Deep draw makes a lot of parts, including your soda cans. If they can roll it out in practice, this is a big deal. And yes, to the MP3 commenters, Fraunhofer

Deep draw makes a lot of parts, including your soda cans. If they can roll it out in practice, this is a big deal. And yes, to the MP3 commenters, Fraunhofer has many centers doing lots of industrial research on manufacturing technology. The German research approach is to pick a topic and set up a Fraunhofer institute in particular city for that, whereas the US has NSF, DARPA, DOE, the national labs all working Willy Nilly with whoever, wherever. MP3 was done mostly at the Fraunhofer in Erlangen. I’ve worked on CNC things with the Fraunhofer folks in Aachen and elsewhere.