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CONTENTS INDUSTRY NEWS

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COVER STORY

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The latest sales reports, acquistions and trade duty news

REYHER - full-speed ahead in 2017

FACE2FACE

Ronald Baarslag, chief executive officer, Fabory

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TECHNICAL 138-144

How different blanking technologies may influence the final performance of the retaining ring Determining the effect of lubrication on the security of bolted joints

CONSTRUCTION FIXINGS

Recent developments in construction fixings

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MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

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INSIGHT

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FASTENER FAIR STUTTGART

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Still learning after 40 years – and proud of it

Fastener Expo Shanghai attracts fastener companies worldwide Fastener + Fixing Magazine Seminar Programme

Route to Fastener Innovation Competition 2017

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See you at Stuttgart By the time most of you are reading this, it will only be a couple of weeks before the whole industry gets together at Fastener Fair Stuttgart, and I for one cannot wait.

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astener + Fixing Magazine has two exciting projects that will be taking place during the show. Firstly, we will be hosting a special seminar programme across the three days (Hall 5, Stand 2422) that will include presentations from leading exhibitors and key associations. Further details on the main topics and line-up can be found on pages 64 – 65.

To add to this there is also the Route to Fastener Innovation Competition, which involves the latest fastening technologies from exhibitors – with awards handed out on the final day of the show. We have a preview that gives an insight into the new products and services that have been entered – giving you the opportunity to learn more about the products in advance and what stands to visit during the show.

Our Cover Story focuses on REYHER and how its logistics, warehousing, product range, and services, are all geared to the future. Other articles include an exclusive interview with Ronald Baarslag, CEO at Fabory, on how fasteners will continue to be at the core of the Fabory business; Geoff Budd looks back at 40 years in the industry, and how he is still learning; as well as Optimas Solutions explaining how it is able to offer support and integration at every level of the supply chain.

We also bring you critical news impacting the fastener industry including updates on steel input costs; uncertainty over nickel, the latest acquisitions across the industry, as well as sales reports from key industry players – helping create an overview of how the global industry is performing.

To add to that we have in-depth articles from Mark Salmon, of Independent Fixing Consultants, outlining some of the most significant developments in the world of construction fixings; Ruben Limonta, technical engineer at Beneri SpA, looks at how different blanking technologies may influence the final performance of retaining rings; and Fastener Engineering Consultant Dr John Newnham focuses on the requirements for manufacturing fasteners for the aerospace industry. will.lowry@fastenerandfixing.com

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Bufab reports 2016 sales up 16%

Separation costs affect Arconic results

Bufab Group reported 2016 net sales at SEK 2.847 billion (€299 million), an increase of 16% on 2016. Organic sales growth was 4%.

Arconic reported a 2016 net loss of US$900 million (€849 million) on total revenue of US$12.4 billion (€11.7 billion). The loss was primarily attributed to the charges and costs associated with the separation from Alcoa Inc.

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he acquisition of Montrose Holdings Ltd in December was Bufab’s fourth in two years. President and CEO Jörgen Rosengren said: “…our acquisition strategy is continuing to generate results. The acquired companies are developing well, work well with the other subsidiaries and made a strong contribution to Bufab’s earnings trend and cash flow during the year. We are continuously evaluating additional acquisition opportunities. As a result of a healthy cash flow in 2016 and an increased credit line, we have the financial capacity for more acquisitions.”

The report notes that Bufab’s operating expenses were high during Quarter 4, in part owing to non-recurring acquisition related expenses of SEK 6 million. Half related to an increased additional purchase price for one acquisition, “which has developed far better than expected”. The quarter continued to see a “substantially stronger gross margin compared with the preceding year, primarily thanks to purchasing savings”.

Operating profit for the quarter was 39%.

Full year operating profit rose to SEK 272 million from SEK 197 million in 2015. The operating margin increased to 9.5% from 8%. Adjusted profit after tax was SEK 187 million, up more than 50% on 2015 at SEK 125 million.

Net sales, operating profit and profit after tax were all records for Bufab, which the CEO emphasised as: “The result of purposeful work in-line with the growth strategy established in 2012.”

Looking forward, Jörgen Rosengren said: “Going into 2017, we see challenges in the prevailing exchange rates, as well as a trend towards rising commodity prices. On the other hand, we hope to continue to increase our market share. We also witnessed a healthy order intake during Quarter 4, which bodes well for the beginning of 2017.”

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laus Kleinfeld, Arconic chairman and CEO, said: “In the fourth quarter we completed the successful separation of Alcoa Inc, which has unlocked substantial value for all shareholders. In the face of significant market challenges, we continued to improve the businesses – we increased adjusted EBITDA margins 100 basis points or more in each of our three business segments, delivered strong net savings and systematically cut overhead cost. We also strengthened our balance sheet, paid down US$750 million of debt and ended the year with a strong cash balance of US$1.9 billion.”

Arconic reported: “Revenue in 2016 was US$12.4 billion, essentially flat year over year, as the positive impact of acquisitions and higher volumes for aerospace and automotive markets were offset by the Tennessee packaging ramp down and the negative impact from metal pricing, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, and price and product mix.”

The Engineered Products and Solutions segment (including Aerospace Fasteners and the Fastening Systems and Rings business) increased 2016 revenue by 7% to US$5.7 billion.

Adjusted EBITDA improved 8% to US$1.2 billion.

Klaus Kleinfeld commented: “In 2017 we are squarely focused on operational improvements, margin expansion, and capital efficiency to drive shareholder returns. We will continue to cut cost through productivity and corporate overhead reduction.”

NORMA reports slight growth in 2016

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NORMA Group reported 2016 sales increasing by 0.6% to €894.9 million, based on preliminary and unaudited figures.

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he acquisition of Autoline, which manufactures automotive quick connectors for fluid lines in in France, Mexico and China, contributed €3.5 million to sales. Group organic growth in 2016 was 0.9% compared with 2015. Currency effects negatively impacted sales growth by 0.7%.

Adjusted EBITA rose 0.8% year-on-year to €157.5 million. The adjusted EBITA margin of 17.6% remained at a consistently high-level.

“Considering the sharp decline in the US commercial vehicle and agricultural machinery markets, we are satisfied with our results for fiscal year 2016,” said Werner Deggim, CEO of NORMA Group. “Thanks to our broad geographic and industry specific positioning, we were able to compensate partially for the decline, for example through our continuously growing water management business.” www.normagroup.com

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Bossard reports record 2016 sales Bossard Group sales for 2016 rose 5.9% to a record CHF 695 million (€649 million), demonstrating how the Group’s growth strategy is paying off.

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ossard points out that the positive trend was most striking in Quarter 4 in which sales grew 15.1% to CHF 181.7 million.

Growth in the future was mainly by business in Europe, which grew 8.2% and America, which grew 38.9%, supported by the acquisition of Arnold Industries, which was consolidated from 1 st September 2016.

Bossard realised approximately 58% of its annual revenue in Europe, with 2016 sales of CHF 401.6 million, growing 4.7% on the previous year (+3.6% in local currency). Quarter 4 European sales were up 8.2% to CHF 96 million (+8% in local currency). Positive trends were seen in Switzerland, which had been impacted by its currency appreciation in 2015.

In America, 2016 sales rose 12% (+9.3% in local currency) to CHF 186.1 million. The Arnold Industries acquisition contributed two-thirds of Quarter 4 growth (+38.9%) but Bossard also reported

FX tailwinds benefit TR – trading update On 16th February 2017 Trifast Plc issued an unaudited Quarter 3 trading update, reporting continued strong performance on a constant currency basis across the Group’s main geographic areas of operation.

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R’s Asia business returned to growth as it began to benefit from the anticipated recovery in demand, both in domestic and export markets, in the second half of the financial year, which ends 31st March. UK and USA operations continued to produce results in-line with management expectations. Within Europe, the business overall has performed solidly and continues to deliver year-on-year growth although TR is seeing a slight change in the product mix. Trifast also reported an encouraging start at its newest greenfield operation based in Barcelona, Spain.

More than 70% of TR revenue is generated outside the UK. In 2016 British Sterling was down around 15% against currencies relevant to the Group’s businesses. TR reported translational foreign exchange tailwinds of around GB£1 million at the half year. Sustained British Sterling weakness has had a further positive translation impact on Group revenues and underlying profit. The report notes, however, that TR’s UK business may start to experience some challenges in terms of input costs.

Trifast employs around 1,200 people across 27 global locations including the UK, Europe, Asia and the USA.

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an overall solid performance from existing American business, which grew 15.3%.

Sales resulting from the cooperation with the largest US electric vehicle maker were also an important contributor to Quarter 4 performance. Bossard also noted that demand from a major customer in the agricultural technology sector appeared to be slowly stabilising, with a less pronounced sales decline than previous quarters. American organic growth for the full year was 6.3%.

Asian 2016 sales grew 0.6% to CHF 107.3 million (+3.1% in local currency). The Quarter 4 sales trend was also upwards at CHF 30.4 million, a 3.4% increase in CHF (5.6% local currency). Bossard says its business did particularly well in China, where considerable investments had been made in recent years, posting sales growth in both Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 despite the “persistently challenging market environment”.

LISI Group 2016 sales up 7.8% LISI Group reported 2016 sales at €1.57 billion up 7.8% on 2015. The results include a €45 million contribution over 7 months from the incorporation of LISI Medical Remmele. Organic growth was 4.6%. EBIT increased by €11 million (+7.5%) to €157.5 million.

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ISI Aerospace saw strong growth in Europe from the implementation of new contracts. The North American fasteners business unit, however, suffered an overall drop in sales but saw an increase in orders from Boeing towards the end of the year. Overall, LISI Aerospace sales rose 5.9% to €987.2 million.

LISI Automotive sales grew 2.5% to €465.3 million, accelerating in the second half following a lacklustre start to the year in a strong European market. EBIT improved 1.7 points to €7.9 million.

LISI Medical benefited from the integration of LISI Medical Remmele on 1 st May 2016, which contributed €44.9 million for the period. Overall sales rose to €119.4 million. At constant scope, and exchange rate, growth was 0.4%. EBIT improved 2.3 points to 7.8%.

LISI says confirmation of recovered sales to Boeing will be critical to compensate for the probable slowdown in European fastener business – following the peak caused by the initial phase of the Airbus A350 programme.

LISI Automotive is targeting a sustainable improvement to its operating profitability, mainly through gains from the LISI Excellence Achievement Program and through already high-levels of investment in robotics and automation.

Repositioning towards higher added value product, which started in 2016, is also expected to contribute continuous improvement to the division’s operating margin.

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SFS Group sales up 5.9% in 2016 SFS Group has reported solid sales growth and a substantial improvement in profitability.

Group consolidated sales were CHF 1.437 billion (€1.35 billion), up 5.9% on 2015. EBITA improved to 14.4% from 12.5% the previous year. Prior to adjustment for currency, and changes in the scope of consolidation, gross sales grew 4.4% year-on-year.

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ngineered Component sales were CHF 768.1 million, an increase of 3.8% year-on-year. Fastening Systems sales were CHF 355.6 million, up 8.8%.

(6.9% on a like for like basis). Distribution and Logistics sales were CHF 309.3 million, up 1.1%.

SFS said Fastening Systems carried on good momentum from the first to second half of 2016, with growth abroad based in terms of both geography and application areas.

SFS Unimarket (Distribution and Logistics segment) won key projects and “battled strong head winds” from the 2015 Swiss franc appreciation.

American sales grew 22% (14.7% like for like) contributing 14% of Group sales.

European sales grew 11.8%, contributing 42% (increased from 39.2%). Swiss sales grew 3.1% and contributed 22.6%, very slightly down year-on-year. Asian sales fell 14.1% and its share of Group sales slid from 25.6% to 21.1%.

The adjusted EBITA margin for the Group increased to 14.4% from 12.5% in 2015. SFS attributes the improvement to market success of innovative products, economies of scale, higher production, capacity utilisation, and the effectiveness of measures taken in response to the appreciation of the Swiss franc in 2015.

The reported EBITA margin will be slightly higher as a result of divestments gains on property sales of CHF 9 million.

Bulten 2016 sales slip marginally: Profits up Bulten AB reported full year 2016 sales at SEK 2.676 billion, down 0.6% on 2015. Operating earnings (EBIT), however, increased to SEK 200 million up from SEK 165 million in 2015.

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BIT corresponded to an operating margin of 7.7% compared with 6.1% in 2015. Earnings after tax were SEK 146 million – a 31% improvement in 2015 (SEK 111 million).

Tommy Andersson, president and CEO at Bulten, commented: “The year ended strongly with a 10.5% rise in order bookings for the final quarter compared with the same period last year. Bulten’s prospects for winning market share will be good from the second half of 2017, based on signed contracts and also ongoing discussions with customers.”

Bulten reported its order bookings were SEK 2.717 billion, up 1.6% on the same period the previous year.

Andersson went on to say: “Bulten continued to perform well in terms of profitability in the fourth quarter and is again reporting strong earnings and cash flow. During the quarter we have further reinforced our financial position and our key indicators, which is very pleasing. The operating margin increased to 7.7% and the return on capital employed to 13.9%, which are the consequence of a good, even rate of production and of completed optimisation measures.”

“Being a supplier to the automotive industry is challenging on many levels but we have managed to strengthen our customer relations by, among other things, supplying the best quality and service at the lowest possible cost. We have also advanced our position in technology for electric cars and hybrids.”

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SFS investing in Switzerland

SFS is investing around CHF 36 million through to mid-2018 to increase capacity and productivity at major sites in Switzerland.

The Group will add 4,500m2 storage capacity at its SFS Unimarket central warehouse in Rebstein and upgrade warehouse logistics infrastructure. It will also upgrade logistics infrastructure at Heerbrugg in a three stage project due to complete in Spring 2018. Investment of around CHF 6 million will be targeted at improving goods and materials flow, increasing capacity and shortening response times. The developments will include capabilities to network with customers operations in a new Industry 4.0 framework.

CHF 20 million will also be invested in heat treatment operations at the same site.

Simpson acquires Gunnebo Fastening Systems Simpson Strong-Tie has announced the successful acquisition of Gunnebo Fastening Systems AB, bringing a complete line of CE marked structural fasteners, and unique fastener dimensioning software for timber applications, into its comprehensive construction products line up.

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eadquartered in Gunnebo, Sweden, the company employs 222 people in Sweden, Poland, Norway and Romania. Sales are focused primarily to the professional construction and DIY markets within the Nordic countries, eastern Europe and Russia.

In addition to premium quality nails, screws, collated fasteners, mechanical and chemical anchors, and connectors, Gunnebo also brings high-level technical support, logistics support, as well as a broad selection of merchandising solutions for retailers.

The acquisition provides opportunity for both companies to build on mutual strengths. Karen Colonias, CEO at Simpson Strong-Tie, explains: “Both companies share the same passion for high-quality, innovative products and have consistently focused on providing exceptional customer service.”

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EJOT acquires Sormat The EJOT Group has acquired Sormat OY, based in Turku, Finland, in order to strengthen its competence in anchoring technology for the construction industry.

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ormat will be managed as a separate subsidiary under its current management. The Finnish company manufactures fixings and anchors. It employs approximately 80 people and had a company turnover of around €18.2 million in 2015.

“We see this acquisition as a further development of the Building Fasteners business unit, opening up new fields of application and target groups in the construction industry,” said Christian Kocherscheidt, CEO and shareholder of the EJOT Group.

“This acquisition continues the recent positive influence of German companies to the industries in south-west Finland. We are committed here at Sormat to develop our products, our manufacturing, and international distribution, to the new level as a member of the EJOT Group,” said Ismo Laitakari, managing director of Sormat.

EJOT was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Westphalian Bad Berleburg, Germany. EJOT Group has 31 subsidiaries, employs more than 2,500 people, and has consolidated sales of around €450 million. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. www.sormat.com

Hilti leadership changes planned for 2017 AGM Hilti has announced changes to the Martin Hilti Family Trust and the board of directors of Hilti Group at the company’s annual general meeting on 5th April 2017.

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ius Baschera will take over from Michael Hilti as Family Trust speaker and Heinrich Rischer will succeed Baschera as chairman of the board of directors.

The move anticipates a succession process for the leadership teams of both Trust and board of directors. Michael Hilti explained: “Over the next few years, we will be faced with major generational change both at the helm of the Trust and the board of directors.

By nominating the first non-family Trust speaker and the first chairman of the board who has not had an operational role in the

Group, we are taking yet another important step in our long-term succession process.”

Michael Hilti, who is 70, will remain Trustee in the Martin Hilti Family Trust and member of the board of directors of Hilti Group. He will also continue to represent the Hilti family.

Baschera has been with Hilti for three decades. Rischer has been associated with the business for around ten years. He stressed that the board changes did not indicate an intention to change the company but to carry on with existing strategic objectives.

EU court rejects case for refund of anti-dumping duties On 25th January the EU General Court rejected an appeal from Internacional de Productos Metálicos SA. The Spanish fastener importer had argued that duties should be reimbursed following the EU’s repeal of anti-dumping measures on carbon steel fasteners originating in China.

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nternacional de Productos Metálicos (IPM) had originally presented a case that the repeal regulation, which followed a negative ruling against the EU by the WTO dispute settlement body, should have provided for the repayment of duties. IPM then appealed a decision against it from a lower General Court in July 2016.

The European Commission argued that the claim should not be admitted on the basis IPM had not been directly impacted by the regulation it had challenged. It also argued that IPM’s claim was inadmissible in so far as it sought recognition from the court that a particular provision of the regulation should apply retroactively and that the contested provision should not be taken in isolation from the rest of the regulation.

The General Court upheld the Commission’s arguments and also noted that EU legislation separately provided for importers to appeal duties it believed were incorrectly applied at a national level, which IPM had already done. The Court concluded the action must be dismissed as manifestly inadmissible.

The case reference is T-217/16. The full ruling is published in French and Spanish only at: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=187296&pageIndex=0&doclang=FR&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=227400

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Dresselhaus invests in new logistics centre

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Groundbreaking for Dresselhaus’ €25 million investment in a 60,000 pallet logistics centre is scheduled for 2017 – with the centre planned to be operational by the end of 2018.

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resselhaus has announced a strategic business plan for the next three years to expand its market position in Europe. At the core of the plan is the construction of a new, ultra-modern processing centre at the company headquarters in Herford, Germany, as well as the implementation of a more modern and efficient ERP system.

Winfried Gretz, managing director at Dresselhaus, said: “The business of Dresselhaus is characterised by a large number of small-scale, logistical processes. Everyday, we collect and supply thousands of delivery and order items.

It is precisely at low position values that the challenge is to provide this work performance with the highest efficiency and effectiveness and therefore the lowest costs.”

“The construction of a state of the art processing centre enables this” and “enables Dresselhaus to present itself on the market on the basis of the latest intralogistical systems and processes as a leading supplier of connecting elements and fastening technology”. Gretz went on to announce the introduction of a new SAP ERP solution, as “the basis for an efficient and future oriented operation”. www.dresselhaus.de

Ken Stanley, inventor of the bigHead bonding fastener and founder of the company bigHead, has died aged 94.

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n economist by training but inventor by nature, in 1966 Ken Stanley spotted an opportunity to create a new fastening solution for composite materials, which at that time were in their infancy. Typically, he rolled up his sleeves and invented the bigHead and then went on to establish the company by the same name that he and his wife Dorothy, who survives him, then developed over a 40 year period.

In 2006, Ken retired from running bigHead, 84 years young. He was always proud that he grew bigHead without borrowing any money from the bank and stayed true to UK innovation and manufacturing.

Many in the industry will remember Ken for his wonderful energy, determination and great sense of humour. Those who worked at his company will remember him for being a generous and supportive leader who looked after people and always did the right thing.

A frequent visitor and strong supporter of bigHead after his retirement, Ken’s legacy has been a solid foundation for the company’s future. “We will miss him but will continue to follow his shining example,” said bigHead’s managing director, Matthew Stevens.

Titanox expands in Turkey through acquisition Titanox Fastening Technologies has successfully completed the acquisition of Turkish fastening distributor Boztaş Bursa.

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itanox has decades of experience in fastening technology.

Since 1975 it has focused on the distribution of fastening solutions and holds a leading position in the French market.

Since 2008 the Fodor Industrie Group, the holding company of Titanox Fastening Technologies, has developed in international markets through its subsidiaries based in China and in India. The strategic acquisition of the Turkish company Boztaş Bursa will strengthen the Fodor Industrie international footprint – adding significant value to Group members and customers.

Boztaş Bursa is a distribution company based in Bursa, the biggest industrial city of Turkey. Bursa has a very strong automotive base through OEMs and first and second tier suppliers and Boztaş Bursa has developed a strong business in this field. Boztaş Bursa also serves various other markets including construction, electronics,

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petrochemicals, turbine and furniture. Titanox technical expertise combined with Boztaş Bursa experience and introductions will enhance the Fodor Industrie Group global offer.

Titanox sees the acquisition of Boztaş Bursa as a significant accomplishment for the Group, which marks the continuity of the Titanox expansion policy in the global market of fastening technology.

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Bulten and Ramco enter North American JV Bulten AB and North American fastener supplier Ramco Specialties Inc have signed an agreement to form a joint venture, owned equally (50/50), to distribute fasteners to the North American automotive industry.

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ulten is also setting up a subsidiary to produce externally threaded fasteners for the same market. Both operations are scheduled to start in 2017. The formation of the joint venture and subsidiary will establish Bulten’s FSP concept along with a manufacturing footprint in the USA, which is one of the world’s largest auto markets.

The joint venture will operate under the name Ram-Bul LLC, headquartered in Ramco’s new corporate headquarters in Hudson, Ohio. Ram-Bul will offer sales and distribution of fasteners for the North American market through Bulten’s FSP concept. Bulten’s manufacturing expertise in externally threaded fasteners, coupled with Ramco’s manufacturing experience in internally threaded fasteners, will allow Ram-Bul to offer a full range of domestically manufactured fasteners in Ramco’s already established infrastructure.

Bulten’s new production subsidiary, Bulten North America LLC, will be set up in the same building as Ram-Bul, establishing the company’s manufacturing unit for externally threaded fasteners for the North American market.

Bulten’s total investment is estimated at approximately US$9 million (€8.5 million) – distributed over four years with start-up in 2017. The annual business potential for Bulten is estimated at approximately US$30 million –

New director and website for Masons Following the retirement of Martin Millicheap last year, Masons Fasteners Ltd has promoted Paul Knight to joint company director.

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he UK, West Midlands, fastener manufacturer and distributor was originally founded in 1860 by William Henry Mason and his brother, Joseph, as a brass forging and stamping company. Within a decade the company started making screws as part of its production of brassware and by the turn of the twentieth century machine screw manufacture gradually took over as its main activity. By 1914 it had imported a screw manufacturing plant from Germany and produced a range of imperial rolled and cut thread fasteners.

Incorporated as a limited liability company in 1919 the business changed its name to H Mason and Sons Limited. By 1930 James Mason, grandson of the founder, was managing director. By the early 1990s the company passed into the hands of David and Martin Millicheap, James Mason’s grandsons.

Today Masons manufactures a wide range of products, typically from 2mm – 12mm in diameter and up to 100mm long. Highly flexible, Masons produces bespoke products in a range of steels, as well as stainless steel, brass and phosphor bronze. It also carries an extensive inventory of standard and non-standard fasteners.

This year will see a completely new Masons website, which will include an e-shop and facilities to accept credit card payments.

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US$40 million at full volumes by 2020. Deliveries from the joint venture are expected to start in 2017, localising current FSP contracts and European volumes.

“Bulten’s previous experience in forming joint ventures has been taken into account when setting up the company structure, and we believe that this is the quickest and most cost-effective way of supporting our customers in the US market. Ramco has been a partner of Bulten for many years and I am really looking forward to our extended cooperation, which I am convinced will create long-term value for our shareholders”, says Tommy Andersson, president and CEO of Bulten AB. ”Bulten has been a key partner with Ramco in Europe.

This new joint venture will allow both companies to capitalise on their unique strengths bringing value to the North American fastener market. We are excited about the opportunity to expand our North American manufacturing and distribution capabilities”, says Rick Malson, president at Ramco Specialties.

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ivit is well-rooted both in domestic and international markets and is present in over 55 countries worldwide, having understood that nowadays the real opportunity relates to the world market and becoming a global player.

In 2011 Rivit India Fasteners Pvt Ltd was founded to become the distribution company of Rivit products in India and neighbouring countries. Today the new frontier of development is shifting towards Africa, which many economists believe to be the continent of the future industrial and post-industrial boom.

Rivit has wasted no time, hence opening Rivit Maroc the new Rivit branch based in Morocco. Located in Rabat, the chief town, Rivit Maroc shall take advantage of its strategic position to become a real bridgehead for the whole of the Maghreb Area and beyond.

The new offices opened to coincide with the Midest Maroc show last December, so to immediately be ready to offer the full range of products and to make the most of all business opportunities. Rivit Maroc consists of its own sales departments and technical support service at the complete disposal of all sheet metal working companies: Automotive, transport (buses, trucks, trains, ships, etc), household appliances and electronics.

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British Steel appoints new CEO British Steel has announced the appointment of Peter Bernscher as the company’s new chief executive officer.

He will take up the position on 2nd May 2017.

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eter Bernscher has 30 years of experience in the steel industry. Aged 48 and from Austria his most recent post is as executive board member of voestalpine’s metal forming division. Previous positions in the company include a CEO role in the Dutch voestalpine Polynorm Group and a managing director position in the steel division’s International Service Centre Organisation. He spent several years as executive board member of Metalservice Group – a voestalpine joint venture in Italy. He obtained a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 2006.

When Peter Bernscher joins British Steel, Roland Junck will continue in his current role as executive chairman until the end of 2017. They will work in tandem during this period of handover, after which time Roland Junck will take up the position of non-executive chairman.

Roland Junck said: “I’m delighted to welcome Peter to our team. We haven’t rushed the process of securing a CEO because we wanted to ensure we got the right person for the role and Peter is that person.”

Speaking about his new appointment Peter Bernscher said: “I’m delighted to have accepted the role of CEO at British Steel.

I’m immensely impressed with the turnaround the business has

made in the past 12 months – the change in results and in the way the business is now operating makes me excited about what lies ahead.”

“The British Steel brand also attracted me to the position – it brings strength from its heritage but also a fresh approach and will be a great asset in helping the business to be successful in both domestic and international markets.”

“Everyone I’ve met within the business has shown a drive and determination to make sure it continues to secure further growth.”

British Steel recently announced that it ended Q3 2016 in profit following its first seven months of independence and is already executing the next stage of its turnaround plan. The business is on track to continue its growth in a competitive global market through a combination of both further cost-efficiencies and continued investment. The company has committed over GB£39 million (€45 million) in capital expenditure this financial year and taken on over 350 new employees since its launch on 1 st June 2016.

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by Phil Matten, executive editor, Fastener + Fixing Magazine

Phil Matten reflects on some of the key topics currently involving the fastener industry I recently listened to a hearing conducted by the influential International Trade Committee of the European Parliament. It shed little light on the EU’s position on anti-dumping for fasteners. It did make clear that our industry continues to be embroiled in a far wider and more complex debate on trade defence.

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resentations to the hearing represented both ends of the spectrum. On one hand, advocacy for tighter and tougher trade defence measures to protect Union producers from unfairly supported foreign manufacturing. On the other, reminders of the significance of imports to EU industry and the need for its practitioners to have transparency and predictability in order to serve EU economies effectively.

The only concrete thing, to my mind, to emerge was a date. The 21 st March is when a ‘trilogue’ of the European Parliament, Commission and Council will, behind closed doors, try to reach agreement on the modernisation of the EU’s trade defence instruments. Whether consensus or stalemate remains to be seen but there is some potential for answers on whether the lesser duty rule will be removed or modified; whether investigations will be conducted more quickly; whether importers receive prior notice of impending duties; and whether the Commission should be further empowered to open investigations on its own initiative.

That, however, is only one part of the equation. More vexed issues relate to whether anti-dumping methodology designed for market economies should now apply to China. The ‘INTA’ hearing considered the Commission’s proposal for a new, country neutral methodology in anti-dumping cases. That proposal, on which we reported in January, aims to continue comparisons with other economies where the Commission believes a particular exporting sector, in any country, is subject to significant governmental influence.

It clearly aims at sidestepping the politically charged expectation from China that it be automatically accorded market economy status by dint of the wording of its WTO accession protocol. Neither the

EU nor the USA, unsurprisingly, was prepared to agree that one. China immediately requested WTO consultations, the first step in triggering the dispute settlement process, in relation to both EU and US positions.

The INTA hearing revealed a real polarity of opinion about how now to approach anti-dumping methodology.

The existing EU methodology is under challenge at the WTO. The Commission urged INTA to support rapid adoption of the new methodology; so as to have a mechanism that might square the political circle of neither antagonising China, nor member states, and EU bodies adamant market economy status should not be granted in any shape or form. However, there is clearly a strong and opposite opinion that the EU should now wait for the outcome of the WTO dispute settlement process, which could well take two years to reach a final determination, before deciding on a new methodology.

It always looked like an ambitious piece of geometrical reshaping on the part of the Commission – now it appears to be fraught with risk of an extended period of uncertainty about the legality of EU anti-dumping methodology.

Somewhere amidst this can of writhing worms is the fastener industry, just as polarised about how trade defence measures should be applied to its products, and desperately in need of some clarity. I cannot help feeling that, too, may well be expecting a great deal.

