HYTORC reduces leaks in emission-prone systems with technological expertise that ensures efficient, reliable and safe bolted joints for a variety of industries. The bolting manufacturer has identified and implemented ‘real time’ monitoring, washer systems, as well as hydraulic wrenches to provide bolted joint integrity – while also reducing repair times. HYTORC introduced ‘real time’ monitoring...

By Jeff Greenwood, product sales engineer, SPIROL International Corporation Fasteners are some of the most important parts of an assembly as they hold the entire assembly together and facilitate the interaction between the individual components. Ideally, the selected fasteners are simple to assemble, provide a quality product for the intended lifetime of the assembly and yield the overall lowes...

Construction fastening specialist EJOT UK has delivered an innovative LIEBIG concrete anchoring solution for a key part of the safety critical infrastructure used in the maintenance of Royal Navy submarines at Devonport Royal Dockyard. The project at Babcock International’s facility within HMNB Devonport – the largest naval base in western Europe – involved the replacement of corroded anchors t...

Swedish start-up company Ocean Harvesting is harnessing a new inexhaustible source of energy. With a floating buoy it is possible to convert the up-and-down motion of the sea surface into electrical energy, where heavy-duty ball screws from NSK have an important role to play. Even if the share of renewable energy generation is constantly increasing; in view of the ambitious goals for reducing C...

By Michal Tokarcik, technical manager at Klimas Wkręt-met On every construction site, at each stage of the works, a decision on the right type of fastenings will occur sooner or later. This is especially true in safety related applications, in which the failure of a fastening may result in the collapse or partial collapse of the structure – causing risk to human life or leading to significant e...

Design & Planning Automation, a division within Sandvik Machining and Manufacturing Solutions, is launching CRIBWISE™ – a new software as a service platform in the UK and Ireland. CRIBWISE™ is a subscription-based Cloud inventory management solution that helps manufacturing businesses take control of tooling inventory and related processes. The software enables tool, spare part and equipmen...

Over the last few years Tecfi has concentrated on the development of its range of chemical anchors, strongly believing in the advantage of reducing edge distances and spacing, without pre-stressing the base material. As part of this concentration, Tecfi SpA is proud to have been one of the first companies to achieve the C2 performance category on a styrene-free dual component pure epoxy chemica...

By Ian Parker, freelancer, ianfliesrussian@aol.com Airlines have had a double-whammy from the Covid-19 pandemic and environmental concerns, so they will be looking for very different planes in the future – possibly even electric planes. Keeping many passengers close together in the airport and on the plane, breathing the same air, and then burning kerosene to the destination will both have to g...

Accepting social and environmental responsibility is an integral part of the corporate culture at voestalpine. The Group’s Linz-based Steel Division is now one of the first steel companies worldwide to have been officially certified as a sustainable production site by the non-profit organisation Responsible Steel. The pre-condition for certification was to fulfill 200 criteria, which included t...

Swiss ship builder Scheurer Bootswerft AG has opted for screws from BUMAX® to fix its high performance catamaran rudders – where standard fasteners would simply fail. High strength BUMAX® 109 screws are being used to fasten the A-Cat catamaran rudders constructed by Scheurer Bootswerft. BUMAX 109 fasteners have a high molybdenum content which, coupled with unique BUMAX manufacturing processes a...