West Special Fasteners are specialist hot forgers of high nickel alloys and stainless steels. We currently have 4 hot forging presses. The presses utilise customised induction forging techniques to produce quality fasteners.
Our standard size range for forged fasteners is 1/4" to 2" for imperial fasteners and M5 to M52 for metric fasteners.
Standard Lengths for forged fasteners are 10mm to 500mm long under the head of the fastener dependant on the diameter.
To compliment our hot forging facilities we have a wide variety of conventional lathes, automatic lathes, CNC lathes, hydraulic presses, drilling machines and milling machines. This enables us to produce fasteners outside the standard range and length stated above. e.g. M3 x 30mm Long Socket Capscrews in Hastelloy C276®. OR 1" unc x 36" Long Studbolts in Aluminium Bronze.
Products can be identified with material grade , cast numbers and manufacturers initials by Multitronic Dot Marking or by conventional impact stamping when requested.
Tooling for the mechanical presses is produced in-house. Chaser dies , taps, drills and other tools can all be reground, sharpened or modified in our factory.