Forging and casting are the two common ways to create valve balls. The biggest difference between forging vs casting valve ball methods is how they’re carried out.
Forged valve balls are created by using a forging method and shaping metals or alloys while in the solid form. With heat and die compression, it reforms the shape of material to sphere shape before the cutting and machining.
Forged valve balls show stronger structure due to the forging process, which make them ideal for handling high-pressure and high-temperature systems. Also, forging boosts its stability on surface conditions such as cracks, and sand hole on the surface of valve ball.
The downside for forging valve ball is the cost. Since the forging process required more labor hours during the production and environmental control on noise and vibration.
Unlike forging, casting uses the liquid form of metal to create valve ball. The metals are melted into a molten liquid and poured into various molds and wait until the liquid cools and solidifies.
One of the biggest benefits of casting is that it can create valve ball with complex shapes, types, and sizes. By using casting, it can form the similar die blank to the end product. Which can save times and machining cost on the form of casting ball. In addition, it has less impact on the environment with no noise and vibration issue like forging.
Casting ball are also a great cost-effective selection for many companies to assemble their own valves. It gives you more options on the metal grades and the sizes.
HSIN HUANG are proficient in casting ball manufacturing by different technologies.
We can also provide forging ball by using round bar materials or piping materials.
Casting Ball: Ball size from ¼” to 14”.
Forging Ball: Ball size from ¼” to 4”.
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