Other Sectors
Other Sectors
Whilst HFQ® Technology has made significant strides in revolutionising manufacturing processes within the automotive and aerospace industries, its potential extends far beyond these sectors into any product that benefits from lightweighting or is looking to reduce the environmental impact of its manufacture.
Moreover, the high strength aluminium alloys (6xxx and 7xxx series) with extreme formability and dimensional stability through the HFQ® hot forming process can offer advantages over machined aluminium, cold pressings, extrusions, hydroformings, castings. superplastic formed parts, composites and steel structures. Aside from strength, aluminium solutions (via HFQ®) can resolve issues relating to corrosion, supported mass, electrical/EMC, surface wear, repairability and end of life recyclability. Novel designs can be made possible to exploit the short cycle times of HFQ® for net shaping (for material and machining time savings) or producing assemblies with significant reduced assembly time.
We have received interest in HFQ® for a wide array of applications that leverage the HFQ® technology platform validated for the demanding automotive and aerospace sectors. These include novel bicycle frames, electronics enclosures, wind turbine blade leading edges, micromobility vehicles, recreational outdoor vehicles, marine, fuel cell interconnects, cargo containers, military battery casings and architectural structures.
If you are interested in saving weight and/or part complexity or are looking for a game changing approach to low cost manufacturing of consumer or industrial products, please get in touch so one of our experienced applications engineers can provide some guidance. Our team can engage with you in simultaneous engineering studies and provide guidance on costing and global supply chain options.
