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European importers are feeling the repercussions of the circumvention ruling, in the form of retrospective 85% duties on steel fastener imports from Malaysian exporters that failed to obtain an exemption.

he level of duty means the size of the bill facing some importers is substantial, generating quite a lot of emotion.

What upsets many importers is the feeling there was no way to avoid the jeopardy in which they now find themselves, or could again find themselves in the event of further circumvention investigations.

Of course, and rightly, back duties will be applied to companies that knowingly chose to avoid the duty on Chinese fasteners. However, many importers did audit Malaysian factories and took what they saw as reasonable measures to assess the exporter. Some even obtained customs rulings on product origin.

The basis on which the investigators would assess individual factories, though, was not clear in advance nor indeed is it now.

So importers have to pay significant back duties, in some cases on shipments on the water or already manufactured on the day the circumvention investigation was announced.

Did the Commission fail to consider the commercial realities of fastener importing or consciously choose an indiscriminate weapon that results in the collection of presumably significant sums in back duties, most of which finds its way into central EU income? Whichever way one looks at it, not healthy for the reputation of Trade Defence, which espouses in its mission

statement the qualities of being objective, transparent and providing “an outstanding, timely and trustworthy service to stakeholders”. If retrospective duties are to feature in future circumvention investigations, which all the signs are will be launched, some at least of its stakeholders are likely to feel ill served if they are, as they see it, ambushed again in this way.

Getting a Brazilian outlook

One of the many pleasures of visiting São Paulo last November, in preparation for this year’s Fastener Fair, was to get to know Sérgio Milatias, editor of Revista do Parafuso, Brazil’s fastener industry magazine.

I am pleased to say we have now started exchanging news with Sérgio, which brings a valued additional dimension to our international coverage of the fastener industry. You can read Sérgio’s first column in this issue and further on also see our preview of November’s Fastener Fair Brasil, which with 150 exhibitors is set to be another outstanding Mack Brooks development for the Fastener Fair brand. I’ll be catching up with Sérgio at the show as well as preparing a special report on it for our November issue.

C O N TE N T S INDUSTRY NEWS Europe and World ....................................................................10-22 North America......................................................................... 24-30 Asia........................................................................................... 32-34 Russia + CIS............................................................................. 36-38 Brazil............................................................................................. 40 COVER STORY Two innovative and trusted bolt securing technologies......... 42-43 EXHIBITIONS Events Calendar............................................................................ 41 News...................................................................................... 44 + 52 National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo preview.......... 46 STAFDA preview............................................................................ 48 Fastener Fair Hannover preview.................................................. 50 Fastener Fair Brasil preview................................................. 95-106 FACE2FACE Exclusive interview with Dr Florian Seidl............................... 54-56 INSIGHT A benchmark in fastener distribution.......................................... 58 Avdel turns 75.......................................................................... 60-62 Hexstone offers instant access to market.................................... 77 Getting closer to the customer............................................... 78-80 A rEvolution in quality assurance........................................... 86-88

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n 28th July 2011 the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) formally adopted the Appellate Body report on European Union Definite Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Iron or Steel Fasteners from China (WT/DS397/AB/R). The European Union was required, within 30 days, to state its intentions to implement the DSB’s recommendations and rulings, which it elected to do in writing on 18th August.

The short communication from the EU delegation included the following statement: “The European Union intends to implement the recommendations and rulings of the DSB in this dispute in a manner that respects its WTO obligations. We are consulting internally on the options for doing so. The European Union will need a reasonable period of time in which to do this. My delegation stands ready to discuss this matter with China in due course, in accordance with Article 21.3(b) of the DSU”.

WTO procedures state: “If complying with the recommendation immediately proves impractical, the member will be given a ‘reasonable period of time’ to do so”. At its 2nd September meeting the DSB noted the EU communication. China told the meeting it was ready to discuss the ‘reasonable period of time’ with the EU. If a mutually acceptable timescale is not agreed provision exists for arbitration, normally carried out by a member of the WTO Appellate Body acting in an individual capacity. In the period 2000-2008 reasonable periods of time published determined through arbitration (as published on the WTO website) ranged from 6 to 15 months, with the median 11.5 months.

wto appeals Body upholds key criticisms of eU The WTO Appellate Body upheld key criticisms of EU anti-dumping regulation and its application in the investigation on steel fasteners from China.

