A global destination for castings and forgings
Author: Date: 2016-1-8 15:17:17
India is seen by many procurement managers as the emerging global destination for forgings and castings. They claim that Indian companies can offer significant advantages such as cost-effective skilled labour,engineering skills,low cost input material of select grades and also proven abilities in handling complex engineering products.
A company that is helping to shape India’s future is Bay Forge Limited based in Chennai. Since 1996,BayForge has been a leader in the area of open die forgings and large seamless rings. According to Mr Ravishankar,VP Sales & Marketing,Bay-Forge is a well recognized name in India and abroad for the supply of large forgings like shafts and components for steam and gas turbine rotors,seal housing and barrel casings for compressors and pumps,dished ends,shells,tube sheets and covers for pressure vessels,pinions,gears and shafts for gear boxes,wind turbine shafts and flanges. With this product range it serves critical sectors of the economy such as,power generation,nuclear,wind,oil and gas,cement machinery,steel plants and general engineering sectors.
Bay Forge plays an exclusive role in the aerospace sector supplying aluminium and titanium rings as well as steel components for the satellite launch vehicles,to Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Bay-Forge boasts extensive facilities covering 65 acres. The plant is equipped with a 2000-tonne press with integrated manipulator dedicated to open die forgings and a 3500-tonne press (soon to be fitted with an integrated manipulator) used for larger forgings and rings. The ring rolling mill can roll out rings of 5.5 meters in diameter and 20 tonnes in weight – one of the most powerful in the world. The plant is currently equipped with twelve gas and oil fired furnaces (20 to 100 tonne capacity) along with four electric furnaces for aluminium,titanium and special alloys and a state-of-the art machine shop. In 2009 alone,new investments at Bay Forge included the installation of six new furnaces,plus additional quench tank and machining facilities,delivering additional capacity and capabilities.
Of course,manufacturers are more than just the sum of their facilities. Bay Forge’s key strengths are quality and innovation. Virtues which have been recognised by the Indian Space Research Organization,which singled out Bay Forge for their requirements of seamless rings and critical forgings in special grade of aluminium,titanium and exotic steel. Mr Ravishankar concluded,“As a subsidiary of the Italian FOMAS Group,Bay-Forge has access to world-class technology and process details. Bay-Forge is therefore on a technological par with FOMAS. Moreover,Bay-Forge is one of the few companies with experience in handling such a wide range of ferrous and non-ferrous materials with exotic chemistry for a diverse range of sectors of the economy. This has helped Bay Forge to emerge as a one-stop-shop for any buyer looking for wide variety of forgings and rings.”