One of the earliest methods for creating seamless, chipless round hollow metal components is metal spinning. The metal spinning technique is frequently employed for small- to medium-sized batch manufacturing and when complex component shapes are necessary because to the low tooling costs.

Due of the challenges in finding and educating trained workforce, it has been kept in the shadows for a while. However, these problems have been alleviated with the development of automation, such as template control and CNC spinning machines.

Light gauge (0.5mm) through heavy gauge (8mm) sheet and pre-formed (pressed) materials can be manufactured using modern spinning techniques. Regardless of the numbers involved, it is preferable to all other approaches for some deformations.