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by John Wolz, editor, GlobalFastenerNews.com

End of 2016 FIN Survey: Majority confident in North American economy The End of 2016 FIN Survey participants were nearly evenly divided on confidence in the North American economy with a 52% majority responding ‘Moderate’ confidence; 27% pegging it at ‘High’; and 21% having ‘Low’ confidence.

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n the global economy 63% rated their confidence at ‘Moderate,’ 36% ‘Low’ and less than 1% ‘High’.

Sales: A year ago, a 60% majority in the 38th annual GlobalFastenerNews.com survey reported sales were up, but this year only one third had higher sales, 20% sales unchanged and 47% were down.

Profits: Were better than sales with 59% reporting profits increased for 2016 over 2015; another 12% found profits unchanged and 29% down. The 59% figure was nearly identical to 2015, when 58% reported profits were up.

Costs: Were stable, with 61% responding ‘unchanged’, 26% down and 13% up. For 2015, a 52% majority found costs flat or declining and 43% said costs were up moderately.

Capital expenditure: Pushing half (47%) reported 2016 capital expenditures were unchanged from 2015, while 36% invested more and 17% cut in this category. A year ago, 46% reported capital expenditures were up, 34% unchanged and 15% down.

Prices: Nearly half (49%) reported getting price increases during 2016 ranging from 1% to 8%. Just over one third (34%) said fastener prices remained unchanged from 2015 and 17% had price decreases ranging from 2% to 10%. Those numbers show more fastener companies got price increases in 2016 (49%) vs. 39% in 2015. For 2017, more FIN Survey participants (79%) are forecasting price increases ranging from 2% to 5%. Only 14% predict falling prices. 7% expect no change in overall pricing. A year ago 48% predicted no price gains, 41% moderately higher prices for 2016 and 9% anticipated moderate price decreases.

Employees: A 71% majority of fastener companies did not add employees during 2016. A total of 29% of participating companies reported hiring additional employees during the year, with increases ranging from 5% to 10%. Company pay increases in 2016 averaged 2.6% and pay hike projections during 2017 average 2.3%.

Political confidence: Survey participants expressed more confidence in the incoming White House on business issues than incoming Congress. Almost half expressed ‘High’ confidence in the incoming White House as 2017 begins. Another 36% rated their confidence as ‘Moderate’ and 14% ‘Low’.

In contrast, half of participants rated their confidence in the incoming Congress as ‘Moderate’ vs. 35% ‘High’ and 15% ‘Low’. In-line with the last two changes in presidents, the 2017 incoming White House rates 3.5, compared with 2.3 for 2009 and 3.5 for 2001.

No distributors reported difficulty in obtaining fasteners during 2016. Distributors reported gross margins ranging from 27% to 48% in 2016. More than 76% of manufacturers reported raw material inventory was unchanged at the end of 2016, in comparison with a year before. The remaining manufacturers reported a moderate decrease in raw material inventory. Manufacturers forecast operating at an average of 68% of capacity in 2017.

The End of 2016 FIN Survey was conducted during December 2016. The FIN Survey is informal and not designed to be a scientific survey. Surveys are sent out to FIN subscribers and are available for GlobalFastenerNews.com readers to participate anonymously.

Participants ranged from companies with 5 employees to 1,800 employees; and US$875,000 in fastener sales for 2016 to US$660 million.

Reed introduces new thread rolling machine Reed Machinery Inc has produced a new Model A22C CNC 3 die thread rolling machine, Vice-President Adam Kettles announced.

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he machine features automatic die match; custom Cam profiles; push button size adjustment, workshop height, die RPM and cycle time; digital taper reading; and auto loader.

Reed Machinery was founded in 2003 to acquire the Reed thread rolling machine business from Reed-Rico.

The company history dates back to 1916 when Reed Small Tool Works was formed in Massachusetts. Today, privately-owned Reed Machinery manufactures Reed two die and three die cylindrical thread rollers, planetary thread rollers, Hartford flat die thread rollers, Reed thread rolling attachments and, since 2006, Waterbury headers and threaders.

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FIC to conduct Industry Summit

Acument marks 50 years of Torx®

The Fastener Industry Coalition will sponsor its first Fastener Industry Summit following Fastener Tech 2017.

Acument Global Technologies Inc recently marked the first 50 years of its Continental Midland LLC company as a Torx® drive system licensee.

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he trade show will be held from 10:00 to 17:00 Tuesday 6th June and 9:00 to 13:00 Wednesday 7 th June 2017 at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL, near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The Fastener Training Institute will conduct training on Monday and there will be an all industry reception Tuesday evening.

The Fastener Industry Summit will immediately follow the trade show on Wednesday and include programs relevant to all segments of the fastener industry.

Sessions include Lauren Baker Group LLC, which has 40 years of experience in government relations and has worked with the Industrial Fasteners Institute since the Fastener Quality Act process of the 1990s, discussing changes in laws and regulations with the new administration in Washington.

The Freedonia Group, an international business research company, will provide marketing insights on the US and global market for fasteners. Rock Valley College Manufacturing Training Center will describe its program for training cold heading operators, tool design and other skills related to fastener manufacturing.

Keynoter Bob Davies will speak on ‘The 1.2% factor – how one small change leads to large results’.

Registration for the Fastener Industry Summit is through the Fastener Tech ’17 registration process on the Mid West Fastener Association website.

The Fastener Industry Coalition is made up of 13 North American regional and national associations concerned with distribution, manufacturing and/or importation of fasteners and/or services to the fastener industry. Its mission is to provide support and resources to participating fastener industry associations, to help them improve efficiency, effectiveness, and membership value.

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ontinental Midland (CMG) became a licensee in 1966 when the two companies were known as Camcar Screw & Manufacturing Company and Continental Screw Company.

Phil Johnson, president at Continental Midland said the “award demonstrates our commitment to innovation in the fastener marketplace servicing automotive, commercial vehicle and industrial markets for over 100 years. CMG has a proud history of innovation in the marketplace and we are committed to working with our premier partners to continue to drive innovation and productivity into our markets. Torx is one of the best known brands in the market and we are excited to be a leading global partner”.

Marty Bieschke, director of IP & Licensing, described Torx as “still one of the most important product licensing programs in the global fastening industry” and added that “Continental Midland has continued, for all these years, to see the value of this product’s contribution to its reputation as one of the leaders in the industry”.

Since its introduction in the 1960s, Torx is a high performance drive system for threaded assemblies in a broad range of applications and end user markets in numerous assembly situations. Qualified licensed manufacturers apply Torx and Acument’s Torx Plus drive system for applications in automotive, industrial, electronics, aerospace, and other markets.

Owned by Fontana Group, Acument provides mechanical fastening products, engineered fastening systems, inventory management and application engineering support for the transportation market. Acument has facilities in Michigan, Illinois, Mexico and South America.

Fastener sales decline for STANLEY Black & Decker STANLEY Black & Decker reported Industrial segment sales, including fasteners, decreased 5% to US$453.8 million (€430.8 million) in the fourth quarter of 2016, hurt by lower volumes (-3%), price (-1%) and currency (-1%).

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TANLEY Black & Decker reported: “Engineered Fastening’s organic revenues declined 2%, as solid growth within the global automotive business was more than offset by weaker electronics volumes attributable to a major customer.”

Excluding that impact, Engineered Fastening’s organic revenues were up 4%.

Overall Industrial segment profit dropped 19% to US$69.2 million, with the profit rate at 15.2%, down 270 basis points.

Full year Industrial segment sales fell 5% to US$1.84 billion, with segment profit down 10.4% to US$304.4 million. Consolidated

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STANLEY Black & Decker revenue grew 2.1% to US$11.4 billion, with a loss of US$197.2 million.

In January 2017, the company agreed to purchase the Craftsman brand from Sears, providing STANLEY Black & Decker the rights to develop, manufacture and sell Craftsman branded products in non-Sears Holdings channels. The agreement consists of a US$525 million cash payment at closing, US$250 million at end of year three, and annual payments to Sears Holdings of between 2.5% and 3.5% on new STANLEY Black & Decker sales of Craftsman products through year 15.

RUSSIAN + CIS NEWS Alexander Ostashov, editor, Fastener, Adhesives, Tools and…Magazine www.fastinfo.ru

Russian fixings association sets up website The Association of manufacturers and distributors of fixing systems now has a website – www.fix-union.ru

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he founders of the Association are Russian companies Bau-Fix and VIP-systems, as well as foreign companies actively working in Russia – fischer, Hilti and Sormat.

The aim of the Union is to represent, coordinate activities, and to protect the interests of its union members. It will also promote the

members in the implementation of activities aimed at improving the safety and quality fastening systems on the market, as well as working with bodies and scientific organisations to develop technical norms and standards in the fixing systems industry.

Record fastener output for OSPAZ

New test production launched in Volgograd

Oryol Steel-Rolling Plant (OSPAZ – part of the Severstal Group) shipped approximately 24,000 tonnes of fasteners to its customers in 2016 – a record for the enterprise during the last decade.

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lexey Yerenichev, director of OSPAZ, commented: “Our produce is widely used in many projects of regional, federal and global importance. Among these are sports facilities for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the Western High Speed Ring in St. Petersburg. Involvement of our company in such large-scale construction projects speaks for the established reputation of the Oryol Steel-Rolling Plant as a successful and reliable supplier. Therefore, we are confident in the future and set ourselves new ambitious goals.”

The Oryol Steel-Rolling Plant also announced a new fastener product on its website. High-tensile fasteners, produced by the plant according to the standards GOST 52644-52646 – 2006, 53664-2009 with Build Quick coating, can be used directly in painted assemblies. Build Quick coating has received positive feedback from testing at the Research Institute of Transport Construction CNIIS ‘SRS Bridges’. The technology of high-tensile fasteners with Build Quick coating has been previously awarded a silver medal at Metal-Expo 2016.

On 15th March 2017 the Seventh Conference ‘Fasteners.

Quality and Responsibility’ was held within the framework of the St. Petersburg Technical Fair. There, experts from Severstal-Metiz shared information about the company’s production range of high-tensile fasteners, including Grade 12.9 fasteners and fasteners with Build Quick coating. The presentation also covered the company’s quality control system for high-tensile fasteners.

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A new production operation has started at the site of the Volgograd hardware plant. In fact, it is the revival of a bankrupt and liquidated enterprise – the Volgograd Plant of Tractor and Standard Parts.

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ndrey Petrov is the general director of the Volgograd Hardware Plant. Currently, dismantling of equipment unfit for production is being carried out on its site, including machines brought from Germany as reparations in 1945.

The new production operation has been established in a workshop with a total area of 33,000m2 and it is still in test mode. About 50 employees are engaged in the production of bolts and nuts for general engineering applications. More than one hundred machines are involved in the production of fasteners. It is planned to extend the assortment by producing springs. When production reaches full capacity, the monthly output of hardware is planned to be around 1,500 tonnes. According to the general director this will be comparable with the volumes from the predecessor plant located on the site.

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RUSSIAN + CIS NEWS

Rosstandart creates the National Certification System The Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) has created a system of voluntary certification – National Certification System.

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he principles of the system are transparency of procedures; voluntary certification; and product certification based on the results of its reliable testing. The system is open to any certification body and test centre after passing all the necessary procedures within it.

It is planned to organise the work in the new system on the basis of cooperation of Rosstandart and Rosakkreditatzii, as well as in system committees. It will operate in as a ‘pilot project’, based on the result of which, the procedure of realisation of the system will be developed.

New book to be presented at conference At the seventh conference ‘Fasteners. Quality and Responsibility’ a new book ‘Ways to improve the cold resistance of steels and welded joints’ was presented. The authors of the book are experts in the sphere of materials for fasteners – Gorynin V.I. and Olenin M.I.

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he book deals with the scientific and methodological approaches that decrease the propensity of pearlite and martensitic class steels to embrittlement. The authors analysed the role of carbides formed after heat treatment and investigated the characteristics of their growth and coagulation. It is shown that the coagulation and spheroidisation of carbides of cementite can not only improve the cold resistance of pearlite and martensitic class steels, including the metal of welded joints, but also eliminate thermal fragility of steel after long-term operation in the temperature range 250ºC – 350ºC. The seventh conference ‘Fasteners.

Quality and Responsibility’ was held as part of the St. Petersburg Technical Fair.

Gazprom and suppliers sign price formula for pipe connectors A formal ceremony between Gazprom and leading pipe companies took place in the head office of Gazprom, signing agreements regarding the application of a formula for calculating the price of pipeline connecting parts.

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he documents extend previously signed agreements. Additional agreements were signed by the chairman of the board of PJSC (Gazprom) Alexey Miller; the chairman of the board of JSC (United Metallurgical Company) Anatoly Sedykh; the member of the board of directors of PJSC (Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant) Andrey Komarov; and the chairman of the board of directors of PJSC (Severstal) Alexey Mordashov.

The price calculation formula has been used since 1 st January 2017 to determine the initial maximum prices for these products during competitive procedures for the selection of suppliers to meet the needs of PJSC (Gazprom).

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Severstal-metiz finishes next stage of equipment modernisation Severstal-metiz (part of PAO Severstal) has started work on a new drawing sector, having finished the third stage of modernisation of equipment at its Cherepovets enterprise.

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nvestments made during the modernisation project totalled more than 600 million roubles (€9.74 million). The new section was formally opened on 30 th January and consists of twelve equipment units. As a result of three modernisation stages the workshop has received twenty-seven new drawing lines and a new water turnaround cycle. Additionally, a new wire production line was installed at the beginning of 2017.

Modernisation will increase productivity of the company and will enable it to begin development of new kinds of goods and improve quality. Thanks to the successful results of the first two stages (in 2014 and 2015 accordingly) wire production has increased. As a result, in May the company set a new production record for zinc coated wire of 9,167 tonnes.

“In the short term we modernised the key equipment in Steel Wire Workshop No. 1,” said Sergey Kovrjakov, the general director of Severstal-metiz. “Now we will focus on continuing to replace outdated equipment in order to offer our clients higher quality goods and better service.”

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Steel input costs hold up Following China’s return from its New Year holiday there were expectations that raw material costs for steelmaking might well slide. While coking coal costs have certainly declined, iron ore prices have so far defied expectations and continued to hold up.

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y mid February FOB prices for premium hard Australian coking coal had slid from above US$300/tonne in December to below US$150/tonne. However, news that China had banned the import of anthracite from North Korea for the rest of 2017, in response to its test of a long-range ballistic missile, was putting upwards pressure on seaborne coking coal prices again at the end of February. China imported more than 22 million tonnes of anthracite from North Korea in 2016, an increase of close to 15% on the previous year. That equates to more than a third of China’s total import of coking coal. Despite the expected slide in prices in 2017, seaborne costs remain around US$100/tonne higher than this time last year, and continue to exert inflationary pressure on steel making costs.

There have also been suggestions that China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) may reapply an annual limit on coal mining operations as part of Beijing’s campaign to reduce the air pollution bedevilling the capital. In April last year the NDRC applied a 276 operational days annual cap on coal mining, which helped to trigger the rapid increase in seaborne coking coal prices. In November the restriction was relaxed to 330 operational days per year but as seasonal demand now wanes, overcapacity as well as pollution are key concerns for the government.

Seaborne 62% Fe iron ore to Qingdao has increased in cost since the New Year, rising close to US$95/tonne, before easing to around US$88/tonne at the end of February, still 10% higher than at the end of 2016. Inventories of iron ore at China’s major ports are, however, at record highs, making a bullish Dalian Commodity Exchange futures market counter-intuitive given there are no indications Chinese steel output is on an upward trajectory. The World Steel Association estimates that January Chinese steel output was similar to December at slightly above 67 million tonnes, some 7% higher than January 2016. Total production in 2016 was 1.2% higher than in 2015, at 808 million tonnes. One factor that may support imported iron ore demand is pressure from the NDRC to increase production of high grade steels, particularly for construction and infrastructure. High-quality imported ore is required for higher grade steels and also improves productivity for more modern mills.

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A Greenpeace commissioned report has confirmed that China’s productive steel capacity actually increased in 2016 by more than 36 million tonnes.”

Less capacity more output

A Greenpeace commissioned report has confirmed that China’s productive steel capacity actually increased in 2016 by more than 36 million tonnes. The report, carried out by Custeel, reckons 85 million tonnes of annual capacity was shut down last year, but only 23 million tonnes of that was actually in operation. Ten Chinese provinces increased their steel making capacity, with 75% of the net increase in capacity in Hebei, Shanxi and Tianjin surrounding smog-plagued Beijing.

Only six provinces reduced capacity, mainly in the south-west of the country. The China Iron and Steel Association has forecast that net capacity will increase further in 2017 because of already approved new steel projects coming on stream.

The publication of the report has triggered angry accusations of cheating on China’s part, and is likely to fuel demands for stronger European and US trade defence measures on steel products.

Certainly, China’s steel exports fell to 7.4 million tonnes in January, 23% lower than the same time last year. Total steel exports fell 3.5% to 108 million tonnes in 2016 in the face of close to fifty trade defence actions by countries across the globe.

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Uncertainty for nickel The Philippines suspends mines. Indonesia lifts export ban. Two separate Asian governmental decisions have created uncertainty in the market for nickel, a major alloy component for stainless steel fasteners.

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t the beginning of February the Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources confirmed orders closing more than twenty mining operations, mainly extracting nickel, and suspending production at others. The decisions follow audits of the country’s mining industries on environmental grounds. The Philippines is one of the world’s largest suppliers of nickel ore, particularly to Chinese nickel refiners, and the closed mines are variously estimated to account for up to half its total output.

The Philippines mining industry has protested the legality of the measures, particularly since it claims not to have had sight of the audit reports.

Earlier, in January, Indonesia announced it would ease a three year ban on the export of nickel ore. The ban was originally applied to support the development of domestic nickel smelting operations but it had the effect of making the Philippines the world’s most influential nickel ore supplier. Although there are indications that some mothballed Indonesian nickel mines are being brought back into operation, it remains unclear exactly what export volumes of low grade nickel ore will be permitted by the Indonesian government.

According to the International Nickel Study Group the worldwide nickel market moved into surplus at the end of 2016, having been in deficit for most of the year. Refined nickel production for 2016 was 1,983,500 tonnes compared with 1,973,100 for 2015. Refined usage in 2016 was 2,033,200 tonnes compared with 1,881,700 tonnes in 2015.

The underlying trend on the London Metal Exchange for most of February has been a gradual increase in nickel prices but the market has reacted almost day-to-day on news from the Philippines and Indonesia. Continuing lack of clarity of the real implications of the two governments’ actions suggests the nickel market will continue to be volatile until it is possible to more accurately forecast the supply element of the fundamental supply and demand balance.

China exports 2.7 million tonnes of fasteners in 2016 According to customs statistics published by Chinafastener.info, China exported 2.748 million tonnes of fasteners during 2016, worth US$4.54 billion (€4.28 billion).

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he United States accounted for the largest share of the export volume at 22.4%. Russia now ranks as the second destination by volume at 7.9%, and Japan third with just over 5%. The highest tonnage European destination was Germany, to which 94,311 tonnes were exported. 51,223 tonnes were exported to the United Kingdom and 52,238 tonnes to Italy. The average value per kilo of overall exports was US$1.65.

China imported 303,528 tonnes worth US$2.937 billion, of which 29.4% originated in Japan, and close to 18% from Germany. The average value was US$9.68/tonne.

For full tables: http://chinafastener.info/en/news/4662.htm

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Sundram Fasteners Q3 profit up 63% Sundram Fasteners standalone net profit improved by 63% in its fiscal third quarter, compared with same quarter fiscal year 2016.

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evenue was 7.09 billion rupees for the quarter ending 31 st December 2016 – the third quarter in Sundram’s fiscal year 2017 – an increase of 15.5% year-on-year.

Export sales increase 23.2% compared with the third quarter in fiscal year 2016. EBIDTA for the quarter increased to 1.30 billion rupees, up 36.6% year-on-year. Adjusted net profit was reported at 753 million rupees, a 63.3% increase on the same period previous fiscal year.

(1 million rupees approximately €13,800 at interbank)

BRAZILLIAN NEWS Sérgio Milatias, editor, Revista do Parafuso, www.revistadoparafuso.com.br

Automotive growth predicted for 2017 After successive falls, the Brazilian automotive sector is predicted to experience a growth wave in 2017.

Heavy vehicles have the best forecast growth at 26%.

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s happens in many other countries, the Brazilian automotive sector behaves like a sea wave, taking many with it, for good and/or for the bad. The fastener market is no different. During the last two years many domestic fastener manufacturers “were looking for an oasis during this drought period” caused by successive falls in sales.

Making the comparison, in 2012 3.4 million cars were produced, diving to just 2.43 million units in 2015, and falling further to 2.15 million in 2016. However, having it seems arrived at the bottom of the pit, the time has come to start the regains.

The first forecast from ANFAVEA (the Brazilian association of automakers) indicates an impressive growth for 2017, reaching 11.3% for production of light vehicles (2.313 million units) and 26.1% for heavy vehicles (one hundred thousand units).

Currently, Brazil has 31 automakers, divided among 67 industrials plant, with a supply chain composed of around 616 auto parts industrial concerns. In 2015, the automotive sector was worth approximately US$51.9 billion (€49.2 billion).

2016 data from ANFAVEA indicates the industry has around 1.3 million employees, of which 121,000 are directly connected with automakers. Total production capacity is still around 5.05 million units, which means 50% of capacity is idle.

At the end of 2015, Brazil was the ninth ranked producer in the world rankings and the seventh largest domestic market – positions that may well be recovered if this growth trend can be sustained.

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BRAZILIAN AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR: PRODUCTION PREVISION FOR 2017 Passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, trucks and buses (by thousand units) Segments

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Source: Brazilian Automotive Industry Yearbook – www.anfavea.com.br/anu%C3%A1rios.html

Local content rule in oil and gas sector may end Started in 1999, the Local content rule was aimed at maintaining the share of some domestic industries.

It helped many Brazilian companies, including those in the fastener industry, despite many other countries considering it unlawful and unfair.

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n this way, if an investment, such as a new refinery or a petroleum platform, was made by a national source, the domestic market received participation of around 70%.

Now in looking for cost reductions, Petrobras (the Brazilian state oil and gas company) and government entities are betting on a reduction in the share of national products as a way to get lower prices from international players.

If an industrial plant in China has a 5 die bolt forming machine working with similar raw material, at the same speed, using similar

operators, the difference in final costs is decided by local overheads and rates, bureaucracy, labour costs, etc. At this point, Brazilian companies have much higher costs than companies from other countries, which make their products expensive.

ABIMAQ (the Brazilian association of machines and equipment industries) says the problem is bigger. In a press release, ABIMAQ pointed out that activities on oil and gas demand 50% in services: 20% from raw material, 30% of machines and equipment. So, if local content falls to 40%, machines and equipment may get zero.

Corrected information on Brazilian fastener imports Dear readers, please accept our apologies for some incorrect information in the report ‘China leads exports of fasteners to Brazil’ on page 38, issue 103 January. The graphic showed only part rather than the total of fasteners imported by Brazil in that period. The correct average price from China is around US$2.26 per kilogram of fasteners.

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REYHER – full speed ahead in 2017

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This year at REYHER all systems are set for growth. The logistics and warehousing, product range and services are all geared to the future.

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t the turn of the year, an impressive new 42 metre high-rack warehouse with adjacent logistics and office building, covering eight floors, was completed at REYHER’s headquarters in Hamburg, Germany – yet another emphatic statement of the company’s unrelenting commitment to efficiency and customer service, through the use of the latest equipment and technology.

The high-rack warehouse is divided horizontally, meaning that the two levels work independently of one another. The additional 40,000 pallet places created by the new high-rack warehouse have extended REYHER’s total capacity to a staggering 100,000 pallet places.

The additional 40,000 pallet places created by the new high-rack warehouse have extended REYHER’s total capacity to a staggering 100,000 pallet places

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Whilst ensuring that it is always future orientated, REYHER has never forgotten its roots. This year the company will be 130 years old and it continues to specialise in fasteners and fixing technology.

As ever, the main focus is on satisfied customers. REYHER not only sources and delivers reliably, but also provides customers with a full spectrum of related services. The company holds inventory of some 130,000 items ready for delivery, making its range of fasteners among the widest and in-depth in the field. In addition to standard fasteners the company holds stock of numerous non-standard items, as well as fixing technologies from many highly reputable brand manufacturers.

To guarantee its products are supplied to the high-quality REYHER’s customers have come to expect and rely on, many items are subjected to extensive tests of material and processing in the company’s fully equipped inspection and quality laboratory. Tests include a vast array of optical measurement, spectral analysis, salt spray tests and much more. In addition to standardised or prescribed standard tests, customer specific and agreed testing plans are also possible thanks to the experience and knowledge of the quality department staff.

REYHER not only sources and delivers with an absolute commitment to reliability; it also provides customers with a comprehensive spectrum of related services

REYHER not only sources and delivers with an absolute commitment to reliability; it also provides customers with a comprehensive spectrum of related services. This includes sophisticated logistics, technical consulting, e-business solutions, as well as packaging services to compile sets and assemble kits. Material suppliers are supported with Kanban systems or ‘just in time’ deliveries, worldwide C-parts management and much more. It is precisely for these reasons that REYHER is far from simply a trading company, but a real partner – ensuring its customers’ security of supply.

During the last few months, a major focus for REYHER has been on building up the product range with CE markings, particularly for steel construction and load-bearing timber.

In addition to structural bolting (SB) stainless steel sets (A2-70), chipboard screws, and wood building screws, many other products with CE markings are now also available.

For Kanban supplies, this year REYHER will also be presenting the new innovative LTB container series. This optimised container is a new joint development between REYHER and SSI SCHÄFER. With its sliding mechanism, high

filling capacity and rounded inner walls, the new LTB container series will provide customers with many advantages.

REYHER is active worldwide and is one of Europe’s leading distributors of fastener and fixing technology. Its extensive range of services, in-depth product offer, and company wide drive to satisfy customers, gives it justifiable confidence in another excellent year.

2017 has already started positively, with the completion of the new 42m high-rack warehouse – as well as recognition from the CLAAS group as ‘Supplier of the Year’ in the ‘services’ category in 2016.

“The general challenge for 2017,” says REYHER, “will continue to be fluctuating raw material prices and the anti-dumping measures against China that are under discussion. It is a question of continuing to make the right decisions and act always in the best interests of the customers, just as successfully as we have in the last 130 years.” www.reyher.de

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Ronald Baarslag

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Fasteners have been at the core of the Fabory business for seventy years. Ronald Baarslag talked to Phil Matten about the continuation of that focus; about good stewardship and the other strategic pillars on which he is determined the company will do the right thing for the long-term.

olding an Executive Masters in Finance and Control, and with a senior financial management background in the Dutch distribution and telecom sectors, Ronald Baarslag joined Fabory as chief finance officer four years ago. In November 2015 he transitioned to chief executive officer. His definition of stewardship clearly recognises the company’s distinguished pedigree and the imperative to ensure ethical and compliant company behaviour. It would be wrong, though, to underestimate a quiet but unshakeable determination that the company will adapt to, and wherever possible anticipate, the changing times. The right thing for the long-term definitely includes ensuring Fabory delivers advanced and consistent excellence in service.

Seventy years ago Mr J.M. Borstlap and his sons started their fastener distribution business in Scheveningen, on the Netherlands coast. Outgrowing several locations the company settled in Tilburg in 1968, adopting the strapline ‘Masters in Fasteners’. The last family member active in the business, John Borstlap, left in 1999. From 2004 through to 2011, the company was equity investor owned, and in 2006 it adopted the name by which most of its products are immediately recognised: Fabory.

On 1 st September 2011, Fabory became part of Grainger Inc, a Fortune 500 company recognised as North America’s leading broad line maintenance, repairs and operations (MRO) supplier, with expanding operations in Europe, Asia and Latin America. In 2016 Grainger achieved global revenues of US$10.1 billion (approximately €9.5 billion).

Ronald Baarslag believes there were two major attractions in acquiring Fabory: “Grainger saw potential in the fastener industry and in the opportunity to establish a footprint in Europe.”

“With a consistent record, supplying a huge range of quality assured fasteners, Fabory could help to develop Grainger’s fastener knowledge. One of our important contributions has been in establishing Fastener House, which now sources all fasteners for all the companies in the Grainger group of businesses.”

“Fabory benefits through the accumulated volume and also in further extending our knowledge. We are able to leverage Grainger’s great supplier relationships, access more sources and obtain the right conditions of trading. In turn this delivers tangible benefits to our customers, in terms of both improved availability and service, as well as better pricing.”

…international customers need to know they will receive the same excellence in support from Fabory wherever they operate.”

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The Tilburg central warehouse and logistics operation holds inventory of more than 120,000 products

Ronald Baarslag is emphatic that fasteners will continue at the heart of the Fabory business: “We are developing more and more strongly as the one stop shop for fasteners and fastener related products and solutions, supported in all kinds of ways by Grainger.”

“Many people recognise Grainger as a US$10 billion corporation.

Fewer are aware it is the eleventh largest e-retailer in the United States, transacting approximately 50% of its business online today.

That enormous depth of online expertise has been vital in supporting Fabory to develop and deliver an exceptional online experience for its customers.”

Everybody, Ronald Baarslag acknowledges, has a web shop these days, “but with Grainger support, and using the power and interconnectivity of an SAP platform, we are able to implement it faster and better, offering our customers benefits such as personal shopping cart and budgets, as well as providing all kinds of integration with their own systems”.

While Grainger’s financial muscle clearly underpins Fabory’s development, Ronald Baarslag perceives less obvious but equally beneficial influences. “Grainger helped us to focus even more acutely on our customers.” It is another key strategy pillar, inherently recognising that customer behaviours and expectations constantly and dramatically shift. “Fabory has a long heritage of supporting its customers but when I joined in 2013 there were definitely opportunities to improve.”

