Product Announcements: Superplastic Forming Machines

Cyril Bath's corporate partner, ACB in Nantes France has become the world-wide leader in the design, development, and build of custom Linear Friction Welding machines for turbine engine Blisk or Integrated Bladed Rotors (IBR) manufacturing. (read more)

Super plastic forming process consists in hot forming up to 1000° Celsius superplastic alloys by using an inert gas pressured up to 50 bars. Combined with diffusion bonding, this process allows honeycomb structures made of several sheets in a single operation. (read more)

Superplastic forming is a process designed for sheet material allowing elongation of several hundred percent. Materials most commonly associated with SPF: Aluminum alloys: 5083, 7475, Titanium alloys: TA6V, Alloys: INCONEL 718, Two-phase stainless: URANUS45N (read more)

With the Elastoforming, Cyril Bath Company has turned around the old, non-industrial, Rubber-Pad Forming into a modern, highly efficient and accurate metal forming process.

See our brochure on Elastoforming vs. Fluid Cell forming. (read more)