FAQs

Choosing Edgerton Forge provides several key benefits:

• Made in the USA: We proudly serve the domestic market, offering secure, high-quality solutions that reduce lead times and ensure consistent supply chains. Our local production also optimizes energy usage and reduces carbon emissions compared to overseas suppliers.
• Precision & Quality: Our team continuously improves our quality and production systems to create components that meet the most demanding specifications. Our parts deliver exceptional performance and durability for industries like automotive, aerospace, civil construction, and defense.
• End-to-End Capabilities: We provide comprehensive forging services from initial design and prototyping through to full-scale production, ensuring a seamless and cost-effective process.
• Customer-Centric Focus: We prioritize the unique needs of each client with a flexible approach, fast response times, and dedication to customer satisfaction.

Edgerton Forge directly addresses common customer challenges such as inconsistent supply chains relating to materials and products, quality compromises on safety-critical components, unpredictable deliveries disrupting production schedules, limited domestic oversight, price volatility creating budgeting headaches, and inventory management challenges resulting in stockouts or excessive carrying costs. We aim to be a reliable partner who solves these issues while reducing total ownership costs.

Edgerton Forge produces parts for a wide range of demanding industries, including automotive, aerospace, civil construction, and defense. Our components are designed to deliver exceptional performance and durability. The North American metal forging market is seeing rising demand for custom forgings across aerospace, automotive, and oil & gas industries.

Metal forging is crucial for producing critical automotive components due to its ability to create parts with exceptional strength, durability, and reliability, which are essential for vehicle safety. Commonly forged automotive parts include crankshafts, connecting rods, gears, axles, and suspension components. Forged components offer superior mechanical properties such as high tensile strength, fatigue resistance, and impact toughness, along with excellent dimensional accuracy and surface finish. This process also supports the production of lightweight yet robust components, contributing to fuel efficiency and reduced emissions. The automotive industry is witnessing increasing demand for forged steel due to its durability, strength, and reliability. Key automotive parts like connecting rods, control arms, rocker arms, crankshafts, camshafts, tie rod ends, and steering knuckles are manufactured using carbon steel, stainless steel, and alloy steel, primarily through closed-die steel forging technology.

While not exhaustively listed, Edgerton Forge specifically mentions expertise in Steel Forging and Aluminum Forging. The broader forging industry uses materials like carbon steel, stainless steel, and alloy steel for various components.

Our ideal website visitors and clients include:

• Engineering Managers: They are more likely to understand the needs of forging versus casting or machining and can speak to the product they designed or manage.

• New Product Development Managers: They are leading the charge for new products to be launched within a company. They could have some understanding of a forging process.

• Directors of Purchasing: They may or may not understand the need of a forging or what the process is, but are typically focused on the total overall value of a supplier.

• Buyers and Sourcing Specialists/Managers: They are usually tasked with finding a source and may not know our capabilities or process.