Many talk, says Ronald Baarslag, about delivering unique value to different customers and to providing an effortless customer experience. “The real skill is translating that into reality. That starts with having the customer at the centre of all we do. We talk with and about our customers all the time. In everything we do, each decision step, the customers’ position is taken into consideration.”

It also demands the implementation of standard, scalable practices throughout the company. “We look at all our processes, examine their design, and we standardise them. Then we implement them using our SAP system, in all Fabory operations across the world.”

“Once that scalable process is established and implemented correctly, efficiency is created in one area but more importantly, ensures all our global customers have the same experience, wherever

they interface with Fabory. As never before that matters today: International customers need to know they will receive the same excellence in support from Fabory wherever they operate.

The Tilburg central warehouse and logistics operation holds inventory of more than 120,000 products as well as being at the heart of the company’s quality assurance system, centred on its A2LA accredited laboratory. “Our total offer is more than 200,000 items, and we supply all our customers in the Netherlands, Belgium and France from Tilburg within twenty-four hours. We also supply our shops and other European warehouses from Tilburg.” Another benefit from Grainger’s logistical experience has been Fabory’s ability to develop cross-docking systems, through which non-stock product can be supplied direct to customers to service standards similar to those provided by Tilburg.

Fabory has more than seventy owned shops. Just over half are located in the Netherlands and Belgium, with others in France, Portugal and some central European countries. “It is no secret,” says Ronald Baarslag, “that we closed a number of our shops.

We examined their footprint a couple of years ago, recognising that more and more business was shifting online. That is a general trend and like any prudent and alert business we evaluate all our investments on a regular basis. That means looking critically at what is happening in the market and seeing how our customers’ purchasing behaviours are changing”.

“The remaining shops continue to have a very important role.

They are part of our omni-channel strategy and very relevant to many customers. Last year we developed further integration so that orders placed online can be collected locally from a Fabory shop.”

“However, we recognised that in some country markets there are very large distances and low densities of population so a shop is not the best answer. In these cases we offer a range of alternative channels to enjoy the benefits of trading with Fabory. These include online, telesales, our KeepStock logistics solutions, and in some cases a local seller.”

Online transactions are shipped from Tilburg and from Fabory’s other major warehouse in Brno, Czech Republic, which supplies many customers in Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland on a twenty-four hour service.

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FACE2FACE “Fabory has three main kinds of customer. We have strong, close relationships with OEMs to meet their requirements for high volumes of specific, quality assured fasteners and solutions. Central to these relationships is an in-depth analysis of the customer’s total cost of ownership. Competitive pricing is simply a necessity. The real differentiation comes from how we ensure quality and how we help improve their logistics and procurement process. Online integration is more and more important, increasing accuracy and reliability as well as reducing transactional costs. Our KeepStock® solutions ensure the correct fasteners and other C-parts are always available at the point of consumption. Having implemented a reliable, productive concept we recognise that the mix of the relationship will change over time, so we are constantly alert to that, reviewing regularly and adapting to changing conditions. In some cases we go further and assist our customers in forecasting future trends.”

The other major customer segment for Fabory is MRO. “Our mother company is a leader in general MRO supply, with sixteen product categories and more than 1.5 million lines. Fabory concentrates on everything around fasteners – the fasteners themselves, the tools, the metalworking items, the safety and protective products. In general we provide a good, better, best offering. Alongside the Fabory brand we have strong partnerships with leading European brands, such as Nord-Lock and ABA®, and exclusive brands like Maxxfast, which provides quality assured, no-nonsense professional hardware.”

“The smaller but still important sector for Fabory is trade business. The structure of fastener distribution differs from country to country. In the UK we have a successful business that concentrates on supplying other fastener distributors supported by the range, availability and logistical efficiency here in Tilburg. In all countries we have some trade customers that similarly gain advantage from what Fabory provides. Those relationships are built on mutual respect for ethical behaviour and compliance. If you are an honest entrepreneur you will enjoy business with Fabory.”

Fabory concentrates on everything around fasteners – the fasteners themselves, the tools, the metalworking items, the safety and protective products.”

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“Quality is not just about our A2LA laboratory,” explains Ronald Baarslag, “although there is no question its facilities and the expertise in our customer technology support centre are distinctive. It is also about how we source our products from quality vendors, the control systems we employ for the goods received and stored in our warehouses, the traceability in case of an issue. In the end, though, quality is a state of mind and it is really about the people. Their expertise and long-term personal commitment to Fabory is crucially important”.

“Through all of our sales channels it is the total experience that matters – when one of our sales people visits, when the customer comes to one of our shops, when they call us or we call them, when they choose to go online, when they are supported by our KeepStock programme. We are committed to delivering unique value to different customers – because we never forget that they have a choice.”

“Looking forward, I will be really proud when our customers recognise Fabory as the number one, one stop shop for fasteners, fastener related products and solutions. Achieving that is about doing the things we do today, doing them extremely well and striving to add more value to our customers every day.”

“It may not sound very heroic but doing the simple things really, really well and making sure that every decision you make has the customers’ interests at its centre, that is really not so easy. We are working very hard at it: Never before have I been in a company populated with so many hard working and loyal people.”

“Change has always been here, and always will be. The important thing is to stay really close to your customer, listen to them, understand where they are going and what they require from you. Some of our customers are very clear about where they are going, some are less certain, but by having these conversations we get a better view.”

“It’s about looking from the outside in – seeing what the customer sees but also being alert to what the rest of the industry is seeing, what other industries are doing, and how that will influence our industry and business.”

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Still learning after 40 years – and proud of it

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Geoff Budd joined TR Fastenings forty years ago, as a temporary packer. Within ten years he was a director of the rapidly growing business. Today he is managing director at TR Europe as well as a Trifast main board director, and possesses an extraordinary knowledge of the global fastener industry. In four decades he’s witnessed massive change – but is adamant some things really haven’t altered.

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ut Geoff Budd and each corpuscle spilled would carry a TR logo. That’s by no means blind loyalty – here is a man who can be disconcertingly critical as well as disarmingly generous, as his colleagues and extensive contact network across the global fastener industry will attest. Think rather of a deep rooted commitment to founding principles that, for him, have stood the test of forty years.

“When I started with TR Fastenings everyone in the company went to the Christmas party in a minibus – now we’d need to hire a cruise liner.” A typical Budd quip, perhaps, but an apposite one.

TR Fastenings Limited was incorporated in 1973, the brainchild of the ‘Two Mikes’ – Roberts and Timms who, having worked at a fastener supplier in London, set up their own distribution business from their Sussex homes. Today Trifast Plc employs more than 1,200 people across the globe, with manufacturing and distribution businesses and customers ranging across Asia, Europe and North America.

For its 2015-16 year Trifast reported global revenues of GB£161 million (€188.8 million), reflecting five years of sustained growth and a 44% increase on its 2012 sales result. Underlying profits before tax were GB£16 million, more than three times greater than 2012.

Geoff Budd joined the business in 1976, aged nineteen.

“I wasn’t doing anything of particular worth” he says, “and these guys seemed to know what they were doing”. His first job was to pack a large export order of galvanised Unified bolts. “That’s when I learnt my first piece of technical information about fasteners – the difference between a set screw and a bolt.” Learning matters to Geoff Budd: A theme that will recur.

“None of the big UK manufacturers that dominated the market in those days exist any longer. Back then they were shipping 500 tonne orders to China for the rail industry and millions of brass wood screws to Japan.”

A pause before he adds: “Funny how things have changed.”

The nascent TR business certainly did not share the complacency that marked many of these British behemoths for decline as the world of fasteners changed around them. “The whole transactional process was slow.

It took a week to get a delivery from Birmingham. That’s why TR became successful. We ran around, short cutting all of that.”

Geoff Budd joined the business in 1976 aged nineteen, and thanks to the process of learning by osmosis, quickly progressed from the warehouse to the offices

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By 1986 Geoff Budd was a main board director of TR Fastenings It wasn’t long before Geoff Budd deserved a permanent role.

“I worked in the warehouse for a year or so and drove everybody nuts because I kept on reorganising it. Then I started in the office, booking the goods in and out. Then progress chasing – a funny role, phoning people for goods that should have been delivered already. Then on to internal sales.”

“It taught me about the products, simply by handling them. That’s why it is still good for people who join the company to spend time in the warehouse, getting to know the differences between fasteners.”

That process of learning by osmosis – doing the job, seeing different manufacturing and distribution operations, travelling the world – still matters to Geoff Budd. “In truth you never stop learning. There’s an almost infinite variety of parts: Always things you haven’t seen before.”

By the late 1970s Geoff was on his first customer visit. “I saw one customer in the morning, took another to lunch, and went to see another in the afternoon. Then, your days were planned around who you were taking to lunch.” Lunch, sales technique or just the straightforward personability that remains a Budd hallmark, it worked, and he spent the next three years on the road. Then it was back into the office, initially in a key accounts role, then onto purchasing. By 1986 Geoff Budd was a main board director of TR Fastenings.

TR’s original specialism in smaller fasteners for the electronics sector was largely an accident of geography. “To begin with the business was fairly local, which meant mainly electronic and light engineering.”

In the mid 1980s one relationship was pivotal in TR’s development.

“We got involved in supplying IBM because they wanted a small quantity of washers in a hurry.” Characteristically, somebody in TR jumped into a vehicle and drove to Havant, Hampshire, with them. “That opened the door to us supplying fasteners to the computer disc drive industry.”

“Not the disc drives of today,” adds Geoff. “The centre screw was an 8mm socket cap made in Sweden from a specially heat treated stainless steel. They had to be polished until you could see your face in them.” Installation was in a Class 100 clean room so there could be no contamination whatsoever. The next generation of drives required smaller screws until eventually the diameters were too small for the Swedish manufacturer. “That presented an opportunity for TR,” says Geoff, “and we started making them ourselves in Telford”. That was his personal introduction to fastener manufacturing, as the factory became his responsibility. It was also TR’s introduction to supplying licensed fastener products. “We obtained a TORX® licence from Camcar® and developed the drive system into the electronics industry.” That led to new relationships with other major computer manufacturers.

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The IBM relationship, however, was transformational in another way. “We were not a perfect supplier to them.

I think they took the view we were the best of a bad bunch so they decided to train us to meet their expectations.

They wanted zero defects and nil overdues – fairly commonplace now but, at the time, we thought ‘you’ve got to be joking, how are we going to do that?’ At that time most customers placed an order schedule, we delivered it, they would inspect it. IBM didn’t want any of that. They wanted assured product delivered to the point of use.” An object lesson in what was to become a core TR customer offer – vendor managed inventory.

Ironically without a computer system of its own, TR had to eliminate potential errors in its current working methods and develop manual systems that underpinned the required service levels. “Over time,” explains Geoff, “I laid down many of the manual processes that were eventually integrated into the computer software we introduced in 1989”.

An object lesson in what was to become a core TR customer offer – vendor managed inventory.”

With the 1990s came the migration of electronics assembly from western Europe, initially to eastern Europe and then, very rapidly, to Asia. As TR followed so “began the pattern of having business that linked between Europe, America and Asia”. Fastener manufacturing had also migrated and TR developed relationships with specialist manufacturers in Germany before becoming a forerunner in sourcing in Asia, initially from Japan and then Taiwan.

“You posted a drawing to Japan. Then you waited. Two or three weeks later you’d get a quote by telex and negotiate using the same machine.” For a past master in building relationships face-to-face that can only have been a source of some frustration. “We’d had a huge enquiry from a Japanese electronics company and spent ages trying to convince them to use DIN specifications before it dawned on us to buy the JIS standard screws from Japan and sell them exactly what they wanted.” That triggered Geoff’s first trip to Japan to build further supplier relationships.

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The advent of the fax machine improved long-range communication, although Geoff Budd admits initial doubts. “I couldn’t see them catching on because nobody had one.” The demise of the telex, however, was painful in other respects. “They were made in Brighton and that was good business for us. When they went out of fashion we suffered from technology change for the first time.”

Next stop Taiwan, for the first ever fastener industry exhibition held in Taipei. “That is where many of our long-standing relationships with Taiwanese manufacturers were formed.” Geoff recalls a salient lesson in sourcing at the time. “We placed an order in India for cheese-head machine screws and I think they sent the slots separately from the screws. It demonstrated the importance of going to see the people.”

It’s significant the reference is to people not plant. For Geoff Budd it is as much about building the trust relationship as about auditing the physical capabilities of a factory. “We probably put as much store on our relationship with our suppliers as with our customers. If you are fair and reasonable, if you are prepared on occasions to compromise to reconcile issues, you will be rewarded in the long run.”

In 1994 Trifast became a public company. Three years later it made its first, significant acquisition in Asia. “One of our key competitors was in Singapore. We explored the possibility of buying parts from them and that led eventually to acquiring what became TR Formac.” Not all acquisitions worked out so well in the short run. “We bought a company in Holland because we had contracts to supply a customer there. We were all ready to go and the customer decided to shift all manufacturing to a sub-contractor. We had a business and no customer – but over time that business became very important in TR accessing the automotive market.”

Other acquisitions were more directly successful in either reinforcing TR’s role in a particular sector or in providing an important bridgehead to diversify into others. “We acquired manufacturing in Taiwan and Malaysia, which has been very important in developing our capabilities for the automotive sector. More recently we acquired VIC Srl in Italy, which has great manufacturing expertise and gave us real access to the domestic appliance sector.”

Geoff Budd is convinced that the best acquisitions emanate from relationships and mutual trust. “PSEP in Malaysia was known to our

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Asian management, so there was already a basis for trust.

We’ve had great success in acquisitions where people approached us with genuine reasons for sale, perhaps family circumstances, and had a unique or special proposition, giving us access to a market or skills we needed.”

“Going back to the two Mikes, it was always about inspiring people and that theme runs through TR just as strongly today. Look after your people, look after your customers, look after your suppliers. There isn’t a whole lot more than that, except having a reasonable amount of common sense about what you are selling.”

“We’ve adapted to the needs of the market. On three occasions there have been sharp adjustments in the business because of changes with customers or the general economic climate. We’ve become a global business and supply customers in three continents – an ability few have achieved.”

“You always have to be outward looking. I’ve not learnt anything from sitting behind a desk. TR senior managers believe in getting out there and seeing what is going on. That’s how we encounter the issues and learn to resolve them.”

Geoff is still keen to learn. “I set out to know as much about this business and technically about the products as I could. I still don’t know everything but I find it interesting and enjoy sharing that knowledge.”

In the final analysis, though, “the most important thing, absolutely, is the relationship with the people. If I prize anything in life it is the friendships and relationships I have across this industry. Working with TR has provided not only a good lifestyle but also a mechanism to live my life – to travel, to meet people, to see things, to have a reason to go.”

“To be a part of one of the great success stories in our industry is fantastic. That success comes from people doing the right things, even when others aren’t looking – working hard, knowing what they do, and being honest.”

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Optimas: A partner in efficiency In an ever-changing world, where globalisation and rapidly advancing technologies are driving competition like never before, it is efficiency that sells. Lean manufacturing, factory automation, renewable energy; all of the major advancements in industry over the past decade can be linked back to efficiency – even the newest hypercars are hybrids.

So why would a manufacturer put its production schedule at risk by operating a less than efficient supply chain?

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ere Optimas Solutions, a leading supplier of fasteners and C-class components, explains how it is able to offer support and integration at every level; helping its partners to reduce weight, cut costs and maximise productivity.

While they may not be as technically complicated as other mechanical components, fasteners play a vital part in every production line in the world. The vast quantities that are used on a day-to-day basis by even small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) manufacturers are staggering, underlining the importance of efficient supply chain management.

Standardising designs to reduce part counts; using new materials to shed weight and complexity; ordering from a single source to secure lower costs and reliable supply; each of these activities can have a significant and instant effect on the bottom line.

Unfortunately the reality is that it requires a great deal of expertise and time-consuming analysis in order to integrate such changes without interrupting a busy production schedule. It’s very rare that internal personnel – be it engineering, production or management – have the capacity to investigate such things while focusing on ‘bigger picture’ issues. Often these smaller details remain unexplored, meaning that it is often an area of opportunity that goes untapped.

Optimas works with its partners to develop bespoke components, which shed weight and complexity

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This is where an outsourced provider of integrated supply chain solutions and engineering support can add value to production.

The simple philosophy at Optimas is that it works with each customer as a partner, helping them reap the rewards with minimum upheaval. Of course, each customer has a different list of capabilities, requirements, limitations and expectations, so Optimas builds and delivers a unique service for every one of its 4,000+ customers around the world.

This service will vary in complexity from bulk supply of standard fasteners, through to bespoke engineered components delivered in high volumes to multiple sites. In many cases Optimas offers complete management of a customer’s supply chain for fasteners, C-class components and MRO assets.

At the start of any partnership Optimas spends time getting to know its customers’ business – goals, strengths, products, capabilities and future designs. Optimas’ team will assess the current situation and coordinate a suite of services that will help them to streamline and improve production while keeping the total cost of ownership in check. Once up and running, Optimas’ process of continuous analysis and assessment enables it to deliver accurate reports, which means its solutions evolve with its customers’ companies over time.

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Optimas has analysts and logistical experts who specialise in ‘just in time’ delivery and forecasting demand to provide customers with a proactive and productive supply chain

This service level is only possible because of the unique foundations the business is built on. Optimas has analysts and logistical experts who specialise in ‘just in time’ delivery and forecasting demand; it has design engineers with years of experience in industries as diverse as automotive, agricultural, commercial vehicles and power generation. The company also holds regionally based ISO registered and VDA 6.2 certified quality centres; with it even offering in-house manufacturing capabilities in both Europe and the US. In short, Optimas has invested in developing the expertise required to introduce efficient change without interruption.

As for capacity, Optimas has over 1,600 highly trained team members in more than 60 locations around the world. This means it is able to supply in excess of 9 billion fasteners, and other components, from diverse categories across 140,000 SKUs.

Reaping the benefits

Optimas has a proven track record of success across the industries it works in. In fact, the benefits of embarking on a partnership with Optimas are easily measurable and extend beyond the obvious advantage of eliminating downtime from the production schedule due to stock shortages.

Because its abilities extend well beyond logistics and into design and manufacturing, Optimas can help to improve the customer’s product at the drawing board. Optimas’ engineers can inspect and analyse every fastener to see where bespoke designs or standardisation could lead to improvement. A recent example saw the number of different fastener types fall by over 40% on a single production line. The reduced unit cost from larger bulk orders led to immediate savings, while the fastener design sped up the production line to improve overall efficiency.

In another example, Optimas was asked by a luxury automotive manufacturer to reduce the instances of fastener variant on a new model launch. At the same time, the company was tasked with preparing a ‘Preferred Parts’ list for in-house engineers to use for all new projects or current ‘Bill of Material’ updates. Optimas developed bespoke products and supplied a database of all available fasteners, which could be accessed and ordered from the customers’ intranet. In total, this collaboration has delivered cost savings of over GB£3 million.

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Optimas supplies over 9 billion fasteners, and other components, from diverse categories across 140,000+ SKUs

Optimas can even help to improve the quality of the product its customers deliver to their customers. For one partner, Optimas reduced the total weight of fasteners on the production line by over 65% without increasing cost (the total cost per order actually reduced slightly). In another case the company designed a fastener that was easy to remove and reuse, which made inspections and repair far simpler when the product was in the field.

Efficiency designed in

In truth, efficiency is a very broad word, which can be used to describe a multitude of design advantages, each of which can help a business to maintain a competitive edge. It can often be hard to ‘see the wood for the trees’ when looking at all the possible improvements – deciding which ones will genuinely provide long-term, sustainable improvements can be a full time job in itself.

Unlike a lot of distribution companies, Optimas doesn’t try to shoehorn all of its customers into a ‘one size fits all’ service. The reality is that Optimas is a service provider; it works with all sizes of business across all industries, and its capabilities extend way beyond logistics and the supply of standard parts. The company’s service set-up is designed to align its capabilities with the needs of its partners and Optimas’ ongoing analysis ensures that it is able to offer suggestions for continuous improvements over the years as relationships develop. www.optimas.com

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Time to shine for WTI Fasteners For almost 30 years WTI Fasteners has been one of the UK fastener industry’s best kept secrets, with the ability to manufacture over 145 million wire inserts per year – in different sizes and materials – for customers around the world. Now, through investment in key machinery and a commitment to introducing additional services, WTI is ready to step into the spotlight.

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orking with both end users and distributors across a number of industries – including automotive, aerospace, marine, rail, furniture, and medical equipment – WTI Fasteners Ltd has a wide range of production machinery that enables it to produce high performance wire thread inserts in stainless steel, phosphor bronze, inconel and nimonic 90.

The company is dedicated to producing quality products, which it is able to do thanks to its quality and inspection department, which includes a recently purchased Keyence measuring machine. This commitment to quality is also underlined by it achieving AS 9100 Rev C for the aerospace industry. Another important part of WTI’s quality promise is its well-stocked tool room, where it is able to build bespoke manufacturing machinery.

“We’re very focused on quality and we are always looking to be one step ahead of the competition,” comments Jo Mason, director at WTI Fasteners Ltd. “For us that means a constant investment in machinery for increased efficiency and responding to customer demands.”

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A further demonstration of WTI’s flexibility is its customercontrolled order process with no minimum order quantities or time restrictions on orders. “We have the benefit of being an independent company,” states Jo proudly. “That enables us to make it easy for customers to buy, letting them order what they need – rather than just a pre-determined quantity.”

As well as its extensive stockholding WTI is also able to offer prompt technical assistance with dedicated engineers. “We pride ourselves on providing the same level of service to every client, large or small, and will work together to provide the correct solution. Customers are making a more informed decision when it comes to sourcing products, so our technical assistance is paramount,” explains Jo. WTI’s drive to constantly provide customers with new services is highlighted by its newly launched website, which will also soon feature a technical library containing product specifications and information. “Export accounts for 50% of our sales and the new website will enable us to reach additional global markets including America, the Far East, Australia and Europe,” comments Jo. As a proud independent UK manufacturer, WTI is able to offer a unique flexibility to customers and can quickly introduce additional services or bespoke solutions that provide real benefits. Thanks to its extensive stockholding, customer controlled order process, and continuous investment in machinery, the company is now in a position to establish itself in new global markets and provide a wide range of solutions for customers both large and small. www.wti-fasteners.co.uk/ad1

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Cetin Civata continues to grow

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Cetin Civata has started the construction of its fifth plant – to be located in Yalova, Turkey – further reaffirming its position as one of the biggest fastener manufacturing groups in eastern Europe.

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etin Civata, part of the Tecde Group, provides a flexible service for both end users and distributors – manufacturing a wide variety of products in both metric and unified thread. Key products include hexagon head bolts, structural steel bolting, socket head bolts, wheel bolts, machine screws, flange head bolts, self-tapping screws, chipboard screws, thread forming screws and nuts.

As an international company, Cetin serves numerous sectors including automotive, home appliances, furniture, machinery, construction, mining, agriculture, plus many more.

One of the company’s biggest strengths is that all its processes are carried out in-house, starting from wire preparation to final packing. Modern production plants enable the company to manufacture standard and drawing parts with a range of M3 – M27. Cetin predominately uses cold forming technology for manufacturing, but is also able to apply secondary operations for the parts such as drilling, pointing, cutting, stripping and grinding.

Through its own dedicated tool shop, Cetin can design and manufacture 90% of its tooling demands – using high-tech machines and simulation applications. Also, thanks to its own PLC controlled continuous electric and gas heat treatment furnaces, Cetin is able to provide all required grades from 4.6 to 12.9. The carbon steel and stainless steel materials used to produce the bolts are mainly sourced from Turkish and European qualified manufacturers.

Cetin Civata production facilities

Plant 1 – Çatalca (main factory): Founded in 1976, the factory covers a total area of 50,000m2 and employs 200 employees.

It mainly produces bolts, rivets and special parts between M3 to M27, with a total capacity of 2,000 tonnes/month.

Plant 2 – Malatya: Founded in 1998, the second factory covers a total area of 40,000m2 and employs 270 employees.

Products produced include chipboard screws, tapping screws, drilling screws and nuts between M3 to M27.

Total capacity is 1,500 tonnes/month.

Plant 3 – Avcilar: Founded in 2000 , the Avcilar plant covers 2,500m2 and employs 50 employees. Total capacity is 150 tonnes/month with the main products being nuts and special parts between M5 to M16.

Plant 4 – Mimarsinan (sales, marketing and warehouse): Founded in 1985, the Mimarsinan site covers 22,000m2 and employs 220 employees. It serves all types of fasteners, with a total capacity of 14,000 tonnes.

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Almost all surface requirements can be fulfilled by Cetin Civata in-house, such as electro zinc plating, zinc nickel plating, zinc iron plating, zinc flake (Zintek®, GEOMET®, Delta, Magni), zinc phosphate, manganese phosphate, hot dip galvanising, copper plating, nickel plating, as well as coefficient of friction applications.

All of the products are controlled and reported by a fully equipped quality control laboratory, which is also approved by Fiat. Cetin has numerous accreditations including ISO 9001, ISO/TS 16949, OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001, CE 15048 and CE 14399. The company points out that almost all required tests can be applied and reported according to ISO 898-1 & 2.

Also, it can supply Initial Sample Reports, as well as IMDS entry, CDA-ISIR, and PPAP documents.

“Our aim is to manufacture high-quality products as efficiently and effectively as possible,” explains Mustafa Tecdelioğlu, CEO at Cetin Civata. “It is vital that we respect the demands of our customers and that we are able to supply products that meet their ‘just in time’ working policies. We believe that if our customers are successful then we will also be successful – every satisfied customer is the next step to new potential customers.”

Mustafa adds: “Since Cetin was established we have always ensured that our existing customers are completely satisfied with our service and the quality of the products.

We are never satisfied. We are always looking forward at new business to increase quality, to grow, and to stay competitive.” www.cetin.com.tr

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EVENTS CALENDAR Fastener Fair India 2017 Mumbai, India 28 Apr – 29 Apr 2017 www.fastenerfair.com Bombay Exhibition Centre

FEICON BATIMAT São Paulo, Brazil 4 Apr – 8 Apr 2017 www.feicon.com.br Construction industry fair.

Stainless 2017 Brno, Czech Republic 17 May – 18 May 2017 www.stainless2017.com 9 th international stainless steel exhibition.

CONSTRUMA Budapest, Hungary 5 Apr – 9 Apr 2017 www.construma.hu 36th International building trade exhibition.

FIT Show 2017 Birmingham, UK 23 May – 25 May 2017 www.fitshow.co.uk UK event for the window, door, flat glass and conservatory market.

INTERSTROYEXPO St. Petersburg, Russia 19 Apr – 21 Apr 2017 www.interstroyexpo.primexpo.ru International construction exhibition.

Construmat Barcelona Barcelona, Spain 23 May – 26 May 2017 www.construmat.com Building trade exhibition.

Vietnam Manufacturing Expo 2017 Hanoi, Vietnam 26 Apr – 28 Apr 2017 www.vietnammanufacturingexpo.com Industrial parts manufacturing.

Intersolar Europe Munich, Germany 31 May – 2 Jun 2017 www.intersolar.de International exhibition for solar technology.

BLECH India Mumbai, India 27 Apr – 29 Apr 2017 www.blechindia.com Sheet metal working.

Fastener Tech™ Illinois, USA 5 Jun – 7 Jun 2017 www.fastenertech.com Fastener manufacturers, distributors and users.

National Hardware Show Las Vegas, USA 9 May – 11 May 2017 www.nationalhardwareshow.com Connects retailers, dealers, wholesalers, distributors and manufacturing to the marketplace.

wire Russia Moscow, Russia 5 Jun – 8 Jun 2017 www.wire-russia.com International wire and cable trade fair.

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Fastener Expo Shanghai attracts fastener companies worldwide Fastener Expo Shanghai 2017, taking place on 22nd – 24th June at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, is continuing to grow with its total exhibition area exceeding 50,000m2 and covering three halls for the first time.

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osted by ITE Asia Exhibition Limited and Shanghai ITE Ebseek Exhibition Co Ltd, Fastener Expo Shanghai 2017 will see 800 global fastener industry brands exhibit at this year’s show. The exhibition will once again remain international and authoritative, attracting a large number of overseas exhibitors from Germany, Italy, Poland, India, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Exhibitors will be showcasing their standard fasteners, materials, non-standard fasteners, moulds and consumptions, stamping parts and lathes, spring equipment and technology, and fastener technology throughout the show.

Though the economy currently faces a crucial turning point and is beginning its gradual process of recovery, Fastener Expo Shanghai 2017 has managed to stay above economic fluctuations and has maintained steadfast support and participation from new and returning exhibitors. According to data gathered by the organisers, nearly 400 companies have confirmed their participation in the past five weeks, and the total sales of booths has increased by 112% when compared with the same period of last year.

The prominent booths in Hall 1, where fastener manufacturing equipment and supporting technologies are displayed, have been in extremely high demand ever since they were made available. Exhibiting companies include machinery specialists SACMA Group, which will be showcasing its range of cold forging, warm forging and thread rolling machines, National Machinery LLC, Carlo Salvi SpA, Nakashimada, and WAFIOS Umformtechnik, which will be presenting its unique revolutionary screw processing centre. German metal forming simulation software company CPM GmbH will also be exhibiting its simulation software and a tool design system.

Due to a limited number of stands for sale in Hall 2, where finished fastener products are exhibited, the demand is even stronger than last year. Therefore the decision has been made to expand into Hall 3 to display finished fastener products and hold concurrent events. Numerous enterprises have already reserved their places in this hall.

