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Our Hydroform department enables us to produce exotic out-of-round shapes that are unable to be spun. Hydroforming is a unique forming process that uses a rubber diaphragm or bladder as a universal female for all drawn parts. Parts are drawn into the rubber and produced through displacement pressure. This allows us to make less costly tooling with shorter lead-times. Most deep drawn parts are usually drawn in a single operation. The Hydroform produces exacting parts for all internal dimensions, and no outside tool marks that would be seen on a traditional steel on steel stamping process. We have two high production, high pressure Cincinnati Hydroforms that allow us to make a single draw up to seven inches deep in a variety of metals and alloys. Four more machines up to 32" in capacity will be operational in early 2008.