Ordnance
JLO Ordnance Products
JLO Metal Products currently supplies impact extruded aluminum components to a wide range of government contractors, military installations, and privately held munitions manufacturers. Aluminum ordnance products manufactured from JLO forward impact extrusions, reverse impact extrusions, and combination impact extrusions include:
Our customers choose JLO aluminum impacts to decrease the initial tooling expenses of a new application, to significantly reduce both the production cycle times and the required number of production operations, to minimize added scrap material costs, and to replace an assembled multi-piece configuration with a single piece design. For more information on the impact extrusion process, including accepted commercial tolerance standards, click here .Our engineers will assist in making your custom ordnance component designs compatible with our impact extrusion process. To request design engineering support or to send a specific technical inquiry, click here.
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Cartridge Casings
- Highly repeatable production process yields reliable impacted casings conforming to agreed upon military standards and specifications
- Capable of producing near-net shaped designs featuring complex internal and external geometries that can not be cost-effectively achieved through competing manufacturing methods
- Achieves a fully wrought component with uniform grain structure maximizing the strength, toughness and machinability of the final design
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Mortar Cones
- Reverse extrusion process ideally suited for rapid, high volume production of symmetrical, hollow cone-shaped parts
- Unlike cones produced with other methods, grain flow for an impacted cone conforms to the contour of the part maximizing strength characteristics
- Allowable overall length to diameter ratio of up to 10:1 promotes unique design opportunities
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Signal Munitions
- Reverse extrusion process ideally suited for rapid, high volume production of symmetrical, hollow can-shaped parts
- Highly repeatable production process yields reliable impacted signal munitions conforming to agreed upon safety standards and flare specifications
- Close tolerance munitions designs formed by impacting are more economical than those formed by competing manufacturing processes
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Tear-Gas Canisters
- Completely forged, non-porous vessels assure a pressure-tight, leak proof container
- Impact process encourages can designs with bottoms thicker than the walls or cans with difficult to form bottom configurations
- Multiple diameter can shapes may be formed in a one-hit process as a single piece design, minimizing production time, assembly time, and required part count for a given bill of material