“As one of the three largest fastener exhibitions in the world, Fastener Expo last year witnessed 25,625 professional visitors from 43 countries and regions.

We are trying to build the best platform that not only demonstrates state of the art products and technologies, but which also fulfils business matchmaking for insiders,” comments show organisers. www.fastenerexpo.cn

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EXHIBITIONS

Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2017

Seminar Programme

Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2017 will feature a new seminar programme, hosted by Fastener + Fixing Magazine, taking place in a special auditorium in Hall 5. Across the three days there will be a variety of presentations from leading exhibitors and key associations that will focus on major topics within the fastener and fixing industry. Here is a schedule of the confirmed presentations and their topics:

Tuesday 28th March 2017 On the first day of the seminar programme there will be a selection of presentations focusing on the ‘Latest developments in cold forming technologies’, including: 11:00 Enrico Brigatti, commercial director, SACMA Group

SACMA will focus on a variety of topics including the evolution of the parts shape; improving precision with the SACMA TR system; expanding the limits with the SACMA Feeding Package – SFP; challenging the future with SACMA’s WF S-Forging concept; and implementing innovations with mechatronics and cold formers.

12:00 Jerry Bupp, vice-president sales and marketing, National Machinery LLC

A presentation looking at FORMAXÂŽ XXV and the advancements in cold forming and robotic technology.

13:00 Lunch 14:00 Christian BĂźrgin, head of business unit machines and member of the management board,

Hatebur Metalforming Equipment Ltd

Hatebur Group, with the leading brands Carlo Salvi and Hatebur, is a comprehensive supplier for all horizontal applications.

The presentation will concentrate on the current developments in servo drives and the forming of high alloyed raw materials.

15:00 Manuel Vogelsang, head of thread rolling die department, WAFIOS Umformtechnik The theme of WAFIOS’ presentation will be ‘Induction heating in heading machines’.

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Hall 5 Stand 2422 Wednesday 29th March 2017 At the heart of the seminar programme will be confirmed presentations from leading authoritative industry speakers: 11:00 Dr Volker Lederer, president of the European Fastener Distributors’ Association (EFDA)

and managing director of Lederer GmbH

Dr Lederer will consider the outlook for European fastener importers and distributors during 2017, as well as how EFDA supports its national associations and independent company members.

12:00 Phil Matten, executive editor, Fastener + Fixing Magazine

An analysis on the latest developments in EU trade defence policy and consideration of the implications for European fastener manufacturers and importers.

13:00 Lunch 14:00 Dr Stefan Beyer, secretary and general manager of the European Industrial Fastener Institute

(EIFI) and managing director of the Deutscher Schraubenverband e.V A review of the activities of EIFI and the wide ranging benefits it delivers to its members.

15:00 Barbara Sorgato, general secretary of the European Consortium of Anchor Producers (ECAP)

An update of the presentation on ‘Structural anchors and Construction Products Regulation’, which was so well received at Fastener Fair Italy in Milan.

16:00 Thomas Holland-Letz, deputy managing director/technical officer of Fachverband

Werkzeugindustrie e.V. (Association of German tool manufacturers)

A look at trends in anchor installation, such as the use of multi-cutting drill bits, hollow drill bits, diamond drill bits and borehole cleaning.

The presentation would be given on behalf of Construction Fixings Europe and the PGM Certification Board for Masonry Drill Bit.

Thursday 30th March 2017 The final day of the presentation programme will include presentations on the ‘latest developments in coating technologies’ from leading companies within the sector: 11:00 Dennis Stritter, R&D engineer, Atotech Deutschland GmbH

A presentation focusing on several topics including corrosion protection in the automotive market; a comparison of alkaline versus acid ZnNi – performance, corrosion protection and coefficient of friction; as well CP coatings – Zn or ZnNi coatings plus solvent-based topcoats.

12:00 Eduard Rybka, European sales manager, Magni Group

Magni Group, a leading industry supplier of protective metal coatings, will discuss efficient corrosion protection under extreme conditions.

13:00 Lunch 14:00 Guus Vermeulen, director business development – Europe, Greenkote Plc

An introduction to Greenkote thermal diffusion coatings – background, application method, advantages and case studies.

The entire programme will be free for exhibitors and visitors of Fastener Fair Stuttgart to attend, but attendance will be subject to space availability. For the latest information on the seminar programme check www.fastenerandfixing.com and www.fastenerfair.com

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INDEX Fixing Systems will be making a big impact at this year’s Fastener Fair Stuttgart with its crowd-stopping stand featuring its new catalogue, new metal anchor range and a new showroom display – all helping to promote the company’s best services.

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uring the show, taking place from 28th – 30 th March 2017, INDEX Fixing Systems will be showcasing its new metal anchor range, including a new seismic assessment and ETA Option 1, as well as new high performance screws for plasterboard, which guarantee a professional drilling thanks to their needle points.

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will exhibit all the display solutions that it has available. This includes the new self-service formats such as blisters and EASYkits – which the company says creates a great opportunity for any kind of customer, from professionals to DIY enthusiasts, thanks to their adaptability.

“We have considered the specific needs of all our customers from distributors to end customers, guaranteeing the maximum profitability and improving the purchasing experience of the end customer. Fastener Fair Stuttgart will be a great opportunity to highlight the new packaging to all visitors,” comments Koldo Cámara, marketing manager at INDEX Fixing Systems.

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Koldo continues: “We are aware of the importance of guaranteeing the maximum profitability of the display solution. We need to know how to combine a good buying experience with quick and easy implementation that guarantees maximum profitability from the space available.”

Also on display will be INDEX Fixing Systems’ newly updated website that features a responsive design, which means it can be viewed by customers across all formats – phone, table and computer.

Features of the new website include proximity services based on location; secure certificate to encrypt communications; as well as solutions based on improving the user experience; as well as a wide range of free multimedia files.

Created in five languages, the new website makes different software and technical documentation available for users in order to meet the demanding needs of its customers and provide the solutions increasingly required by their end customers.

“We are living in a mobile world and everybody in our market is moving little by little towards tablets and mobile,” mentions Oscar Cañas, export manager at INDEX Fixing Systems. “Our new website will enable us to provide customers with the information they need, when they need it, and wherever they may be.”

INDEX Fixing Systems has also introduced its new 2017 catalogue, which is also now available in five different languages – Spanish, English, German, French and Portuguese. The catalogue contains a detailed breakdown of the company’s capabilities, including its wide product range. “We tried to include as much information as possible within the catalogue, whilst still making it easy for customers to use and to find the products they need – all from one source,” mentions Oscar.

“We are looking forward to meeting visitors at Fastener Fair Stuttgart. INDEX Fixing System’s staff will be more than happy to inform all visitors about the latest news and solutions we offer.” www.indexfix.com

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EXHIBITIONS

Who will be Fastener Technology Innovator 2017?

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One of the many attractions of Fastener Fair Stuttgart is the first-hand opportunity to assess new products and services that exhibitors have brought to the market since the last show.

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astener + Fixing Magazine will once again, sponsor the Route to Fastener Innovation Competition.

The editorial team will review the products and services you can find on the following pages, looking for a worthy recipient of the title ‘Fastener Technology Innovator 2017’.

To find out more read on – remember to take a note of the stand numbers or look out for the distinctive Route to Fastener Innovation Competition 2017 logo on participants’ stands.

On the final day of the show there will be a special presentation to the winners on the Fastener + Fixing Magazine stand (Hall 5, Stand 2422). www.fastenerandfixing.com

Versatility in tightening large nuts

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Mechanical tensioning and hydraulic tensioning are common methods to tighten large size bolts, each with its own strong advantages. Superbolt multi-jackbolt tensioners have been on the market since 1984, enabling bolted joints to be tightened mechanically without specialised skills or heavy tooling. But what if there was a product that combines the strengths of both Superbolt mechanical tensioning and hydraulic tensioning into one?

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he new VersaTite™ Hydraulic Mechanical Tensioner from Nord-Lock Group combines the speed and uniformity of hydraulic tensioners with the accuracy of Superbolt mechanical tensioners.

Superbolt VersaTite gives versatility in multiple ways, including: VersaTite products can be hydraulically pressurised to achieve a fast and uniform initial preload. The solution incorporates Boltight hydraulic tensioning with state of the art seal and pressure design.

The achieved preload of VersaTite products is easily controlled by mechanically applying the final torque utilising Superbolt multi-jackbolt tensioning.

Removal is just as versatile – either mechanical or hydraulic removal is possible. The operator chooses depending on location, amount of fasteners, space constraints as well as time and tooling availability.

“Superbolt VersaTite is a result of our efforts to understand and solve the challenges our customers face,” comments Steve Busalacchi, tensioning specialist from the Nord-Lock Group. “Versatility in assembly and removal; safe and efficient operations; and increased application uptime; are some advantages the new solution brings. The new product truly offers versatility in one nut – that is why we named it VersaTite. No drawbacks – just added benefits.” www.nord-lock.com

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Wholesale Trade

Direct-Container Business

ENGEL is a successful wholesaler with more than 60 years of experience in supplying the industry and dealers throughout Europe. The quality of our services is backed by our worldwide procurement contacts. We supply more than a thousend million connection fittings of all kinds annually, whith a full range of standard items and also customized solutions.

With our UVO-TRADE GmbH we supplement this business segments. If you want to import fasteners in your own quality, quantity and liability –and to minimize your procurement costs and risks – take benefit from the experience of UVO-TRADE. Riskfree purchasing, supported by experts, assures highest quality at all levels!

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BUMAX® Ultra – the world’s strongest bolt

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The new BUMAX® Ultra range of unique precipitation hardened stainless steel fasteners from BUMAX boasts tensile strengths exceeding 1,700 MPa and are specifically designed for applications where ultra-high strength combined with high ductility is required in the final product.

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UMAX Ultra achieves its super high strength from strain hardening and precipitation hardening.

After precipitation hardening the tensile strength increases significantly. BUMAX Ultra has a corrosion resistance comparable to 316L (A4) and can be used at service temperatures between -50°C to 400°C with retained mechanical properties.

Despite being manufactured from stainless steel, the bolts are frequently used to replace high strength carbon steel fasteners in critical applications – where the requirements on strength and ductility are extreme. BUMAX Ultra has a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to that of carbon steel, which gives it design advantages when compared with austenitic stainless steels. The very high strength to weight ratio in combination with its good formability and ductility make it a very attractive fastener alternative to other lightweight materials such as titanium.

All fasteners in the BUMAX Ultra range are custom-made to meet the requirements of individual applications and can be delivered with different mechanical properties, with a tensile strength exceeding 1,700 MPa. BUMAX Ultra is an advanced engineering grade and close technical support is provided by BUMAX AB for customer projects in order to develop the desired end solution. Current applications for BUMAX Ultra include security lock systems, aerospace systems, high pressure applications and pump and valve systems.

BUMAX Ultra is made in BUMAX’s factory in Åshammar, Sweden, and is manufactured using Nobel Prize winning Quasi-Crystalline Precipitate technology.

Ova-Lok®: Suitable for fixing all types of materials

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With a unique oval thread and shank, as opposed to a standard round thread and shank, Tite-Fix says its Ova-Lok® screw resists anti-sealing moments.

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va-Lok is suitable for fixing all types of material, including soft and hardwood; block – without a pilot hole; brick – with a pilot hole; as well as, plastic, thin plate steel and all types of fibre board.

The oval thread form has two major and two minor outer diameters to help reduce drive torque while minimising blistering, especially in fibrous material such as MDF and chipboard. A sharply defined spiral point begins at the optimal point between the major and minor outer diameters, which enables the screw to start and drive balanced, similar to a twin thread, as opposed to a single start screw that tends to kick or ‘corkscrew’ and drive in at an angle.

Tite-Fix says the Ova-Lok has a reduced insertion torque due to the oval thread form enabling the screw to adopt a deep coarse thread, which exhibits high pull-out retention and fast driving speeds.

The company also says the screw will drive in approximately 25% faster than a standard round screw saving time and extending power tool battery life.

Ova-Lok is also suitable for manufacture in all types of material including hardened carbon steel and stainless steel where the oval thread form’s low insertion torque enables the screw to be driven into dense materials such as hardwoods without the need of a pilot hole, where a standard round screw produced in stainless steel often fails.

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More effective part inspection Regg Inspection will be entering both its new i600 inspection machine with higher resolution cameras and smaller footprint, and its three die thread rolling machine 3R40HD PLC into this year’s Route to Fastener Innovation Competition.

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sing the highest quality pneumatic, electric and mechanical components for reduced maintenance and increased up time, the new i600 inspection machine has a fully integrated feeding system for smooth and fast inspection giving a more effective part inspection.

Its enclosure has been designed for ease of sight and entry for operator and management. The machine can be equipped with vision systems, mechanical recess control, 360 degree profile control, eddy current crack detection, laser checking, laser marking and other special applications. The machine also features easy and intuitive Human Machine Interface – both for operators and programmers – a built-in cpk function, automatic controls of machine functionalities and an anti-locking device to minimise manual intervention. Its new modular design also has upgrade possibilities with additional inspection modules for a calibrated investment.

Regg Rolling will also be entering its new three die thread rolling machine 3R40HD PLC, featuring state of the art cylindrical thread rolling, into this year’s competition. All mechanical components have been designed with FEM analysis to obtain the most rigid

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structure for less die wearing. The machine also features Direct Drive and zero backlash gear reducers on the three spindles for perfect die matching and quick set-up; all new hydraulic system for fast speed up to 5 times the traditional thread rolling machines speed; new control of slide movement with 0.001mm accuracy; and user-friendly Man Machine interface with proprietary software.

A dimensional control station for extended die life and 100% piece inspection is also included.

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The smallest battery riveter Available from April 2017, the RivSmart battery riveter with integrated process control from VVG, weighs just 1.3kg and will process the most frequently used rivets up to 5mm with an 8,500N setting power and 20mm stroke.

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aunching as part of this year’s Route to Fastener Innovation Competition at Fastener Fair Stuttgart, VVG-Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co says the already compact design of the RivSmart can also be further reduced to a length of only 195mm.

Benefits to using the riveter include an optimised grip and a user-friendly, newly introduced, belt clip to enable the user to work with more mobility. The LED will lighten up the work area and serves as an optical warning signal in a noisy environment. A quick maintenance can also be assured as no tools and effort are needed to exchange nosepieces and clamping jaws and the unique modular design offers a customised length adjustment.

Supplied with VVG’s engineered BLDC-Motor, the RivSmart provides high-speed power with high efficiency. One battery will supply enough power and endurance for up to 1,000 rivets, which means the working period exceeds the time being needed for the recharging process.

As an additional benefit, the integrated nano-sensor supports an internal digital process documentation, which is monitoring the complete riveting process.

This provides a direct feedback regarding process and product quality without any additional external hardware.

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This helps to monitor and integrate the tool. For example, the tool gives a sign to ‘empty the mandrel cup’, ‘tool – service’ or ‘jaw service’ depending of the rivet material. These features help the tool to have a long and undisturbed lifecycle but also for unintentional time outs.

“The RivSmart is the perfect answer to an ergonomic and mobile solution if a process controlled job is needed.

All functions are available and monitored via an App or wireless network integration,” comments VVG. www.vvg.info

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The most competitive thread rolling machine

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Ingramatic says its new RP220 (W10/TR2) machine is the best compromise between rigidity and high-tech features – making it the most competitive thread rolling machine for building, construction, electronic, furniture, appliance and automotive fasteners.

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he unique new bed frame is made of pearlitic spheroidal cast iron and its one piece design includes a contrast block – making it the most rigid machine for this size. The new drive is powered by a high precision planetary gearbox with clutch brake. This new type of drive with epicyclical reduction gear provides and favours higher torque and precision, and the clutch brake guarantees the speedy stop of the machine and the safety of

the operator. The feeding rails and the vibratory feeder also have the motorisation of the height positioning to facilitate the adjustment.

The most innovative RP220 feature is the brand new starter unit. The control of the introduction system is obtained by a torque motor. The motion of the introducing slide is realised by means of a linear movement on a guide with rollers. The introducer stroke can be adjusted by the operator panel or by means of the electronic handwheel with any manual adjustment, ensuring speed and accuracy of production changeover. The blanks are separated at the feed point by an innovative stop system that positions the workpiece on three points before it is placed between the dies. Working in parallel with the insertion punch, the screw stop plate also stops the next blank from passing to prevent double insertion.

Ingramatic supplies a monobloc soundproof enclosure. The built-in safety enclosure also guarantees an operator’s safety and noise reduction. The doors and panels offer easy and quick access to the work and maintenance areas and all moving parts are protected with special covers designed with ergonomics in mind. The enclosure also rests directly on the base to ensure that all liquids circulating in the machine are contained and collected to make the RP220 eco-friendly.

“A special design has been made for RP220 in order to make the machine very compact and to reduce the space requirements and to permit a shorter commissioning time,” explains SACMA. www.sacmagroup.com

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

No, it’s a fastener Lazpiur has developed the new BEGItech CLT inspection machine, which performs a full inspection of fasteners whilst the part is in the air.

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elying on a powerful software package with calculation capacity, the newly designed BEGItech CLT inspection machine can verify 800 parts per minute.

The system provides a variety of benefits compared to other systems such as the glass ramp. Also, this design removes any interference between the vision system and the measured object – doing away with eventual dirt, wear or glass breakage and other issues affecting the measuring function. The part is carried on a belt and then ejected while the vision system snaps the part on the fly, which ensures the full and efficient inspection of the fastener.

The BEGItech CLT machine is optimum for parts such as shafts and studs, and meets a market demand in sectors such as fastener manufacturing and bar turning.

The accuracy of this system is 0.005mm, depending on the chosen vision hardware.

Lazpiur S.A has launched two versions of the BEGItech CLT machine. The first is designed for small parts up to 20mm long, and the second can handle larger parts with a scope of up to 50mm long.

Lazpiur products are already sold in 25 countries with key customers including automotive manufacturers such as Ford and Mercedes Benz, as well as tier one suppliers Lear, GKN and NTN.

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Mobile fastener inspection

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Introduced to the market for the first time in PH-9 SRM16 with Weld gun 2016, the SPC-LAB is a first piece inspection innovative inert gas shroud mobile unit suitable for in process and post process measurements and controls directly on the shop floor.

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eaturing SPC controls with automatic data collection and ERP retrieving, Dimac Srl says the SPC-LAB is compact with a robust ergonomic design making it suitable for industrial environments. The mobile unit also features an ergonomic frame made with solid and secure components and an advanced machine vision system with high resolution 5 megapixel ⅔ inches cameras, collimated telecentric lenses and illuminators, mounted on a high precision engineering mechanics made by a steel grinded plate.

Due to the overall equipment efficiency the SPC-LAB offers tangible and identifiable advantages for the end user or consumer including a working range of 2mm – 30mm in diameter and 10mm – 70mm in length, making it suitable for fasteners and special parts produced by cold forming, stamping or turning. The machine is also extremely user-friendly and intuitive as no part fixture is required and has the possibility of offering 3D, 360° inspection.

The unit is easily portable as it’s on wheels and features online remote support from Dimac. The SPC-LAB also helps improve productivity offering an ultra fast feedback to the production process and data collection, storage and retrieving on the main company server. Leading time to SPC data collection can also be dramatically reduced and efficiency improvements from 30% – 50% on PPAP and SPC controls can be realised.

The upgraded SPC-LAB line also features high precision mechanics with grinded plate; special brackets to collimate the telecentric lenses and illuminators; auto-calibration optical pattern to improve accuracy with nearly zero distortion; special tempered V-glasses anti-scratch to support the part while measured; and an improved repeatability up to 5μm.

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More mobility and flexibility in stud welding For this year’s Route to Fastener Innovation Competition, Heinz Soyer will present the possibility of welding oversized M16 studs with a mobile miniature device in pocket format.

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n conjunction with the stud welding inverter BMK-12i, Soyer says its PH-9 SRM16 enables oversized steel and stainless steel weld studs up to M16 to be welded onto thick and thin metallic workpieces without using ceramic rings. It offers first class welding results with no weld bead or weld spatter.

In addition, by using an innovative gas shroud on the PH-9 SRM16 welding gun, inert gas consumption has been reduced by up to 90%. Up to 10,000 welds (HZ-1 8mm) can now be performed with 2 litre mini gas bottles and large, heavy and classic gas bottles are therefore ‘a thing of the past’.

Since the BMK-12i welding inverter has also been reduced to a minimum size and weight (7.8kg), and the total system drastically reduces energy consumption, there is no limit to mobility, flexibility and possible applications of all types. These include mechanical engineering, container construction, vehicle construction, energy (e.g. wind towers), shipbuilding and apparatus manufacturing.

Moreover, a patent (Pat. No. DE102016217499.1) has been recently applied for this technical innovation, which offers end users substantial time and cost savings whilst simultaneously promoting occupational health and safety.

The advantages of this innovation for users, and the environmental benefits, include less energy consumption, a reduction in welding time, considerably reduced environmental burden through welding fume, weld sparks and weld spatter, smallest and lightest device in its class worldwide (handbag sized), and it is ideal for mobile use with the least possible physical stress for the operator.

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MULTI-MONTI®-plus: HECO screw anchor with ETA

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The new screw anchor MULTI-MONTI®-plus (MMS-plus) from HECO for cracked and non-cracked concrete, comes complete with a European Technical Assessment and offers a range of innovative features that HECO says delivers technical advantages, as well as a whole new range of application options. product now offers a considerably higher load bearing capacity, particularly in the case of tensile loads in cracked concrete.

The new screw anchor is therefore suited to all applications that involve high loads – such as high bay/plant construction or the fixing of pipelines and railings. The MMS-plus version is extremely easy to work with and less susceptible to wear.

The core diameter of the self-tapping screw anchor has been reduced in order to enhance drive performance, even if this hits reinforcements and drill wear is present. At the same time, the outer diameter of the strengthened thread has been increased, which provides a larger surface area in concrete resulting in a higher load bearing capacity. The optimised screw tip, with its stronger toothed thread and larger outer diameter, now also delivers a considerably improved undercut in concrete.

As always, the MMS-plus screw anchor ensures low driving torque and a connection free of expansion pressure. www.heco-schrauben.com

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ncluding the use of concrete screws with two embedment depths per diameter, the new screw anchor range has been awarded a European Technical assessment (ETA – 15/0784) for cracked and non-cracked concrete. This means that, depending on application and screw-in depth, a single screw type can now be used to handle different tensile loads and fixture thicknesses. Furthermore, the MMS-plus is also approved for use under seismic impact up to performance category C1. For contractors, these technical advances open up a high degree of safety – not to mention that the higher load bearing capacity also means fewer mounting points, which in turn leads to big savings in terms of material and time.

MMS-plus is a result of the systematic further development of HECO’s original screw anchor, which is reflected in the technical optimisation of the range and its expansion to include numerous versions, sizes, embedment depths and load classes.

As well as satisfying the highest approval standards, the

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Apolo doubles its chances Apolo has entered two new innovations into this year’s Route To Fastener Innovation Competition – the new ResiTHERM® distance mounting system for perforated/hollow bricks, and the new IPS insulation screw that enables extremely quick direct fastenings in ETICS with no thermal bridge.

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polo MEA Befestigungssysteme GmbH says its new ResiTHERM is setting new standards when it comes to distance installations of heavy loads in hollow bricks. By using ResiTHERM, heavy and security relevant objects such as awnings, canopies, French balconies, satellite dishes, etc, can be fixed through thermal insulation composite systems (ETICS) in an easy and secure way.

Available in three lengths – 120mm, 160mm and 200mm, ResiTHERM passes through insulation thicknesses of 80mm up to 200mm with almost no heat loss. If needed, ResiTHERM can be cut down by a maximum of 40mm. An M12 internal thread with a length of 80mm extends into the massive anchor body. Thus, it is possible to achieve both a thermal separation and a large screw-in depth of the A4 stainless steel threaded stud, which is included in the set, along with a nut and washer.

Made out of glass fibre-reinforced polyamide, together with the injection system ResiFIX VY by Apolo, ResiTHERM has also undergone extensive testing at the Institute for Façade and Fastening Technology (IFBT GmbH) in Leipzig.

ResiFIX VY can be injected easily and safely from the outside into the injection hole of ResiTHERM, and the special membrane ensures an even distribution of the injection resin. ResiTHERM enables exceptionally high pull-out values in hollow bricks. For hollow brick walls without insulation a high performance sleeve ResiTHERM S is also available.

Also entered into the competition is the new insulation screw IPS – another innovation for fastenings in ETICS. The special screw IPS enables extremely quick direct fastening in ETICS with no IPS insulation mounting system thermal bridge.

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IPS is perfectly suitable for direct fastening of wall connection profiles, metal sheets, base protection profiles, cornice covers, etc. Users can install the screw directly through the 8mm holes, which are common for standard profiles, into the insulation.

Thanks to the head hole and by using a short 3.5mm screw, it is also possible to fasten objects such as motion detectors, signs, little lamps, etc, directly into the insulation and without thermal bridge.

Another advantage is that only a small hole remains in the insulation after the removal.

The special screw IPS is made out of glass fibre-reinforced, weather and UV resistant nylon.

The stylish flat head with EPDM seal ensures an optimal sealing and adaption to the ground. It is also available in different colours. Due to its length of 80mm, the IPS can be used for almost every insulated façade. Suitable insulation boards are polystyrene and rigid foam boards and the recommended load is approximately 4kg. www.apolofixing.com

TENZ low energy screws Wood is a pure, living and sustainable material, which is why TENZ has introduced a revolutionary thread design for use in wood – TENZ Stairs Thread Technology®. The new technology will be available on TENZ low energy screws across Europe later this year.

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ompared with conventional thread designs – TENZ Stairs Technology reduces friction along the thread and significantly minimises the screw-in torque. Therefore the capacity of the electric screwdriver is used more efficiently. Diminished friction along the thread also means considerably reduced thermal load on the components of the application tool and therefore an extension in tool and battery life. The revolutionary thread technology leads to reduced energy needs. So it is possible to drive in more screws than before when using a cordless screwdriver.

The TENZ Stairs creates a unique dynamic oscillating screw-in motion with a significantly reduced screw-in torque. This benefits the users as lower forces acting on wrists will make easy application of the TENZ screw and an increase in motivation and safety.

“Thanks to the revolutionary thread design wood fibres are gently displaced. Thus the wood fibres are neither drilled nor milled and remain intact unlike with conventional screws,” mentions TENZ. “A patent application has also been filed in over 50 countries worldwide.”

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SLIC Pin™ revolutionises assembly operations

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Already popular in the USA, the new quick locking SLIC Pin™ from Pivot Point will be introduced to the European market as part of this year’s Route to Fastener Innovation Competition.

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atented in the USA and Europe, the pin functions as a pin and cotter all in one.

SLIC is an acronym for Self-Locking Implanted Cotter, and as the name implies, the pin is secure and self-locking through the use of an implanted plunger (locking detent) that effectively functions as a self-contained cotter pin.

The pin features a solid, spring loaded wedge shaped plunger that combines ease of use with secure fastening. The wedge shaped plunger easily and automatically retracts when the pin is inserted into a hole, and the angled, ramp-like face of the wedge ensures smooth insertion. Once fully inserted the plunger springs back up, locking the pin into the application. The vertical face at the rear of the plunger prevents the pin from backing out.

The SLIC Pin is intended for use as a semi-permanent quick locking pin and can be used in a multitude of applications. It replaces other labour intensive fastening combinations such as clevis and cotter pins, a pin and retaining ring or a nut and bolt – with much improved functionality and ease of assembly.

The simple, one piece design means easier, safer and faster assembly speeds.

No tools are needed, there are no sharp ends as with cotter pins, and there are less items to purchase and inventory.

The SLIC Pin is well suited to automated assembly and is especially beneficial in applications with space constraints, as it is quickly and easily inserted from just one side. Unlike other fastening methods, there is no need to access the other side to secure another fastener such as a cotter pin, a nut or a clip.

The SLIC Pin can be configured to suit individual applications and can be produced in a clevis pin head style, grab ring style or other styles. Various pin materials and finishes are also available. www.pivotpins.eu

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Italian manufacturer of steel screws Mecavit will be introducing its specialist adjuster screw for metal shelving as part of this year’s Route to Fastener Innovation Competition at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

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ecavit’s adjuster screw is available in steel sizes M10 x 60mm, M10 x 45mm and M12 x 50mm with a load capacity of 3,000kg. The screws are also coated with a special zinc plated resistance, Lanthane 175, with a salt spray test result of 250 hours. The coating is specifically made to protect the surface against rust.

This product has been developed together with leading manufacturers of supermarket furnishings, to create a bespoke innovative product. In addition to its exceptional load capacity, it is equipped with a hexalobular drive for pre-assembly and the geometry is designed to be able to move the shelving without disassembly.

Mecavit is a specialist in high resistance carbon 8.8/10.9/12.9 and stainless steel A2, specialising in metric M3 – M12 socket head screws (DIN 912, DIN 7991, DIN 7984, and ISO 7380 with/without flange).

For standard items, Mecavit has a very large stock of over 4,000 pallets to satisfy customers’ requests fast and flexibly. The company is mostly dedicated to wholesalers of standard products and drawing parts. It also supplies customers in the automotive, motorcycle, electrical, electronics, home appliances, and aluminium profile accessory industries, as well as some of the biggest distributors. Europe is its primary target market with other customers located in countries worldwide including the USA, Russia, north Africa and the UAE. www.mecavit.it

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Flexriv®: Increases functionality, reduces encumbrance Rivit Srl has introduced the Flexriv® – a flexible container for spent mandrels, which will enable a riveting tool to go wherever the work is – making easy work of difficult to access spaces.

