Melting

In 1985, Ellwood Quality Steels was one of the first in North America to apply ladle furnace technology to the manufacture of forging ingots. Since then, we have made major investments in new equipment to expand and improve that technology. We offer our forging ingot customers unparalleled steel cleanliness, chemistry control, heat-to-heat analysis consistency, and short, reliable delivery lead times. This approach to steelmaking was followed when Ellwood National Steel was started in Irvine, PA. in 2005 and a CORE/Danieli ladle furnace was added in 2007. ENS specializes in bottom poured, straight sided and fluted cylindrical ingots to 47" in diameter.

Forging and Heat Treating

With open die forging presses and hammers up to 4,500 tons in capacity and closed die presses up to 11,000 tons in capacity, Ellwood City Forge, Ellwood Texas Forge, and Ellwood National Crankshaft cover a wide range of custom shape-forming capabilities in weights up to 70,000 pounds (open die) and 10,000 pounds (closed die). We respond quickly to customer specifications and offer fast lead times and reliable deliveries to customers in North America and around the world, whose demanding applications range from missile cases to turbine rotors, including many oil- and gas-related niches. Ellwood companies possess the state-of-the-art heat treating equipment necessary to deliver the demanding mechanical properties that our customers specify, including unusually large vertical heat treatment capacity at Ellwood National Forge and large gas nitriding capacity at Ellwood National Crankshaft.

Casting

EGI bought Ellwood Engineered Castings in 1992, providing Ellwood Quality Steels with a nearby, reliable, high-quality source of ingot molds to support their diverse product offering of forging ingot sizes and shapes. Since then, EEC has expanded our gray and ductile iron capabilities beyond molds into dies for automobile body stamping presses and machine tool and mechanical press parts, among other applications. The same customer specification-driven "job shop" mentality that animates the other EGI divisions characterizes EEC's problem-solving approach to customer requirements.

Machining

The scope of EGI's production integration extends from melting to forging to heat treatment to rough and finish machining. EGI's wide array of machine tools provides the turning, milling, and boring required to deliver parts ready for our customers' finish processing. Ellwood National Crankshaft produces finish-machined diesel crankshafts from 1,000 to 10,000 pounds, and Ellwood National Forge produces finished hollow parts up to 60,000 pounds. Finally, Ellwood Crankshaft and Machine's turn/mill machine is unique in the world for finishing parts up to 50,000 pounds.

Distribution

Ellwood Specialty Steel offers the highest quality tool steels by building upon the integrated melting, forging, heat treating, and machining capabilities of the rest of Ellwood Group with our own saws and mills. ESS's large inventory of plastic mold steels, cold work tool steels, and hot work tool steels permits fast delivery to a wide spectrum of tool steel user requirements.