Origins Stainless steel was first recognized as a commercial proposition in 1913, by Harry Brearley, a metallurgist in Sheffield, England, after he noticed that certain gun barrels containing around 13% chromium didn’t rust when they were left outside. What he’d discovered was a steel that approximates to what we know today as type
Metal Everywhere We live with metals. Everywhere we turn we see metals. Perhaps we wonder at times where these metals come from. Well, originally, they came out of the ground, on occasion quite deep in the ground, as ores. In other words they were mined. Mining is not a simple process. It takes
Different Techniques For Different Requirements Different forging techniques are used to achieve the final form for a metal part. Closed die forging or stamping is used for parts that are exact duplicates and high volume. Casting can be used for volume production, but is often used for final shapes with various angles or
In the beginning... Time was when forging was just forging, beating heated metals into shape with the aid of a hammer. The principle is still the same, the methods infinitely more sophisticated. Today we have methods that have evolved to the point where forging can be controlled to produce complex shapes, large forgings,