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ll riveting tools equipped with a suction device normally have a rigid spent mandrel container, which makes the tool too bulky when working in difficult to access spaces. The eventual absence of the container on the tool, in case the user decides to remove it, would expose the operator to the risk that the mandrel jumps toward their face or eyes.

Designed to be used on the RIV503, RIV504 and RIV505 riveters, the patented Flexriv solves this problem – its flexibility enables the tool to work in any tough condition, and the spent mandrels to be automatically drawn into the container, thus allowing the operator to work in total safety.

With Flexriv, the length of the tool is also reduced by approximately 100mm – helping the operator stay in-line with the mandrel of the rivet, avoiding any possible uneven breaking that could cause tool jamming. www.rivit.it

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roduced in Germany by tool producer KEIL Werkzeugfabrik Karl Eischeid GmbH, the HARDTEC moves faster and more precisely through hard stone when compared with common masonry drill bits, and has extreme wear resistance leading to a long tool life.

Due to its special carbide cutting tip – with a high part of tungsten carbide – its homogeneous fine structured grain, and its diamond ground drill tip, the HARDTEC works reliably with a recommended revolution speed of 1,000rpm and a high contact pressure through hard stones such as granite, gneiss, slate and basalt.

Recognised by its white spiral, it can fit into all common rotary and percussion drilling machines. With its special cutting edges of 120° it is also ideal for drilling in hard ceramic tiles, chinaware and other hard materials.

“Ambitious customers demand a high performing, reliable quality drill bit for their special requirements and not a one way product when drilling in hard stone. There is high market potential for this new product,” comments Petra Bergfelder, managing director at KEIL. The HARDTEC also has a PGM Quality Mark, which stands for certified production and quality.

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WIROX®: A new innovative galvanic plating

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State of the art screws and fasteners need to be reliable, durably resistant to wear and tear, eco-friendly and risk-free for users.

SPAX says its new exclusive corrosion resistant technology WIROX® plating is the answer – offering 20 times higher corrosion resistance than conventional blue zinc plating.

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eeting even the strictest requirements in accordance with EN 1670, Class 5, SPAX says its WIROX plating is setting new standards as conventional blue zinc plating only meets Class 1 requirements. WIROX has also been optimised for manufacturing with a minimum use of resources. It reduces the number of items that require storage – saving raw materials and improving sustainability.

Featuring increased mechanical resistance, WIROX also ensures the corrosion protection is not impaired – through wear of damage caused during transportation.

WIROX is chrome VI-free, thus avoiding hazards for processors, users, water and the environment, and is suitable for toys in accordance with EU Directive 88/378/EC. The product also meets RoHS EU Directive 2002/95/EC and REACH Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006, which means it complies with all EU directives and regulations.

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New touch latch from Frigerio Established in 1948, Frigerio Ettore SpA has a strong presence in the European metal working market providing quality specialist fasteners for a variety of applications – including its newly launched 3.06 touch latch.

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ecognisable by Frigerio’s dragon logo, this mini latch is manufactured in nickel plated or brass plated steel and has a heat resistance of up to 90°C and 150°C for short periods. The plastic components such as insert, roller and strike are available in white or brown colour.

It is suitable for applications such as air depurators, mosquito nets, awnings, dish warmers and in the maritime sector. The 3.06 touch latch can also be used in place of handles in order to keep surfaces clean and smooth.

“Our corporate vision and mission is the fundamental philosophy of giving value to our customers,” explains Frigerio Ettore. “Quality is above all a cultural status to be achieved in order to ensure quality practices in all our processes. We are also ISO 9002 and ISO/TS 16949 certified.”

Videx chamfer and extrusion line for hot rolled bars

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Videx has expanded its extrusion line, capacity and is now offering a combined single and double end chamfer and extrusion machine, starting from long bars or from pre-cut blanks.

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ith a bar diameter range of 20mm to 50mm and a future expansion plan up to 100mm bar in diameter, the new lines are fully automatic and can work with just one operator. The line combines a bar feeder and an impact cutter – cropping the bar to the desired length and transferring the cropped bars to a magazine for the next operation while separating the residual bar ends. It also includes a chamfer cutting machine – turning chamfers and optional face at the bars on one or both ends; and an extrusion machine that reduces the bar end diameter from major diameter to pitch diameter. Optional additional operations such as induction heating and forging of heads are also available.

Chamfer cutting the bar ends prior to extrusion results in better chamfer quality and longer life of the extrusion die, due to better oil flow into the chamfer dies and less bar tendency to harden while being extruded.

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The smallest wave springs on the market

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As engineers around the world design smaller and smaller assemblies, the question becomes ‘where can you find the compact components to support designs?’ To assist in reducing assembly size, weight and achieve optimum performance within design constraints.

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FC Ltd says that it is able to supply the answer with the newly expanded Crest-to-Crest Wave Spring Series by Smalley.

The popular C (inches) and CM (metric) ranges now include standard sizes down to 0.188 inches and 5mm in diameter, with special designs available down to 0.157 inches or 4mm in diameter.

Smalley was the originator of the Crest-to-Crest Wave Spring and set the standard when coiling springs as large as 12ft/3.6m in diameter. Over the past decade, Smalley’s production team has concentrated on the other end of the scale to enhance their ability to produce smaller and smaller springs.

The expanded spring series opens up possibilities for designers in the medical, electronics, computer and robotics industries, where wave springs could not fit before.

PRECISION TECH INDUSTRIAL LIMITED CLINCHING FASTENER SPECIALIST PRECISION TECH INDUSTRIAL LIMITED (GRAND METAL) is a professional producer in clinching fasteners and equipped with imported auto-lathes, cold forming machine, automatic optical sorting machine. We also have a complete laboratory for mechanical and performance such as torque testing, pull/push-out testing, Salt Spray Testing. Grand Metal has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification and now is on getting ISO/TS 16949 certification.

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EXHIBITIONS

BUDMA 2017: Intense building Organisers of BUDMA reported four days of intense networking, with more than 800 exhibitors – from over 26 countries around the world – presenting hundreds of new products and dozens of market premieres.

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overing 55,000m2, BUDMA attracted approximately 45,000 visitors through an extensive programme of events focusing on construction and architecture. Based in Poznań, Poland, the show offered an opportunity for visitors to find the latest technological innovations, as well as attend an extensive programme of events for specialists.

Events included the 1 st Economic Construction and Architecture Forum, which was held under the patronage of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction. The three day forum provided visitors with specific information on, among other things, the urban development and construction code, Mieszkanie Plus programme, and the supervision of the construction products market.

During the conference, organised by the DaFa association, attendees learnt about design and construction of lightweight fittings, technical conditions, rating methodology of wall cladding and the role of tightness in public buildings.

In turn, the topics of energy efficiency, the benefits of building passive facilities and significant thermo-modernisation were discussed as part of the 8 th Forum of Passive Construction and Energy Efficiency.

The Architecture Forum once again presented a number of interesting events for architects. The architectural debate on the ‘Architect’s social responsibility’ was moderated by journalist and architecture critic Jakub Głaz. During the exhibition days, there were a lot of displays, trainings and competitions awaiting visitors. This included the Turbo Power zone, where roofers, carpenters and metalsmiths competed for the title of ‘Turbo Roofer’. The contestants had as many as 11 tasks to complete, and the KRAKUSY team of Paweł Tynka and Paweł Francuz turned out to be the best. The new Polish record in the roof window installation time was broken – 13 minutes and 8 seconds (21 seconds faster). Parquet layers and flooring installers also competed for the Polish Champion title. Krzysztof Ratke from Łódź became the International Polish Champion. The title of the Polish champion of flooring installers went to Warsaw, and was awarded to Michał Wojcieski. Moreover, prizes could also be won on the exhibitors’ stands, where interesting and challenging competitions were prepared.

WinDoor-tech – a window on the world

BUDMA was accompanied by the WinDoor-tech Fair of machines and components for window, door, gate and façade production. It was an opportunity to see the complete range of the latest, efficient and energy saving technologies for this market segment. An interesting formula, implemented for the fourth time already during WinDoor-tech, was ‘Live Window Factory’. For the first time, aluminium doors and windows were manufactured as part of this event. The windows made at the show were donated to the Patria Foundation in Imiołki in Wielkopolska, where the Integration Equestrian Centre for Children and Youth is being constructed.

The next meeting of the construction industry in Poznań will be in 2018, when BUDMA and the accompanying KOMINKI Fair will be held on 30 th January – 2 nd February.

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EXHIBITIONS

Space running out at Ferroforma With four months left until the 22nd edition of the International Hardware, DIY and Industrial Supplies Fair Ferroforma is held – 75% of the exhibition area has already been reserved.

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aking place from 6th to 8 th June 2017 at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre, Spain, exhibitors include those from a variety of sectors including industrial supplies, hand tools, fasteners, fixings, locksmithery and iron fittings.

Confirmed fastener related exhibitors include Ambrovit SpA, BRALO S.A, CHAVESBAO, EGA Master S.A, Milwaukee, Sika España S.A, STAHLWILLE S.A, and tesa Tape S.A. This year, the fair will be offering a specific meeting area for manufacturers and locksmiths, coordinated by APECS, Spain’s Association of Locksmithing and Security Professionals, for which 20 companies have already confirmed their participation.

The ‘APECS Area’ will include spaces for demonstrations, meetings and technical training.

One of the key topics playing a main role at Ferroforma’s Technical Conferences this year is e-commerce. The first day of conferences will revolve around two subject areas: ‘Trends in the digital era’ and ‘Business strategies’, which are closely related to consumer knowledge, and sales channel selection.

The second day will be devoted to ‘Analysing communication with customers through new media’, and to ‘Logistics: An essential part of all processes for change’. Last of all, the third day of conferences will be providing three different examples of how distribution companies have positioned themselves within the digital world.

Furthermore, Ferroforma will be offering its ‘second B2B meetings’ – a series of arranged interviews, the format of which is being adjusted to offer the best possible service to all those participating. On this occasion, the ‘matchmaking’ will be carried out directly between exhibitors and visitors within the same platform as the programme.

In 2015, these encounters had very successful outcomes, with private meetings arranged during these interviews amongst professionals from many different countries including Spain, Germany, England, Italy, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, India, Thailand, New Zealand, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Canada.

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Fastener Fair Italy returns to Milan

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Fastener Fair Italy will take place for the second time at the MiCo – Milano Congressi on 26th – 27th September 2018, and will provide a unique showcase and business forum in one of Europe’s leading industrial economies.

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astener Fair Italy will this time take place in the larger South Hall at the MiCo to meet strong demand from companies wishing to exhibit. 60% of available stand space has already been reserved by returning exhibiting companies from 2016.

Fastener Fair Italy 2016 attracted 2,600 managers, engineers and buyers from 58 countries. Exhibitors totalled 170 from 13 countries. Feedback from participating companies was very positive, with many reporting high-levels of satisfaction at the number and status of visiting industry professionals.

The event is dedicated exclusively to fastener and fixing technologies, with exhibiting companies showcasing products and services in key fields such as industrial fasteners and fixings, construction fixings, assembly and installation systems, fastener manufacturing technology, storage, distribution, factory equipment and information, communication and services.

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Visitors to the exhibition will include specialists from leading market sectors such as aerospace, machinery and electrical equipment manufacturing, automotive and transport technologies, consumer goods production and high-tech industries. Specialist distributors of fastener and fixing products will also visit the show.

“We are delighted to be returning to Milan with Fastener Fair Italy. The last show was a great success, with many of the industry’s top names exhibiting and an excellent level of attendance by high-level international visitors. We are now working hard to ensure that next year’s event builds on this success to further strengthen its valuable role in the Italian market,” comments Olivia Griscelli, exhibition director, at organisers Mack Brooks Exhibitions.

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Recent developments in construction fixings In this article Mark Salmon of Independent Fixing Consultants outlines some of the most significant developments in the world of construction fixings over the last few years and suggests how fixing distributors can take best advantage of them.

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s usual I’m taking a very personal look at developments in fixings and highlighting those I have found most interesting over the last few years, so I’m not covering every category of fixings nor restricting myself to the actual fixings themselves.

I intend to discuss resin anchors – seemingly the subject of constant development by manufacturers; self-tapping concrete screws, which over the years have established a very useful niche for themselves in construction fixings; as well as dust control, British Standards and one or two other aspects. Although some of the new product developments I’m referring to are specific to one or two manufacturers. I refrain from using brand names – my apologies if this makes tracking them down harder – but I feel it is fairer overall not to be seen to be too partial.

Distributors – how do you cope?

Those of you who have kept up to date with the developments in anchoring technology over the years will realise the subject has become more and more complicated. While product developments are always welcome, bringing as they do benefits in applications, performance, installation or cost – and the introduction of standards like BS 8539 1 makes anchor usage safer for all concerned – it does mean the job of the fixings distributor has become harder.

To offer your customer the most appropriate anchoring solution for his or her needs, your sales person now needs to be aware of the features and benefits of an ever widening range of products, the range of base materials they may be used in, the limitations on their use, how they should be installed and with what tools. Also, when most applications are safety critical they need to be familiar with all the aspects of anchor selection that are detailed in BS 8539:2012.

For those unfamiliar with this standard, it sets out the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders involved in the use of fixings from initial design to commissioning for manufacturers, distributors, specifiers, contractors, installers and testers. Whilst those listed for distributors appear to be the least onerous it is those of the specifier that a good distributor salesman needs to be aware of to ensure they are not overlooked. The Construction Fixings Association publishes a series of ‘How To…’ guides2 – as part of its ‘8539 Toolkit’ – which

…the introduction of standards like BS 85391 makes anchor usage safer for all concerned.”

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summarise responsibilities for key stakeholders and are a good introduction. Complicated as this all may sound, support is at hand and a good manufacturer will offer comprehensive technical support for any distributor handling such applications. The other area that is almost harder for distributors to cope with, as new developments come on stream, is making sure telesales staff are familiar with the products they are selling and in particular the accessories and installation tools needed to go with them.

Dust control

This may sound like a very peripheral area for distributors of fixings but it is a problem for users and an opportunity for distributors. The HSE has placed increasing emphasis on the need for dust control for any workers involved in the cutting or drilling of concrete (among other things) as the very fine dust generated in these processes can cause silicosis.

The HSE’s Construction Information sheet 363 – ‘Construction Dust’ – is a good starting point. High on its list of preferred solutions Dust extraction shroud is “On-tool extraction” followed by “Respiratory protective equipment (RPE)”.

Distributors who become familiar with the regulations 4 can help their customers by providing suitable equipment in these categories and of course you need to provide them for your own staff who carry out demonstrations on-site. Systems for dust collection during drilling include vacuum attachments for drills that collect the dust as it’s generated using a vacuum cleaner, which can be separate or an integral part of the drilling machine.

Equally useful are shrouds that suck themselves onto the surface being drilled (including brickwork) with a suitably powerful ‘extraction unit’ and collect the dust at source but are not attached to the drilling machine.

Resin anchors

My last article, in Issue 103 of Fastener + Fixing Magazine, referred briefly to some of the developments in resin anchoring systems. I will try to make this a little more comprehensive.

Resin anchoring has become the most complicated of all construction fixing types. We are all familiar with the distinction between capsule systems – good for, and limited to, use in concrete –

and injection systems with their greater degree of flexibility for use in concrete and masonry, but the range of systems now available is both impressive and bewildering. The formulations of resins range from polyester (cheap and cheerful) and vinylester and hybrid mortars (stronger and more versatile) to epoxies (specialist). The different characteristics range from the different range of temperature they can be installed in and are good for in service; the ability to work in flooded holes; different susceptibility to poor hole cleaning and different rates of curing; while some have been developed to work better in concrete only and others in masonry only.

Installation temperatures and curing times are directly linked.

The fact that some formulations can be installed only in temperatures of +5°C or more while others may be installed in temperatures as low as -30°C makes it important that customers are guided carefully in choosing the most appropriate type. Curing times have recently seen useful gains. A typical capsule system for use in concrete might have curing times ranging from 4 hours at -5°C to 10 minutes at +20°C whereas an injection system using a similar formulation could take 24 hours at -5°C to 45 minutes at +20°C with a winter grade available for faster curing, which takes 3 hours at -5°C and 30 minutes at +10°C. One specialist capsule system designed specifically for use in cracked concrete and used with special anchor rods cures in as little as 8 minutes at -5°C and 2 minutes at +20°C.

Special resin anchor rod for cracked concrete Usefully the special rods that facilitate the system working in cracked concrete also enable the anchor to be installed in a drilled hole of the same nominal diameter as the anchor rod. Faster curing is obviously an advantage but with injection systems it carries the disadvantage that the time available to insert the anchor and adjust its position (variously called the gel time, open time, working time or setting time) will be shorter and at the upper end of the installation temperature range. If encountered during Spring and Autumn, it may prove difficult if not impossible to insert the anchor rod and the resin may go so stiff in the mixer nozzle that it could require a new nozzle for each fixing.

The fast curing capsule has no such problems of course. On the other hand some applications – like rebar anchoring – benefit from a slower cure giving more time to insert the rods and, in the case of multiple bolt groups, to align rods with multiple holes in the fixture.

Slow curing (very slow curing) is one feature of epoxy resins along with minimal shrinkage that is beneficial if a larger hole diameter is used to deliver a larger bond area in a shorter embedment and thus offer higher loads.

Self-tapping screws

Otherwise known as concrete screws, self-tapping screws have become a useful addition to the fixings catalogue. As they cut their own thread in the base material, be it concrete or reasonably hard masonry, they form a secure interlock with the base material providing very strong fixings.

One problem that has afflicted some concrete screws is hydrogen embrittlement.

This problem arises if the plating process involved in plating the very high strength steel used to make these fixings is not adequately Self-tapping ‘concrete screws’ are controlled.

The available in a variety of styles result can be that the heads of the fixings have been known to snap off over night after tightening. Anchors with ETA 5 have to satisfy a test to demonstrate they are not prone to this problem. Some manufacturers have recently introduced coatings of zinc flake, which avoids the problem of hydrogen embrittlement while improving corrosion resistance. The improvement is significant in terms of performance in a salt spray test but not so great that they can be specified for long-term use externally. For that usage stainless steel versions are now available. It is always beneficial to ensure that anchors, of any type, have been awarded an ETA but with concrete screws that carries one limitation – they may not be reused. This is because the action of cutting its own thread in the base material inevitably wears the cutting elements ever so slightly meaning they may be harder to insert and eventually lose performance.

Some manufacturers, recognising that many users want to reuse these anchors and that they still have useful performance after several insertions, have introduced the use of a ‘Go – No Go’ gauge, supplied free in the box, which tells the user if the threads have worn below their useful limit and should then be thrown away. The use of the gauge immediately invalidates the ETA for the application in question but if loadings are important then alternative independent certification with reduced loads is available.

The fact that manufacturers are prepared to give users the means of saving some money rather than standing on their dignity and saying “You must buy new fixings after a single use” is, I think, a refreshing approach. marksalmon@fixpert.eu

1. BS 8539:2012 Code of practice for the selection and installation of post installed anchors in concrete and masonry. British Standards Institution. http://shop.bsigroup.com/SearchResults/?q=bs%208539 2. Construction Fixings Association – www.the-cfa.co.uk/publications-and-downloads/8539-toolkit/ 3. HSE Construction Information sheet 36 (Revision 2) – www.hse.gov.uk/pUbns/cis36.pdf 4. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) 5. ETA. European Technical Assessments, known before The Construction Products Regulation was implemented in July 2013, as European Technical Approvals

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INDEX Fixing Systems manufactures and controls the production process for a wide range of its products, helping to guarantee maximum quality and an optimum service.

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ully committed to high-quality standards, INDEX Fixing Systems has an extensive list of products with assessments and certifications that meet the exacting requirements of leading authoritative bodies.

A key range is INDEX Fixing Systems’ MT-Anchor family, which is characterised by having an expansive clip. While applying torque to the anchor, the clip expands due to the cone shape of the bolt, creating high pressure on the inner side of the hole, which creates the necessary friction between the clip and the base material.

TH concrete screw anchors

INDEX Fixing Systems also has a range of concrete screw anchors, TH, with silver ruspert coating. The main advantage of these metal anchors is that they do not introduce stress into the base material, due to low distances required between the anchors or the edge. Also, they can be used in cracked and non-cracked concrete; can be used from medium to high loads; and installation – the same for uninstallation – is quick and easy.

MT-Anchor family

Another important range for INDEX Fixing Systems is its wide selection of chemical anchors. In various modalities for different base materials, including all cracked, non-cracked, reinforced concrete and brick.

These anchors are suitable for heavy high loads, to absorb vibrations, and the distance between the edge of the material and anchors can be smaller because the chemical anchors do not generate as much pressure inside the material.

As for the application of all these products, the company offers calculation software named INDEXcal.

For use, the user enters the configuration and size of the anchor place, anchor distribution, implemented actions, edge distances, type and strength of the base material, distribution of reinforcement in concrete, edge distances between anchors, as well as temperature and condition of the drill (in case of chemical anchors).

The new version enables installation design with non-regular anchor plates and includes irregular anchor distribution – helping to generate quick distribution anchorages and side load possibilities applying to the axes of symmetry of the anchor plate. With more power in solution filtering due to a wider and intuitive menu, users can also obtain plate configuration with regular anchor distribution – matrix, circular or triangular. www.indexfix.com

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The fischer group of companies reported a 6.2% growth in revenues for the 2016 financial year, reaching €769 million on a currency adjusted basis.

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ith a gross turnover of €755 million, the family business from Waldachtal, Germany, exceeded the previous year’s good figures (€711 million) by €44 million. On a currency adjusted basis the growth was €58 million (+8.2%). All of the business divisions – fischer fixing systems, fischer automotive systems, fischertechnik and fischer Consulting – achieved good turnover growth.

The Group is continuing its internationalisation strategy. At the beginning of 2016, a new subsidiary was created in the Philippines through acquisition. fischer founded a further subsidiary in India in the second half of the year and can now boast 46 subsidiaries. The strategy will continue in 2017 with the addition of further subsidiaries. fischer employs 4,600 people worldwide and continues to place great importance on training, boasting a training ratio of 9%. 103 apprentices and students from dual-education schools are currently employed by fischer and the Group offers apprenticeships for a total of 26 professions. In 2016, a new Bachelor of Arts (BA) for business studies media and communications with dialogue

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and online marketing was added. In 2017, fischer will offer a machine and plant operator apprenticeship for the first time. As well as apprenticeships, fischer has also focused on the further training of its employees.

The Klaus Fischer BildungsZentrum, the company’s own general training facility, has recorded over 7,750 registrations for over 500 free events since its foundation in 2010. fischer forecasts 2017 growth to be comparable to that of 2016, which means the €800 million threshold is expected to be surpassed for the first time. fischer’s growth is characterised by consistency and profitability. This year fischer also continued its sustainable development of digitalisation, e-commerce and Industry 4.0.

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Recent ETAs for fixings Following an agreement with the European Organisation of Technical Assessments, here is a list of recent ETAs published in the last two months on the EOTA website.

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t is important to note that existing ETAs may be amended or withdrawn so this list should not be considered definitive.

Since 1 st July 2013, as a result of the Construction Products Regulation, new ETAs are known as European Technical Assessments. European Technical Approvals published before 1 st July 2013 will act as the new assessment until their expiry date.

For further information and a full list of valid ETAs visit EOTA’s website. www.eota.eu

ETA NUMBER

TRADE NAME

COMPANY

ETAG 001 Metal Anchors for use in Concrete (all parts) ETA – 04/0060

Powers Throughbolt PTB-ETA7-PRO

Powers Dewalt Stanley Black&Decker Deutschland GmbH

ETA – 05/0164

fischer Highbond-Anchor FHB II

fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG

ETA – 06/1068

mungo ceiling anchor MAN

MUNGO Befestigungstechnik AG

ETA – 06/0171

fischer Highbond anchor FHB

fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG

ETA – 06/0175

fischer nail anchor FNA II

fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG

ETA – 09/077

TOX Chemical Capsule Anchor Contact TVA

Tox-Dübel-Technik GmbH

ETA – 09/0157

BTI simplex anchor BAZ

BTI Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG

ETA – 10/0346

DESA-FIX FTB A4

DESA S.A.

ETA – 11/0118

Tremco FX130, illbruck OT130, Tremco FX130W, illbruck OT130W, Tremco FX130S, illbruck OT130S steel bonded anchor

Tremco illbruck s.r.o.

ETA – 11/0268

Anchor GS

Rawlplug S.A.

ETA – 11/0290

TOGE spring anchor TS-6

TOGE Dübel GmbH & Co. KG

ETA – 11/0354

Injection system Hilti HIT-CT 1

Hilti Corporation

ETA – 11/0390

Injection system Hilti HIT-CT 1 for rebar connections

HILTI Corporation

ETA – 11/0423

T101 PIOVRA, T101 PIOVRA B

ITW Construction Products Italy S.r.l.

ETA – 11/0441

MA Multi Anchor

G&B Fissaggi S.R.L.

ETA – 11/0474

Anchor Smart SMK, Anchor Smart SMKI

PGB – Polska sp. z o.o.

ETA – 11/0492

Injection System Hilti HIT-HY 200-A for rebar connection

HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

ETA – 11/0455

G&B Fissaggi MA Green Plus,G&B Fissaggi MA Green Plus Summer, G&B Fissaggi MA Green Plus Nordic

G&B Fissaggi S.R.L.

ETA – 11/0458

AESTUVER Fire protective board

Fermacell GmbH

ETA – 12/0123

Injection System Selena EVOLUTION II

SELENA FM SA

ETA – 12/0147

S101 PIOVRA

ITW Construction Products Italy S.r.l.

ETA – 12/0436

KWA THROUGHBOLT

Anchor Fasteners Industrial Co., Ltd

ETA – 13/0032

MIT-SP / MIT-SPE Plus,MIT-SP Winter

MUNGO Befestigungstechnik AG

ETA – 13/0440

SFS intec expansion anchor SFS EX, SFS EX-S, SFS EX-S-H

SFS intec OY

ETA – 13/0490

Würth Ceiling Anchor W-DS/S

Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG

ETA – 15/0225

Angle Brackets, types: ZK 1190, ZK 9965, ZK 150150, ZS 70, ZK 1190WZ, ZK 9965 WZ, ZK 8646, ZS 90,ZK 7755, ZK 12546, ZN 5905, ZS 994,ZK 7755WZ, ZK 2555, ZN 6906, ZS 105,ZK 9960

Yancheng Jiahe Hardware Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

ETA – 15/0669

TOLL-O-THERM POUDRE GE

TOLLENS

ETA – 16/0195

Universal partition kits SPARK, KOHILI, BETWEEN, MEC 102 and STHREEP

Universal Selecta S.p. A.

ETA – 16/0276

Concrete screw SPIT TAPCON 6, SPIT TAPCON XTREM 8, 10, 12, 14 mm

Société Spit

ETA- 16/0638

Fischer injection system FIS EM

fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG

ETA – 16/0655

Sikla screwbolt TSM

Sikla Holding Ges.m.b.H.

ETA – 16/0656

Sikla screwbolt TSM

Sikla Holding Ges.m.b.H.

ETA – 16/0668

Statheros TRX, Statheros TRX-A4

RFM CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS (M) SDN BHD

ETA – 16/0696

S&P – ResEP-16 Epoxy Injection System

S&P Clever Reinforcement Company AG

ETA – 16/0697

EFCO Concrete screw SK 6

Egli, Fischer & Co. AG Zürich

ETA- 16/0698

EFCO Concrete screw SK

Egli, Fischer & Co. AG Zürich

ETA – 16/0761

Wedge anchor BZ2

MKT Metall-Kunststoff-Technik GmbH & Co. KG

ETA – 16/0782

Injection System KR385EPX Epoxy for concrete

Kangaroo Co.

ETA- 16/0783

WDI1 DROP IN ANCHOR, WDI1L DROP IN ANCHOR LIPPED and WDI1 SSt DROP IN ANCHOR

J. van Walraven Holding B.V.

ETA – 16/0787

KANGAROO KR345VSF

KANGAROO COMPANY

ETA – 16/0823

MFT EKSPANSJONBOLT SYREFAST A4 OP.1

Hitachi Power Tools Norway AS

ETA – 16/0824

MFT SIKKERHETSANKER EL.FORSINKET OP.1

Hitachi Power Tools Norway AS

ETA – 16/0867

PoSB-PRO Power Screwbolt

Powers Dewalt Stanley Black&Decker Deutschland GmbH

ETA – 16/0884

2KPS EX3

2K polymer systems ltd

ETA – 16/0885

VE.1CE

Vorpa s.r.l.

ETA- 16/0914

2KPS VinylPrime

2K polymer systems ltd

ETA – 16/0921

RECA VM-MULTI-FIX, RECA VM-MULTI-FIX-W

Kellner & Kunz AG

ETA – 16/0926

MFT VARMFORSINKET OP.1

Hitachi Power Tools Norway AS

ETA – 16/0939

Sinto ST-PE Tecfi Polyester Resin styrene free – DGE01 bonded anchor

Tecfi SpA

ETA – 16/0943

Tecfi Chemical Anchor Glass Capsule Sinto-ST EHE

TECFI S.p.A.

