Advantages of ALEKVS Roll Forging
Our roll forging process combines the benefits of forging and rolling:
- Superior precision and surface quality: uninterrupted grain flow ensures uniform structure, excellent mechanical properties, and often eliminates secondary machining.
- High throughput: continuous roll rotation enables rapid, efficient, high-volume production.
- Extended die life: minimal sliding between die and metal reduces wear.
- Lower tonnage requirements: gradual, localized deformation allows for lighter machine design.
- Automation-ready: smooth, vibration-free process integrates easily into automated lines, improving safety and efficiency.
- Compact and efficient: reduced foundation requirements save space and installation costs.
Applications and Typical Parts
ALEKVS roll forging machines support high-precision, high-strength production across multiple industries:
- Automotive: connecting rods, steering arms, rocker arms, axles, ball stud pins, rack bars.
- Agricultural machinery: blades, plowshare parts, torsion rods, support struts.
- Railroad: flat bars, rail fasteners, tie plates.
- General industrial: shafts, pins, handles, hooks, camshaft blanks.
By preserving grain alignment and surface integrity, ALEKVS roll forging reduces the need for further processing while ensuring stronger, lighter, and more reliable parts.
Key Technical Highlights
- Wide model selection: from small-scale precision forgings to large structural shafts.
- Powerful drive units deliver consistent, high-speed deformation.
- Extensive feed strokes are adaptable to long or complex contours.
- Tight concentricity control (≤0.5 mm) for accurate forging.
- Robust thermal management: billet temperatures maintained between 1050–1150 °C for optimal ductility and grain flow.
What is Roll Forging
ALEKVS roll forging machines utilize a pair of opposing, rotating sector-shaped dies to plastically deform heated billets, producing the desired forgings or billets.
- During roll forging, pressure compresses the billet in the thickness direction, causing most metal to flow along the billet’s length, while only a small portion spreads laterally.
- The essence of roll forging is lengthwise elongation under pressure, ideal for operations that reduce cross-sectional area, such as shaft elongation or billet flattening.
- In industrial applications, roll forging can:
- Serve as a preform step for conventional forging, providing high-quality blanks for long shaft components.
- Be used to directly produce finished forgings entirely on the roll forge machine.
Why Choose ALEKVS Roll Forging Machines
- Reduces scrap and machining by producing near-net shape forgings.
- Ensures high repeatability and part consistency across extended production runs.
- Improves mechanical performance via optimized grain orientation.
- Adapts to various industries and materials, including medium-carbon steel, alloy steels, and select non-ferrous alloys.
- Compact, low-vibration design for easy integration into production lines.
Production Workflow
- Heat billet
- Load into the open roll forge
- Stepwise deformation under rotating roll dies
- Progressive elongation and shaping
- Finished part exits ready for downstream processing
Operation is simple—manual or robotic loading is possible, and the machine performs continuous, efficient deformation with minimal supervision.
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