this invention pertains to a process for producing shaped components from high - strength and ultra high - strength steels with tensile strengths & gt ; 780 mpa , wherein a steel sheet - metal strip is fed to a roll - forming installation and in the roll - forming installation is passed through roll stands and deformed by means of deformation rollers acting on the steel sheet , and wherein to avoid hydrogen embrittlement in plastically deformed regions of the deformed steel sheet - metal strip compressive stresses are introduced by stamping and / or upset - forging and / or overbending and bending - back or by machining the strip edges .