ETA – 16/0944

MKT Chemical Capsule Anchor V plus

MKT Metall-Kunststoff-Technik GmbH & Co. KG

ETA – 16/1012

FORTE PRESA bonded anchor

SARATOGA INT. SFORZA S.p.A

ETA – 17/0011

JCP Epoxy Resin JF375E & JF300E

Hexstone Ltd. JCP Construction Products

ETA – 17/0032

2KPS PolyPrime

2K polymer systems ltd

ETAG 014 plastic Anchors for ETICS ETA – 12/0360

MFT Spikerplugg

Hitachi Power Tools Norway AS

ETA – 15/0373

Fixplug 8 and 10

Klimas Sp. Z o.o.

ETAG 020 Plastic Anchors (all parts) ETA – 12/0349

MFT Fasadeplugg Kombi

Hitachi Power Tools Norway AS

ETA – 16/0883

TACO NYXL

DESA S.A

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IF WE DO IT, WE’LL DO IT RIGHT. ONE OF THE LARGEST SUPPLIERS FOR CONNECTING ELEMENTS AND FASTENING TECHNOLOGY IN EUROPE.

Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG will be represented with a completely new exhibition booth concept at this years’ Fastener Fair.

The centered communication area will be framed by a large number of our products.

Discover for yourself and meet us.

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Wedge Anchor BZ plus the solution for the highest demands

New European Technical Assessment Option 1 for use in cracked and uncracked concrete Standard anchorage depth for highest performance demands; alternative anchorage depth for reduced drilling and installation effort Approved for use in earthquake regions Approved for fire exposure applications

We appreciate your interest www.mkt.de · info@mkt.de

MKT Metall-Kunststoff-Technik GmbH & Co. KG Auf dem Immel 2 · 67685 Weilerbach/Germany Phone +49 63 74/91 16-0 · Fax +49 63 74/91 16-60

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Multiple options for concrete fastening

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Eurotec has a wide range of solutions for concrete fixings including a torque controlled expanding plug made of electro galvanised steel and a multipurpose fastening solution.

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urotec’s bolt anchor is a special form of steel anchor that can be used for demanding assignments and for heavy-duty fixings – where plastic plugs and other wall mounts are insufficient.

The unique features of the bolt anchor are that it is possible to maintain small centre and edge distances despite the high load-bearing capacity. The different installation depths and various sizes possible with the bolt anchor mean it can be used in a variety of ways. Every bolt anchor is also fitted with an expansion clip, which ensures high load-bearing capacity and means less fastening points are needed.

“Heavy-duty anchors are safety relevant components with a lot of rules and certificates for quality and excellence,” explains Eurotec.

“That is why the bolt anchor has a European Technical Assessment

(ETA – 14/0409), which confirms the installation method, the load capacity and especially the subsurface for a solid grip.

Eurotec is also able to supply the Eurotec impact rivet – a multipurpose fastening element with outstanding retention force – consisting of an aluminium rivet body and a stainless steel mandrel.

The rivet can be used in concrete, sand-lime brick, ordinary construction bricks, timber, and firm plaster, which means it can be used in various fields of application – including door and window frames, battens, insulation material, floor coverings, membranes, smokestack sealing and many more.

Furthermore, installation is straightforward – the user simply drills a hole, inserts the impact rivet and then finally expands the rivet by hitting it with a hammer. www.e-u-r-o-tec.de

TIMco launches innovative cavity wall fixing TIMco has introduced the innovative cavity wall fixing, Zip-Fix, to its newly extended range of products. The fixing is an ideal heavy-duty hollow wall anchor that’s suitable for use in plasterboard, concrete block, cavity walls and ceilings.

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ip-Fix, one of more than 700 new items in the latest TIMco brochure, is available in bags of ten and provides the ideal anchor for hanging radiators, TV brackets and cabinets. The Zip-Fix anchor can be used on a number of substrates including plasterboard (12.5mm and 25mm thick) as well as 15mm dense board and block.

With safety factors applied it is capable of holding weights between 30kg and 60kg.

Simon Midwood, managing director of TIMco, comments: “This is an exciting new addition to our range and illustrates the increasing depth of products we now offer. This product has been developed to provide merchants and their customers with a quality and easy to use fixing that’s capable of acting as a plasterboard fixing in home, office or industrial spaces.”

Zip-Fix is designed to be used in four easy steps: 1. Drill – make a 13mm hole in the substrate (with a 50mm cavity clearance behind the substrate).

2. Push – face the thumb tab upwards, insert the metal toggle through the hole so it pivots down behind the substrate.

3. Zip – zip the nylon collar towards the wall so that it sits into the drilled hole, then snap off the nylon arms.

4. Fix – secure the fixing with an M6 screw into the threaded part of the Zip-Fix and tighten until secure.

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High performance steel anchors The new VE.1CE heavy-duty through steel anchor, with ETA Option 1 (ETA – 16/0885), is the most recent addition to the wide range of ETA certified products from Italian-based Vorpa Srl.

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nother addition to Vorpa’s flagship family, the VE.1CE is approved for concrete C20/25 to C50/60, cracked and non-cracked, and is fire resistant. VE.1CE is also suitable for concrete C12/15 and natural stone with thick structure.

Features of the new anchor range include an original tested expansion clip, which enables high load bearing capacity. Also, the reduced anchorage depths allow for significantly reduced drill hole depths, which in turn reduces the number of reinforcement hits needed for installation – resulting in a quicker installation.

“The European Technical Assessment guarantees maximum safety and the best performances,” comments Vorpa. “A new approval for covering the use in earthquake zones (seismic performance) is in progress and will be ready in a few months.” www.vorpa.com

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Fixbolt at Stuttgart

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At Fastener Fair Stuttgart Spanish-based Lusan will be presenting its full range of products, including metal and chemical anchors, nylon fixings, general fasteners, blind rivets, clamps, and lifting elements.

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usan Fijaciones y Anclajes SL will also be focusing on its Fixbolt sleeve anchor at the show. Fixbolt features a hexagonal head screw in Grade 8.8 with certificate CE Option 12, as well as a zinc plated nut with a non-rotating system. Installation is quick and easy and the Fixbolt is perfect for applications in solid stone, concrete and brick.

Besides the Fixbolt, visitors to Lusan’s stand at Fastener Fair Stuttgart will also be able to discover other interesting metal anchors such as wedge anchors, high load steel anchors, knurled brass anchors, and Lusan’s wide range of styrene-free polyester resin.

“We encourage everyone to visit our stand at Fastener Fair Stuttgart, where vistiors will find professionals who will be able to provide more details about our wide range of products,” commented Lusan. www.lusan.es

New ultra-thin throughbolt coating

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Using the latest technology from the automotive and electronics industry, Mungo Fastening Technology has developed new methods for coating throughbolts with the introduction of the new ultra-thin 100% chrome-free GreenTec® coating.

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ungo states that the GreenTec® is a new weapon in the fight against corrosion. The coating has passed salt spray test DIN EN ISO 9227 NSS – carried out by an independent testing institute – and also features incredible wear and tear resistance, which Mungo points out helps to guarantee a 10 times higher life expectancy than standard or galvanised steel.

Thank to this resistance, the throughbolt is suitable for various indoor and outdoor applications. Also, the throughbolt features the latest clip geometry, the highest loads, and bending moments can be achieved at a very low edge and anchor distance.

Thanks to a European Technical Assessment (ETA) for single fixings in non-cracked concrete (ETA – 05/0070), the throughbolt is also approved for static relevant applications.

Mungo states: “The low impact resistance; the rapid finding of the required torque; as well as a helpful setting depth mark; guarantee power and cost saving work at the construction site.”

LUSAN fijaciones y anclajes

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LUSAN FIJACIONES Y ANCLAJES S.L. Pol Ind. Pla de la Bruguera, C/Solsonés nº 66 08211 Castellar del Vallès (Barcelona) SPAIN Tel.: + 34 93 714 45 61 Fax: + 34 93 714 58 58 Web: www.lusan.es - E-mail: lusan@lusan.es

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EXTREME FIXINGS

C°04+ C°04-

C°08+ C°04-

Annex E - C2

C°42+

C°05+

ETA

ETAG 001 Annex E SEISMIC

ERIF ECNATSISER

NOITALUCLAC ERAWTFOS

FLOODED ECIVRES NI GNIXIF HOLE ERUTAREPME T AERA CIMSIES

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ETA-11/0345

Rebar

ETAG 001 Part 5 OPTION 1

ETA-11/0344

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Annex E-C2

ETAG 001 TR023

ETA-09/0246 Rebar

C°08+ C°04-

C°021+ C°04-

C°42+

C°05+

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BOSSONG S.p.A. Sistemi di Fissaggio Zona Industriale 2 - Via E. Fermi, 49/51 24050 GRASSOBBIO (Bergamo) Italy Tel +39 035 3846 011 - Fax +39 035 3846 012 info@bossong.com

V IENEYRLFE SNTEERRY TRSE SNI

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The tallest mass timber building in the world

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The tallest mass timber building in the world is currently being erected at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and is using SWG ASSY® screws.

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ith 18 floors, the UBC Brock Commons building will become home to 404 students within its highly compartmentalised units ranging from single bed studios to 4 bedroom units. The building is constructed of Canadian Glue Laminated Timber and Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) over one level of reinforced concrete – using SWG ASSY screws. Two concrete cores provide lateral stability to the building and satisfy seismic demands.

A highly pre-fabricated assembly consisting of glulam columns, 5-Ply CLT panels and a custom-made steel connection system lead to a highly cost-effective building and rapid construction. The CLT floor panels are lifted into position using structural ½ inch x 6¼ inch full thread ASSY KOMBI screws and all CLT panels are connected with code approved 5/16 inch x 4¾ inch ASSY SK structural wood screws. The PEER reviewed fire design of the wooden building relies on the well established charring rate (approximately 0.7mm/min) satisfying the one hour and two hour fire requirements all while exceeding those of traditional reinforced concrete and steel structures.

Heavy timber buildings are an efficient way to build and they are also considered to be the most environmentally sustainable. They contribute to carbon sequestration and are truly renewable when timber is sourced from forests enforcing sustainable management practices.

SWG Schraubenwerk Gaisbach GmbH – division production – a daughter company of Würth group – is best known as the manufacturer of the ASSY branded screw, a technological leader for structural wood screws used in mass timber construction.

Tecfi adds further C2 certifications At the previous Fastener Fair Stuttgart in 2015, Tecfi showcased its HXE-CONCRETO® concrete screws, which were one of the first products to achieve the C2 Performance Category for the installation in high seismic hazard zones.

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t Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2017, Tecfi spA will be focusing on another product that has just reached the C2 Performance Category – the HVE-ROCK® heavy-duty anchor, which had already achieved the C1 certification. Other products that also have the C2 Performance Category are the AJE special wedge anchor and SWE dual component pure epoxy resin.

These achievements come in addition to the several prestigious recognitions that Tecfi has reached on its wide range of anchors: ETA-CE Option 1: For use in cracked and non-cracked concrete, on HXE concrete screws, AJE special wedge anchors, HVE high performance anchors, SWE dual component pure epoxy resin, and DGE styrene-free dual component vinylester resins.

ETA-CE Option 7: For use in non-cracked concrete, on DSE and DXE sleeve anchors, ZJE wedge anchors and EHE dual component vinylester resin in glass capsule.

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ETA-CE Use Category a, b, c and d: On VS-Handyplug® universal nylon anchors for façades and frames.

ETA-CE Use Category a, b, c, d and e: On ZZE-Handyplug® HDPE multipurpose anchor for ETICS. ETA-CE according to ETAG 029: On DGE01 styrene-free dual component polyester resin.

ETA-CE according to ETAG 015: On a wide range of connections for wooden beams.

In addition, Tecfi boasts a wide assortment of products that have CE marking, such as wood and chipboard screws, nylon cables ties and sealants. A wide range of screws and accessories for fixing roofing on steel, wood and concrete, as well as screws and plugs for windows and frames, plus rivets, drills and many other products, complete Tecfi’s catalogue. www.tecfi.it

MULTI-MONTI ®-plus – The new MULTI-MONTI ® with the big Plus

The CompleTe Range of fixing SySTemS 17 a r c h 20 28 - 30 Mtgart, Germany t ut M e sse S d 1056

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Visit us at: Fastener Fair Stuttgart 28th – 30th March 2017, Hall 1, Stand No. 546

The secure screw-in anchor for fast and solid connections Optimized concrete thread with full threaded variations for highest demands Two embedment depths for more flexibility

G&B Fissaggi UK warehouse

Settable by means of power-tools and immediately loadbearing

Unit 16 Riverside Court - Don Road - Sheffield - S9 2TJ (UK) tel. 0114 242 0074 - fax 0114 242 0075 uksales@gebfissaggi.com www.gebfissaggi.com - info@gebfissaggi.com

HECO-Schrauben GmbH & Co. KG Dr.-Kurt-Steim-Straße 28, D-78713 Schramberg Tel.: +49 (0)74 22 / 9 89-0, Fax: +49 (0) 74 22 / 9 89-200 E-Mail: info@heco-schrauben.de, Internet: www.heco-schrauben.com

G&B Fissaggi S.r.l. Italia

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New ETAs for HECO’s universal and wood screws

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Screw manufacturer HECO continually invests in product innovations and the optimisation of existing products. For instance, the company recently reapplied for technical assessments for its ranges of universal and wood screws and was one of the first applicants to receive two new ETAs.

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ECO says its new ETAs mean it has once again demonstrated the quality and safety standard of its products, and has established a clear increase in performance and more application flexibility to the user.

The new ETAs come with a number of formal and application related improvements, and overall the structure of the assessment has become easier to understand and more user-friendly. Better resistance parameters and pull-out values enable significant load advantages, a larger range of applications and greater cost-effectiveness. The basis for the use of HECO’s universal and wood screws is ETA – 11/0284 as it covers all wood screws of the HECO-TOPIX® family and HECO-FIX®-plus universal screws. On the other hand, ETA – 11/0452 still regulates the use of HECO-UNIX screws.

What’s new in ETA – 11/0284

Previously, HECO-TOPIX®-Therm and HECO-TOPIX®CombiConnect screws were dealt with separately to usual wood screws. Both these designs are now covered by ETA – 11/0284, together with the other HECO-TOPIX® versions and HECO-FIX®-plus universal screws. The most significant improvement in this context is the increase in the head pull-through parameter from its previous level of 9.4N/mm2 to 14N/mm2 (15N/mm2 for hard wood), which sums up to a load increase of around 50%. This results in considerable benefits for the user, in particular for on-rafter insulation with part-threaded screws, because far fewer fastening points are required and the project can be implemented more economically with more material savings. Moreover, ETA – 11/0284 describes the dimensioning of the screws for use for transverse reinforcement of openings and cross sectional weak points. It also includes screw connections on the end face when using screw-in angles of 0° to the grain with an extension of the screw-in depths. The approval range of full-threaded screws has been extended to include further dimensions, which gives a broader range of applications in timber construction.

A screw connection on the end face with screw-in angles of 0° to the grain is now approved with the newly issued ETA – 11/0284

What’s new in ETA – 11/0452

Screw connections on the end face and parallel to the grain were also included as an important improvement within the scope of the enhanced ETA for HECO-UNIX screws.

As a result, there are reduced wood cross sections and a better utilisation of wood material with even more safety for the specific application. Otherwise the content of the ETA, which applies to HECO-UNIX-plus and HECO-UNIX-top products has not changed. However, the new approval structure in timber construction comprises a novelty: Both newly issued European Technical Assessments (formerly known as approvals) are no longer restricted to a certain period of validity, but are now valid indefinitely. www.heco-schrauben.com

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ETA – 11/0452 regulates the use of HECO-UNIX screws in wood

MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

Lightweight components – simulation and feasibility on Hatebur machines

By Reinhard Bührer, head of marketing and sales (member of the management board), Hatebur Metalforming Equipment Ltd

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Vehicle development and the lowering of fuel consumption means that cars now need to be made lighter without losing any stability. This can be achieved either by using new materials or by reconstructing existing parts in a way that retains their functionality. However, the challenge of making lightweight components is becoming more challenging, with every gram counting.

Trends in the automotive market and in production

The production and sale of passenger vehicles is set to increase by approximately 3.4% a year (source: DC Advisory, October 2014), with production sites following the markets. China, NAFTA and Europe will continue to be the biggest markets, with the highest growth rates expected in the small vehicles sector.

The automotive industry’s primary objective is to reduce CO2 emissions.

By using innovative forged components made of steel it is possible to create a lightweight construction that can demonstrably reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. For example, fitting a passenger vehicle that has a 2 litre turbo diesel engine, dual-clutch transmission and four-wheel drive, with a lightweight drive and chassis, can reduce its weight by up to 42kg.

How can this be achieved?

The focus of reducing the weight of forged components lies on the following two points: Creating a lightweight construction by using new and improved grades of steel (e.g with a high strength of Rm > 550N/mm2, using specific grades of steel for heat treatment from the forming process).

Creating advanced geometries for the forged components (reducing the amount of material in non-functional areas of the component, asymmetric shapes, reducing wall thicknesses).

Effect on production

As you might expect, reducing the weight of forged components has a huge effect on how they are produced. The design of the tools need to be modified; the way in which the components are handled need to be changed; and the cooling process must be redefined.

The influence of lightweight construction will most definitely be felt in the forming industry, whether it is the result of new and improved grades of steel or the use of complex, asymmetric component shapes and their geometries. The trend will lead to an increase in the amount of tool and process support needed at the machine.

Process simulation assists customers with lightweight components

Customers can rely on professional assistance from Hatebur in precisely this area. Hatebur first launched the FORGE program back in 1999. The combination of this tool and the company’s experience enables it to satisfy customers’ ever increasing demands regarding production complexity and quality.

Collaboration begins with meticulous analysis of the components. The simulation checks potential part shapes in order to ensure a cost-effective design for the forging process and the longest possible service life for the tools.

The longer the service life of the tools, the shorter the machine downtimes and, consequently, the lower the cost of manufacturing the components.

Also, the earlier Hatebur is involved in the manufacture of components, the better the forging process can be designed. This will help customers manufacture parts that reduce weight as well as lower costs. www.hatebur.com

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LS believes that if it is investing in the latest technology and machinery, then it is crucial to have the best people operating and maintaining it. It is for this reason that in the last four years the company has taken on new apprentices each year. Once the apprentices have finished their courses, they are encouraged to proceed into further certifications. Last year RLS was honoured to receive the prestigious award for ‘Employer of the Year’ from In-Comm Training, which acknowledged RLS’ continual investment in apprentices.

In recent years RLS has also invested heavily in new machinery and it intends to continue this strategy throughout 2017 – having just placed an order for another new CNC profile grinding machine. This will enable the company to increase its production capacity and reduce delivery

times to customers. In addition, RLS will be upgrading its contour measuring system to the latest CNC version by the end of April.

RLS manufactures a range of flat dies and circular thread rolls and is the proud holder of several manufacturing licences for Taptite®, Remform®, MAThread® and Excalibur Screwbolt® products. The company also supplies tooling for rivet manufacturers, which can be supplied either normally, multistack or Monobloc if required.

“We hold in stock a range of ISO and Unified thread forms for the most commonly used thread rolling machines,” explains RLS Tooling.

“We also hold specific stock for customers who want the comfort of knowing that tooling is just a delivery away for those important urgent orders.” www.rlstooling.co.uk

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Greenkote Technologies has announced it is supporting Cranfield University based research work, with Bentley Motors and bigHead®, as lead industrial partners.

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he research will explore new concepts in embedded metallic and carbon fibre composite (CFC) joint design and manufacturing, including potential anti-corrosion treatments for use in automotive applications.

The partnership has the potential to open up new applications for Greenkote technology in the automotive industry. Greenkote’s protective metals coating process is already world recognised as a high performance, cost-effective process used in the construction industry.

Mark Gore, Greenkote chief executive officer, said: “Our technology is world leading in the area of corrosion proofing. We are now looking to develop Greenkote treatments and solutions that provide bonded and embedded metallic components in automotive applications – with superior all round performance, flexibility and ease of use.”

The structural joints work by Cranfield University’s Composites Centre forms part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded CIMComp programme.

In supporting the research, Greenkote aims to develop new standards for corrosion proofing metallic components and fasteners, to facilitate innovative concepts for attaching and joining structures in multi-material automotive applications.

Lawrence Cook, research fellow in Composites Manufacturing at Cranfield University, said: “Greenkote’s technology is ideally suited for evaluation in our metallic and CFC structural joints research and Greenkote’s wider experience in the coatings sector is a key element in the research. Support from Greenkote strengthens our ability to deliver transformative research, and our work together is already feeding directly into our two year Innovate UK funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership with bigHead Bonding Fasteners Ltd to develop fastening solutions for composite materials, with a focus on automotive applications.”

Matthew Stevens, managing director at bighead, added: “bigHead have a heritage in offering innovative and high-quality fastening solutions that deliver to high expectations. Evaluating Greenkote’s technologies in partnership with Cranfield demonstrates our commitment to offering market leading performance in demanding applications.”

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Meet the thread rolling experts

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WAFIOS Umformtechnik and EWMenn will be showcasing their wide range of innovative thread rolling machines and tools at the upcoming Fastener Fair Stuttgart from 28th – 30th March 2017.

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ith the merger of the two companies in 2015, EWMenn GmbH & Co KG and WAFIOS Umformtechnik have pooled their competences and experience and made them available to their customers as integrated solutions. The integration is completely for the benefit of the customer, which will be made especially clear at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

"The fair is the ideal platform for us, on the one hand to present our products to our customers and on the other to exchange information in technical discussions about trends, technical developments and new market requirements,” explains Manuel Vogelsang, head of thread rolling tools at WAFIOS Umformtechnik – who will personally assist customers at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

“For this reason we are also represented by our experts in thread rolling, which means straight away customers have the correct and competent contact person to speak to."

“We are looking forward to interesting discussions on the subject of cold forming, for example about the production of standard and special screws and similar fastening elements,” comments Florian Münker, sales engineer for high performance thread and profile rolling machines – who will also be on the stand.

“There will most certainly be many questions on the subjects of rolling with inductive pre-heating, form rolling and form rolling tools. The EWMenn thread rolling machines enjoy an excellent reputation worldwide. We are, therefore, anticipating a strong response and lots of visitors.”

In addition to the machines, tools contribute to the high degree of recognition of WAFIOS Umformtechnik and customer satisfaction. “Our thread rolling tools for screw production are used worldwide and set new standards due to their unique properties,” points out Manuel Vogelsang. “We leave nothing to chance and carry out comprehensive quality checks – starting with the incoming material via the entire manufacturing process right up to final customer delivery. Hence we guarantee constant high-quality.”

Manuel continues: “This benefits our customers in many ways. They receive precision tools with short set-up times and long service lives. The visitors to the trade fair can be sure of this.

Furthermore, we design profiles for every area of application in the highest milled quality. These include profiles for chipboard screws, sheet metal screws and plastic screws. Customers can also obtain licensed EJOT® rolling tools from us. We are also a competent point of contact for special thread profiles. Therefore there is much to experience on our stand.” www.wafios-umformtechnik.com

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Sala Punzoni appoints exclusive UK and Ireland distributor

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Italian manufacturer of precision special punches, Sala Punzoni, has appointed Carlo Salvi UK as its exclusive UK and Ireland distributor.

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stablished in 1966 Sala Punzoni has built a worldwide reputation for the supply of high precision standard and special profile punches in high-speed steel and carbide. Applications include cold, hot and warm forging of fasteners and special parts; sheet metalworking and drawing; as well as hot forming on vertical presses. The company also produces punches for sintering from powders and special broaches, as well as other pieces for machine tools.

Carlo Salvi established its UK subsidiary, based in Telford and managed

by Kevin Blenkiron, four years ago to provide parts and service support to the existing population of its cold forming machinery and to develop sales of new machinery. The company also represents Regg High Precision Inspection Systems and Brankamp Process Monitoring Systems.

Carlo Salvi has long had a close and mutually successful relationship with Sala Punzoni – their production facilities are close to each other on the shores of Lake Lecco in Northern Italy. “Over the last four years we have successfully developed Sala Punzoni sales to UK and Irish customers,” commented Kevin Blenkiron, “and it is very rewarding that the Sala family has invested confidence in us to be their exclusive distributor here”.

Sala Punzoni has sustained continuous and substantial growth since its beginnings, more than fifty years ago, in a small workshop at the family’s home. Now located in a modern 4,000m2 production facility in Calolziocorte, Sala Punzoni has developed sales throughout the globe, built on its regular presence at key fastener industry exhibitions from Asia to the Americas. In fact, Sala’s growth curve has been so successful it is currently planning a move to a new production facility, 50% larger than the current one. More on that soon.

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100% inspection of aerospace rivets and fasteners Aerospace is undoubtedly one of the market segments where industry-specific requirements are more exacting.

This rightly holds even more true for high strength precision aerospace fasteners.

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tilised by both commercial and military aircraft OEMs for special and crucial applications – such as the leading airframes, engines, brake assemblies or for aviation and spacecraft generally – thousands of different part numbers with outstanding performances are demanded.

Few companies are qualified to meet the exact standards of the world’s aerospace and defence prime contractors. US-based Air Industries Company (AIC) is one of them and contacted Dimac Srl to supply it with state of the art testing equipment.

“When AIC turned to us, it needed to control the special thread shape of its titanium alloy rivets – with 360° inspection,” mentions Mario Brumini, Dimac’s after sales technician.

“Every aircraft rivet had to receive in-process and mechanical inspection for dimensional tolerances, as well as a final inspection.”

Dimac and AIC’s engineers combined their high skilled work forces, intensively focused to yield the highest benefits in terms of reliability and precision.

“It was an exciting challenge to prove the excellence of our automated machinery in the USA – for one of the strictest supply chains,” comments Massimo Agrati, general manager at Dimac. “One of our specialties is that we are always happy to take up the challenge.”

The solution was Dimac’s MCV1 model, which is an automatic machine for 100% inspection and sorting, based on a high productivity index and continuous rotary table, plus a dedicated function specially made to detect the smallest chocks and geometry defects on AIC’s rivets.

“Thanks to the new software tool that we developed, the operator can define the portion of the thread to inspect by dragging and dropping a window

Windows defining the portion of the thread to inspect

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around it,” explains Mario Brumini. “The system immediately identifies the thread contour geometry inside that window.”

“The operator can resize the enveloping tolerance band around the thread contour by defining a value for +Tol and a value for -Tol,” continues Brumini. “So any contour defect that goes out of the enveloping band is detected and can be further filtered to minimise the pseudo-rejects.”

Intuitive and fast to set-up, the contour enveloping tool enables AIC to sort local defects, which no other dimensional inspection feature can identify.

Considering that AIC uses the finest aerospace grade materials to produce fasteners of superior quality, such as titanium alloys, inconel, A286, alloy steel, multiphase, and other additional speciality metals, MCV1 is also equipped with a high speed eddy current station for straightness control after the heat treatment. www.dimacsrl.com

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New SACMA feeding packages SACMA Group has announced that all its 6 die net shape parts formers, for special parts production, will now be available with Transfer Support Assistance Package (TSAP) as an option.

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ACMA’s new TSAP option is in addition to other key features of its 6 die net shape parts formers, such as S-Feed wire feeder driven by servomotor; the new SC-Matic software; the new quick changeover package; as well as the fully motorised adjustment of the machine.

To extend the capacity of the material to be deformed, SACMA’s Transfer Support Assitance Package supplies additional feeding packages that enable the machine to feed slugs, blanks or pre-formed. In this way, the material can be annealed before its introduction into the header for the final deformation.

This process enables the user to obtain products having complicated shapes and extreme deformation rate without the risk of micro-cracks and preserving the mechanical characteristics.

The slugs feeding package is designed to feed slugs in the header at the required station. The previous stations are suitable to form the slugs directly from the wire.

The blanks feeding package enables users to feed cylindrical blanks in the cut off station. With this system it is also possible to feed blanks with a high precision geometry, when necessary to avoid sheared surfaces, and to have special coatings.

The parts feeding package is designed to produce complicated products requiring a two step deformation process with intermediate annealing and phosphating. The pre-formed parts should be fed on the cut off station making a deformation process up to 12 forming stations possible.

These applications are mechanically driven by means of a slide motion and assure a perfect synchronism with the other components of the machine, without particular speed limitations. For the last two packages, since the feeding cassette is installed in place of the wire stop, the machine still maintains its number of original working stations (6 die = 6 working stations). www.sacmagroup.com

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Flexible manufacturing on the road to production runs of one Manufacturing currently follows a series of fixed, separate stages. If machines or equipment suddenly fail, production stops – that costs time and money.

Fraunhofer researchers now offer a better way with a digital twin.

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achines today produce parts in networked, pre-programmed production runs – pieces are turned, milled and measured in a set order.

But what happens when a machine fails or a customer changes its order? Production has to be reconfigured, which is time-consuming and expensive.

What if there was a better way? Instead of a central control program issuing commands, the workflow would develop flexibly, each part deciding for itself the best route through production. Sound like a pipe dream? To the contrary: Developers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) in Aachen, Germany, are working on such a system.

It is called ‘Serviceoriented architecture for adaptive and networked production’ and functions similar to an automobile navigation system that uses current data to determine the best route in real time.

Each part carries information regarding the next production stage; which machine will be called into operation is purposely left undecided. Only when a production stage is pending does the system select a machine from those that are readily available. Each part bears a QR code identifying it as a unique entity.

The software remembers what was done to each part at each production stage, for example, ‘hole is drilled with machine parameter A and tool X’. A digital twin emerges from this history, displaying at any time where its physical counterpart is in the production process. Digital twins are especially valuable to manufacturers of a wide variety of goods because updating or changing a production run does not require a system overhaul.

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The Smart Manufacturing Network manages the digital twin, always analysing and reusing its process data to improve process robustness and product quality. “Networking machines with parts will enable companies to produce one-off products in the future – production runs of one,” says Michael Kulik, project leader at Fraunhofer working on the software development.

