Jonathan Craven, operations director for Arconic Telford Joining materials in safety critical applications should not be underestimated. A fastener that costs a tiny fraction of the total bill of materials could have catastrophic and expensive consequences if it should fail, making it vital to the integrity of a product. Materials technology has always been ahead of the joining technology avail...

For more than 20 years, bolted steel structures have been more costly to maintain and more likely to fail than they should. This is due to a loophole in the European safety standards. Frank Götz, senior sales engineer at Nord-Lock Group points to insufficient clarity in the EN 1090-2 standard. He meets a lot of design engineers in his daily work who are using double nuts, check-lock nuts or tab...

Thanks to its technical knowledge and flexibility, Star Fasteners can suggest exclusive solutions for specific applications, as well as work on bespoke products for critical applications.  Star Fasteners Ltd deals with a broad spectrum of companies and thanks to its 30 years of experience can suggest simple solutions that offer a better final installation, whilst also being cost-effective. “Tec...

In the long history of Acument Global Technologies developing new fastener drive systems such as TORX® and TORX PLUS® drive, the desire to continually improve and meet new industry needs has led to a new product to be rolled out in 2017 – the TORX® Paralobe™. TORX® Paralobe™ is a unique, proprietary drive system with full surface drive contact thus reducing stress at the bit/recess contact poin...

First Published: 24th August 2015 By Deepak Garg, Bossard expert team Ref: FFT150824 The fasteners most commonly prone to galling when tightened are made of stainless steel, aluminium or titanium. Stainless steel fasteners are available in austenitic, ferritic and martensitic grades, with austenitic grades of stainless steel fasteners usually used in the industry. The stainless steel material h...

NORMA Group has developed the V2-XC (X-treme Conditions) a new quick connector made of plastic that withstands particularly high temperatures, vibrations and pressures – making it suitable for connections in trucks, commercial vehicles and agricultural vehicles. NORMA’s V2-XC can be used in systems for air intake and crankcase ventilation. With its rugged design made of fiberglass-reinforced p...

The former W+O Solid Riveting has been integrated into the GESIPA Group as the new business unit - Solid Riveting – which will be based in Olpe, Germany, and will develop bespoke solutions for demanding solid rivet applications in the general industry, the commercial vehicle industry, and the automotive industry. Solid rivet fasteners are ideally suited for highly-loaded constructions since th...

Nord-Lock Group has recently launched the Lifetime Warranty concept – a full lifecycle warranty across all its technologies. It’s the first warranty of its kind in the industry – yet another proof of the Nord-Lock Group’s commitment to being number one. A warranty is a promise. But in the case of Nord-Lock Group, it is simply the formalising of that promise implied in every product. The compan...

Developments in automotive lightweight construction, the trend towards electro mobility and the need to save weight even in the case of adhesive solutions, always require new bonding solutions. The latest development from Lohmann is a family of epoxy tapes, DuploTEC® 106xx SBF, which are suitable for the structural bonding of a wide variety of materials. Two different adhesive variants are avai...

First published: 15th July 2015 Ref: FFT150715 Friction is a factor not to be ignored when it comes to tensioning bolts. Always present in a bolted joint, friction can be part of the problem – or part of the solution. Click here to download