Our Business Model
Creating a
Global Standard for Sustainable Aluminium Lightweighting
HFQ® Technology will be offered as a global standard supported by an ecosystem of tiers, equipment suppliers and aluminium companies offering choice of supply and support to OEMs.
Starting with a core group of first-mover tier partners, Impression Technologies aims to build an accredited supply network all providing assured quality HFQ components that match to simulation tools and material cards offered to the OEMs. These tiers will be supported by accredited alloy and equipment providers, ensuring a secure and competitive supply chain.
Please get in touch with us if you would like to be a manufacturing, alloy or equipment partner, or are an OEM seeking a deeper understanding of how our unique technology offering model can support your light weighting needs.
HFQ Manufacturing Partners
HFQ is available from a growing network of highly capable and competitive manufacturers all producing to a common technical standard.
Our manufacturing partners are supported by a dedicated team of HFQ process technology specialists and design experts who can support production line specification, procurement, commissioning and ongoing part supply.
We have manufacturing partners in all key markets
Design support
- ITL offers the benefits of its extensive expertise in simultaneous engineering of high strength aluminium structures, particularly for automotive and aerospace application.
- Through early involvement of our technical specialists we can reduce part count, weight and cost and provide ideas to achieve the efficient structures.
- ITL’s experts can provide full design feasibility, simulation and tool face design to create the blueprints for HFQ part volume manufacturing.
- Cost models can be developed with OEMs and tiers to validate economics of the HFQ solution in the early stages of design ITL’s experts can also provide guidance on alloy selection and use of tailor welded blanks to achieve optimal weight and material yield.
Production and prototyping
- Tiers and OEMs can benefit from ITL’s in-house production and prototyping facilities.
- Tool sets can be proven at ITL before shipping for volume production at the tier or OEM’s own press lines.
- ITL’s production line also serves as a training and demonstration facility for our partners.
- ITL can offer its production line Aluminium suppliers to validate alloys for HFQ production.
