Flange height and lip thickness are generally restricted by the formability of sheet metals in the conventional hole flanging operation. The blank is susceptible to necking or fracture before the desired flange height is achieved. In the current work counter-pressure was applied to suppress the dilation on the bottom of the cup-shaped preform, while multi-action forming die was designed to enhance the strength of the bunch at the same time to avoid the buckling on the workpiece. The tool trial-out showed substantial flange height and lip thickness can be formed with flange extrusion of larger inner diameters with steel and aluminum cups. Flanges of smaller inner diameters were difficult to be extruded in steel cups indicating that the process requires higher counter-pressure in extruding small flanges on high-strength materials. Tool would deform and consequently become unfavorable to flange extrusion when the die set subject too much forming load.