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UK company 13969253, incorporated on 10 March 2022.
DeepForm | Transforming sheet metal pressing
Deepform Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 2022 based in East of England.
Company number 13969253
Updated 07 Jul 2026 09:49
Financial period: 1 Apr 2024 to 31 Mar 2025
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Deepform develops a sheet metal pressing technology and press tool designs that aim to reduce the amount of metal waste in the automotive industry.
DeepForm Ltd. is exploiting the folding-shearing process that was partially developed during this grant, and which has been further developed subsequently, to operate as drop-in tooling for existing press lines
November 2021: Coming up against stiff competition across the University of Cambridge, DeepForm CEO Chris Cleaver wins a prize in the Chris Abell Postdoc Business Plan Competition. The 4th annual #21toWatch Top21 list of standout individuals, companies and innovations: Dr Chris Cleaver has been recognised as a standout scientist in his field in a prestigious award ceremony. Dr Cleaver, the CEO of DeepForm, was awarded for his work in developing the DeepForm innovative sheet metal forming process which will enable the automotive industry to produce better car body parts with half the metal and reach zero manufacturing emissions. in Sep 2022, DeepForm Limited were awarded a £50k Innovate UK Fast Start grant. The six month project beginning Nov 2022 will develop DeepForm Limited's first prototype product: a novel die-set for stamping a car body structural part with less waste, cost and embodied emissions. In this we will design and evaluate a mid-size production-ready die set to manufacture multiple parts in current production at an automotive OEM. Fabrication work will begin at UK-based SME and die manufacturer, Whiston Industries. This project will kickstart DeepForm Limited as a UK business aiming to reduce the embodied emissions of car production. January 2023: 2 months into our I-UK Fast Start project, we've already identified a key demonstrator part from a high volume auto producer and shown how the DeepForm method can be applied, saving almost 40% on material. DeepForm is working with technical partner Whiston Industries on the project. Whiston are a major UK toolmaker with capacity to design, fabricate and try out large auto toolsets. Together with Whiston, we have developed a full 3-D process and Autoform simulation for this part and will soon kick off detailed CAD design. After four years of tweaking, two patent applications, held by Cambridge Enterprise, and two key papers, Chris Cleaver and Julian Allwood established DeepForm Limited as a company in March 2022.
The company has attracted a fast start Innovate UK grant, ~£150k of convertible loans for initial funding, and CEO Chris Cleaver has been funded by a RAEng Enterprise Fellowship for a year. Having started full-time work in August 2022, Chris has completed detailed designs for our first customer, who is close to signing the first major order, while opening up channels to several further customers, taking on a first employee to support him, and we are anticipating our first seed-funding round during 2023.
1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2028
Project Mobius develops AI-powered digital toolkits to optimise car body structures for whole-life sustainability and cost. **Problem** After batteries, bodies are the biggest source of 'point-of-sale' CO_2e_ emissions, mostly driven by material production. Today, car bodies are not explicitly optimised for CO_2e_, only 50% of input material is utilised a...
1 Nov 2022 to 30 Apr 2023
The project is to fund DeepForm Limited's first prototype product: a novel die-set for stamping a car body structural part with less waste, cost and embodied emissions. Almost half of sheet metal purchased for making car body parts globally is trimmed off and scrapped, adding almost 10% to the embodied emissions of every vehicle. DeepForm Limited, a spin-...
