Over 100 million plastic cartridges end up in landfill every year, and as a result some industries are taking steps to reduce plastic and packaging consumption. This includes Geocel Limited, now offering a relaunched ecoSEAL system to make a positive impact. The ecoSEAL sleeve system does not require an expensive barrel gun to be used, and its unique, reusable sleeve is designed for ease of use...

Button-fix, a product designed to invisibly attach objects to walls, ceilings and other surfaces, has recently been awarded with a 2020 Queen's award for ‘Enterprise in Innovation’. The annual awards are prestigious for UK businesses and administered by the government. In 2020, Buttonfix Ltd was one of 66 businesses throughout the country that were recognised for outstanding achievement in inno...

DB Roberts Company, a distributor of speciality fasteners and hardware solutions in North America, has expanded its distribution portfolio to include RFI shielding products from Tech-Etch. This includes standard catalogue and customised EMI and RFI shielding finger stock gaskets in beryllium copper and stainless steel. Also available are mounting profiles including clip-on, hook and stick-on, s...

Damaging the threads on a concrete anchor during installation is a common cause of escalating costs and diminishing longevity of applications. As a result, care must be taken not to damage the threads during installation. In this article, Concrete Fastening Systems Inc (Confast) explains the best practices in protecting the concrete anchor threads. All threads on wedge anchors are national coar...

Vossloh AG has won the contract for the supply of turnouts and rail fasteners for phase two of a new railway construction project in Abu Dhabi. By October 2020 Vossloh will supply 38 turnouts and 495,000 sleeper sets of the rail fastening system. For the project, the specifications of the future integrated Etihad Rail network with mixed use traffic have already been taken into account. The line...

Shimtech Industries, a group of aerospace manufacturing companies in Europe and North America, has changed its name to Avantus Aerospace. After being in the industry for over 50 years, Avantus companies have evolved to manufacture products beyond shims. The companies manufacture a wide range of C-class and specially machined components including, fasteners, brackets, shims, detail assemblies an...

FastFixTechnology last visited GRASS Befestigungstechnik in 2017 when the business was still in the early stages of a restructuring process. Editor Will Lowry therefore once again visited the company’s production site in Hagen, Germany, to see first-hand how the business has continued to develop its products and capabilities. Managing Director Christoph Schulte is matter of fact when looking ba...

For over 45 years TR Fastenings’ UK manufacturing plant in East Sussex has produced millions of products, including its own highly regarded Hank® brand. The current purpose-built factory, which opened in 1992, houses 50 single and multi-spindle machines and produces 3 million parts each month. The multi-spindle machines can form, turn, drill, knurl and part off a steel component in as little as...

With an increasing demand coming from the automotive industry, driven largely by the rise in popularity in electric and battery operated vehicles, choosing the right screw head and drive type for a project is essential. Here, Jackie Hackett, director of global sales and marketing at APM Hexseal outlines the most common drive types and how to select the best head and drive styles. Choosing the...

Panacol has developed specially formulated three UV adhesives that protect welded joints on cell contacting systems and electric car battery packs from corrosion. The flexible adhesives enable vibration resistant connections and have a low ion content. High performance cell contacting systems (CCS) combine individual lithium-ion battery cells for hybrid and electric vehicles to form battery pac...