Article: FORGING ITS FUTURE; NOT ONLY FOR SCISSORS, SCHILLING FORGE LOOKS TO BE A CUT ABOVE.(Business)

Byline: Charley Hannagan Staff writer

The factory at Schilling Forge Inc. has a distinctive sound.

There's the underlying roar of the furnaces. Then bang. Bang. Bang.

The forging room is mostly dark, solely lit by the fire's orange glow.

Douglas Pelsue, company vice president and general manager, picks up a piece of metal that vaguely looks like one half of a pair of scissors.

"We heat this to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. The operator holds it and hits it between a set of dies," he said, shouting to be heard above the cacophony.

An operator wearing safety glasses and an apron puts a metal piece on a die and pulls a ...

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