One million patients are seen every 36 hours by the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK with 40% more operations undertaken in recent years. Sanandco and its MonitorMe product, with springs supplied by European Springs & Pressings, is working on easing this NHS headache. Sanandco brings healthcare monitoring to the masses, taking advantage of cloud storage and big data. It develops simp...

Desoutter Industrial Tools has unveiled a new industrial smart hub that the company predicts will trigger a real step change in assembly line production. Called CONNECT, the transformational technology is designed to boost flexibility, boost uptime and boost productivity on an unprecedented scale. CONNECT is designed to accelerate the transformation towards an Industry 4.0 factory. CONNECT hub...

Specialinsert has underlined its commitment to becoming a partner of excellence by achieving the IATF 16949:2016 certification in the quality management of the design and production of mechanical fastening components. Specialinsert was established by three shareholders who, whilst already working in the fastener sector, decided to set-up their own business and start their own sales operation in...

Even the best-designed fastener assemblies can succumb to a range of negative side effects including rattling, leaking, loosening, seizing, stripping, corroding or shearing. Each of these issues could potentially lead to a product failure and costly warranty claims or recalls. That is why customers turn to ND Industries to provide solutions for all these problems and more. A family-owned busine...

One of the most common problems that occur when tightening fasteners is ‘galling’. While galled fasteners will certainly not be loose, the related joint won’t be properly tensioned and can fail from fatigue when put under service loads. As a result, the equipment may be affected, with mating components being seized, stripped, twisted off or sheared. Here, Chris Herling, applications engineer at...

Today the world of lightweight construction can no longer be imagined without plastics, as they conquer more and more sectors. Their great flexibility in terms of processing and component design leads to an increasing replacement of metallic materials. Due to their outstanding mechanical properties, low weight and attractive manufacturing costs, plastics are a fundamental part of industry today...

The frames of modern railway carriages are constructed almost exclusively from aluminium, which means virtually every threaded hole needs to be reinforced using some kind of threaded insert. Loksert key locking inserts, from Bordo International Pty Ltd, are ideally suited to the high pressure and vibration of rail applications and are used extensively by all the world’s major manufacturers. Lok...

Northern Precision Limited, a UK-based manufacturer and supplier of fasteners for the sheet metal and composite industries, has introduced several new product ranges ideally suited to the transport industries, such as the Deform nut and Masterplates. Deform nut is a two part fastener system designed to be used in honeycomb composites, such as those used in train floors and internal walls. Defor...

Noise protection walls next to railway tracks must be designed to withstand permanent dynamic loads, with the Nord-Lock wedge-locking principle an established method of securing such systems. That is why KRAIBURG STRAIL GmbH & Co KG has relied on this technology for its newly developed mini sound protection wall. The prototype was tested for the very first time in the German city of Neuss,...

Huck’s pre-assembled, one-piece blind fasteners are ideal when access from only one side of the joint material is available. The blind fastener is placed in a pre-drilled hole and is installed by using an installation tool to pull the mandrel or pin head into the rivet body, expanding the rivet body and causing it to flare on the blind side of the joint material creating a permanent and vibrati...