New forming technologies aid ultra-lightweight aluminium pressings design

摘要

A new, UK-developed, enabling forming technology is being used to achieve class-leading light-weighting design suitable for aeroplanes, rail rolling stock and automobiles. The underlying forming process, known as solution Heat treatment, Forming and in-die Quenching: HFQ~R, was originally developed at the University of Birmingham and Imperial College London and is now being commercialised by Impression Technologies Ltd (ITL).