Carlton Forge Works
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Carlton Forge Works is an aerospace
manufacturing company that produces seamless rolled rings. Carlton was found in 1929 and was privately held. According to Manta and Business Week, the company has about 250-300 employees. The company was previously owned by Allan Carlton.
Carlton Forge Works manufactures mostly rolled rings by open-die forging
and some forged parts by closed-die forging. The forged rings or forged parts are often refer to as “forgings” in the forging or aerospace industry. The forgings are made using either ferrous
metals or nonferrous metals. However, Carlton utilizes mainly nonferrous metals. Properties of nonferrous alloy
s are resistance to corrosion
, electrical conductivity, and ease of fabrication. The production of these materials, for example, includes titanium
, aluminum, iron
, nickel
, cobalt
based alloys, stainless steels, carbon steels, copper
, lead
, etc.
The primary products of Carlton Forge Works are rotating and structural components, land-based turbine
engines, and aircraft
parts for commercial and military aviation; the company serves the aerospace, gas turbine, commercial, and nuclear industries. Unlike other forge shops, Carlton makes high quality forgings for major customers such as General Electric
, United Technologies (Pratt & Whitney), Honeywell International, Rolls-Royce, Volvo Aero, MTU, Mitsubishi, Samsung, and other smaller companies. Although not a large corporation, its departments consist of sales, purchasing, accounting, production, engineering, manufacturing
, metallurgy
, and quality.
industry. In the past, there had been reported layoffs. Carlton is located in Paramount California but it has no websites.
In 2009, Precision Castparts Corporation (PCC) acquired Carlton Forge Works in a $850 million deal that broadens the company’s forging operations. The transaction also includes another hammer forging operation in Oxnard, CA called Arcturus Manufacturing Corporation. The CEO of PCC Mark Donegan said that Carlton had been a target for acquisition for a long-time because the company has been doing several big aerospace projects, including the Boeing 787 and Airbus aircraft. Furthermore, the acquisition enables PCC to provide a full range of products to the current customers and increases the forging capabilities.
Aerospace
Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...
manufacturing company that produces seamless rolled rings. Carlton was found in 1929 and was privately held. According to Manta and Business Week, the company has about 250-300 employees. The company was previously owned by Allan Carlton.
Carlton Forge Works manufactures mostly rolled rings by open-die forging
Forging
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces. Forging is often classified according to the temperature at which it is performed: '"cold," "warm," or "hot" forging. Forged parts can range in weight from less than a kilogram to 580 metric tons...
and some forged parts by closed-die forging. The forged rings or forged parts are often refer to as “forgings” in the forging or aerospace industry. The forgings are made using either ferrous
Ferrous
Ferrous , in chemistry, indicates a divalent iron compound , as opposed to ferric, which indicates a trivalent iron compound ....
metals or nonferrous metals. However, Carlton utilizes mainly nonferrous metals. Properties of nonferrous alloy
Alloy
An alloy is a mixture or metallic solid solution composed of two or more elements. Complete solid solution alloys give single solid phase microstructure, while partial solutions give two or more phases that may or may not be homogeneous in distribution, depending on thermal history...
s are resistance to corrosion
Corrosion
Corrosion is the disintegration of an engineered material into its constituent atoms due to chemical reactions with its surroundings. In the most common use of the word, this means electrochemical oxidation of metals in reaction with an oxidant such as oxygen...
, electrical conductivity, and ease of fabrication. The production of these materials, for example, includes titanium
Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. It has a low density and is a strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant transition metal with a silver color....
, aluminum, iron
Iron
Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...
, nickel
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile...
, cobalt
Cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. It is found naturally only in chemically combined form. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal....
based alloys, stainless steels, carbon steels, copper
Copper
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...
, lead
Lead
Lead is a main-group element in the carbon group with the symbol Pb and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed...
, etc.
The primary products of Carlton Forge Works are rotating and structural components, land-based turbine
Turbine
A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they move and...
engines, and aircraft
Aircraft
An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...
parts for commercial and military aviation; the company serves the aerospace, gas turbine, commercial, and nuclear industries. Unlike other forge shops, Carlton makes high quality forgings for major customers such as General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
, United Technologies (Pratt & Whitney), Honeywell International, Rolls-Royce, Volvo Aero, MTU, Mitsubishi, Samsung, and other smaller companies. Although not a large corporation, its departments consist of sales, purchasing, accounting, production, engineering, manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
, metallurgy
Metallurgy
Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. It is also the technology of metals: the way in which science is applied to their practical use...
, and quality.
History
Since its inception in 1929, Carlton Forge Works's business experienced expansion and contraction. The revenues of the company have gone up and down due to the cycle of the aerospaceAerospace
Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...
industry. In the past, there had been reported layoffs. Carlton is located in Paramount California but it has no websites.
In 2009, Precision Castparts Corporation (PCC) acquired Carlton Forge Works in a $850 million deal that broadens the company’s forging operations. The transaction also includes another hammer forging operation in Oxnard, CA called Arcturus Manufacturing Corporation. The CEO of PCC Mark Donegan said that Carlton had been a target for acquisition for a long-time because the company has been doing several big aerospace projects, including the Boeing 787 and Airbus aircraft. Furthermore, the acquisition enables PCC to provide a full range of products to the current customers and increases the forging capabilities.