Cold Forging Aluminum – Light, Precise, Stable
Aluminum is lightweight, conductive, and highly malleable—ideal for functional metal parts in large quantities. Cold forging produces high-precision components—pressed into shape, not cut. Walter Schneider is your one-stop partner for sophisticated aluminum parts: development, toolmaking, series production.
Why Cold Forging Is Ideal for Aluminum
Aluminum is highly malleable at room temperature. During forging, it is pressed into a mold under high pressure without tearing or cracking. The result:
- No machining process → no material loss
- No preheating required → low energy consumption
- Smooth surfaces and tight tolerances
- Higher strength due to cold working
Even complex geometries such as hollow bodies, sleeves, or closed structures can be realized.
Cold Forging Compared to Alternative Aluminum Forming Methods
Aluminum is easy to form, but many traditional processes quickly reach their limits when it comes to complex, thin-walled, or precision components.
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❌ Deep drawing
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Typical Components That We Manufacture From Aluminum
- Lightweight housings or hollow bodies
- Bushings and sleeves for machines or vehicles
- Contacts and cable bushings in electrical engineering
- Damping and connecting elements in sports equipment manufacturing and automotive engineering
- Weight-optimized components in aviation or automotive engineering
Your Advantages with Cold Forging of Aluminum
High Dimensional Accuracy
Tolerances in the tenths or hundredths range – ideal for series parts with tight installation specifications.
Less Rework
Components often come straight out of the press ready for installation – no milling or grinding required.
Material and Energy Savings
No waste, no offcuts – and less energy required in the process thanks to room temperature.
Lightweight but Sturdy
Thanks to the intact fiber structure, the parts are particularly resilient despite their low weight.
Fast and Repeatable
Once set up, production runs automatically – thousands of parts with consistent quality.
Our Portfolio
Development & Tooling
We accompany you right from the initial idea or drawing. Our engineers check the feasibility, optimize geometries for forging and develop the appropriate tool directly in-house. This ensures that your component can be produced in a manner that is suitable for manufacturing, reliable and cost-efficient.
Cold Forging With In-House Production
Whether aluminum, copper, or stainless steel—we process almost all metals on our own presses. Using state-of-the-art machines and CAQ-supported quality assurance, we manufacture precise series parts from around 50,000 pieces per year—efficiently, with repeat accuracy, and, if required, with complex geometries.
Additional Processing & Complete Solution
In addition to forging itself, we also offer downstream processes such as vibratory grinding, heat treatment (e.g., solution annealing for aluminum), and surface finishing through our partners. This means that, if desired, you can obtain ready-to-install components from a single source without additional interfaces.
Have it checked now without obligation
Are you planning to use aluminum for a part? Send us your drawing or describe your requirements – we will check whether the component can be extruded and how it can be implemented economically.