Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The Aluminum & Copper Forging Market Report covers the $2.6 billion industry which specializes in controlled deformation of non-ferrous metals to enhance properties and create complex shapes for transportation, electrical, and industrial applications. Competitive structure features specialized forgers with particular expertise in non-ferrous material behavior and processing parameters. Market requirements increasingly emphasize weight reduction, electrical/thermal conductivity, mechanical properties, and increasingly complex geometries addressing application-specific requirements. Manufacturers face challenges balancing specialized equipment parameters, temperature control, material flow characteristics, and tariff considerations affecting both metal inputs and international market access. Industry leaders differentiate through advanced forging technologies optimized for non-ferrous characteristics, specialized process control enhancing property development, comprehensive testing validating performance, and increasingly simulation-driven design optimizing material distribution in a sector where both technical capabilities and material-specific expertise determine competitive positioning across diverse aluminum and copper forging applications.
Aluminum & Copper Forging Industry Definition
Aluminum & Copper Forging shapes non-ferrous metals into components with enhanced strength characteristics through controlled deformation processes. Companies heat and form aluminum, copper, and their alloys using specialized forging equipment designed for these softer, more temperature-sensitive metals. These businesses serve aerospace, electrical, and high-performance applications with components offering advantages in weight, conductivity, and corrosion resistance combined with improved strength from the forging process. The industry develops specialized techniques that optimize the unique properties of non-ferrous metals, creating components that combine light weight or electrical conductivity with the enhanced strength and grain structure alignment that forging provides.
NAICS Code: 332112
Number of Companies: 47
Number of Plants / Facilities: 59
Industry Employees: 6,612
Market Size: $2.6 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the aluminum & copper forging sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $140 million
Relative Tariff Impact: VERY HIGH
Aluminum & Copper Forging Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Aluminum & Copper Forging Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. This market report is utilized by professionals to gain a in-depth understanding of the sector for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
With more than one hundred industry analyses and data sets covering trends from 2017 to 2025 and forecasts for 2026 and 2030, this report is one of the comprehensive assessments of the industry. The report includes market size & growth, detailed breakdown on 26 expenses, extensive financial analysis, forecasts, inventory statistics, 31 balance sheet benchmarks, company segmentation analysis, competitive intensity analysis, material costs benchmarks, profitability metrics, state metrics analysis, plant utilization, employee role analysis, inflation trend benchmarks, employee pay analysis, employee productivity benchmarks, and numerous other data sets.
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Report Table of Contents
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For this report, the core data is sourced from comprehensive business, operational, and economic surveys conducted by government and private institutions and filled out by a statistically significant number of companies in the aluminum & copper forging industry. The forecasts in the report are modeled by our research analysts using the latest economic forecasts, industry analysis, and historical trends.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources & Methodology
– Sector Definition & Examples
– Market Commentary
4 – Report Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Report Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies, & Facilities
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company and Plant
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
10 – BCG Matrix – Income vs. Revenue Growth
11 – Total Industry Sales by Month & Year (2021-2025)
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year (2021-2025)
13 – Months of Inventory (2021-2025)
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Business Concentration, Size, & Structure
15 – Market Size by State
– Market Size and Rankings
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
28 – Subsector Market Size & Growth
29 – Subsector Sales per Company & Plant
30 – 5-Year Consolidation Analysis
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities & Employees per Company
COST, CAPITAL & FINANCIALS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
Page 36 – Balance Sheet Metrics
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– 16 Current & Non-Current Assets Categories
– 15 Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX Analysis
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– 6 Employee Expense Categories
– 8 Cost of Material Categories
– 6 Buildings and Equipment Categories
– 8 Other Operating Expense Categories
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Number of Employees
– Employees per Company
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
48 – Payroll
– Payroll per Employee, Company, & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Employee Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
– Pay Bands
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
Hot impression die impact, press, and upset nonferrous forgings
All other nonferrous forgings
Nonferrous forging, nsk, total
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Nonferrous metal shapes, forms, sheet, strip, powder, and wire (excluding castings / forgings), excluding aluminum and copper
Metal forgings
Misc. aluminum-base alloy shapes and forms, including powder
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Misc. copper-base alloy shapes and forms (exclud. wire products, ingot, castings, cathodes, anodes, pipe, tube, rods, bar)
Misc. fabricated metal products (excluding hardware, containers, screw machine, bearing components, castings, forgings, and wire)
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Metal Workers and Plastic Workers
Other Production Occupations
Supervisors of Production Workers
Other Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations
Material Moving Workers
Assemblers and Fabricators
Material Recording, Scheduling, Dispatching, and Distributing Workers
Engineers
Top Executives
Operations Specialties Managers
Business Operations Specialists
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Information and Record Clerks
Financial Clerks
Other Office and Administrative Support Workers
Construction Trades Workers
Drafters, Engineering Technicians, and Mapping Technicians
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Motor Vehicle Operators
Financial Specialists
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