Forgings - Ring | Shaft | Rough & Finished Machined
FFF Australia have partnered with forge mills all over the world and deliver the highest quality superior strength metal parts, known as forgings, to Australia and other parts of Australasia.
Forgings are created using extreme force to press, hammer or squeeze cast metal ingots or billets to compress and then shape those parts closer to their final shape.
FFF offer rolled ring forging, closed die forging, open die forging, and cold heading forging in rough or finished machined parts.
- Carbon, alloy, stainless, nickel alloy, titanium
- Rings – up to 12m diameter and 100T
- Gearing – through hardened, single piece or angle cut rings
- Shafts- drive shafts, pinion shafts, crusher shafts, roll shafts, up to 100T
- Tube Sheets- fully machined and drilled
- Segments – for slew bearings and gears
- Kiln / Dryer / Digester Tyres – Up to 10m and 100T
- Bar- for industrial, marine and aerospace applications
- Nozzles
- Shells – for pressure vessels and heat exchangers
- Precision finished machined forgings to customer requirements
FFF Forging Experts
PETER
TIM
JIMMY
EDDY
Sales Manager-East Coast
PETER
Peter is a Mechanical Engineer with 25 years’ experience in the manufacturing and fabrication industries including 10 years in Materials Procurement Management. He has a wide range of direct experience in the metals industry working in forge shops, high volume manufacturing and pressure vessel fabrication.
Peter is very familiar with oil & gas and mining industry quality requirements. He has been with FFF for more than 5 years and oversees the Australian East Coast region assisting the rest of the East Coast team.
Director
TIM
Tim has been around FFF since day 1 in 1998, in these early days as a high school student helping out during school holidays and throughout university. After completing his Bachelor of Commerce and Business Law degree from UWA, he worked for the International Accounting firm Grant Thornton, where he completed his Chartered Accountant qualification.
He then joined FFF in 2006 in a full-time sales role and has worked every part of the business from sales, finance, logistics, procurement, and quality including the successful implementation of ISO 9001 for the company for the first time, through to management. This included opening up sales offices around the country as well as across borders into New Zealand, South Africa and Indonesia.
He has also spent extensive time in China and throughout Asia qualifying and managing FFF’s partner suppliers over a 10 year period replicating FFF’s foundation European supply chain into Asia and having expanded it to meet customer demand.
Quality & Supply Chain Supervisor
JIMMY
Jimmy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Engineering and a Masters Degree in Material Science from UNSW Australia. Jimmy has more than 25 years’ experience in heavy industries working directly with steel mills, machinery and pressure vessel manufacturers and has served as the welding supervisor and welding technical officer for more than 6 years at one of Australia’s oldest and most iconic pressure vessel manufacturers. Jimmy has a wealth of knowledge and experience in all things welding, heat treatment, materials and holds a current CSWIP 3.1 International Welding Inspector certification.
With more than 10 years’ experience in supplier quality management as the lead auditor in the Asia Pacific region for a German company, he makes an invaluable contribution to the successful delivery of our clients’ requirements.
Manager-China Operations
EDDY
Eddy majored in International Business and joined the FFF Team in 2009 after spending 3 years at a steel mill and another year in the lab doing materials testing. Eddy has a passion for working with our supply partners as we manage their export efforts, communications and the promotion of their manufacturing capabilities. With the support of our supply partners, Eddy facilitates the quality inspection of products during manufacture and prior to delivery.
Eddy has experience with API auditing and guides the development journey of our suppliers as they improve their quality monitoring and control systems.
