Bossard North America Inc has earned recognition as a Partner-level supplier for 2012 in the John Deere Achieving Excellence Programme. The Partner-level status is Deere & Company’s highest supplier rating. Bossard, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, was selected for the honour in recognition of its dedication to providing products and services of outstanding quality, as well as its commit...

TR Fastenings recently supplied plastic fasteners to the UK car manufacturer Ariel Motors for its latest Atom sports car, to help take weight out of the structure to enhance its world-famous performance. Plastic fasteners are often the optimal solution for when a fastener has to be versatile, light and yet strong. This is especially true in the automotive sector, where the latest trend is for...

Products supplied by Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) have received official endorsement for use in the campaign to deter theft of valuable copper cable from the UK’s railway network, a crime which costs the industry GB£16 million per year. Searching for a more robust solution to the easily removed nuts and bolts at spider junction boxes, Network Rail engineers in Newcastle upon Tyne approached th...

Bielefeld based BOGE Kompressoren has recently benefitted from innovative RFID technology incorporated in the Böllhoff ECOSIT® system. Since 2004 BOGE, an international manufacturer of compressors and compressed air systems with more than 100 years experience, has used a multi bin KANBAN system from Böllhoff. The two bin system proved a reliable solution for the last eight years. It was origina...

Electrophoretic coating is an immersion process that refers to the electrically induced transfer of a non-conductive organic coating onto a conductive surface. Adequate pre-treatment, application, and curing methods provide a controlled coating thickness, a relatively high speed of coating, compatibility with numerous topcoats and most importantly enhanced performance and duration of the coatin...

GESIPA® says that its new development – the TAURUS® 5 compact – is an extremely light and versatile setting tool for lock bolts. Due to its modular design, unique high setting force and weighing only 2.8kg, the TAURUS® 5 compact is extremely flexible and allows fatigue-free operation for long periods of time. It securely sets 4.8mm and 6.4mm lock bolts from a variety of manufacturers. The TAUR...

Blind rivet nuts are indispensable in the construction of machines and buildings. However, they do have some serious shortcomings that undermine structural stability and ergo safety. Bossard Group says that its Bossard ecosyn®-BCT rivet nut is the next generation of high-tech blind rivet nuts, and makes these concerns a thing of the past. Glass reinforced plastic (GRP) and carbon-fibre reinfor...

By Russell R. Radant, chief engineer, Spirol International Corporation Laminated shims make life easier for designers and machine operators, as long as they are properly specified. It is often quicker and less expensive to use a shim, a thin piece of metal or composite, to level a machine tool or make components fit together - rather than grinding and machining to make the same mechanical adjus...

A million electric cars on Germany’s roads by 2020 - This is the ambitious target set by the German Federal Government in its bid to continue the battle against climate-destroying CO2 emissions. It believes that e-mobility is a significant key technology to create a sustainable transport system for the future, especially when the power is produced from renewable energy sources. Yet e-mobility i...

Seismic events are among the worst possible scenarios for engineers or architects designing structures. Under seismic loading, the performance of the connections in a structure is crucial not only to overall stability but also with a view to avoiding casualties and the economic impact resulting from the collapse of non-structural elements. In Europe, up to now, no standard that pre-qualifies fa...