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Our Forging

Forging factory

Our Forging
Our Forging

Founded in 1998, a professional IATF 16949 certified manufacturer in Taiwan. Have hot forging, warm forging and combination forging also with the heat treatment and surface treatment under the same roof.

We have 11 production lines with 150 employees and our plant area is 33,060sqm. We are the member of Taiwan Forging Association.

Besides Bicycle, Motorcycle, Railway, Agricultural Machinery, Defense industrial and Security equipment, our main business is automotive parts; automotive parts business accounted for 70%. The main product is automotive suspension control arm for aftermarket (AM), especially for European and America car applications, like Audi/BMW/Mercedes/Fiat/Ford and so on......

Have profound experiences in developing forging mold for automotive parts, especially for suspension control arms. Therefore, we are competent in providing the automotive forging parts with high quality and high stability and have already been audited and approved by several well-known car parts companies.

We provide both steel and aluminum forged control arms using the material same with the original factory (OEM) standard and we control the incoming material by spectrometer.

Although we have run this business for so long, we still keep investing on innovating forging knowledge and technology and new equipment for example Improving production quality and efficiency with the assistance of the Qform/SIMUFACT mold flow software.

The involvement of all team members on the quality control ensures the quality from the raw material coming till the completed parts.

Core Competency

✔ Complex geometry parts
✔ Solution for difficult forging
✔ Rapid tooling development
✔ Engineering for material saving
✔ Skillful technician
✔ Reverse engineering

Forging Manufacturing Capability

✔ Material - Brass, Aluminum, Carbon/Alloy steel
✔ Forging Weight range - 150g to 53Kg
✔ 6 Steel Forging lines (max 5ton)
✔ 6 Aluminum Forging lines (max 4000ton)
✔ 2 Copper Forging lines (max 2500ton)
✔ Heat Treatment - Normalizing, Tempering, T4/T6

Simulation - Mold flow analysis - Die design - Forging - Heat treating - Coining - Tumbling - SandBlasting - Fluorescent/MPI inspection…
Process Flow
Quality and Manufacturing equipments

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Process Flow

Aluminum

Steel
1Cut/Saw BilletSemi-automatic / out sourcedCutting/Sawing Bed machine
2Pre HeatingElectric Heater *7Induction Heater *7
3RollingHorizontal Rolling machine *3Horizontal Rolling machine *4
4BendingBending Press *5Bending Machine *6

5

Forging
Knuckle Joint Press 650t~4000t *8

Friction Screw Press 2000t *1
Air Drop Hammer 2.0t~5.0t *5

Crank Press 400t~3000t *5

6

Heat Treatment

T4 Solution Furnace *2
T6 Aging Furnace *2

NormalizingFurnace *1
7CoiningPress 650t~1000tPress 600t~2000t *5

8

Sand Blasting

ShotBlasting Machine *2
Universal rolling *1
Rack type *1
Barrel type *1

9

Inspection
Rockwell Hardness Meter
CMM
Universal Test Machine
Magnetic Particle Inspection Machine
Semi-automatic Fluorescent Inspection
Spectrometer
Metallographic Microscope
Reverse Engineering Scanner

About SAS-168 | Automotive Control Arm & Bushing Supplier

Founded in 1985, SAS-168 has evolved into a trusted name in the global automotive parts industry, renowned for its technical mastery in rubber material science and precision processing. In 1998, we strategically pivoted to serve the automotive sector, specializing in control arm rubber bushings and integrating forged metal technologies into our production lines. This synergy allows us to supply not only bushings but also fully machined control arm forgings, delivering comprehensive solutions for suspension system needs.

Today, our components are widely adopted by control arm manufacturers across Western Europe, especially for premium German marques such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi. Backed by over 30 years of experience in the high-end aftermarket, we ensure each product meets stringent quality benchmarks and comes with global product liability insurance. Our mission, vision, and values center on customer satisfaction, employee welfare, safety, and innovation—making SAS-168 a secure, high-performance partner for automotive suspension solutions.

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