Call (800) 411-8983 HOME ABOUT CAPABILITIES INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS CONTACT With 50 years of aluminum forging experience, APP is capable of providing a variety of manufacturing and engineering services at an expert level. APP is vertically integrated by offering primary forging processing, multiple heat treat facilities, post-forging processing and inspection capabilities, machining, hardware installation, and locally available surface processing (e.g., shot peen/blast, anodize, prime, paint, etc.). We are capable of providing most forged components completely finished and ready to install on your assembly. Forging Presses 42 Hydraulic Forging Presses • Tonnage Range from 8,000 to 300 9 Mechanical Forging Presses • Tonnage Range from 4,000 to 600 3 Spin Forging Centers • Flow Form up to 24″ in Diameter Press Capabilities Conventional Forging: Up to 650 Square Inches in Plan View Area (PVA) Precision Forging: Up to 350 Square Inches in Plan View Area (PVA) Spinner Capabilities: Up to 24″ in Diameter for Wheels, Cones, Etc. Metallurgy Lab APP’s state of the art metallurgy laboratory is staffed to test aluminum alloys for strength and hardness, and is Nadcap approved. We are capable of performing the following tests on aluminum alloys: • Room Temperature Testing (Round & Flat Specimens) • Hardness • Electrical Conductivity • Chemistry • Microstructure / Intergranular Corrosion Testing • Grain Flow Testing Trim Equipment • Mechanical Trim Presses (1-50 ton; 2-50 ton) • Water Jet Cutter 3-Axis CNC 96″ x 144″ x 12″ Machining CNC Milling Including Horizontal 4-Axis Automated Pallet Cells An array of 3, 4, 5-Axis • Kitamura • Makino • Mazak • Mori-Seiki • OKK • Okuna Spindle Speed • 15,000 RPM 5-Axis Horizontal (Up to 28″ envelope) 4-Axis Horizontal (up to 55″ length) • No setup time • Dedicated Tombstones 3-Axis Vertical Mills (Up to 80″ length) 5-CNC Lathes (Up to 34″) • Close Tolerance Jig Boring & Jig Grinding • Tol. to 0.0005 dimension/location Process & Inspection Capabilities Thermal Treatment • Vertical batch heat treat furnaces • Horizontal continuous heat treat furnaces • Age ovens Inspection • Fully Equipped & Staffed • DCC-CMM Dimensional Inspection • Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection • Ultrasonic Testing (Stock & Parts) • Certified Metallurgical Lab Surface Finish • Shot Peen • Anodize • Prime Engineering APP utilizes the most advanced engineering platforms for solid modeling, tool design and metal flow simulation in the development and fabrication of forging tooling. We are capable of receiving solid model part designs in virtually any format, translating or transferring them to our platforms and designing the optimum tools for the most economical forging approaches. Our engineering personnel are available for co-located or concurrent engineering activities with your engineers in the nascent stages of design development that can save time on project development adjustments often incident to new forging designs. • CATIA V5-6R2021 • CATIA 4.3.2 • CATIA Enovia DMU V5-6R2021 • INVENTOR 2021 • SOLIDWORKS 2021 • MSC Simufact 12.0 • Forge NXT Cluster • Mastercam 2021 • PC-DMIS 2020 • Vericut V9.0 • Calypso • Calypso off-line Die Shop Our CNC die sinking centers make up the backbone of our die manufacturing facility. Our die fabrication capabilities are augmented by in-house EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) for difficult tooling features. APP operates one of the largest in-house forge die shops in the aluminum forging industry in terms of number of dies produced. 1 / 13 HOME ABOUT CAPABILITIES INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS CONTACT © Aluminum Precision Products 2011-2021 3333 W. Warner Ave. Santa Ana, CA 92704 Phone: (714) 546-8125 Fax: (714) 540-8662 | Terms | Privacy Policy | Website Map | Site Credits | Powered by RunningFish Aluminum Precision Products enjoys an unparalleled reputation for quality. Accredited to Nadcap standards for Heat Treatment, Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection and Ultrasonic Inspection, we are constantly in pursuit of excellence. We are approved by every major airframe Prime in the world, including more than 500 subtiers to these prime contractors. Aluminum Precision Products is committed to steady, long term improvement of all of our products and processes through defect prevention rather than detection. APP is leading the way in Closed & Open (“hand”) Die Forgings and Impact Extrusions. All Tooling is manufactured and maintained in-house with APP's fully staffed Die Shop. From engineering to delivery, APP can provide the entire process including finished machining and assembly. Our goal is to be the world-class quality supplier of choice in the Aluminum forging industry.