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n 15th July the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation made public its response to the appeals lodged by both the European Union and China in relation to the EU’s imposition of anti-dumping duties on steel fasteners from the People’s Republic of China.

The 249-page document outlines the appeals from both parties and addresses the claims by both parties in detail before presenting five pages of Findings and Conclusions.

Most significantly the Appellate Body upheld a WTO Panel ruling that the EU was wrong to apply countrywide duties on a non-market economy rather than determining individual dumping margins for each exporter.

Analysts have interpreted this as meaning the EU will need to rewrite the regulation on which its anti-dumping investigations are based. An unnamed WTO trade official told Reuters the EU would be ill advised to bring further cases against non-market economies based on criteria that had been determined as flawed.

The Appellate Body also found the EU was incorrect in the way it defined the domestic industry, saying that producers representing 27% of EU production did not represent “a major

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proportion” of the total domestic production. In addition, it pointed out that, by limiting the domestic industry definition to those producers willing to be part of the sample, the EU excluded producers that might have provided relevant information. This introduced a material risk of distorting the determination of injury.

Lawyers supporting the Chinese case interpret this finding as meaning that the EU will, in principle, have to re-define the domestic industry in the fasteners investigation. Depending on how the EU does this there could be implications for the injury analysis.

The Appellate Body also considered that the EU acted inconsistently with its obligations by failing to provide timely information about the product types used in determining the normal value. In principle the EU would appear to need to disclose this information, which could provide Chinese exporters the opportunity to claim adjustments based on it. Potentially, this is seen as resulting in adjustments to the comparison between export price and normal value, which could in turn require the determination of new dumping margins.

The Appellate Body did, however, uphold a WTO Panel finding considering that the EU was correct in keeping the identity of complainants confidential. Disclosure of this information would, arguably, have made EU companies reticent to make future complaints to the Commission over alleged dumping. The Appellate Body also reversed a Panel finding and ruled that the EU had been correct in keeping information from the analogue country producer confidential.

The WTO published a summary of its key findings, a copy of which can be downloaded from: http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news11_e/397abr_e.htm In conclusion the Appellate Body recommended “that the DSB (Dispute Settlement Body) request the European Union to bring its measures, found in this Report and in the Panel Report as modified by this Report, to be inconsistent with the Anti-Dumping Agreement and the WTO Agreement, into conformity with its obligations under those Agreements.”

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US industrial maintenance and safety products supplier W.W. Grainger Inc has announced plans to buy Fabory Group for approximately 242 million euros.

The transaction was completed at the end of August.

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im Ryan, Grainger chairman, president and chief executive officer said: “Fabory provides a unique opportunity for Grainger to enter one of the world’s largest MRO markets through an established and growing business.” He added: “Fabory brings expertise as a fastener specialist to amplify Grainger’s product offering, while Grainger’s scale and supplier network will help accelerate further growth of Fabory’s business.”

Fabory Masters in Fasteners, formerly known as Borstlap & Sons, was founded in 1947 by J.M. Borstlap and his sons Karel and Joop. In 2004 ABN Amro Capital acquired the group from the Borstlap family. In 2007 AAC sold it to HgCapital for 345 million euros having reportedly made a substantial return on its investment.

Fabory sales in 2010 were approximately 211 million euros. The Group employs 1,600 people and is headquartered in Tilburg, the Netherlands. In Europe there is a chain of Fabory centres, in addition to the headquarters and central warehouse in Tilburg, and a warehouse in the Czech Republic servicing eastern European branches. The Group operates in USA and Canada, and in China. Fabory supplies some 80,000 product lines, servicing120,000 customers in 110 locations.

Grainger intends for Fabory to continue as a separate business under its own name and brand with Oswald van der Belt, who was appointed in 2008, continuing as CEO. He will report to Court Carruthers, senior vice president and president, Grainger International.

