Forging Rings

As forged rings manufacturer Goodrich Gasket carries out the production of seamless forged rings by a process called ring rolling on rolling mills. These mills vary in size to produce rings with outside diameters of just a few inches to over 300" and in weights from a single pound up to over 300,000 pounds.
The process starts with a circular preform of metal that has been previously upset and pierced (using the open die forging process) to form a hollow "donut". This donut is heated above the recrystallization temperature and placed over the idler or mandrel roll. These idler roll then moves under pressure toward a drive roll that continuously rotates to reduce the wall thickness, thereby increasing the diameters (I.D. and O.D.) of the resulting ring.
A forged, profiled seamless rolled ring offers unsurpassed structural integrity and the forging's directional grain flow increases the overall strength and with the absence of welding part; integrity, corrosion resistance and shape are maintained.