Our materials
Our product forms
Types of forming
Our cold-rolled strips and sheets are used and shaped in further processing plants. The types of forming are stamping, bending or deep drawing. Depending on the requirements, however, deforming allows a great opportunity of designing a great diversity of parts. The greatest formation is achieved by hydroforming and deep drawing.
Stamping: Stamping describes the cutting out of parts of a workcomponent using a cutting tool. For manufacturing reasons, it usually requires flat materials. That is why this process usually happens at the beginning of a production chain.
Bending: Bending describes the forming of a workcomponent without changing its material volume. In case of bending you form arcs, contours or angles into a workpiece, without cutting out any material. This process is mostly after stamping.
Deep-drawing: According to DIN 8584, deep-drawing is the tensile compression forming of a sheet and strip metal (also known as foil, plate, panel or metal blank) into a hollow body that is open on one side. In most cases, several process steps are carried out one after the other, in which, for example, a preformed hollow body is drawn into a hollow shape with a smaller cross section.
In the case of the deep-drawing process, a change in the thickness of the sheet metal is generally not intended.
Deep drawing can be divided into 3 different processes:
Deep drawing with forming tools (drawing ring, stamp and sheet metal holder)
Deep drawing with active media (gases, liquids)
Deep drawing with active energy (e.g. magnetic forming, high-speed forming)
