Members of the Czech Forging industry Association are industrial forging shops,manufacturers of hot forming machines and equipment, commercial and mediating companies, research institutes, and universities. Members are linked by shared interests in the manufacture of smith and drop forgings of steel and non-ferrous metals.

The Czech Forging Industry Association was founded in 1990 as the Czechoslovak Forging Industry Association. When the state was divided, the Czech Forging Industry Association became its successor and representative of the Czech forging industry in this country and abroad. The Associatiton´s activities embrace representation and defence of the members´ joint interests, support to the forging industry, increasing of the proffesional standard of the forging industry and its workers, and provision of information and publicity. The Association has at present regular members, and associate members.

Since 1992, the Czech Forging Industry Association has been a regular member of EUROFORGE, which isi attached to the European Union, and associate forging companies and unions of Britain, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Sweden.

The Czech forging industry is a traditional branch, and forging as a proffesion has a tradition of several milleniums. The origin of industrial forging shops dates to the last century, and their production is closely linked with industrial development in the Czech lands. The buyers of smith and drop forgings are all branches of the engineering industry, the most important being the automobile industry. Forgings are irreplaceable ror their mechanical properties ensuring safe operation of all mchines and equipment in which are used.

In the last years, the Czech forging industry coped well with the declining manufacture of final products in the Czech Republic, and the disintegration of the traditional Eastern markets. The branch was saved by a marked increase in the export of drop forgings and maintained amount of exported smith forgings. Forgings shops were oriented towards improved quality, establishment of new comercial contacts, and consistent meeting of the clients´ demands.

The result are constantly rising exports with preservation of the total amount of produced forgings. In 2003, the Czech forging industry (members and non-members of the Association) turned out a total of 220 000 ton of steel forgings, including 114 289 tons of drop forgings, and 106 636 tons of smith forgings. Exported was a 40 per cent of total production.

The maintenance of the present level of engineering production and its further development depends on the high quality of forgings. Czech forgings shops have been awarded ISO 9001 - 9002 certificates by the most important certification companies.

It is vitally important for the Czech forging industry standard to be fully comparable to the standard customary in the industrially advanced states of the world. The tradition of forging in the Czech lands is obliging us, and entire endeavour and work of the Czech Forging Industry Association are heading in this direction.