Metallforming

The world today is facing major challenges in connection with the green shift, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Technology and industry are developing rapidly to respond to society's demands for more environmentally friendly and sustainable production, including aluminium forming. Aluminium is a material with good properties and is well recyclable. The sustainable manufacture of new, easily recyclable components based on previously used aluminium is becoming an international megatrend. Forming is one of the important production technologies for manufacturing aluminium products. The current forming processes are fine-tuned with a limited operational window for very high production rates. More use of recycled aluminium will impose new challenges for today's finely tuned forming processes. There is an urgent need to build knowledge on how recycled materials influence the forming processes and how to make the processes more robust with better process tolerance for a wide range of alloy compositions. This project aims to build new expertise on the interaction between material and process when the content of recycled material is increased in the components.