Blue Diamond Technologies, a UK-based designer and manufacturer of bespoke mechanical parts, is building on its experience supplying fasteners for the automotive aftermarket to provide customers with bespoke industrial fasteners for any market sector.
With more than 40 years experience, Blue Diamond offers a global procurement of special parts and is widening this service to supply custom fasteners with complex or unusual geometries in low batch quantities – typically 500 upwards.
Custom fasteners are manufactured using hot and cold forging techniques at a fraction of the cost normally incurred to machine them from scratch. This includes fasteners with eccentric heads, unusual head forms or recesses and captive washers, as well as with fasteners featuring thread locking compounds and nylon inserts. Where required further details can also be added using secondary machining processes.
Examples of components already supplied by Blue Diamond include bolts and fixings with hexagonal sockets, flanged, triple square, double hex, and hexalobular head forms. Nuts can incorporate flanges, castellations, self-locking features and captive washers.
Parts can be supplied in a wide range of materials including carbon and alloy steels, stainless steels and non-ferrous metals. Heat treatment is also available to achieve enhanced mechanical properties as needed.
"For companies who are currently incurring high costs to obtain complex fasteners manufactured using conventional machining techniques, we can offer a highly attractive low cost alternative," comments Blue Diamond Technologies.
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