Orbital forming is a process that uses an angled forming tool (peen) that spins off center at a 3 to 6 degree angle to securely fasten an assembly. The tool progressively heads, swages, crowns, flares ...

Customers of Lindar Corp., a plastics thermoformer in Minnesota, often want functional prototypes of food containers to test and evaluate. And they want them in only a couple of days. This has meant ...

Press-forming is a versatile metal forming technique that can quickly and easily turn sheet metal into finished parts. But there’s a lot of time and money tied up in the tooling needed, which can make ...

Tungsten is a good carbide former used in high speed steels and hot forming tool steels. It is a steel gray metal that increases temperature and red hardness, prevents gain growth and improves ...