{"id":1780,"date":"2019-12-03T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2023-11-30T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T12:36:13","slug":"quality-and-durability-that-is-how-we-manufacture-our-flanges-and-forged-steel-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/new\/quality-and-durability-that-is-how-we-manufacture-our-flanges-and-forged-steel-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality and durability: That is how we manufacture our flanges and forged steel products"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

At ULMA Forja<\/strong>, S. Coop., we\r\nhave managed to become one of the leading manufacturers in\r\nthe<\/strong>\r\nindustry of<\/strong> flange<\/strong>s<\/strong>,<\/strong>\r\nforged steel, special\r\nforging pieces and other forged products. The support we get from our R&D<\/strong>\r\nteam allows us to offer our customers a wide variety of\r\nadded services such as welding and product engineering, so we can design\r\nand manufacture any kind of part while offering the most\r\ninnovative and competitive<\/strong> technical<\/strong> solutions<\/strong> possible within the\r\ncorresponding standards guidelines.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Specialists\r\nin high performance flanges and forged products<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At\r\nULMA Forja, S. Coop. we manufacture flanges and high\r\nperformance<\/strong> forged products with a wide variety of materials\r\nsuch as carbon steel, stainless steel, duplex – super duplex,\r\ninconel, titanium and other special alloys. ULMA’s high-\r\nperformance flanges and forged products are designed and\r\nmanufactured to withstand\r\nsome of the most adverse conditions that exist. We guarantee their durability<\/strong>\r\nin specialized industries such as oil and gas, petrochemical, energy and\r\nmineral refining.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

How\r\nwe manufacture our high performance flanges and forged products<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At\r\nULMA, we are specialists in the full range of  manufacturing arts for flanges and\r\nforged steel products, cover<\/strong>ing<\/strong> the entire<\/strong> manufacturing\r\nprocess<\/strong> from raw material to final product. This is a very\r\nrelevant feature, as it allows us\r\nto be competitive<\/strong> while meeting all the quality<\/strong> standards\r\ndemanded by both the market and our customers. Our manufacturing\r\nknow-how thus\r\nbecomes the sine\r\nqua non<\/em> of our\r\nbusiness.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Forging<\/em><\/em><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At\r\nULMA, we always seek to optimise our processes<\/strong>,\r\nwhich is why we design and manufacture our own stamps for the different\r\nreferences that are forged on our press lines. The forging<\/strong> process\r\nbegins with the heating of the raw material according to the type of steel, followed by slicing\r\noff\r\nthe workpiece.\r\nThis is then transferred to the press where it is mechanically deformed\r\nuntil the desired shape is obtained. In this operation, the material undergoes changes\r\nin its internal structure<\/strong> through the application\r\nof compression forces, thanks to which we get the characteristic grain texture\r\nof the forging process, with its positive effect on the mechanical<\/strong>\r\nproperties of<\/strong> the resulting forging blank. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Heat<\/em>\r\ntreatment<\/em><\/em><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In\r\nthe next phase, the raw forging material is transferred to our heat<\/strong>\r\ntreatment<\/strong> facilities where we subject the product to dramatic\r\ntemperature changes that\r\nare able to alter the internal structure of the\r\nsteel<\/strong> without modifying its chemical\r\ncomposition,\r\nenhancing its mechanical properties. The main variables in this step are temperature<\/strong>\r\nand time,<\/strong> the recipes varying with\r\nthe type of steel and the desired end properties. The equipment we use in\r\nthis process consists\r\nmainly of gas\r\nfurnaces\r\nand chilled water baths.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The\r\nmechanical properties of the final product are achieved through the\r\nforging and heat treatment processes. Once these are\r\ncompleted, we carry out destructive tests<\/strong>\r\nto ensure compliance<\/strong> with the appropriate\r\nstandards before the parts are machined. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Machining<\/em><\/em><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In\r\nthis third phase,\r\nmachining<\/strong>, the final dimensions<\/strong>\r\nof the parts are obtained through <\/strong>subtractive processes,\r\nin turning and drilling operations. We mark each one of them individually with\r\nthe full\r\ninformation required by the applicable standard and then apply an anti-rust protective varnish<\/strong> to all ferrous\r\nmaterials,\r\ncompleting the\r\nmanufacturing process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

There\r\nis a final phase prior to the shipment of the material in which we carry out a\r\nseries of non-destructive tests<\/strong> to identify\r\nany surface or internal defects in the part, followed by a visual\r\nand dimensional inspection<\/strong>. In this way we\r\nguarantee the quality<\/strong> of the product according to the\r\ntechnical specifications that apply in each case. \r\n\r\nEach of theses phases of our\r\nmanufacturing process guarantees both traceability,<\/strong>\r\nthrough smart production\r\nterminals, and quality,<\/strong> applying the proper treatments and standards at every stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At ULMA Forja, S. Coop., we have managed to become one of the leading manufacturers in the industry of flanges, forged steel, special forging pieces and other forged products. The support we get from our R&D team allows us to offer our customers a wide variety of added services such…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new","category-noticia-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulmaforge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}