The new Excalibur® Sleeper Bolt, the latest addition to the Excalibur Screwbolt range, is designed and engineered to provide the fastest, most reliable and effective fixing solution for both plastic and hardwood sleepers in any railway application. Excalibur Screwbolts are already trusted on the UK’s most demanding rail projects, and the new Excalibur Sleeper Bolt will now save time and cost in...

TENZ® states that its world innovation in fastening technology, the TENZ® wood building screw, means users can screw in quickly, reliably and with precision – resulting in lower screwing effort and power demand. Featuring TENZ® Stairs thread technology, the TENZ® wood building screw helps significantly reduce friction and thus screwing resistance, as well as being very gentle on materials, tool...

A US mining company recently used a Henkel system to restore its conveyors – transporting hard and sharp stones to and from crushers - to full working order within two hours, helping saving high replacement costs and expensive downtime. Optimum conveyor belt life is achieved when the belt cover and carcass wear out at the same time but in the real world how often does that happen? Commonly the...

Aerospace is undoubtedly one of the sectors where industry-specific requirements and exacting standards are a vital part of the market, resulting in fewer companies being able to meet the necessary criteria and needs of world leading aerospace and defense prime contractors. A.H.G is a French manufacturer for solid rivets and threaded fasteners that supplies the global aerospace industry. The co...

Springs have been at the heart of engineering since before the Industrial Revolution and now they are set to be a key part of today’s Robotic Revolution, with Lesjöfors company, European Springs & Pressings, providing springs to French-based Robot Studio – a specialist supplier of biomimetic robot hardware. Rob Knight, founder of The Robot Studio, says: “At the moment there are a lot of sin...

TR Fastenings has designed, developed and patented a new fastening solution, the EPW thread-forming screw for thin sheet metal. The EPW screw is a self-extruding, high strength thread-form fastener that creates its own female thread in punched sheet metal, thereby dramatically reducing assembly times and costs. The screw works by being aligned to the pilot hole in the sheet metal, where it then...

Hollo-Bolts by Lindapter were specified for The Spurn Discovery Centre in the UK. The rooms were pre-fabricated and shipped to site as complete modular units. Once they arrived on site, the contractor used Hollo-Bolts to connect the structural hollow section frameworks together. The Hollo-Bolt was selected because of its high strength capacity and its range of independent technical accreditatio...

Following the success of the Global Automotive Lightweight Materials Summit in Detroit in August, American Business Conferences is delighted to announce the 6th edition of the Lightweight Materials Joining, Forming and Manufacturing Innovation Summit returning to Detroit on 19th – 20th February 2019. The transition by OEMs to a new generation of electric vehicles is placing increased emphasis o...

GESIPA® extends its Bird Pro series by a networked battery-powered setting tool, the iBird® Pro. This device has been particularly designed for integration into IoT/Industry 4.0 and lean production environments. The iBird® Pro App which can be downloaded from the GESIPA® website free of charge keeps users informed about setting processes as well as the operating status of the setting tool at an...

Peristaltic pumps are used to move fluids along a tube in a variety of medical and industrial applications. They can pump sterile or harsh fluids without coming into contact with other components of the pump that can contaminate clean fluids or be damaged by acidic or viscous fluids. The core of the pump in this design is a series of rollers that are fastened to a wheel. A tube containing the f...