About Us
For over 120 years, QC Forging has been a metal components supplier that solves customer's most urgent problems, preventing product failure that threatens success in a competitive and hostile marketplace. The forging process produces metallurgy so superior, objects created have lived in legend and myth for much of human history. From the swords of the Samurai to the core of supersonic jet engines, the excellence of wrought metal is unequaled.
QC Forging makes the world's premier metal working process work to produce medium to small metal forgings that must not fail, in the most severe conditions and critical situations.
Customers rely on us to provide items used to de-ice commercial aircraft, arm weapons systems on military aircraft, stop moving trains, connect off-highway vehicle components, lift slabs of concrete over busy work sites, control the flow of natural gas into the home, and keep cash safe in your ATM machine.
Wherever there is concern for safety and reliability, wherever the ultimate in strength and durability must be achieved, you have a need for the processes we have mastered.
Queen City Forging began operations prior to 1880, taking over a vacant icehouse, along the banks of the Ohio River. The original mission was to produce metal component parts for horse drawn carriages, required by the large number of carriage builders in the Cincinnati area. In 1881, The Queen City Forging Company was registered as an Ohio Corporation, having grown quickly, to meet the demands of the local market.
At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Queen City Forging also produced forged components for the infant automobile industry. As the transportation market shifted, Queen City Forging was no longer at a regional center for vehicle component manufacturing. Over a period of thirty years, production shifted away from manufacturing vehicle components, to more generalized production for many industries. Customers were primarily the manufacturing concerns in the Cincinnati area, in need of forged components for their products.
During the period 1940-1948, during and following The Second World War, Queen City Forging engaged in volume production of ordnance materials to support the military efforts. After this period, the Company fell into decline as the owner, second generation to the Company founders, had reached retirement age with no plan for succession.
Howard Mayer and John Roth had become business partners after discharge from the U.S. Army following World War II. The two men were Cincinnati natives, having attended High School and College together, as well as having the good fortune to be stationed near each other during the War. They began as Manufacturer's Representatives, based in Cincinnati, and quickly focused their sales efforts, serving manufacturers of forgings and castings.
In 1958, Howard Mayer and John Roth, searching for a manufacturing company in which they could take an ownership position, purchased the Company from the great nephew of one of the Company founders.
Over the next thirty years, the Company grew as sales efforts brought a variety of job shop work into the facility. Improvements were made to equipment and industrial blacksmithing operations were started to take advantage of this niche market.
In 1980, Howard Mayer, along with his sons Rob and John, purchased John Roth's shares of the Company, and set a succession plan in place, that has resulted in the two brothers now owning the Company.
Queen City Forging's mission is to be a metal components supplier that serves niche markets with the production of metal parts utilizing the forging process, to provide the unequaled strength and metallurgical consistency only available with the forging process.
Ask us to bring our years of success to your most difficult design concerns. Work with us to gain confidence that comes with knowing you have selected the ultimate metal working process. Enjoy the freedom of knowing your products will survive the harshest demands.
Contact us now to achieve the decisive step of making your product the best in the world.
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