The increasing requirements of industry greatly lead to the development of forging technology and casting technology. The forging technology and the casting technology are very important technologies for producing mechanical parts for industrial applications. The casting technology is different from the forging technology in many different aspects. Both the technologies have their own advantages and disadvantages, and casting parts made by adopts the technologies are used for different applications. Now, we will have a look at the differences of the casting technology and the forging technology.
 
The casting technology and the forging technology are different in working principles. The casting technology has the working principle that metal is melted into liquid metal and then poured into the casting models to be processed through cooling, solidification, cleaning, etc. into casting parts with required shape, size and performance. The forging technology is also about metal forging, but it has the working principle that metal is heated by high temperature but is not melted, and then, the heated metal is placed into a model and pressed by certain force to be processed into the forging parts with certain shape.
 
The casting technology and the forging technology are used for processing different materials. The casting technology is adopted for casting the brittle materials including gray casting iron, ductile iron, malleable iron, carbon steel, alloy steel, various bronzes, aluminum, stainless steel, etc. The aluminum sand casting technology is very commonly used for industrial applications to produce sand casting parts. The forging technology is not able to process brittle materials, but it is commonly adopted for forging the plastic materials including low-carbon steel, alloy steel, copper, copper alloys, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium, stainless steel, etc.
 
Both technologies have different advantages and disadvantages. The casting technology has the advantages of simple technology, wide adaptability and low cost and the disadvantages of environmental pollution, noise production, low work piece performance, instable quality and easy defect occurrence. The forging technology has the advantages of high work piece performance and high precision and the disadvantage of high cost. The forging parts supplier are often adopted when the application has high requirement for performance of the work piece.
 
The casting technology is adopted for liquid metal molding while the forging technology is adopted for solid metal molding. Both the technologies are basic technologies for modern mechanical manufacturing industry, and they can make up for the defects from each other. You can adopt any one of these two technologies according to your requirements.