Forged Wheel Manufacturing

Forged Wheel Manufacturing

BRANDED AND PRIVATE LABEL FORGED WHEEL MANUFACTURING IN THE UK

All of our forged wheels are made in our own UK based factory from concept to realization.  As well as our own branded product, we also manufacture for a number of prestigious private label brands worldwide.

Our highly trained engineers to have complete control over all aspects of the manufacturing process and gives us extremely quick reaction times to market demands.

With a capacity up to 24″ 1pc forged and 26″ 3pc forged, there are very few competitors that can match our flexibility.

Design & Testing

When you order a set of 3SDM Forged wheels you are ordering a one-off wheel made exactly for you For every new order our team of designers will prepare
a new set of drawings, there is no generic brake clearances, no generic offsets.
We make our forged wheels for your specific vehicle, and to your requirements whether that’s to maximize concave, dish, or both.
We have a large database of OEM and after-market brake caliper profiles on file so there’s normally no need for you to give us any
off the car brake measurements.

Once our design team has passed the drawings to our engineering department, the testing process begins.
All dimensions are checked and our engineers use finite element analysis (FEA) software with our own proprietary loading scenario’s to simulate
wheel strength and fatigue life based upon JWL VIA standards.
This ensures our forged wheels will survive way beyond the limits of our nearest competitors.

Material / Machining

After we have assured dimensions, design strength and fatigue life, tool paths are generated by our CAM programming team.
First the raw arograde 6061 T6 forging is lathed to create the “pancake”, a beautiful metallic disc which at this stage is often visually reminiscent
of a chrome smoothie.
Critical dimensions are checked throughout and at the end of this stage prior to being passed to our milling department.

Within our CNC mills, the centre of the “pancake” is automatically probed by the latest Renishaw optical technology to find
centre-zero with microscopic accuracy. From there the real action begins with each hole, pocket, face, facet and radii being created one by one,
beautifully creating the wheels final shape as visualized by our designers.

Each set of 3SDM forged centres is crafted from the highest quality aerospace grade 6061-T6 aluminium.
For the barrels and lips a lot of our competitors use 50000 grade aluminium while our inner barrels and front outer lips are both manufactured from spun 6061-T6 giving a much higher quality and stronger rim.

Prototype and development wheels

Aero slave wheels for wind tunnel testing

Wheel force transducer wheels for tyre testing

Forged wheels for commercial vehicles and heavy trucks 17.5″-22.5″

Forged wheels for HD military, security and runflat applications

Motorsport wheels Rally, Circuit and off-road

Passenger car and SUV wheels up to 26″

Truck wheels up to 32″

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