On October 23, 2007, Dynamic Flowform Corp. was named “Small Contractor of the Year 2007″ by the US Army & US Marine Corps. Product Manager for Mortar Systems.  The award was given in recognition for Dynamic’s “outstanding efforts to develop lightweight 60mm and 81mm flowform cannon barrels”.  Nick Fonte, Production Manager, accepted the award at the 2007 Mortar Conference in Morristown, New Jersey.

In September ‘07 , Dynamic Flowform Corp. purchased a 26,000 square foot building, located across the street from its present building.  This new facility will help to accommodate the growth that Dynamic is experiencing.

Matthew Fonte was elected as a Small Business Executive Committee Member to the National Warheads and Energetics Consortium (NWEC).  “…This committee was created to better utilize the diminishing resources available for research and development of lethality technology that supports the warfighter.”   NWEC brings together members from industry, academia and the government.  For more information, please contact Mr. Fonte or click here for the NWEC website.

Dynamic Flowform is proud to announce that Matthew Fonte will present “Flowforming – An Advanced Metal Forming Technology to Produce Cylindrical Parts”  at AeroMat 2007 to be held June 25 – 28, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland.  The 18th Annual AeroMat conference is entitled:  25 Years of AeroSpace Evolution:  Materials, Design, Manufacturing, Certification.  For more information, please contact Matthew at mfonte@flowform.com or go to the AeroMat page.

We, at Dynamic Flowform, wish you a wonderful Holiday Season and a successful 2007!  Please be aware that we will be closed from Saturday, Dec. 23rd thru Monday, Jan. 1st.

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Dynamic Flowform Corp. has been collaborating with scientists and engineers at the US Air Force to flowform a new class of alloys.  The Air Force team has been developing and transitioning titanium-boron, an alloy that has high strength and stiffness as well as low density.  This new class of alloys could potentially fulfill the Air Force’s latest needs in aerospace structures, engine components, and spacecraft components.

Additions of 500-1000 parts per million of boron helps with the formation of equiaxed alpha, instead of lamellar alpha.  Specifically, these changes provide an order-of-magnitude reduction in cast grain size and eliminate rapid grain growth above the beta transus, while retaining strength, stiffness and fracture properties (ductility, toughness, fatigue).  These Ti-B alloys thus transcend the boundaries currently limiting manufacturability.  They enable a radical shift in the manufacturing process paths for the titanium industry including dramatic reduction or elimination of ingot breakdown enabled by an order-of-magnitude decrease in as-cast grain size, radical innovation in mill processing routines by relaxing current constraints imposed by the beta transus and new paradigms in secondary manufacturing such as flowforming, rolling, and super-plastic forming.

Ti-B material that has been flowformed and annealed achieved strength levels of 150 ksi Yield Strength, 160 ksi Ultimate Tensile Strength with 26% elongation.  Today, Dynamic Flowform is actively working with industry, the US Army, Navy and Air Force, offering them manufacturing cost reductions using these strong flowformed Ti-B alloys.

Flowforming Offers Cost Savings for Titanium Components

Titanium alloys continue to be vital for many important defense and aerospace systems but high cost and long delivery times are major factors limiting titanium alloy usage.  Offering substantial economical benefits, flowforming is becoming more widely embraced as the manufacturing process of choice in the fabrication of difficult-to-produce thin wall, cylindrical components.  Flowforming is often used as a net-shape process, requiring less material to make a part and reducing the costs associated with secondary machining operations.  Advanced materials such as titanium alloys are often solely available in forged bar or billet and now can be successfully flowformed into precision tubular parts.  Seamless components with high length to diameter ratios, up to 50 to 1, realize the greatest cost savings through the flowforming manufacturing process.  To read the full article, click here.

“Flowforming:  An Emerging Forming and Fabricating Process” will be the topic of Matthew Fonte’s presentation at the FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show, October 31 – November 2, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia.  For more information, click on “North America’s Largest Metal Forming, Fabricating and Welding Event”.

Matthew Fonte, Director of Business Development for Dynamic Flowform Corp., will present Flowforming:  An Emerging Technology at the Titanium 2006 Conference, October 1-3, 2006 in San Diego, California.  For more information, click on Titanium Conference.

Dynamic Flowform is pleased to announce that we will once again be exhibiting at the AeroMat Conference & Exposition. For a free exhibit pass or more information on our exhibit, click here.