Benefits of Vertical Integration | Raw Material | Sawing | Forging | Heat Treating | Testing | Machining

Benefits of Vertical Integration

1. Increased Quality | Having all our processes controlled and maintained in-house prevents long lead times, delays, and quality problems typical when using multiple suppliers.
2. Shorter Lead Times | Multiple suppliers increase the amount of product transport time from one location to another, adding cost without adding value. All functions under one roof means more efficient production and shorter lead times, cutting out non-value added cost.
3. Reduced Delays | Vertical integration means more control over the entire process. Multiple suppliers often result in unforeseen delays when an outsourced project runs behind.
4. Convenience | Single source means you don't have to spend time coordinating, tracking, and shipping product from one supplier to another. At Weldaloy, we do it all in-house, saving you time and frustration.
5. Saves you time | Stop wasting time coordinating production with multiple suppliers. Weldaloy can handle your job from start to finish, from raw material to shipping, saving you time and money.

Raw Material

Weldaloy readily stocks various types of copper and aluminum alloys so we have product in stock when you need it, reducing lead time and delivery schedules. That means faster quotes, shorter lead times, and quicker delivery to you.

Weldaloy commonly stocks over $4 million of material in over 17 alloys in various shapes, sizes, and configurations to help ensure quick turnaround when you need it. See all commonly stocked alloys.

Sawing

The sawing operation is an important part of the Vertical Integration process at Weldaloy. For the most part, the sawing operation consists of the cutting of initial stock before forging. Precision cuts allow us to minimize any waste of raw material, reducing your parts' end cost.

While sawing non-ferrous materials is not "rocket-science", you must control the speed, feed rate and pressure at which the blade is fed into the material in order to effectively and efficiently process them. We have developed optimal matrix patterns for all the materials that we process so that we eliminate mistakes and save you money keeping your project on schedule.

Forging

Different products require different metalworking processes. Weldaloy provides open die forgings, closed die forgings, and precision rolled ring forgings, depending on your product needs and specifications.

In addition, Weldaloy can process your material in a way that will optimize the performance characteristics. Whether cold work, cross-grain, hot forge, upset, upset & cross-grain or warm work, talk to us about which method will work best for you. (Read more about the 6 different forging techniques)

It's important when designing new product or redesigning existing product that you select the process that will deliver the right material properties for you. Our vast forging capacity means we can handle your work, whether it's an order of 1000 or 1.

Heat Treating

Regardless of your heat treating needs, Weldaloy's ability to handle your needs in house means single-source convenience you can rely on. Further, since it's all done under one roof, you benefit from increased quality, faster delivery, and consistency throughout the process.

Properly heat treating your material is key in getting the right material characteristics for your process. We have recently completed rebuilding and re-bricking our furnaces, adding state-of-the-art controllers. Our furnaces are periodically surveyed and maintained to ensure set point accuracy and variation within the chamber meets our standards. This result is better control of processing parameters which, in turn, translates to optimum properties to meet your specifications. We are continually evaluating our heat treating processes to maximize material performance.

Knowing the right time and temperature relationships ratios are the essential in giving you optimal material properties. Our services include annealing and or stress relieving, quenching, and solution annealing. These services contribute to our reliable delivery record.

Testing

Making your parts the correct size is just the beginning. Your products may also require a particular grain size or structure, hardness, conductivity, mechanical properties, or other requirements.

Along with our two coordinate measuring machines (CMM) and full range of dimensional inspection equipment, we can also provide testing for mechanical properties (tensile-yield-elongation), grain size, hardness, and conductivity.

Non-destructive test (NDT) services such as dye penetrant, ultrasonic, and radiographic testing round out the services that we can provide for you.

Machining

We are machining specialists for copper and aluminum applications. With over 6 decades in our industry, we have the necessary experience to effectively machine copper alloys that have inherently low machinability ratings.

Weldaloy has over 20 turning and machining centers, the majority of which are state-of-the-art CNC operated. We can provide rough machining with stock allowance for your final machining operation, or we can machine your products to meet your drawing requirements.