Lee Spring has further extended its range of ex-stock springs and custom spring solutions, with the addition of high performance exotic nickel or cobalt alloy custom solutions for the oil and gas industries. Lee Spring points out that these nickel or cobalt custom solutions are appropriate in conditions that would excessively stress normal steels – for instance nickel alloys such as Inconel 600...

NORMA Group has received a major order from a premium German car manufacturer to develop and produce V-profile clamps. The joining products will be used in the battery degassing system of three car model series with hybrid drives. Around 1.2 million vehicles are to be equipped with NORMA Group products from 2020 to 2027. “Our products contribute to the safety of vehicle occupants when used in t...

The International Hardware Fair Köln (EISENWARENMESSE), planned from 1st March 2020, has been postponed to a new date in February 2021. This is how Koelnmesse is responding to the increasingly acute global situation around the recent occurrence of the coronavirus. In addition to the countries in Asia already hit by the virus, Italy has now become the first European state affected by cases of in...

In view of the increasing spread of the coronavirus in Europe and after intensive consultations, Messe Frankfurt has decided to postpone Light + Building. The world’s leading trade fair for lighting and building-services technology will now be held in Frankfurt am Main between the middle and end of September 2020. The cooperation partners of the international trade fair, ZVEI and ZVEH, support...

A combination of LBCG’s successful BEVA series and GALM series, BEVA-ALM Europe – the Battery Electric Vehicle Architectures & Lightweight Materials 2020 congress – will take place from 5th – 6th May in Munich, Germany, and will focus on the latest developments in battery technology and lightweight materials. To realise the transition towards zero-emission high-efficiency vehicles, battery...

By Jeff Greenwood, product sales engineer, SPIROL International Corporation Coiled pins were designed with assembly in mind. Compared to other pins, their square ends, concentric chamfers, and lower insertion forces make them ideal for easy installation. Additionally, coiled pins can accommodate wider hole tolerances than any other pin because they compress during installation and conform to th...

The GALM Manufacturing Innovation Summit, is North America’s leading event on automotive manufacturing innovation and processes, bringing together senior engineers and technology specialists from major OEMs at the forefront of lightweight multi-material structures, joining and forming, as well as adoption of digitalisation and industry 4.0. Taking place on 25th – 26th March in Detroit, Michigan...

When Adhesives & Bonding Expo launches this 24th – 26th March in Novi, Michigan, USA, the exhibition and conference will bring together the industry’s biggest players in industrial bonding technology, including 3M, Bostik, Loctite, Dow, Permabond, HB Fuller, Avery Dennison and Henkel. Ahead of the event, Advisory board member, Dr Giorgio Zaffaroni, technical director at Permabond, shares hi...

bigHead is launching its latest innovation ‘Core Range’ at this year’s JEC World in Paris next month from 3rd – 5th March. “Core Range is a simple and complete range of bigHead fasteners for both surface bonded and embedded applications. Most importantly, this new range comes with application performance data and composite design guidelines to simplify product selection and composite joint desi...

Vitralit® 2028 from Panacol is a new UV curable coating that is resistant to chemicals and is autoclavable. It is a flexible coating material that can be cured in two ways, UV or heat. The transparent epoxy Vitralit® 2028 is easy to dispense because of its low viscosity. Nevertheless, it enables a clean edge finish without bleeding. It is therefore ideally suited as a flexible protective coatin...