FORMLAB was a NTNU-project at the Department of Materials Technology (IMT) and the Department of Engineering Design and Materials (IMM).

The project started in 1999 and stopped in 2001/2002. It had the following objectives:
- to build up a forming lab,
- to drive research and education within forming,
- to establish a new creative environment and culture for creative thinking on forming processes ("tomorrow's" processes),
- to increase the knowledge within forming,
- to establish a national ressource centre within forming, integrated with process- and alloy development,
- to be a tool for multidisciplinary teamwork.

This activity is still running at the Department of Materials Technology (IMT). It is also linked to the SPD activity.