The new DIRAK stainless steel IP65/66 wing knob from FDB Panel Fittings makes life easy for builders of small cabinets and wall mounting enclosures. It is easy to fit and to operate with one handed twist and open quarter turn functionality. Stainless steel AISI 316 construction with or without cylinder lock and the capacity to fit doors up to 8mm thick, means that this new wing knob is great fo...

Railtex, 15th international exhibition of railway equipment, systems & services, and Infrarail, 13th international railway infrastructure exhibition, have been rescheduled to take place from 7th – 9th September 2021. The co-located events were scheduled to take place from 11th – 13th May 2021 at the NEC Birmingham. This announcement follows the postponement of Infrarail earlier this year, w...

Balancing cost and quality factors, SP045 multi adhesive from illbruck is suitable across short or long-term installations, where a quick and strong bond is required, and can also be used as an assembly aid for heavyweight fixing. Combining strength and flexibility, in an easy and controlled application, illbruck says users are left with an immediate, positive first impression, with the product...

Consumer wearables, including smart watches and augmented reality glasses, are gaining in popularity, as well as other important markets such as medical and healthcare. State of the art wearables have to have good reliability, precision and are compact. Here, Peter Swanson, managing director of adhesives specialist Intertronics, discusses the best practice for dispensing processes in wearable d...

When it comes to safety for amusement park attractions, nothing can be left to chance. Maintenance can both be expensive and time-consuming. However, there is a solution for wear that can solve the problem – permanently. Some people love them and can’t get enough, others not so much, but when it comes to thrills – or outright fright – amusement park attractions cover a lot of ground. So, whethe...

10,000 specially created anchors from the fischer Group of Companies have been used to install the heavy stone elements of a commercial building in Zurich, Switzerland. The façade consists of approximately 100 various steel tube grid constructions which are fitted with tapered pieces of marble of varying sizes and between 6cm to 18cm in thickness. These components were prefabricated by the manu...

By Dr Bill Eccles, Bolt Science A question that is sometimes asked is what tolerance should be placed on a torque value. I remember in my early days in engineering that the quality department requested that a tolerance be placed on a torque value that I had specified. I was told that without a tolerance, how were they expected to know what was acceptable to the design department? Many organisat...

Master Bond EP4EN-80 is a NASA low outgassing approved epoxy, which can cure at temperatures as low as 80°C, unlike conventional one component heat curing systems. It also features a quick cure profile at 65°C for 90 minutes plus 30 minutes at 80°C  - 85°C. The epoxy system requires no mixing prior to use, has a very low viscosity of 600 cps - 1,800 cps and contains no solvents. Free flowing EP...

Lightweighting is at the heart of the current challenges of the automotive industry, with electrified vehicles needing to reduce their weight. To meet this goal many solutions now replace metal components with plastic. However, for certain applications, which require clamping forces to remain fixed, the effects of creeping needs to be avoided. Indeed, during a traditional assembly of plastic co...

Global engineering company, Pandrol, has been central to the completion of a major 103km rail project in the Australian territory of New South Wales, supplying 365,000 rail clips to secure the tracks to 200,000 concrete sleepers. The first section of the Inland Rail, which saw 98km of existing line between Parkes and Narromine upgraded and 5.3km of new track laid and took nine months to complet...