{"id":1261,"date":"2026-04-15T09:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:32:42","slug":"hodforming-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/batch-1-eng\/hodforming-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"HoDforming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-fd412670 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/logo_start-up_hodforming.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4299065960869586;width:302px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" src=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-720\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4\/3;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_HoDForming-edited-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-category is-style-post-terms-1 is-style-post-terms-1--1 wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/category\/batch-1-eng\/\" rel=\"tag\">Batch #1<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The proprietary Hot Die Forming (HDF) process developed by <strong>HoDforming <\/strong>for the hot forming of metals enables the production of ultra-lightweight components in key industries such as the automotive and aerospace sectors. HDF technology is highly energy-efficient and cost-effective and is used for metals and metal alloys with a melting point higher than 350\u00b0C, ideally for high-strength alloys, as this is where the advantages of the process for producing ultra-lightweight components are most clearly evident. Ultra-lightweight construction is a key technology for resource- and environmentally-friendly, low-carbon mobility of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hodforming.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proprietary Hot Die Forming (HDF) process developed by HoDforming for the hot forming of metals enables the production of ultra-lightweight components in key industries such as the automotive and aerospace sectors. HDF technology is highly energy-efficient and cost-effective and is used for metals and metal alloys with a melting point higher than 350\u00b0C, ideally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batch-1-eng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}