If you’ve spent any time around fastener manufacturing, you’ve probably run into three process names that get thrown around: cold heading, warm forging, and hot forging. They sound like a spectrum, and in a sense they are. But the middle option, warm forging, is often the least understood. This post
When you’re designing fasteners for potential project, understanding the manufacturing process can significantly impact your design decisions, costs, and product performance. One of these fastener manufacturing processes, cold heading – also called cold forming – is one of the most efficient and reliable manufacturing processes for producing high-strength fasteners and
At CFI, we engineer custom screws nuts and bolts every day. One of the methods we use is called Cold Heading or Cold Forming. To answer the basic question, there is no difference between cold forming and cold heading, so the terms are truly interchangeable. The real difference is between
