Cost - Benefits of Impacts

• Why One Stroke Impacting Could Benefit You
• When to Consider Aluminum Impacts

Why One Stroke Impacting Could Benefit You

Cost-Effective

High quality impacts are created with a single stroke making component cost lower than virtually any other metal forming technology.

Fast

One stroke impacting creates parts faster. Depending on the part, rates up to 1500 pieces per hour have been achieved.

Tough

No other metal forming technique (including forging) produces stronger components. With impacting, metal grain alignment is highly uniform for superior quality, strength, and durability.

Clean

With one stroke impacting, there is no flash to be machined away, no sand, scale or parting lines to be removed. Most parts are instantly ready for application.

Tight

Superb tolerance integrity is achieved through impacting. Part walls made from alloy 6061 can be held better than + or - 10% even when the walls are less than 0.205 inch thick.

Versatile

There is virtually no end to the size and variety of parts that can be quickly and cost-effectively made through one stroke impacting.

Responsible

Impacting creates less waste than other fabrication processes.

When to Consider Aluminum Impacts

• Hollow Parts where components have one or both ends partially or completely closed.
• Zero Draft on the walls is required without machining.
• Shells with round, square, rectangular, oval or symmetrical cross sections.
• Pressure Tight components.
• Strength and Toughness are prime prerequisites.
• Eliminate Machining requirements with many impacts.
• High volume, high speed production requirements.
• Sidewalls of a one-end-closed tube requiring internal or external longitudinal ribs or flutes.
• When component bottoms are thicker than walls or the bottom designs include bosses, tubular extensions, projections or recesses.
• A bottom flange is required.
• Superior fatigue strength is needed at points of high stress.
• and many, many more...