Cold forging

Description

The metalworking process of forging whilst hot metal is right below its recrystallisation temperature, being cooled and solidified after casting.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 2 occupations
  • Optional in 8 occupations
  • Total: 10 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)

Essential for

  • Coppersmith
    Coppersmiths craft and repair items made of non-ferrous metals such as copper, brass and similar materials. They shape and form the raw materials into objects of practical or artis…
  • Surgical instrument maker
    Surgical instrument makers create, repair and design surgical instruments, such as clamps, graspers, mechanical cutters, scopes, probes and other surgical instruments. Other titles…

Optional for

  • Hydraulic forging press worker
    Hydraulic forging press workers set up and tend hydraulic forging presses, designed to shape ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces including pipes, tubes and hollow profiles and…
  • Ammunition assembler
    Ammunition assemblers put together explosives and other ammunition components. They perform this work in mass production in ammunition factories. The production itself focuses on t…
  • Upsetting machine operator
    Upsetting machine operators set up and tend upsetting machines, primarily crank presses, designed to form through forging processes metal workpieces, usually wires, rods, or bars, …
  • Drop forging hammer worker
    Drop forging hammer workers utilise forging machinery and equipment, specifically machined hammers, in order to form ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces to their desired shape…
  • Mechanical forging press worker
    Mechanical forging press workers set up and tend mechanical forging presses, designed to shape ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces including pipes, tubes and hollow profiles a…
  • Ornamental metal worker
    Ornamental metal workers use finishing equipment and machinery to shape and finish fabricated ornamental metal workpieces, often used for the installation process in construction, …
  • Swaging machine operator
    Swaging machine operators set up and tend rotary swaging machines, designed to alter round ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces into their desired shape by first hammering them…
  • Blacksmith
    Blacksmiths heat metal, usually steel, in a forge and shape it with a hammer, chisel, and an anvil. Contemporarily, they predominantly create artisanal metal products, including or…

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Last updated on February 19, 2026

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