Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT) is an organisation catering for any company, association or individual having an interest in metalforming.
This extends beyond metalforming practioners to those in the up and downstream chains of suppliers and customers.
On 1st October 2010, IMfT changed from having a traditional fee paying membership to a web based body offering FREE MEMBERSHIP on registration at the web site. If you have an interest in metalforming and its technologies then please register to become a free member if you wish to by emailing events@imft.co.uk.
IMfT offer metalforming consultancy and product development in conjunction with Technology Forming Ltd.
Fastener Articles
An article by IMfT, Fastening: A Future - Opportunities for Automotive Fasteners
to Change the World, has been published in the May/June 2017 Edition of Fastener
World Magazine. The paper referred to in the sources at the end of the article can
be accessed below.
A New Paradigm for a Sustainable Automotive Industry
The latest article written by IMfT is Why Heading and Forging?, published in Fastener
+ Fixing Magazine, Issue 146, March 2024, pp 130 - 132.
IMfT have also recently written BREXIT – A Drama in ‘X’ Acts - published in Fastener
World Issue 188, May/June 2021, pp 142 – 147 and The Fastener Industry: Inspecting
the foundations following the Covid 19 quake published in Fastener World Issue 185,
Nov/Dec 2020, pp 268 – 270.. .
To find more articles on fastener topics written by IMfT for Fastener World and other
fastener related publications please visit the IMfT News Page.