Over the last four years Colombo Special Fasteners (CSF) has been investing in a ‘verticalisation’ process, which it says will enable it to have the primary steps for its supply chain under its direct control. The most recent additions to this process include the acquisition of its heat treatment supplier and a merger with its sister company. Pietro Colombo, sales director at Colombo Special Fa...

Traditionally failure messages displayed to a machine operator are limited to the indication of the monitoring method – such as maximum force, envelope or trend, etc. The Brankamp X7 monitoring system from Marposs goes a step further and detects a wide range of typical process faults caused by tools, material, lubrication or transfer. Failure messages displayed to the machine operator by device...

MD® 1172-M-UR, from Dymax, is designed for bonding COC/COP film laminates and other difficult-to bond to plastics used in the assembly of in-vitro diagnostics (IVD), Lab-on-a-chip (LOC), and other point of care medical devices. Dymax says this new product may be of interest to manufacturers involved with the design of Covid-19 rapid diagnostic applications. It also features Ultra-Red® fluoresc...

With modern packaging requiring new innovations, Italian-based NAR SpA has introduced a new printed tape that it says meets the demands of large volumes with efficiency and quality. RENEWA® TAPE 465 has been developed with an innovative printing technology internally at NAR, which guarantees an excellent definition together with the affirmed performances of the natural rubber adhesive. RENWA TA...

Around 130,000 fischer FZP II Zykon panel anchors have been used to securely anchor the granite panels to the substructure of the Farglory - THE ONE skyscraper in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Kaohsiung is Taiwan's second largest city measured by its approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The Farglory - THE ONE skyscraper is a 68 storey structure towers at a height of 268m, making the skyscraper the talle...

Master Bond UV15X-6Med-2LV is a UV curable, non cytotoxic adhesive that features optical clarity and abrasion resistance. Not only can it be utilised for bonding, but it can also be employed for sealing, coating, and encapsulating purposes. It has a high degree of flexibility with an elongation that exceeds 100% and a low tensile modulus of 20,000 psi - 50,000 psi at room temperature. This flex...

Fire safety requirements play an increasingly important role in both new construction and renovation work. Decisive for fire development is the degree to which fire and smoke develop and the degree of fire penetration from, for example, the façade inwards. Fire resistant crack seals are a decisive factor to prevent fire spreading as a result of fire penetration from the facade as much as possib...

Here, heat treatments and specialist thermal processing service provider, Bodycote explains how Kolsterising®, a surface hardening process for stainless steel, can significantly improve surface hardness and help to eliminate galling. Screws threaded into blind tapped holes are commonly affected by galling, and components made of stainless steel are especially susceptible. Stainless steel fasten...

In 2017, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft launched the lighthouse project ‘futureAM – Next Generation Additive Manufacturing’, with the goal to accelerate the additive production of metal components. The project has now ended and six Fraunhofer institutes have made technological leaps in systems engineering, materials and process control as well as end-to-end digitalisation, thus increasing the perf...

Henkel, whose brands include LOCTITE®, is on a mission to demonstrate the importance of locking threaded assemblies against vibrational self-loosening and has released a powerful new video and education guide to support this initiative. There are several different methods of addressing the problem of self-loosening and most of them include the use of mechanical devices to lock threads and maint...