i admit i don't know what 'pull-down' and 'in pit-mounted design' mean, and i'm not sure my understanding of 'die forging' is correct, but that seems likely
on the other hand, the press release might be written by the same sort of people who say things like 'the world series', which is a baseball tournament between teams from the usa (and canada)
> The United States leadership only lasted two years: in 1957 the Ukrainian company Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod (NKMZ), specialized in steelworks equipment, built two 75,000-ton presses. The first one, destined for a plant in Samara, is now owned by Alcoa’s Russian branch. The second was installed in Verkhniaïa Salda and is used by VSMPO-AVISMA, the world’s leading producer of titanium and other specialty alloys.
> Outside the two superpowers, France was the third country to equip itself with a hydraulic press of this size: also built by the Ukrainian NKMZ, this 65,000 ton presse hydraulique* was installed in Issoire between 1974 and 1976. Owned by Interforge, the machine is 36 metres high and manufactures components for Airbus, Boeing, the space and transport industries.*
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> After 60 years, the USA has added a new 60,000-ton hydraulic forging press. Built by SMS Group and managed by Weber Metals in California, it started operations in October 2018.
> The heavyweight champion, of course, is Chinese: a machine with the incredible power [sic] of 80,000 tons is in operation since 2013 for the giant Erzhong Group in the province of Sichuan. As tall as a 10-storey building, its use is very confidential: it seems to be used to build parts for military aircraft, like its titanic sisters. To give an idea of the power of this machine, with its 780,000 kN it could easily lift an entire cruise ship. As often happens, larger does not mean better: it is not the most technologically advanced press in the world. It was built by adapting old USSR projects from the 1980s, and is currently underused due to competition from the other giants we mentioned.
on the other hand, the press release might be written by the same sort of people who say things like 'the world series', which is a baseball tournament between teams from the usa (and canada)
https://www.gasparini.com/en/the-worlds-largest-hydraulic-pr... says
> The United States leadership only lasted two years: in 1957 the Ukrainian company Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod (NKMZ), specialized in steelworks equipment, built two 75,000-ton presses. The first one, destined for a plant in Samara, is now owned by Alcoa’s Russian branch. The second was installed in Verkhniaïa Salda and is used by VSMPO-AVISMA, the world’s leading producer of titanium and other specialty alloys.
> Outside the two superpowers, France was the third country to equip itself with a hydraulic press of this size: also built by the Ukrainian NKMZ, this 65,000 ton presse hydraulique* was installed in Issoire between 1974 and 1976. Owned by Interforge, the machine is 36 metres high and manufactures components for Airbus, Boeing, the space and transport industries.*
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> After 60 years, the USA has added a new 60,000-ton hydraulic forging press. Built by SMS Group and managed by Weber Metals in California, it started operations in October 2018.
> The heavyweight champion, of course, is Chinese: a machine with the incredible power [sic] of 80,000 tons is in operation since 2013 for the giant Erzhong Group in the province of Sichuan. As tall as a 10-storey building, its use is very confidential: it seems to be used to build parts for military aircraft, like its titanic sisters. To give an idea of the power of this machine, with its 780,000 kN it could easily lift an entire cruise ship. As often happens, larger does not mean better: it is not the most technologically advanced press in the world. It was built by adapting old USSR projects from the 1980s, and is currently underused due to competition from the other giants we mentioned.
either this derives from this longer post from 02022, or they both derive from a common source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/worlds-largest-hydraulic-pres...
the owner was at risk of bankruptcy in 02015: https://web.archive.org/web/20160809080032/http://www.france...