SUPERFORM
World leader in superplastically formed aluminium
From its two manufacturing facilities in the UK and USA, Superform supplies complex parts to major customers such as Airbus, Aston Martin, Boeing, Bombadier, British Aerospace, Ford Motor Company, Lockheed, Morgan Cars, Siemens and many others around the globe.
Over the past 25 years Superform has developed exclusive forming processes for materials ranging from medium-strength aluminium alloys to high-strength airframe alloys and carbon composites. In-house CATIA and CADCAM systems and high-technology milling capabilities enable Superform to offer three-dimensional sheet-forming solutions for small and large parts ranging from car body panels to specialist aerospace components to decorative architectural panels.
Superforming gives designers the freedom to create complex geometric shapes that conventional stamping equipment simply cannot produce, from subtle concave forms to intricate parts with secondary features—and on most projects, the tooling investment for Superforming is far less than that associated with conventional matched-die stamping tools.
Superform invented and continues to extend the boundaries of the unique Superforming process.
Applications:
The advantages of Superforming make it an ideal process for low-to-medium-volume production of complex components used in aerospace, automotive, architectural and many other industrial applications. After forming, Superformed sheet can be trimmed like any other parts using CNC routing, laser and water jet. For higher-volume requirements, Superformed components can be combined with conventional die trimming and hemming methods.
