Novelis partners with Impression Technologies on hot stamping for automotive aluminum

Novelis Inc., an Atlanta-based aluminum roller and recycler, has announced a partnership with Impression Technologies to explore ways to increase the broader adoption of aluminum through the hot stamping process. Impression Technologies has the exclusive rights to Hot Form Quench (HFQ®), a technology used to design and manufacture components using ultrahigh-strength aluminum for the high-volume automotive and transport markets.

This partnership reflects Novelis' strategy to collaborate with partners across the automotive and aluminum industries that are developing products and processes for lightweighting vehicles. Novelis will use ultrahigh-strength alloys, such as 7000 series, that offer higher levels of strength and lightweighting to compete with hot-formed boron steel in a variety of strength- and safety-driven parts of automotive structures. The HFQ hot stamping technology enables new vehicle design applications in both aluminum-intensive vehicles and mixed-material architectures.