By Dr Peter Standring, Industrial Metalforming Technologies (IMfT)  Ref: FFT161213 That we live in a digital age is apparent by the sight of so many of our fellow humans being glued to  their smartphones. Yet it is barely half a century since metalforming was supplanted by electronics  after at least three millennium of maintaining its strategic position in both expressions of wealth and  wea...

Rivit Srl has introduced the RIV606 and RIV616 automatic feeders, which it says help to double productivity and half installation time for blind rivets and rivet nuts. Rivit explains that the reduction in riveting time is an essential goal for industrial applications, particularly for the automotive industry. This is why Rivit developed its RIV606 and RIV616 pneumatic/electric units, which load...

The newly developed SRM® stud welding inverter BMK-8i – with 230V single phase input power – is extremely lightweight, powerful, and suitable for steel and stainless steel studs up to 8mm in diameter (or up to M10 when using Soyer HZ-1R weld studs). Weighing just 9.5kg, BMK-8i does not need high voltage current and was developed to be mobile. Heinz Soyer Bolzenschweißtechnik GmbH points out tha...

EFC International offers cost savings through assembly solutions for interior, exterior, body, panel, seating, trim, routing, fluid transfer and other applications in the automotive industry. Manufactured by Italian-based BBA Srl – and available now from EFC – is a high performance and versatile solution with safe and secure riveting technology in carbon fibre and composite material structures...

Lightweight construction is the future. Hardly any market segment is developing as dynamically as industrial lightweight construction and hardly any topic plays a similarly important role when it comes to innovations. Here Rüdiger Frisch, technical manager, vehicle lightweight solutions, west Europe at 3M, explains the significance of adhesives for lightweight construction and points out the ch...

Advancements in materials and Industry 4.0 are challenging the joining technology of the automotive industry. Requirements include the control of the setting processes and the fully automation and integration of the technology in OEM operations. The purpose of these new requirements is to ensure high–quality of all joints, as well as fast and economic processes.  With the focus on new materials...

Producing 30 million clips annually, JCS Hi-Torque Ltd is an established British manufacturer of high performance hose clips to a variety of industries worldwide. Now in its fifth generation of the Mockridge family and going through a period of investment, Claire Aldridge, deputy editor, visited its manufacturing facility in Suffolk to see what the future holds.Although known today for its rang...

The Lesjöfors AB company European Springs & Pressings Ltd recently took on a project that ‘hammered’ home the technological expertise of its workforce when the company formed part of a design solution to West Ham United’s new 60,000 capacity football ground.The London Stadium, the new home of West Ham United Football Club and formerly the Olympic Stadium, recently underwent an impressive re...

Technifast Ltd is able to offer customers a specialist dowel pin service that includes dowels with longer lengths up to 120mm on diameters below 5mm, and the production of dowels up to 25.4mm, giving the option to add features such as flats and circlip grooves, or internal/external threads.Not all standard dowel pins are appropriate for demanding applications or specialist projects, and it can...

BRALO S.A has designed a complete range of five simple, durable and robust BNT riveters, which it states are a first class solution to customers in a variety of industries.Each BNT riveter is manufactured with heavy-duty and extremely reliable parts, with all body castings made of high-quality forged tempered aluminium – giving the tools excellent strength and durability. Each tool also has a h...