An apparatus for producing a component (10), comprising fiber composite material, including lower and upper dies (20, 28) of a pressing tool and optionally a heat source, by means of which source the fiber composite material can be heated during its subjection to pressure in the pressing tool,
- characterized in that
- one of the dies (10) has mold voids for receiving fiber composite material (18) in the form of a fiber preform (preform), which are defined by flexible elements (26), which to the requisite extent follow a shrinkage of the fiber composite material, and that the other die (28) has a geometry that follows the course of the voids.