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A unique aspect of the system is the menu, which configures a production sequence. Using drag and drop, the user selects individual steps from a list of all services and arranges them in the desired order like building blocks. If a machine fails, a part is simply rerouted to another available machine.

“Many machines in a production line can perform a variety of tasks,” explains Michael. “For example, a sophisticated 5 axis milling machine can also do the job of a simpler 3 axis milling machine. In the future, the Smart Manufacturing Network’s service-oriented software can flexibly decide to do the job on an idle 5 axis machine.”

Also important for flexible production, machines from various manufacturers must easily integrate into the Smart Manufacturing Network. IPT is working on this with partners from science and industry in Fraunhofer’s ‘Networked, adaptive production’ performance centre. “The plug and play that we know from everyday technology does not yet exist in industry,” says Dr Thomas Bobek, coordinator of the Fraunhofer performance centre. “Our goal is to make plug and produce possible.”

Fraunhofer’s researchers will demonstrate how the digital twin, service-oriented software, and Smart Manufacturing Network, collaborate at HANNOVER MESSE 2017, from 24th – 28th April 2017, as part of the trade fair ‘Research & Technology’ in Hall 2 at Stand C22.

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Towards a 4.0 fastener industry

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By Aldo Cereda, CEO and R&D manager, FASTDEV Srl The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is on the horizon, involves the application of new digital technologies to production systems. What happens in a factory when all the innovations brought by the internet are really taken into consideration?

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e are talking about the ‘internet of things’, cloud computing and cyber physical systems.

When machines are fully automated and able to acquire data themselves, send it over the network, interfacing with other machines to improve productivity and efficiency. This will lead to factories converting into smart factories, and industries into 4.0 industries.

This is what enables the integration of Easyprod 4.0 from FASTDEV – a specific production management software for the fastener industry, designed to streamline processes and reduce costs.

With Easyprod 4.0 the workstation becomes a terminal that collects all the information concerning the production process management, such as the procedures of non-compliance, maintenance, and machine loadings – with all data digitised. It can go even further. We no longer speak of managing the production, but of governing it. The system itself proposes solutions and, in the event of any problem, solves them directly. No dedicated hardware is necessary because Easyprod 4.0 interfaces with all the main control systems installed on the machines (including process monitoring systems).

The integration with ERP enables the creation of a virtuous system aimed at: Time savings.

Reducing manual activities.

Limiting human errors.

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Integrating the production processes.

Optimising costs and efficiency.

Easyprod is a reality that has been functioning for several years, and the 4.0 version will be showcased at the upcoming Fastener Fair Stuttgart show. Easyprod 4.0 is the latest update of a native software, that for forty years has been constantly developed, evolving with the times together with the needs of fastener companies, from small to large enterprises.

The greatest advantage of Easyprod 4.0 is that the software has been developed specifically for the needs of the fastener

industry – available to customers in Italy and abroad. This enables companies to make a strategic choice and be proactive in using software that provides clear added value.

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Apex extends system’s flexibility

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Apex has further enhanced its range of ACTYLUS™ smart bin systems with the introduction of two new models – ACTYLUS 8100 and 8200 – which take advantage of automated replenishment to ensure supplies of vital production items never run out.

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pex Supply Chain Technologies® Ltd says its ACTYLUS smart bin systems play a vital role in automating Kanban and vendor managed inventory processes – helping to eliminate the need for labour intensive manual bin scanning, which is known for being inefficient, wasteful and expensive – while virtually eliminating stock-outs and rush shipments of components.

The devices are compact at 37cm, one shelf, and 56cm, two shelves.

They are ideal for use in both bench top and wall mounted applications, including assembly cells and individual workstations.

The 8100 and 8200 models offer even greater flexibility, increasing the impact smart bins are already having on inventory replenishment processes. With every inch of floor space being scrutinised as part of continuous improvement programmes, the two new models take the smart bin system’s already space saving footprint to the next level.

Either model can be used with an optional riser or wall mount that raises the bins off the work surface conserving bench top workspace.

With these new models, customers and suppliers alike will enjoy all benefits associated with ACTYLUS smart bin systems, including automatic low level alerts; elimination of stock-outs; increased

productivity; more efficient supplier relationships; freeing up of staff to focus on value adding activity rather than manual bin counts; optimised cashflow; flexible configurations; ease of set-up and use; and real time inventory visibility via the Apex Trajectory Cloud Platform™ – a secure analytics and inventory replenishment platform that consolidates smart bin data in real time to give distributors and their customers 24/7 visibility of inventory. Stock levels can also be checked and managed online, anytime and anywhere, from a smartphone, tablet or computer.

“ACTYLUS brings several point of work benefits to a company’s operations. Deploying ACTYLUS in individual workstations negates the need for workers to go and search for spares from remote store areas and frees up even more valuable floor space. When it is remembered that ACTYLUS smart bins are handling inventory often considered as part of unmanageable tail spend – the 20% of purchases seen as not delivering value to a company – the impact on efficiency and productivity is considerable,” explains Julian Adams, managing director at Apex Supply Chain Technologies Ltd.

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Without the means of acquiring this heightened customer awareness, opportunities are quickly wasted and staff effectiveness drastically diminishes – as it is focused on manually gathering information on customers rather than selling. Often to gain this information, staff will need to go through multiple systems and databases in order to produce a report that will ultimately become outdated quite quickly. What’s more, without these statistics at your fingertips, staff trying to conduct out of office deals will be delayed as the data insight they need is passed back and forth from the office. This can result in a reduced concentration of sales being converted to completed deals and, consequently, a decreasing anticipated profit for the year.

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Integration in manufacturing Phil Lewis, vice-president, solution consulting EMEA at Infor It is easy for basic shop floor activities to fall to the bottom of the list of IT priorities for manufacturers. Asymptomatic issues such as inventory inaccuracies or idle equipment can go undetected until a major incident brings them to the forefront.

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The question is therefore how do you spot these issues before they arise. Manufacturers have many options for managing the factory floor, from tools within their ERP system to add-on MES systems and point solutions for areas with specialised needs.

However, siloes of data frustrate the development of visibility into the full operation.

Without integration and real time visibility to one version of production status, pinpointing errors or inefficiency may be impossible.

Managers may simply have a vague feeling that productivity isn’t ‘where it could be’ and delays ‘are getting out of hand’ or ‘something’ needs to be done. But what? Specifics are vital.

Are occasional gaps in communication delaying orders? Are machines sitting idle while shipments of raw goods are waiting to be moved to the floor? Are the necessary components even in stock, received from the supplier or ordered yet? These ‘glitches’ in production may seem like normal aspects of complex manufacturing. They are not.

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How different blanking technologies may influence the final performance of the retaining ring

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By Ruben Limonta, technical engineer, Beneri SpA Any quality oriented manufacturer of retaining rings should assess the most appropriate production technology for its specific range of products. Steel strip blanking versus steel wire blanking is a prime example as it could influence the final performance of the retaining ring. It is evident that small sizes can’t be blanked from wire. The question is what about larger sizes, where both technologies can be applied?

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fter several tests and thanks to its long experience in the industry, Beneri SpA concludes that retaining rings blanked from wire are more efficient as well as providing cost savings to end users.

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Figure 1: Each production technology generates a specific cross section of the retaining ring

How the retaining ring sits into the groove

In order to transmit large axial forces, the groove should be shaped so that the retaining ring fills it as completely as possible and the axially loaded area of the groove should be at its maximum.

On this basis, there is a difference in how retaining rings fill the most widely designed type of groove, depending on which kind of blanking technology has been applied during the production process. Figure 2 shows how both cross sections sit into the groove.

On the left, the groove is in contact with a sheared edged profile (ring made by strip); on the right, the groove is in contact with a cold drawn profile (ring made by wire).

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Each production technology generates a specific cross section of the retaining ring, as shown in Figure 1. Both sheared edges of the retaining ring produced by strip blanking feature a deformed zone (die-roll), a cut zone (burnish) and a fractured zone (fracture).

This is due to the plastic deformation of the material as a result of blanking. On the other hand, the retaining ring obtained by wire is affected by blanking deformation on one side only – the opposite edge is in fact obtained through cold drawn process.

The chamfer on the upper side of the ring (l1 – h1), due to the ‘die roll’ effect, is not easy to define and should be measured piece by piece. The chamfer (l2), due to the fracture of the material, is a consequence of the die clearance of the tool – a function of thickness and mechanical features of the material.

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Cross sections of retaining rings produced with different metal cutting processes

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Figure 2: How both cross sections sit into the groove The blanked side of the retaining ring made by strip does not fill the most common type of groove at best. In the contact area, the ring has a rounded corner, a sharped cornered side and a rough finished blanked surface, which does not fully envelope the bottom of the groove, meaning possible wear during operation. The loaded area between ring and groove is subject to chamfers (l1 – l2) that reduce contact area and axial load.

Instead, the cold drawn side of the retaining ring made by wire fully fills the most widely and designed type of groove. In the contact area, the ring has just a small radius on the corner and a perfect flat cold drawn surface to fully envelope the bottom of the groove, avoiding possible wear during operation. The loaded area between ring and groove is maximised in order to guarantee the highest axial load in service conditions.

As seen in Figure 1 and in Figure 2, the radius of the wire blanked ring is smaller than the chamfers (l1 – l2) of the strip blanked ring (where usually l1 > l2). To reduce the chamfer effect of the strip blanked ring, an alternative groove shape should be considered, thus increasing tooling costs for end users.

Oriented sitting

In order to reduce the chamfer effect as much as possible, the strip blanked ring should be seated into the groove with the sharp cornered side facing the loaded side of the groove. However: 1. Even the sharp cornered side will give a corner distance because of the die clearance and the surface condition of the cutting tool.

2. Remember that the corner distance on the upper side (roll over), even if larger than the lower side, will not be fully effective. The question of when the roll-over distance became dangerous is open.

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Detail of the lug of a retaining ring blanked by steel strip (zoom: 6.3X). Radius of 1.57mm on the external side of the ring

DIN 472mm 80 (zoom: 25X) – Cross section profile: Cold-drawned surface in contact with the groove

Detail of the lug of a retaining ring cut by wire (zoom: 6.3X).

Sharp-edged shape on the external side of the ring

The considerations above are not relevant for wire blanked retaining rings, since upper and lower side of its cross section have the same radii obtained by the cold drawn process and are not affected by blanking. This is why wire cut rings don’t need any specific orientation in the groove.

Lug shape under stress conditions

The radius on the external side of the lugs of retaining rings made by steel strip may cause the leak of the ring from its groove in case of high static load. Instead, the lugs of retaining rings by wire are sharp edged. This feature provides the ring with higher load bearing capacity under high stress conditions, avoiding its possible leakage from the groove.

There are several manufacturers of retaining rings. However, only few of them are able to provide a wide range of retaining rings made by trapezoidal steel wire. The reason that wire blanking technology is more difficult to achieve is that it requires high-tech and expensive machinery and a profound experience and know-how in the world of retaining rings.

Figure 3: Full range of Beneri retaining rings made by wire External retaining ring Internal retaining ring Metric DIN 471 from 28mm – 600mm DIN 472 from 34mm – 600mm 2,100 – 5,100 from 2,000 – 5,000 from Inch size 112 to 800 size 131 to 750

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Beneri SpA is proud to be one of the very few companies throughout the world with the expertise to implement this technology, offering the widest range of retaining rings blanked from steel wire. Figure 3 shows Beneri’s complete line of retaining rings that are made from wire. This is how Beneri stands out from any other worldwide retaining rings supplier. www.beneri.com

Company profile

Founded in 1958 and based in Valmadrera, Italy, Beneri SpA today covers an area measuring over 13,000m2, including a new plant dedicated to the production of retaining rings made by wire, and is one of the international leaders for the production of DIN standard serrated lock washers and retaining rings.

The constant investments made by the company in state of the art systems and machinery, in terms of technology and production as well as the attention and respect for the environment and for safety, and the close relationship among all levels with the staff, make it a modern and efficient enterprise.

The officers of Beneri SpA – President Giampietro Bernabeo, Managing Director Patrizia Bernabeo and Production Manager Giovanni Bernabeo – express the company’s sincere thanks to the customers that for years have shown their confidence and satisfaction, providing the stimulus for further growth and progress at Beneri.

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Determining the effect of lubrication on the security of bolted joints

By Holly B. Martin, technical copywriter, holly@hollybmartin.com Lubricants provide many benefits to a bolted joint. They ease the amount of energy required to tighten the bolt; they provide better wear resistance; they make disassembly much easier; and they prevent corrosion that can permanently weld surfaces together. However, the use of a lubricant on the threads and under the bolt head – whether solid film, grease or oil – adds a layer of uncertainty to the security of the joint.

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ightening a bolt causes the threaded shank to stretch inside the joint. Like a spring, the stretched bolt has a tendency to pull back to its original shape. This tendency results in the ‘preload’ or tension that holds the joint together.

The traditional method for measuring and specifying bolt tightness is through the use of torque – the rotational force used when tightening a bolt. Torque is related to tension and can be calculated using a short form torque-tension equation:

T=K×F×D In this equation T, K, F and D represent the input torque (T), the ‘nut factor’ (K), the required preload/tension (F), and the bolt’s diameter (D) respectively¹.

The ‘nut factor’ takes into account all of the variables known to influence the torque-tension relationship, including the materials used, plating and surface finish, corrosion, thread wear, and the presence and type of lubricant.

Lubricant affects torque – but how much?

Lubrication affects the friction of the system and this in turn affects the amount of torque required to securely tighten the bolt. If too much torque is applied, the bolt may become overstressed and fail. If too little torque is applied, the joint may loosen and separate.

Because a lubricant can have a significant effect on both the torque and therefore the tension developed in a joint, the question then becomes ‘how much should the torque specification be adjusted when a lubricant is used’?

Lubrication affects the friction of the system and this in turn affects the amount of torque required to securely tighten the bolt.”

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In order to answer that question, we first must ask where the torque value itself came from. “The torque specification may have been calculated by the engineering department; inscribed on a piece of equipment; or it’s just common knowledge within an operation,” explains Chris Bunai, chief engineer at Stress Indicators Incorporated².

“However, many times it is pulled from a torque chart.”

‘Nut factor’ inconsistencies add uncertainty to torque

According to Bunai, torque chart readings are based on several assumptions, which are often not considered when determining the torque specification for a bolted joint. For example, typically a torque chart will assume a dry bolt and a ‘nut factor’ of K = 0.2. However, in reality, the ‘nut factor’ can vary even from one time to the next when tightening the same bolt.

“Each time there’s relative motion between the bolt and the bolted joint, there is an opportunity for a different nut factor,” explains Bunai. “We’ve seen that frequently in a lot of our tests.”

The use of a lubricant can help provide some consistency to the ‘nut factor’, though only if the type, amount, and application of the lubricant, remain the same throughout the job. “Generally the fluctuation or the variability that you would see in the ‘nut factor’ should be narrower in a lubricated bolt than in an unlubricated bolt – with qualifications,” says Bunai. “There are also a number of fastener coating materials that are designed to offer a more consistent ‘nut factor’.”

Even with a lubricant, according to Bunai, trying to get the ‘nut factor’ consistent each and every time you tighten a bolt is a losing battle. Furthermore, without knowing how much the lubricant will change the ‘nut factor’, the joint or bolt could be damaged by over-tightening, or the joint could be weakened by under-tightening. The problem, then, becomes how to determine the true tightness of a bolted joint when using lubrication, so that the security of the joint is assured.

“You ultimately want to look for a better method, which measures tension directly, as opposed to trying to infer it through the measurement of torque and use of the ‘nut factor’,” adds Bunai.

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TECHNICAL One way to measure directly

One way to determine more directly whether a lubricated bolt will be properly tightened at a specified torque value is with a load cell, such as a Skidmore-Wilhelm. Placing the bolt in the cell and then tightening it with a torque wrench pressurises the hydraulic fluid in between a piston and the housing, and the pressure generated is then measured with a Bourdon tube gauge.

However, as noted earlier, even using the same bolt with the same lubrication in the same bolted joint, and applying the same torque value, results in varied amount of tension almost every time.”

By applying the specified torque to the bolt in the load cell, you can mimic the bolted joint as closely as possible and see how much tension is developed “By applying the specified torque to the bolt in the load cell, you can mimic the bolted joint as closely as possible and see how much tension is developed,” mentions Bunai. “Then, using the torque formula you can calculate and solve the actual ‘nut factor’ that will be required for all bolts throughout the installation.”

However, as noted earlier, even using the same bolt with the same lubrication in the same bolted joint, and applying the same torque value, results in varied amount of tension almost every time. Additionally, a tightened bolt in a load cell will behave differently than in an actual bolted joint, because the stiffness and angle of the joint will differ, even if only slightly.

“Sometimes you will see that the tension developed right using torque control, and other times you find out that it didn’t,” points out Bunai.

Freedom from the ‘nut factor’

“The current industry best practices for bolt safety, such as measuring torque in a load cell, are reliable enough in the absence of another technology,” says Bunai.

An even better solution with more accuracy would be to directly measure the tension developed in the actual bolted joint, explains Bunai. This kind of direct tension measurement is available using SmartBolts, developed by Stress Indicators Incorporated. The patented visual indicator on the head of each SmartBolt, when compared with the verification guide, shows exactly how much tension has been created in the tightened bolt, based on how much the bolt has been stretched.

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The SmartBolts indicator turns from red to black when proper tension has been reached and is reusable for the life of the fastener In this way, a SmartBolt provides the true measure of bolt tightness without the need to consider torque values or the ‘nut factor’. One benefit of directly measuring tension in situ is that it takes the torque-tension relationship and the uncertain effect of lubricants completely out of the equation.

Using SmartBolts, all the benefits of lubrication – such as ease of assembly or disassembly and improved wear and corrosion resistance – can be enjoyed, without the added worry that the bolted joint will be either over-tightened so that it breaks or under-tightened and therefore too loose. Putting SmartBolts to work in a bolted joint can provide freedom from worry about how a lubricant will affect bolt tightness. www.smartbolts.com 1 Bickford, J.H. (1995). An introduction to the design and behavior of bolted joints (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Group 2 Bunai, C. The Torque-Tension Relationship Gets Stretched.

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Manufacturing fasteners for aerospace

By Dr John Newnham, fastener engineering consultant, janewnham@btinternet.com The commercial aerospace industry seems to have broken away from the seven or eight year production cycle of ‘boom and bust’, which appeared for many years to be inevitable in this market sector. At this point in time, there have already been several years of growth in the sector, with production rates continuously being ramped up. A 2016 report by Deloitte, analysing the order backlog of commercial aircraft, shows that at current production rates it would take well over nine years to fill existing orders.

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his level of activity is fuelled by the increased profitability of the airlines over recent years, and a long-term growth in passenger travel, which at the moment shows no sign of stopping. There is also the promise of significant gains in fuel efficiency in new aircraft. It is projected that new planes, with newly designed engines, will be able to operate using 15% less fuel than existing equivalents. This is a huge cost saving, even in times of relatively low fuel costs.

In order to reduce the delivery lead times, aircraft manufacturers are committed to further increases in production rates, and to do this, they need to secure increases in component supplies not only from existing suppliers, but from new ones if they can find them. At least one OEM has tried in the recent past to promote interest from manufacturers of automotive and commercial fasteners in making aero parts. The reason for this is that the OEMs believe they will be able to purchase fasteners at lower prices, like the car makers do.

Fastener manufacturers outside of the aerospace industry have a perception that profit margins in the manufacture of airframe or engine parts would be higher, because the unit prices are significantly higher than prices they are able to charge. They also see that the

vast majority of the supply of airframe or aero engine fasteners is still provided by manufacturers in the western world, so the risk of price erosion by Far Eastern manufacturers may be less.

As a fastener engineering consultant, one of the questions I was asked frequently in the recent past by manufacturers of automotive and industrial fasteners was ‘what do we have to do to make parts for aerospace?’ For companies working on relatively low margins or having to compete with prices of parts from China or India, supplying fasteners into the aerospace sector seems like it could be the answer to future viability.

Supply requirements

However, it is not possible simply to contact an aerospace OEM purchasing department and be allowed to bid to supply parts.

There are requirements that fastener suppliers must usually meet before a bid is allowed, and this applies especially to the supply of critical fasteners in the airframe or engine. The first of these is an approved quality management system (QMS), which is specifically designed for aerospace OEMs. This is not usually evaluated by the OEM itself, because aerospace companies now accept third party audits of quality systems to a standard identified as AS 9100 – published by the US Society of Automotive Engineers. This standard incorporates all aspects of ISO 9000, with several additional requirements that are considered necessary to ensure parts of the highest quality will be delivered. For all airframe and engine parts supplied to the major commercial aircraft manufacturers, a QMS to this standard is mandatory. Some OEMs will still conduct an audit of their own to over check special issues before they give their quality approval, but in general AS 9100 will suffice.

For non-critical parts, for example some in-cabin components, ISO 9000 may be acceptable, but the critical fasteners are the ones that command the highest prices.

…before committing any resource into aerospace quality approvals, it would certainly be worth finding out whether any of the OEMs would welcome a bid for any parts.”

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in the future without repeating some or all of the qualification tests.

These parts approval tests may be conducted by the OEM, especially if the OEM has design authority for the parts being made, and may sometimes be done after a bid has been accepted for manufacture.

So under normal circumstances, the first two of these levels of qualification need to be in place before a bid is accepted to make parts. Because these first two levels of approval are granted by a third party agency, they require a significant amount of resource investment. Also, as a general rule, the OEMs will not sponsor new approvals of specific parts (the third level of approval) unless there is a significant cost advantage to them.

Perhaps the simplest method of being adequately qualified is to use accredited sub-contractors for all of the secondary operations, including the testing, and focus on gaining the QMS approval. This has the benefit of reducing the up front resource commitment, but has the negative effect of increasing the cost of producing fasteners.

However, before committing any resource into aerospace quality approvals, it would certainly be worth finding out whether any of the OEMs would welcome a bid for any parts. With the huge task of increasing supply volumes, they may want to develop additional suppliers. On the other hand, one purchasing manager has told me that if they were to develop new suppliers, they would not be based in the western world. So, in this case, any effort to obtain aerospace approvals could be in vain.

About the author

Dr John Newnham is a fastener engineering consultant. He was technical and quality director for over 14 years at SPS Technologies Leicester, the largest UK manufacturer of airframe and aero engine nuts and bolts, after which he was a fastener specialist at the trade association CBM (Confederation of British Metalforming) until 2013.

He is currently a member of the BSI Fastener Standards Committee.

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This special aerospace qualification is not the end of the up front approvals that are usually needed. There is a second level of qualifications that must be met. Most fasteners for airframe or engine applications will require heat treatment and/or surface coating, and these processes are termed ‘special processes’. Each such process requires a separate third party approval, which is in addition to the QMS. These processes are assessed by Nadcap (National Aerospace and Defence Contractors Accreditation Program) against customer, national and international specifications. The Nadcap programme is administered by the Performance Review Institute, which is part of SAE. In effect these special processes require a separate quality management system for the running of the facility, with mandatory regular checks of the technical capability of the equipment being used. After manufacture, and usually before coating, most aerospace fasteners are required to be non-destructive tested. This is also designated as a ‘special process’ and has a Nadcap standard that ensures the test equipment used and the testing itself will reveal if there are surface defects in the parts. After each batch of parts has been finished, they will need to be tested for mechanical and metallurgical properties, to an extent much greater than for automotive or construction parts. The test laboratory where this is done will need to have a separate QMS approval in conformance with ISO 17025 and/or Nadcap, which includes each type of test that the laboratory needs to perform for the various parts under inspection.

Of course, these ‘special processes’ need not be conducted at the same site as the manufacturing and can be sub-contracted, but the accreditations are needed to the same Nadcap standard, and the same applies to the test laboratory where the mechanical and metallurgical tests are done.

A third level of approval is required for critical parts, and that is a separate set of test audits for specific parts or for families of parts of similar configuration. For example, high strength steel fasteners that are specified by the procurement specification BS A241 can only be manufactured by a facility that is A241 approved. This type of parts approval will usually consist of a series of mechanical, metallurgical and non-destructive tests on an initial production lot of parts, and in many ways it is similar to a PPAP. The manufacturing route for the parts must be declared, and if all of the tests conform to the required specification, the manufacturing route may not be changed

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TR Fastenings to assist with NASA’s next Mars Rover

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The radar, known as RIMFAX (Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Exploration), is one of seven scientific instruments on the Exploration Rover – to help establish whether it’s feasible to sustain human life on the Red Planet. The sophisticated radar imager consists of an electronics box mounted inside the Rover and an ultra-wideband slot antenna mounted on the rear of the vehicle.

The rivets help ensure the structural integrity of the radar’s antenna, which is constructed to aerospace standards from lightweight aluminium sheet metal and assembled from several complex shaped parts. These components will be exposed for years to the hostile conditions of a planet famous for its extreme dust storms and temperatures as low as minus 125ºC. The currently operational Rover, Opportunity, landed on Mars in 2004 for a planned mission of 90 Martian days (92.4 Earth days) but is still in service.

The new Mars Exploration Rover will roam Mars’ rocky terrain searching for a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on the planet. RIMFAX’s ground penetrating radar will send radio frequency electromagnetic waves into the ground to a depth of up to 10 metres and then detect the reflected signal as a function of time to reveal the subsurface structure and composition. Ground penetrating radar has the capability to reveal subsurface terrains such as lava flows, buried channels, and polar ice cap stratigraphy.

Jan-Erik Storsve of TR Fastenings Norway commented: “It’s incredible to think of those fasteners being used in outer space. We are extremely proud to be involved in the next Mars mission and everyone at TR is looking forward to the launch with great excitement.”

NORMA Group sponsors joining products for racing team TUfast

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he racing team will use the two vehicles to compete against some 600 other student teams in world competitions. “Since we are always happy to support the training and promotion of talented young people, we are enthusiastic about the TUfast team’s ambitious practice project,” says Werner Deggim, CEO of NORMA Group. “Of course, this will also require high-quality joining products that remain reliably sealed even under high loads and can be installed very quickly and easily.”

“Because our vehicles are regularly brought to their limits during the races, we need joining parts that we can rely on,” says Michael Betz from Team TUfast. “We also need support

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from the industry for racing car development. That is why we are very pleased NORMA Group has provided us with joining products in such a quick and uncomplicated manner.”

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Fastener and component enhancement materials

By Mark Thurber, CEO, Maelstrom Chemical Technologies LLC Fastening systems have been an engineering necessity dating back to when mankind first attempted construction. Joining two separate elements to work as one is the most fundamental concept of creation.

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ince this modest beginning, designers have searched for a means of keeping these elements secure, durable and reliable until removal is required. Though this seems to be the goal most sought after, any weekend mechanic will swear that the opposite seems more often to be the rule, rather than the exception.

Fastener enhancement products have traditionally encompassed only the most basic of notions including cotter pins and deformed components for locking, and messy greases and anti-seize for lubricants. In the recent decades, higher tech adhesives, sealants and coatings have come into play, taking strides in the reliability and multitasking of fastener systems. Today, there are a variety of new, highly specialised product choices and wider utilisation opportunities for use on components, far beyond that of fasteners.

Fastener locking devices

Adhesives as locking elements can be most broadly subdivided into two general categories: Pre-applied: Applied to the fastener en-masse by fastener coating services, long before the intended installation.

Bottled: Applied to the joint at the time of assembly.

Pre-applied products do not impart any direct performance properties that cannot be found in a bottle, however, the advantage is realised in the pre-application ‘delivery system’ itself. Time saved by pre-application of adhesives (and the resulting direct, economic payback) plus the assurance that an adhesive is not inadvertently missing from a joint, are indispensable benefits to mass assembly.

User applied, point of assembly materials

Modern fastener retaining took its biggest leap forward with the development of bottled, liquid thread-locking adhesive. Anaerobic adhesives, as they are sometimes called, are ‘triggered’ (or initiate reaction) by the absence of oxygen contact.

A full spectrum of choices of these types of products are available for the user – low strength, high strength, removable, permanent, high temperature, penetrating, high viscosity, low viscosity, thixotropic, fast cure, slow cure, low friction, red, green, yellow, blue and purple; just to begin the list. Regardless of grade, whether permanently retaining a stud in an engine block or installing a serviceable pipe plug in a refrigerator – they are all based on the same chemistry.

Recent innovations have come to this field that include a variety of non-anaerobic thread-locking materials offered by STS/ Tectorius®. This includes a variety of user applied materials that mimic the hard to get preapplied products – previously only available through professional service centres in large volume. In addition to easy to use packaging, many are friendly to special substrates, temperature sensitive platings and plastics, where anaerobic adhesives Tec-Bond™ adhesives family should never be used.

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In addition to threaded fasteners, many of these new breed products are finding use in non-traditional types of applications on splines, pulleys and moving assemblies offering a ‘cushioning effect’ to mitigate squeak and rattle for NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) improvement.

Pre-applied thread-locking adhesives

Pre-applied adhesives began being widely accepted in the early 1970s. Prior to this, adhesives were not highly looked upon, and considered less dependable than the more tangible, mechanical methods.

3M® Corporation introduced its highly popular Scotch-Grip® brand, offering several grades of microencapsulated, epoxy-based adhesives.

Loctite® Corporation also introduced its line of microencapsulated, acrylic-based adhesives, known as Dri-Loc®. Even though other products are also available on the market, each fall into one of two chemical groups – epoxy or acrylic technology.

