Our productivity benefits from a small business environment and technical expertise provided by our joint venture partners. Ringmasters is able to quickly respond to changes in production or customer issues due to efficient communication between departments…making us a highly focused factory.
Because seamless forged rolled rings are the only thing we manufacture, we have mastered the ability to provide superior ring products within delivery times that are among the fastest in the business. In our advanced ISO 9001:2015 manufacturing facility in Wayne, Michigan, we meet customer specifications for a wide variety of material grades. Ringmasters forges plain rectangular cross sect ions, no contouring or profile shapes offered. Ringmasters provides rectangular cross sections, sleeve rings, and washer shaped rings.
Ringmasters Capabilities Include
- Single piece to medium production-lot quantities
- From 13" to 125" outside diameter
- From 8" to 116" inside diameter
- Up to 24" height
- Up to 18” wall thickness
- Parts weighing from 100 lbs. up to:
- 7,000 lbs. in carbon steel
- 6,000 lbs. in alloy and tool steel
- 3,000 lbs. in stainless steel
- Complete, in-house, saw cutting, heat treating, rough machining, parting, splitting and shot blasting
- Metallurgical laboratory with tensile, charpy-impact, and micro capabilities
- Comprehensive raw material inventory of carbon, alloy, tool steel, stainless, and custom-engineered steels
Ringmasters Equipment List
- 2 Wagner Rolling mills: a 160/120 ton Radial Axial and a 100/80 ton CNC Radial Axial
- 3 Hydraulic preform presses: 750 tons, 1600 tons and 2500 tons.
- 7 Forge furnaces
- A 20 ton Gantry crane
- 2 Circular and 5 band saws for raw material
- 3 Band saws for preparing test specimens
- 1 Band saw for segmenting rings
- 6 Quench tanks and 9 heat treat furnaces
- 5 CNC and 2 manual lathes
- Metallurgical lab with tensile and charpy capabilities
- Grade verification by x-ray analysis