Over the past 20 years, the inspection and testing of fasteners has become one of the major challenges in the fastener industry. Here, Massimo Agrati, CEO at Dimac Srl, looks at why it’s crucial for fastener companies to be investing in inspection as there continues to be an exponential increase in the automatic assembly of products. For a long time many objects were assembled by hand. Now more...

Adhesives can have many benefits over the use of more traditional mechanical fixings. Here, Simon Dearing, managing director at Eurobond Adhesives Ltd, looks at how adhesives and tapes can be used over these traditional fastening methods on a production line. Adhesive bonding can simplify a product’s design as they can often reduce the weight of a finished product. Eliminating mechanical fixing...

The new hydropneumatic tool RIV303 from Rivit Srl features a built-in booster and has been specifically designed for the application of cartridge rivets. Depending on the diameter of the rivet, the RIV303 is equipped with special spare parts, with head, mandrel, and relative spring, selected according to the diameter of the rivet. Technical specifications of the RIV303 include a 5 – 7 bar air p...

Understanding that the market of industrial supplies focuses on the optimisation of logistics and the reduction of the number of suppliers, Berardi Fasteners has expanded its product range beyond fasteners to complete its Kanban offering. Amongst the new products are components for hydraulic, fluidic, and pneumatic systems, such as tubes, fittings and sealings. In partnership with specialised s...

By Dr Detlef Heindl, head of application engineering at Panacol-Elosol GmbH Bonding is a technology with an origin rooted in the early history of mankind. The first adhesive was invented in the stone age – birch pitch was produced by dry distillation of birch bark. This enabled parts of prehistoric tools and weapons to be bonded together. It can be assumed that this happened long before mechani...

ESI Automotive, a specialist in providing surface finishing technology, integrated advanced circuitry and joining materials, has been working closely with MacDermid Enthone Industrial Solutions to introduce a new standard – ZinKlad® for fittings. After the move from hexavalent chromium to trivalent chromium passivation, the demand for greater anti-corrosive performance has accelerated. Now that...

Earlier this year the German Institute for Construction Engineering (Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik – DIBt) issued a National Technical Approval for load-bearing timber connections using LIGNOLOC® wooden nails. After extensive tests and complex calculation models, all expectations of the expert committee were met. The approval enables the planning, design and execution of load-bearing connec...

By Ryan Crawley, marketing executive, Hafren Fasteners Ltd The growth of renewable energy is driven mainly by two resources – sun and wind. Other forms play a role in specific regions but tend to be more complex, less standardised, offer lower economies of scale and require larger investments to harness. Electricity from solar and wind should account for almost 50% of worldwide production by 20...

NOF METAL COATINGS GROUP has been a leading coating supplier for more than 40 years and is continuously developing new products and meeting new requirements. The commercial and technical success of its PLUS® VLh topcoat – in combination with the GEOMET® basecoat – helps create a system of high corrosion performance and perfect friction control. Mastering the science of friction behaviour The pr...

INDEX® is expanding its range of products from the polyurethane foam family with a new polyurethane adhesive (Pu-EP), new nozzle formats for the TILE (PU-TC) and FIRESTOP (PU-FC) versions and a new ECOFLEX nozzle. The new SATE/ETICS PU-EO polyurethane adhesive is suitable for the installation of ETICS (External Thermal Insulation Composite System) plates, insulation panels and drywalls. The hig...