Epoxy type

Epoxy technology for use on threaded fasteners was initially pursued by 3M. In the most elementary terms, epoxy-based adhesives used for fasteners are quite similar to two-part epoxy kits that can be found in any hardware store. Typical fully cured epoxies are the most durable, chemical resistant, versatile and tough adhesives known.

However, delivery of these components to the right place, in correct proportion and preventing the reaction from beginning until the right moment, is an enormous hurdle to overcome.

3M took a unique approach to this delivery and proportion dilemma.

A technology, formerly used only in pharmaceuticals and printing, called ‘microencapsulation’ held the key to the problems of component separation. Microencapsulation involves encasing a material within an impermeable microscopic shell; not unlike a miniature egg.

Microcapsules are frequently used in consumer products such as ‘scratch and sniff’ swatches, perfume samples, and ‘carbonless’ copy paper. Only close examination with a microscope will reveal clusters of clear spheres dispersed throughout the thread deposit.

Acrylic type

The acrylic types of adhesives were a venture in making standard forms of bottled thread lockers fit into the pre-applied mould. Loctite Corporation was on the forefront of this concept with its Dri-Loc product line. Followers in the manufacture of similar types of products are STS/Tectorius® with its very wide collection found in the Tec-Bond™ adhesives family. One largely accepted misconception involving these products is the use of the term ‘anaerobic’ meaning ‘absence of oxygen’. This is often used to describe bottled thread lockers, as the absence of oxygen in the tight confines between the fastener and the mating part will cause the adhesive to cure. This is not the same reaction mechanism taking place in the pre-applied thread lockers.

Most of the pre-applied thread lockers based on acrylic functionality, are initiated in a distantly similar fashion to the microencapsulated technology previously discussed. Unlike the epoxy system, the main initiator is encapsulated, rather than the matrix forming resin. Once all components are present in an active state, their reaction will proceed regardless of the presence or absence of oxygen.

This type of system offers several positive benefits, with fast development of retaining torque being the most prominent. Some level of removal torque may be detected as early as 10 minutes after installation. Other notable characteristics include the water-based application medium, and an ability to achieve high breakaway torque.

Underhead sealing

Ever increasing performance requirements and quality standards have made sealing and cushioning under the head of a fastener a very important option for engineers and fastener suppliers. Underhead seals, in their most basic forms, protect the fastener hole against water intrusion.

Supplementary features beyond simple sealing and/or making a fastener ‘multitask’ can be a compelling and innovative approach to joint design. Thoughtful selection of underhead coatings can provide a variety of less obvious, but greatly beneficial enhancements to an assembly. Tectorius Tec-U-Seal™ family of products includes sealant that will not only seal, but also cushion the assembly to reduce noise from vibration. Furthermore, such products will prevent scratching of paint or plated surfaces during installation, which would otherwise compromise corrosion protection.

Other offered features can include lubrication and temporary retention. Pre-applied Tec-U-Seal can replace Mylar® washers as a durable and lubricious isolator for pivot pins in hinges, actuators and movable sub-assemblies, to reduce squeaks and increase durability. Yet other grades of Tec-U-Seal are formulated with a pressure sensitive surface so fasteners can be pressed into a receiving hole, holding themselves in position prior to permanent installation. It is easy to see how this simple feature could streamline assembly in both a factory environment as well as in consumer level construction projects, such as outdoor storage building construction.

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Components surface sealing and lubrication

Mobile phones, personal electronic devices and use of high-tech engineering materials have brought with them great need for adhesive, coatings and sealant performance. With the adoption of a smartphone being a required part of everyone’s life, it is taken for granted that the materials contained in, and facilities where these items are made, must also be as high-tech as the final articles themselves. Many electronics require a clean room environment when they are assembled, and components not only within the device, but also within the assembly room cannot emit even the tiniest particles at any point during their lifetime. Without proper qualification of materials and sub-components, any item with a visual display or lens could be clouded by vapour deposits, electronics would short circuit from conductive chips, and memory media damaged by particles.

This is a monumental challenge when components are made from filled plastics and metals, where the slightest frictional contact can produce a loose burr, chip or fibre particle. STS/Tectorius offers a wide choice of products for surface sealing and enhancement, specifically designed to mitigate particle and outgassing from any number of substrates that are being used in highly sensitive environments.

Similarly, new high-tech engineering materials such as carbon fibre and specialised alloys can offer unexpected galvanic corrosion challenges, not previously experienced with steel. Fasteners coated with specialised dielectric materials, prevent situations from arising that might not be detected for months or years.

Chemical coatings and component enhancement materials are often considered an afterthought or perhaps a ‘Band-Aid’ to nagging assembly issues. By simply scratching the surface of this topic, one can see that the technology involved in a coating can far exceed that of the component itself and is indispensable to the very viability of the final assembly. www.tectorius.com

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Brooks Forgings supplies special components to UK rail industry Brooks Forgings Ltd was recently approached to produce special arching horns commonly used in overhead electrification applications for the railway industry.

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combination of sawing, machining, hot bending and welding processes were used by Brooks Forgings to produce the various components used in the overall arching horn assembly. Due to the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vast capabilities it was able to carry out all of these processes on-site, ensuring the swift turnaround and quality tolerances required by the customer.

All of the components were produced from fully certified 316 stainless steel of European origin. The profiles, produced from 6mm thick plate, required the machining of special chamfered edges prior to the hot bending process that used specially designed tooling and jigs to minimise deformation and meet strict tolerances.

The profiles were then fillet welded to a prefabricated clamping block that was produced firstly as a one piece, drilled with two 10.5mm holes and a large 24mm hole, and then sawn in half to create a matching pair. The complete assembly was then checked for distortion following the welding process. The components were supplied complete with A2 stainless bolts, washers and stiff nuts.

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Socket & Allied doubles manufacturing capability Socket & Allied Screws Ltd is continuing along its growth trajectory by reaffirming its commitment to quality.

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ocket & Allied recently invested heavily in a range of CNC machines including two Star SR-32 Sliding Head CNC machines, doubling its manufacturing capacity.

“But we haven’t stopped there,” said Kevin Bradley, managing director at Socket & Allied Ltd. “It’s imperative we demonstrate to our customers that we not only have additional machining capacity but we are committed to excellence. To this end, we are investing in upgrading our ISO 9001 accreditation to the latest version of ISO 9001-2015 and using the professional services of BSI to conduct the audit and award the accreditation.”

Once this is successfully achieved the company will follow through by implementing ISO 14001 (environmental), OHSAS 18001 (health and safety) and Achilles FPAL (oil and gas). Kevin said: “We will be able to demonstrate a level of quality control expected and demanded from industrial sectors such as; oil and gas, aerospace, nuclear and defence, which are sectors we already service but wish to expand.”

Kevin continued: “In fact we recently worked with a major contractor in offshore development and have supplied it with a range of studs and nuts to meet its demanding requirements.”

Socket & Allied is also passionate about supporting young people into the workplace and has already seen two apprentices complete training to become full time employees, with a third apprentice just started. “It is vital for the longevity of the business and the UK’s engineering manufacturing sector that we continue to recruit and equip our young people with the necessary skills,” said Kevin.

Socket and Allied manufactures and supplies special socket screws and associated fastener components and has the expertise to deliver a wide and diverse range of machined products using standard and exotic materials. www.socket-allied.com

Harrison Silverdale supports the automotive industry Harrison Silverdale (HSL), a supplier of threaded inserts and specialised fasteners to the plastic moulding industry, recently worked with one of its key customers to provide a threaded insert for a new moulding, to support a radiator on a luxury 4x4 vehicle.

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fter an initial meeting to discuss the requirements HSL proposed a standard part, which would meet the design criteria. The project engineer wanted to over-mould the insert as this is more economical and provides better performance than post moulding operations.

The insert would be placed in the tool by a pick and place robot so a symmetrical design was recommended for easy orientation. Because the insert will be under heavy loads some testing was required to validate the design. It was requested by the vehicle manufacturer that HSL carry out a torque test where a number of insert locations are torqued up to double the usual tightening torque. This should then be repeated seven times on the same insert to see if any failure occurred. A pull-out test was also required to determine the force that the insert could withstand before the thread failed or the insert broke free from the moulding. The tests had to be duplicated on dry mouldings and also after being submerged in water for five days to replicate various climatic conditions.

With the help of its local UKAS approved laboratory, the tests were completed in accordance with the client’s instructions and HSL’s recommendations. The inserts passed the torque tests comfortably and withstood 4,000N pull-out with no failures, which were well above the customers’ requirements. The results were certified and submitted for approval. The mouldings will be in full production later this year with four per vehicle and run for six years.

During the development process HSL was able to receive CAD files from the vehicle manufacturer, add the proposed insert to the assembly and then share this data with the moulder and test facility. This is one of many examples of how Harrison Silverdale has offered engineering expertise at the development stage and can support customers from design through prototyping and to full production. www.harrisonsilverdale.com

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Star Fasteners helps bring Penta-Lok to the market UK specialist fastener distributor, Star Fasteners, has collaborated with Arconic to produce the Penta-Lok – a fastener specifically designed for the composite panel market.

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ue to its high pull-out strength, Penta-Lok is suited for use within thin materials or delicate composites, as well as within misaligned, oversized, or slotted holes, and its uniquely engineered peel system installs with ease into shallow panels. It is an easy to install, 6.4mm diameter, plated steel, peel fastener with superior blind side strength. It has a neat domed head and its positive mechanical pin retention ensures structural integrity.

If the tip of the body is inserted into the material (minimum 8mm composite panel) the Penta-Lok will do the rest. The installation process seats the flange to the surface of the material as it claws itself in on the blind side; resulting in a supportive load spread of approximately 16mm.

Penta-Lok’s reduced flange diameter also enables installation against raised profiles and it has been specifically designed for the secure fastening of profiled cargo load restraint and areas with restricted space, such as door gears and latches.

“As Huck®’s largest UK distributor it was only natural that we turned to Arconic for collaboration on producing a fastener based on a requirement we had recognised. We are really excited to bring the Huck Penta-Lok to the market,” says Daniel Starbuck, managing director at Star Fasteners.

“We recognised a gap in the market for a mechanical blind fastener that can be quickly installed in the multiple variations of composite panel. The ever-evolving lightweight panels are being used in a wide range of applications, including the Polyfont UK Ltd range of GRP composite panels,” comments Daniel. “Penta-Lok also performs well in a broad spectrum of plastic, honeycomb aluminium and multi composite boards.”

Star Fasteners is a specialist fastener distributor, distributing lockbolts, rivets and threaded inserts. As well as being a major UK stockist of Arconic’s Huck fastener brand, Star Fasteners also stocks a comprehensive range of rivets.

These include standard, sealed, multi-grip, and many specials for bespoke applications, which are available in a wide range of materials and finishes. Its own in-house powder coating service means that any stock item can be coloured to meet customers’ requirements and despatched at short notice. Star also stocks associated new tools and related consumables, offering hire, repairs and servicing. www.starfasteners.co.uk

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BRALO achieves ISO 14001 certification

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BRALO is commited to the protection and preservation of the environment and sustainable development – as evidenced by its recently obtained ISO 14001:2008 certification.

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eadquartered in Madrid, Spain, BRALO S.A is focused on staying one step ahead to minimise the impact of its activities on the environment. It does this by continuing to manage and adapt its recycling, management and disposal of waste generated to meet current regulations in the fastener industry.

“The ISO 14001 standard is a further step in BRALO’s orientation towards respect and preservation of the environment in all its processes, from the product design phase, to the manufacturing and sales processes,” comments BRALO.

BRALO, an innovative multinational with a global presence

The multinational company is known for its dedication to technological innovation and personalised service, such as designing together with its customers special stamping parts in different materials, sizes and finishes.

With three production plants located in Spain, Mexico and China, the company has an extensive sales network comprising nine delegations in Germany, the UK, Italy, Portugal, France, Turkey and the Czech Republic, with a production of over 3.6 billion pieces per year. BRALO offers twelve categories of rivets, among which are standard, multigrip, peeled, trebol, structural, cylindrical, grooved, hexagonal and half hexagonal insert nuts, as well as manual, pneumatic and battery operated riveters.

The company supplies customers in more than 60 countries worldwide, with BRALO acting as a point of reference for professional quality and service. The company’s quality management standards are ISO 9001 and ISO/TS 16949. www.bralo.com

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Fixi – an Italian company specialised in the production and distribution of mechanical fastening systems – is introducing new custom labels for its customers.

Everbuild, a Sika company, has launched Stixall on a Roll – an invisible double-sided transparent adhesive tape that can be used in both indoor and outdoor applications.

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ixi Srl will be offering a new labelling system for all shipments, amongst its many innovations this year, following its customers’ need to relabel incoming goods with their own logo, branding, and part numbers, which was previously becoming time consuming.

Fixi’s custom labels on demand will include a company logo, part number, barcode, company address and website on the label footer. It will also be possible to request neutral labels without any logo. The labels will enable customers to save on costs and improve their warehouse efficiency. www.fixi.it

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As the Stixall name suggests, this tape bonds most materials and is formulated for durable, long-lasting adhesion with excellent resistance to weathering degradation (UV and high temperatures).

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New solvent-free UV adhesive Vitralit® VBB-2N LV, a new solvent-free UV adhesive, is now available from UK distributor Techsil.

Manufactured by Panacol, this adhesive features low viscosity and is ideally suited for bonding elastomeric materials.

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lastomeric materials and rubbers all differ in their polymer structure, polarity, and surface properties. This makes them very difficult to bond and there are drawbacks with using traditional adhesive systems.

Techsil points out the Vitralit® UV curing acrylates are specially formulated for bonding rubbers, as well as being solvent-free, simple to dispense, and easily integrated into existing production processes.

They state the adhesive cures within seconds under UV or visible light and are therefore the perfect choice for high volume production in manual or automated production lines.

Due to its extremely low viscosity Vitralit VBB-2N LV is suitable for large area bonding, as well as applications where the gap size is very small. When cured, it demonstrates excellent flexibility and environmental stability. Transparent assembly material cures in seconds with UVA light, to produce a strong and reliable bond. UV blocking materials like polycarbonate can also be cured due to the adhesive’s ability to bond using visible light (>400Nm).

For use in medical applications Techsil can also provide an alternative product with similar properties, which meets the requirements for USP Class VI and is compatible with sterilisation by autoclaving, gamma irradiation and ETO.

GESIPA® Speed Rivet technology

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In addition to its hydro-pneumatic magazine setting tools, GESIPA® has completed its product portfolio with its Speed Rivet setting tool, which it says is the result of decades of expertise and encompasses the unbeatable advantages of the tried and tested TAURUS® series.

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he Speed Rivet system is gaining more and more recognition in a variety of industries, especially circuit board assembly and sheet metal processing of housing construction, as well as assembly activities in the automotive industry. The Speed Rivet system enables quick and reliable connections, with cycle times of about two seconds per rivet.

The Speed Rivet system also offers different types of speed rivets in a wide range of dimensions; safe working through disposable mandrel; optional automatic switch off; ergonomic handling for fatigue-free work; light and compact design; as well as soft grip and a tool-free conversion.

“Our engineers‘ main objectives in the Speed Rivet setting tool’s development were for it to be quick, safe and reliable. The very light and ergonomically shaped device sets new standards for the market and is also available in axial version for easy and fast implementation in industrial applications,” comments GESIPA Blindniettechnik GmbH. www.gesipa.com

Smaller and slimmer packaging solutions ESSVE has launched the Essbox Mini â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the next generation of the packaging system Essbox â&#x20AC;&#x201C; developed as a direct answer to an increased demand for a slimmer version.

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vailable from April 2017, the new Essbox Mini case measures only 60% of the original Essbox, but combines all the great qualities associated with the original. The Essbox Mini is 435mm wide, 366mm tall and 108mm deep. The cases can be stacked on top of each other and smart storage solutions for cars and transport are available with a capacity for either four or seven cases.

The Essbox system was launched in February 2012 to facilitate the management and storage of screws and other fastening products. A durable case designed with an octagonal pattern at the bottom secures hard plastic boxes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even when the Essbox is not filled to maximum capacity.

The inside of the case lid is fitted with a foam lining, which makes sure the content of the individual screw box is kept in the box during bumpy transports.

The Essbox has sold over 200,000 units in the Nordic market.

The new Essbox Mini has an adjustable lid that can be fixed in two different positions, facilitating packing and unpacking, and has been given a handle lined with rubber for comfortable carrying to and from the worksite.

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Reliable and competitive products FAR, a manufacturer of blind rivets, rivet nuts and fastening systems, based in Bologna, Italy, says that its focus on technological innovations has always been key to it offering customers reliable and competitive products – including its EB400 battery riveting tool.

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according to customised drawings. Blind rivet nuts are available with metric threads from M3 to M12 and offer high resistance whether they are made of steel, aluminium or stainless steel.

The Italian manufacturing company also offers a complete range of manual, pneumatic, battery powered and hydropneumatic riveting tools for both blind rivet and blind rivet nuts – ensuring maximum performances in terms of quality and service.

FAR tools provide a wide variety of working capacities suitable for numerous assembly applications in the various manufacturing industrial sectors.

Also available is a wide selection of lighter and ergonomic tools for fastening blind rivets, with work capacity up to 7.8mm in diameter, in all materials for structural blind rivets and for blind rivet nuts – ideal for setting from M3 to M10.

All products are strictly manufactured in Bologna, Italy, in compliance with UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 and exported over five continents. www.far.bo.it

owered by a 14.4V – 3Ah lithium-ion battery, the EB400 can reach up to an 18mm stroke. The tool ensures functionality and easy handling with an excellent weight balance and is capable of setting the full range of rivets from 2.4mm diameter up to 4.8mm/5mm diameter (inox rivets excluded). The EB400 also has a multifunction display that shows the charge level of the battery and cycles counter level. The tool is supplied in a shockproof convenient plastic case with internal protections, and with various rivet sizes and one battery charger.

Established in 1957, FAR Srl has built a premier reputation thanks to its high degree of process automation and complete control of production. Its well known variety of blind rivets and blind rivet nuts provide a quick and easy answer for all types of applications and cover several hundred standard articles and high strength fastening systems.

Special blind rivets are manufactured in aluminium alloy, copper, steel and stainless steel alloys – with surface treatment of anodising and painting,

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Jubilee® Clips has introduced new packaging for its range of original Jubilee worm drive hose clips, which will now include the iconic Jubilee logo and relevant technical data.

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ize 000 boxes, 9.5mm – 12mm diameter, to size 3 boxes, 55mm – 70mm diameter, will now display all relevant technical data on the side of each box to make it easier for customers to choose the correct clips for their application.

The 316 stainless steel original clip boxes have also received a total makeover, with bright orange flashes distinguishing the boxes from the 304 stainless steel range with its red flashes, but still show a close relationship between the two grades of stainless steel hose through the similar colour scheme.

As well as its brand new range of boxes, Jubilee has also begun rolling out new look poly bags for its original range hose clips in larger sizes, as well as for all its high torque clips, superclamps, quick release straps, juniors, wingspades, P-Clips and O-Clips.

The new poly bags feature standard Euro-slots for hanging a wide range of Jubilee products on a Euro Hook display. The classic Jubilee logo is printed on each bag alongside the product relevant information and EAN code on the front. A list of the different hose clip ranges Jubilee offers is also displayed on the rear of the bag. www.jubileeclips.com

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Self-clinching steel lock nuts hold mating screws tight PEM® Type SL™ self-clinching steel lock nuts, from PennEngineering®, integrate a unique TRI-DENT® locking feature that provides sufficient torsional resistance to withstand vibration, thermal cycling, and other disruptive forces that could loosen the screws in service.

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hese prevailing torque lock nuts, which meet 3 cycle locking performance to effectively ‘self-lock’ the threads of mating screws, will also enable the screws to be removed and reattached repeatedly as needed without compromising the locking threads.

PennEngineering says these lock nuts install permanently in host metal sheets to become integral parts of an assembly – they will not loosen or fall out; never have to be restrained from rotation with a tool; and never have to be handled again. Compared with conventional chemical adhesives or affixed patches, the lock nuts can help save time and money during production by minimising the number of required assembly steps and materials.

PEM Type SL lock nuts are available in thread sizes #4 – 40 through 3/8 – 16 and M3 through M10. They are recommended for use in aluminium or steel sheets as thin as 0.04 inches/1mm with maximum hardness HRB 80 (Rockwell ‘B’ scale) and HB 150 (Hardness Brinell).

Quick installation is accomplished by placing the lock nut in a properly sized mounting hole and applying sufficient squeezing force using a standard press to embed the fastener’s clinching ring

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SD Products partners up with Ketterer SD Products Ltd has become the first official and exclusive UK distributor for Ketterer – a stockist of German-based specialists in mechanical and electromechanical drive solutions.

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tarting at the beginning of the year, an extensive range of Ketterer products is now available from SD Products including bevel gears, electric motor spindle drives, worm gears and manual spindle drives.

Started as a clock making factory in 1832, B. Ketterer Söhne GmbH & Co KG has always been at the forefront with new ideas. Its range of products has evolved over time, and from the middle of the 20 th century the company focused on the development and manufacture of mechanisms for various kinds of sun shades. For the past 25 years Ketterer has been making height adjustment mechanisms for office and workshop systems, as well as a wide variety of drive technology components, including motors and controls.

“We are excited to be in business with Ketterer and we hope it will be a long and successful relationship,” comments SD Products.

High resistance resin from Robnor ResinLab Robnor ResinLab has introduced its new PX901C, an epoxy resin with excellent heat resistance and dimensional stability, which it says offers end users high electrical insulation, low shrinkage and excellent chemical resistance.

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vailable in beige or black, Robnor says the high abrasion resistance of the PX901C ensures it will be hard wearing and should retain its surface finish for longer. This material is very easy to work with and has a viscosity of just 3,400 – 8,000 when mixed.

Furthermore, PX901C is thermally conductive and has an exceptionally good operating temperature of up to 220°C. Typical applications include castings, circuit board components and electrical insulation, however Robnor says this material has caught the interest of manufacturers in the printing industry,

who trialled it in the research and development stage.

PX901C is WEEE, RoHS and REACH compliant and can be purchased in bulk, as a twin pack, or as a kit.

Robnor ResinLab is a formulator of polyurethane and epoxy resin systems, used across a broad spectrum of industries including transportation, electronics and LED lighting.

Formerly branded as Robnor Resins, the company became Robnor ResinLab in December 2016 after forming a strategic partnership with US resin manufacturer ResinLab.

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WDS Component Parts Ltd says it can supply a wide range of dowel pins, also known as engineers’ precision dowels and steel dowels, with the option of next day delivery.

etric dowel pins are available in sizes M6, 10mm to 100mm long, and imperial dowels sized at ⅛ inch – ½ inch diameter. ½ inch to 3 inch long versions also complete the range.

Used to accurately locate and position parts and components in an almost infinite range of manufacturing and assembly operations, these dowel pins are precision engineered to exacting

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tolerances and are available in hardened and ground steel, with a silver steel variant.

Variations on the basic design include plain dowels, extractable dowels, and extractable silver steel dowels. Like all WDS products, the dowels are manufactured to internationally recognised and accredited quality standards, which are regularly and independently audited.

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Challenge – ensuring the highest quality Nuts, bolts, screws and washers used in the manufacturing industry are a well developed, reliable and surprisingly sophisticated technology.

It is often not appreciated just how critical it may be to choose the right material and finish – this is where Challenge Europe can be of real help.

Keeping industry running At its core, norelem supplies a range of quality products such as flexible standard parts, systems, and components for mechanical engineering, and plant construction, all with high availability – 98% of all parts from stock – as well as delivering technical support for its customers.

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he manufacturing industry typically requires threaded fasteners in varying grades of steel, stainless steel, copper, brass and aluminium, depending on the installed environment and compatibility with neighbouring substrates.

“The material choice is the most important first step but often just as important is the choice of finish – we offer chemi-black on mild steel, stayblack on stainless steel, zinc plated, chrome plated and nickel plated as standard finishes on many of our fixings,” explains Kevin Moorcroft, managing director at Challenge Europe Ltd. The UK-based company works with design engineers and buyers in all industries to optimise choices and minimise costs so it can ensure the highest quality and quickest assembly times for each product. Standard products include machine screws, self-tapping and self-drilling screws, as well as machine screw SEMs, thread forming screws and hammer drive screws.

orking closely with designers and engineers from a variery of sectors, norelem enables businesses to tailor complete solutions from standard components. This extensive range of products and depth of engineering knowledge is showcased in the company’s BIG GREEN BOOK – a unique tool that helps engineers turn their ideas into reality.

Now in its twelfth edition, the BIG GREEN BOOK showcases over 33,000 standard parts relating to standard machinery and operating elements, as well as automation components. More than just a catalogue, the BIG GREEN BOOK represents everything norelem stands for, combining technical details, product information and specifications, with best practice references, advice, and guidance.

When it’s not engineering and delivering some of the standard parts that keep industry running every single day, norelem is strengthening its links with universities all over Europe to develop engineering talent and turn the ideas of tomorrow into reality. The company is already invested in the European Formula Student Team initiative, working with the University of Birmingham and Univeristy of Hertfordshire to help students develop valuable skills and experience by manufacturing their own racing cars.

WASI’s new products at Stuttgart ‘Cherry picking’ was yesterday’s challenge, ‘saving time’ is tomorrow’s promise, and by developing innovative products on a constant basis, WASI ensures that its customers can always operate at maximum efficiency.

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t Fastener Fair Stuttgart WASI will be showcasing its new product innovations including Lubo Lubrication, 3D adjusting elements, and laser engraving. WASI says its stainless fasteners pre-treated with Lubo Lubrication maximise the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of workflows. Thanks to their special properties, they can be used in a wide range of applications, such as machine building, offshore installations, shipbuilding, industry, above ground and underground structures, and even in the pharmaceutical and food sectors.

In addition, the constantly low friction coefficients of 0.12 help to eliminate the common problem of cold welding. For instance, screws can be tightened at speeds up to 800rpm and loosened at any time without damage.

A further product highlight in the WASI range is the 3D adjusting element. Many machines must be absolutely true if they are to deliver their precision work. The 3D adjusting elements from WASI can be adjusted in all three planes. With a precision in the 0.01mm range, they make sure that every machine can be aligned perfectly true and straight within the shortest of times.

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“We invite all visitors to Fastener Fair to witness the thrilling array of other new products at the WASI stand.” www.wasi.de

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Wiha Stubby VDE makes handling easier The new Wiha Stubby VDE screwdriver, with a bit holder for slimBits, measures just 105mm and offers full protective insulation up to 10,000V AC.

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lso known by its correct name – the SoftFinish® electric slimVario Stubby – this screwdriver consists of two components: The short bit holder handle and a set of three slimBits. Wiha Werkzeuge GmbH says this fastening tool is currently unparalleled in size or length on the market.

“We are pleased to present users with a solution that offers true advantages and added value. The Stubby VDE is short enough for special tasks in extremely tight spaces, yet is also completely safe thanks to its protective insulation. This is exactly what users wanted, as clearly indicated by our work on the market and our long, exhaustive user surveys. In the future, there will be no need for self-created solutions, which often compromise safety,” explains Christian Hilbert, segment manager at Wiha.

The Wiha slimBit system is fully compatible and extends the range of application fields that the Wiha slimFamily is able to cover.

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Bay Supply introduces BayFast brand US online warehouse Bay Supply, a division of Bay Fastening Systems, has added the BayFast brand of engineered fastening products to its wide range of fasteners, adhesives, tool parts and accessories.

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vailable across Europe, the BayFast brand was developed to offer quality alternative products where major manufacturers have either discontinued or increased order minimums to unrealistic levels.

This new line of rivets, lockbolts, threaded inserts and engineered fasteners give customers the same high-quality as well known brand names, but at considerable savings. The company can also provide rivets that have been discontinued or are hard to find. The new BayFast line, like all Bay’s products, is supported by the company’s knowledgeable technical sales engineers and its full service installation systems and repair division.

“We recently introduced our new website, which we believe is the largest engineered fastener resource in the industry. To further enhance support to our customers we wanted to provide a new level of buying opportunity with our own brand,” states Clifford Bernard, president of Bay Supply.

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Sipa...........................................................................49 Skako..................................................................... 125 Smith Bullough.................................................. 172 Socket & Allied Screws Ltd............................ 155 Sormat Oy............................................................103 Specialinsert....................................................... 143 Spirol Industried Ltd........................................ 151 Star Fasteners.................................................... 157 Staytite.................................................................. 145 Taiwan International Fastener Show....... 97 Tecfi SpA............................................................... 105 Tecno Impianti................................................... 127 Tectorius.............................................................. 151 Teknoform Baglanti........................................... 55 Test GmbH...........................................................126 The Insert Company........................................169 Titanox (Rivelit)......................................................7 Titibi....................................................................... 105 Top Screw metal corp Ltd.............................. 173 Trojan Special Fasteners............................... 172 UBK...........................................................................63 Valenta ZT s.r.o.................................................... 81 Verbindungselemente Engel........................... 71 Vipa SpA................................................................. 75 voestalpine GmbH.............................................117 Volt Industrial Plastics Inc............................149 Vorpa..................................................................... 113 VVG........................................................................... 74 Wafios............................................................121, 125 Walter Lumberg..................................................90 Wan Iuan Enterprise Co Ltd.......................... 125 WASI....................................................................... 137 West Special Fasteners.....................................90 Wilhelm Lüsebrink.............................................. 95 Win Fasteners Manufactory........................... 37 WPI Services.......................................................... 73 WTI Fasteners Ltd............................................... 58 Würth Industrie Service................................... 83 Zago Manufacturing Inc...................................15

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