Lightweight vehicles are big news in the automotive industry at the moment, following the launch of the ultralight steel. Lighter vehicles offer the benefits of materials and energy savings, and so ...

Titanium is a tremendously useful metal and very abundant, yet only 186,000 tonnes (205,030 tons) of it are produced a year and it’s not used very much outside of the aerospace field because it’s so ...

Tubular hydroforming processes provide a number of advantages over conventional stamping processes including reduction in the number of parts, and reduction in the tooling and material costs. As a ...

• Hydroforming can make parts not possible with stamping, and the tooling typically costs much less. • Hydraulic motion controllers that control tooling position and fluid pressure vastly improve the ...

Ever heard of hydroforming? It’s a manufacturing process used to form sheet metal into shapes using water at extremely high pressures. Not something you can do at home… unless of course you’re [Colin ...