Open-die forging gives Anderson Shumaker the flexibility to produce high-quality tool steel forgings and rolled rings for demanding tooling applications. Tool steels aren’t “magic” — they earn their reputation because they can be heat treated to high hardness while still maintaining the toughness and wear resistance needed to survive real service. Depending on grade and carbon/alloy content, tool steel is commonly used for forging dies, die blocks, punches, shear blades, mandrels, wear components, and heavy-duty machine parts where edge retention and abrasion resistance matter. To keep lead times tight, we stock a broad range of tool steel grades so we can move quickly from quote to cut stock to forge.
That same open-die process also lets us tailor geometry without being locked into a one-size-fits-all approach. We can produce a wide range of shapes—rings, discs, blocks, bars, hubs, and step-downs—sized to your machining plan and application requirements. Whether you need a small forging for a prototype or large tooling components for production, we can build the process route (forge + heat treat + rough machining + testing coordination) to match what you actually need, not what’s convenient.
