The SMFO team is able to design your forge & foundry tools, according the drawing of your raw and/or machined parts. We can design, create, modified and manufacture all kind of tools. 

For the forge, the tools are made of pre-treated 55CDV7 (127 to 142 Kg) in order to optimize the duration. The tools are made on a 3 axis numeric mills. The typical manufacturing time to produce the tools is 4 to 6 weeks.

For the foundry, the moulds are made of wood and resins, or polystyrene.
The typical lead time for the mould manufacturing is 2 to 3 weeks. More than 7 000 references of tools are held in stocks.

Our product range :

• Parts from 0.1 to 40 Kg
• Specialized in small and medium series (25 to 3000 pieces),
• All kind of steel according French, European, German and American standards
  

Carbon steels	A48, A105, A350 LF2, C22, C35, C45…
Alloys steels	25CrMo4, 42CrMo4, 18NiCr5, 12CrMo5.05, 10CrMo9-10…
Stainless steels	316L, 304L, 321, 347…
Duplex stainless steels	A182 F51, F53…
Copper alloys	CuAl9Ni5Fe4, B150 UNS 63000, B150 UNS 63200…
Nickel alloys	Alloy 625, 800HT, 825, Monel 400, Hastelloy…

Forging or stamping from free forged rough sketch or from raw bars.

Our tools :

• Raw bars cutting : 4 automatic saws,
• Preforming : 1 power hammer,
• Stamping : 1 MONTBARD 350 hammer (pieces < 1 kg)
• Stamping : 1 MONTBARD 1250 hammer (pieces up to 8 kg)
• Stamping : 1 VACARI grading (pieces from 1 to 4 kg)
• Stamping : 1 FICEP grading (pieces up to 40 kg)

Our product range:

• Parts from 0.10 à 500 kg,
• Small & medium series specialist (5 to 200 pieces),
• All kind of steels according to French, DIN, European and American standards

Our tools:

• Moudling : 2 scew mixers, pepset sand for two production lines
• Melting : 2 INDUCTOTHERM induction furnaces,  500 kg in capacity each
• 2 processes : gravity and DURVILLE casting
• Mechanical or manual sand out
• Sand recovery

Heat treatment : Normalization, tempering, solutions annealed, air tempering,
     >>> Tools : 2 furnaces.
Finishing : sawing off, grinding, blasting machine.
     >>> Tools : 2 sawing off machines, blasting machine, 3 grinding machines.
Blasting machine, Pickling and passivation according to specifications,
Machining : thanks to our sister companies, we can supply you with machined parts.
Surface treatment. 

NDE performed by certified COFREND level 2 operators for Radiographic test, Penetrante test and Ultrasonic test.

In house NDE/NDT:

• Chemical analysis : spectrometer SPECTRO TEST,
• Tensile test,
• Sharpy test,
• Hardness test (Brinell & Rockwell),
• Metallographic structures analysis (grain size, ferrit content, fiberage, …) : macrography & micrography,
• Dye Penetrant test
• Magnetic particle inspection
• X-Ray examination
• Ultra sonic Test :USM 35.