The east side of the press, in 1985.
A die being inserted into the east side of the press.
The Alcoa 50,000 ton forging press is a heavy press operated at Howmet Aerospace's Cleveland Operations. It was built as part of the Heavy Press Program by the United States Air Force. It was manufactured by Mesta Machinery of West Homestead, Pennsylvania, and began operation on May 5, 1955.[1][2]
Alcoa ran the plant from the time of its construction, and purchased it outright in 1982. In 2008, cracks were discovered in the press, which had to be shut down for safety reasons.[3] Repairs, originally estimated at a cost of $68 million (equivalent to $81.04 million in 2019), cost a total of $100 million, and were completed in early 2012.[4]
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- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. OH-64, "Alcoa Forging Division, Mesta 50,000-Ton Closed Die Forging Press, 1600 Harvard Avenue, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH", 20 photos, 2 color transparencies, 3 data pages, 21 photo caption pages
- "National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark: 50,000 Ton Closed Die Forging Press" (PDF). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 1981-09-24. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
- Alcoa (2012-02-21). The 50 is back!. YouTube. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
- Brooks, Robert (2012-04-23). "History in the Making". Forging. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
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