At Anchor Harvey, we provide the highest quality forged aluminum products made with precision, consistency, and unmatched detail that meet our customer’s needs with our state-of-the-art forging equipment and capabilities.

Operating with a century of experience in metal forging, our trusted team brings together deep industry knowledge, forging expertise, and innovative thinking to deliver high quality forgings and optimal results for your business. Discover how Anchor Harvey’s aluminum forging services can be the ultimate solution for your metal forming needs

Press Equipment

For ultimate flexibility, Anchor Harvey uses a variety of forging presses to make any forged components our customers need.

Our press options include:

• 5,500-Ton Screw Press (x2)
• 4,100-Ton Screw Press
• 2,100-Ton Screw Press
• 1,600-Ton Mechanical Press
• 1,300-Ton Mechanical Press
• 1,000-Ton Mechanical Press
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Tool & Die Shop

Our in-house custom tool and die work enables our team to keep a consistent design throughout the production process. Customers can have confidence that new tools can be developed quickly, refined and retooled as needed, and rapidly replaced when necessary.

Anchor Harvey’s tool and die shop includes an entire suite of in-house machine tools – allowing our team to make forging dies customized for every customer order. Dies can also be reworked at any time during the production run, allowing for the ultimate in project flexibility throughout the process.

Aluminum Alloys

Anchor Harvey specializes in 100% domestically-sourced forging high-strength, lightweight aluminum precision products.

We offer several types of forged aluminum alloys for a variety of applications our customers need – from aluminum-alloy wheels and specialized defense components to aircraft-grade aluminum parts. The most commonly forged aluminum alloy components we develop are forged from:

• 2000 Series Aluminum
• 6000 Series Aluminum
• 7000 Series Aluminum

Forge Design Engineering

Our customers trust that Anchor Harvey will deliver high-quality, pristine, and precisely engineered forged aluminum components in the exact part shape they need – all thanks to our expert forge engineering team.

Anchor Harvey’s engineering team is involved from the early forge design and engineering decision making process, which streamlines and speeds up the project timeframe, improves the final forge result, and reduces material scrap and waste. The team can also engineer tool customers’ parts – with the ability to design a forge from a napkin sketch, drawing, or full 3D model.

Throughout the entire process, Anchor Harvey’s forge design engineering team provides our customers with consistent feedback to ensure every project is completed on schedule – and on budget.

Heat Treatments

Our proprietary in-house heat treatment process is coordinated with the rest of the production process to ensure the correct option is used on all forged production pieces. Since heat treatment can be done completely onsite, lead times are reduced and our engineers can track and adjust the process at any time.

Anchor Harvey’s on-the-go heat treatment and solution heat treatment process is consistently recognized by major OEMs as “the best of all worlds” for providing superior quality components. It delivers results that exceed ASTM standards with a 15% improvement in component properties.

Forged Aluminum Heat Treatment Options:

• O (Annealed) – Refers to a fully annealed part, which is nearly as soft as possible for its base alloy – perfect for machining or more forge work.
• T4 (Solution Heat Treatment and Naturally Aged) – T4 tempered alloyed aluminum parts are initially given a solution heat treatment to lock in a grain structure and then left to sit at room temperature for a few days. This allows the metal to harden, but without disrupting the quick artificial aging process.
• T6 (Solution Heat Treatment and Artificially Aged): T6 tempered alloyed aluminum parts are solution heat treated to initially harden the part and achieve a good grain structure and even solution of alloying elements.

Closed-Die Forging

Anchor Harvey’s in house closed-die aluminum forging process is most commonly used for forging small parts or medium-sized components, and is primarily utilized to make complex shapes that require little to no after forging work, allowing our team to create any type of forgings our customers need.

Need to make an adjustment to a forged component? No problem – with our tool and die shop, we can rework dies at any time during a production run.

Magnesium Forgings

As the first U.S. forging company able to forge magnesium – the lightest structural metal on earth – Anchor Harvey is proud to provide new opportunities and benefits with this metal forging option for companies across all industries.

With forged magnesium components customers can advance product offerings with the latest technology and the same premier material used in the high-end motorsports, aerospace, and defense markets. This sustainable material’s combination of strength and low density gives it a durability greater than either steel or aluminum.