With a workforce of around 500, Rosenbauer, in Karlsruhe, Germany, builds more than 190 vehicles every year – used for firefighting and disaster relief. This requires the highest levels of quality and uncompromising dependability, which is why the company uses electromechanical radio-linked torque wrenches from Stahlwille. In order to be able to meet the ever-increasing challenges of the future...

With the automotive industry focused on the electrification of the drive system in vehicles, corresponding threaded fasteners have an important role to play. Here Annedore Bose-Munde, qualified engineer and business and technical journalist, looks at how Arnold Umformtechnik is extending its multi-faceted expertise into the electromobility sector. The objective of fastening solutions in the ele...

Here Cesare Certini, owner of CERMAC Srl – an Italian testing machine maunfacturer – discusses how a great deal of the structural and dimensional calculations of parts intended for mechanics and constructions are based on tensile testing, with fasteners being no exception. Generally, a tensile test is performed on specimens obtained from machined parts, but in some cases this type of test can b...

Chemical anchors not only meet amazing requirements and withstand the highest loads, but they help to realise previously unimaginable building projects. However, with heavy-duty construction projects comes great responsibility. For safety critical applications, the reliability of the fixing is crucial and the usage of a high-quality, safe and extensively tested anchor is a must. Therefore chemi...

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...