Fasteners such as screws, bolts, nuts, and rivets provide connections for critical components and disparate substrates across industries. Sealing fasteners go a step further by tightly sealing against the substrate, making them particularly useful for high-value and high-intensity situations. The fastener creates a seal that helps to seal in, or seal out, potentially hazardous or damaging eleme...

For over thirty years Chemique Adhesives Ltd has been committed to building long-term relationships with its customers, successfully providing them with technical and adhesive advice that has helped them to grow and prosper. A customer that has benefited from this commitment is AIM – Acoustic and Insulation Manufacturing, a manufacturer of specialist insulation products based in West Sussex, UK...

Bulten has been awarded a new FSP (Full-Service Provider) contract by a European automotive manufacturer, which is also a new customer for Bulten. The contract relates to supply of fasteners for an electric vehicle programme that is under development. The order value is approximately SEK 220 million (approximately €21.6 million) a year at full production. Deliveries are estimated to start in t...

Keyence has introduced a new range of in-line telecentric measurement systems - TM-X5000 -which employs highly advanced silhouette-based analysis for guaranteed accuracy, designed specifically to measure parts rapidly and consistently as they pass through the system. Keyence says its TM-X5000 line-up boasts an exposure time of just 25μs – 40 times faster than conventional models, allowing accur...

The manufacture of shoes is a labour intensive process involving numerous production steps. Hot melt adhesives based on Covestro's Desmomelt® U thermoplastic raw material powder can now be applied automatically and in precise doses using digital printing. Polyurethane dispersions have proven their worth in adhesives for manual shoe production. But attempts to automate manual application with ro...

The metal bellows coupling series KP with 4 corrugated bellows and two radial clamping hubs from JAKOB Gruppe, is particularly suitable for applications with minimal shaft spacing and limited installation conditions. In addition, the connection features a very high torsional rigidity ​​and easy to install hub design, as well as a low moment of inertia and good values ​​for the permissible shaft...

Kennametal has introduced the HiPACS drilling and countersinking system for aerospace fastener holes, designed to drill and chamfer holes in one operation, while delivering increased tool life in machining composite, titanium and aluminium aircraft skins. Designed to be clamped in a standard hydraulic chuck, the HiPACS modular system consists of three components that are fast and easy to assemb...

Cable management specialist HellermannTyton has launched the EC6-8, its largest EdgeClip cable fastener to date, which is the latest addition to an extensive product family born out of an inventive solution twenty years ago. Today, HellermannTyton customers can select from over a hundred different EdgeClip variants. The wide variety reflects the company’s depth of experience helping original eq...

The new RH series from ELESA offers a rugged and elegantly simple electrical cut-off for the safe opening of access panels on machine tools. This is achieved with an IP65 pushbutton interlock in a single or twin button configuration. FG16 variants feature electronic buttons while FG18 are pneumatic. On the electrical handles, an emergency stop button version is available, as well as a plain han...

Smithstown Light Engineering, based in Shannon, Ireland, has invested in a TRUMPF TruPrint 2000 3D printing system to further enhance its support for the country’s burgeoning medical device industry, to produce prototypes and samples for a variety of customers in stainless steel. “We looked at many potential machines, before designing our own benchmark and sending it to suppliers of interest,”...