar, paper, gears, defence, die steel, plastic
moulding, and aerospace. We have more than 130 years experience in the industry
providing us with the expertise and skills to create first class results. We
use state of the art technology alongside traditional methods to provide
customers with high quality solutions. We work with a variety of materials from
carbon steel through to super alloys and specialised non ferrous alloys and
provide a reliable service at competitive prices. We are approved to BS EN ISO
9001:2000 as well as Lloyds Register of Shipping, DNV, CCS, CAA, and Ministry
of Defence. Please visit our website to find out more about our services including
forging, heat treatment, machining and steel stockholding or, call our friendly
team at Somers Forge with your enquiries. Our experienced team will be able to
offer advice and information on services and solutions to meet specific
requirements.
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Our range of state of the art technology
and equipment enables us to employ the latest forging techniques and combine
them with traditional methods to create fantastic results. Our capabilities and
facilities enable us to offer forgings from 2kg through to 45 tonnes. In 2000,
we developed our facilities to incorporate an incredible new, fully
computerised forging suite. The suite features a 4000 tonne draw-down hydraulic
press with integrated manipulators and can forge ingots up to 70 tonnes. It
also features a 1200 tonne four hydraulic press, a 500 tonne four column
hydraulic press, a 35 cwt clear space hammer with manipulator, a 20 cwt space
hammer, and a 10 cwt space hammer.
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Our skilled team operates 24 automatically
controlled furnaces all of which are surveyed to meet national and
international specifications. Many of these furnaces have been calibrated to
API 6A and aerospace standards and can accommodate lengths up to 20 metres. Examples
of the treatments we can provide include normalising, annealing, oil hardening
(including our through bore quenching system), water hardening, combined water
and oil hardening, tempering and stress relieving.
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From our machine shop we can either provide
forgings that are rough machined or we can finish forgings to meet customer
specifications. Our machine shop features various machines such as vertical
boring, horizontal boring, honing, milling, turning, and drilling. Alongside
these machines we have various types of equipment that enables us to provide
specialised operations such as bearing and bolt fitting, shrink fitting, shaft
straightening, re-fitting and weld repairs. Our special finishing machines include
3 finishing lathes, 1 high speed deep hole and turning lathe, 1 honing machine,
2 milling machines, 1 vertical boring mill, 2-4 metre CNC lathes, and more.
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We can supply a wide range of ex-stock
brandname die steels in round and rectangular section via Somers Steel, USA.
Situated in Westland, near Detroit, USA, Somers Steel, USA, is fully equipped
with cranes up to 15 tonnes to service the bandsawing suite. At Steelstock UK,
a similar range of brand name die steels and other forging equipment is
available. Examples of brands and equipment includes No. 5 Electem, Somdie,
Bestem, Thermodie, VMC (AISI H13), die blocks and inserts, bolsters, sow
blocks, hammer rams, piston rods, and mandrels.
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Via Steelstock UK we are able to provide a
range of general engineering steels in billet, forged bar and bloom available
in bar lengths or sawn to meet customer requirements. Sizes of supplies can
range from 51mm up to 950mm in round and square carbon, carbon manganese and
alloy steel grades. We can also provide forged bar to suit customers
specifications as an alternative option to extended mill deliveries. Examples
of specifications include C/C. Mn Steel: 070M20, 070M55, 080M30, 080M40,
150M19, A350LF2, A694F65, ST52.3 and Alloy Steels: 605M36, 655M13, 709M40,
722M24, 817M40, 826M31, 826M40, AISI 4140, A182F22, A182F91.
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The quality of our services and the work we
produce is of paramount importance to us at Somers Forge and something that we
are continually evaluating to ensure that our services are always first class. Our
team follows strict quality control procedures to ensure that all projects are
carried out accurately and to the highest standards. We use various in-house
testing facilities and procedures such as Charpy and Izod impact testing,
computerised tensile and bend testing, NDT operators approved to PCN level 2,
conventional and submerged ultrasonic testing, magnetic particle inspection,
and dye penetrant inspection. Our quality control systems ensure that we
maintain our international reputation of high engineering standards.
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