Grainger is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois. 2010 sales were US$7.2 billion servicing businesses and institutions in 157 countries from a 700,000 line range, of which fasteners is said to be a small percentage. It employs 18,500 people and has 600 branches, more than two thirds in the USA. Grainger is expanding in both Asia and Latin America, operating in Mexico, India, Columbia, China, Japan, Puerto Rico and Panama.

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retrospective duty demands hitting importers Following the publication of the Malaysian circumvention ruling, European fastener importers are receiving notification from customs authorities of their liabilities to pay 85% anti-dumping duties backdated to the beginning of the investigation.

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uropean Council Regulation 723/2011, published in the EU Official Journal on 26th July 2011, confirmed the application of 85% anti-dumping duties on imports of certain steel fasteners from Malaysia, except from eight exporters, which were granted exemptions.

The Regulation entered force on 27th July 2011, applying the 85% tariff to imports of the steel fastener range defined in the original investigation against China. The Regulation defines a Taric additional code for each of the eight exempted exporters: Exempted Exporter Acku Metal Industries (M) Sdn. Bhd Chin Well Fasteners Company Sdn. Bhd Jinfast Industries Sdn. Bhd Power Steel and Electroplating Sdn. Bhd Sofasco Industries (M) Sdn. Bhd Tigges Fastener Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd TI Metal Forgings Sdn. Bhd United Bolt and Nut Sdn. Bhd

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Taric Code B123 B124 B125 B126 B127 B128 B129 B130

Exemptions are conditional on presentation to customs authorities of a valid commercial invoice, conforming to requirements set out in the Annex of the regulation. If this is not done the full 85% duty will be applied.

The Regulation also confirms that the duty will apply to imports registered by EU member state customs authorities since the start of the circumvention investigation in October 2010.

Importers are now receiving notification of this liability from national customs authorities, against which they have 30 days to lodge an appeal. The retrospective imposition of duty is causing considerable anger amongst importers. While few are willing to be quoted directly, several have told this magazine they consider this action as wholly unjust. Most argue that they carried out the best assessment they could to ensure a factory was genuinely producing in Malaysia before ordering. Some suspended orders immediately the investigation was announced but were unable to stop shipment of product already manufactured or containers already on the water. Several also complain about lack of transparency from the Commission, which provides no public explanation of why a specific factory failed to obtain an exemption. One UK importer said: “Not only are we now facing a 50,000 euro duty bill, which we could do absolutely nothing to avoid, we will also have to pay 20% VAT on the additional duty.”

The full text of the Regulation can be downloaded from the EU Official Journal, Page L194 26.07.11

Hazardous substance regulation updated On 1st July the European Parliament and Council published Directive 2011/65/EU on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment.

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he regulation, referred to as RoHS2, updates and replaces the original RoHS legislation (Directive 2002/95/EU published in 2003). EU member states are required to bring its provisions into national law by January 2013.

The new regulation will bring into force a number of requirements that will directly affect suppliers to the electronics/electrical products market. In particular it strengthens the requirements on the electronics supply chain to ensure compliance and widens the scope to eventually cover products with any level of electrical function.

Fastener + Fixing Magazine will consider the implications for fastener suppliers in our next issue.

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anixter confirms sale of aerospace hardware division Anixter International Inc has confirmed it has reached a deal to sell its aerospace hardware division to Greenbriar Equity Group LLC. Anixter will get US$155 million in cash for the business, subject to net working capital adjustment, and up to an additional US$30 million if “certain milestones” are achieved before end 2013.

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nixter CEO Robert Eck said the sale captures a “fair value” for the division and allows the company to focus on core operations and strategic initiatives. “Our performance in aerospace hardware has been strong since first entering the business through our 2002 Pentacon acquisition, having achieved first half 2011 revenues of approximately US$94.1 million and EBITDA of US$12 million,” Eck stated.

He continued: “However, customer and supplier consolidation has resulted in a business model that is distinctly different than our overall model. Despite the fact that aerospace has historically delivered operating margins in excess of our corporate average, current high working capital requirements have impacted its return on tangible capital compared to our other businesses; therefore this division is no longer strategically aligned with our overall business.”

Anixter’s aerospace division supplies externally threaded aerospace fasteners to both standard and OEM specifications, including an inventory of Boeing and Airbus standards covering both commercial aircraft and military programmes.

Greenbriar is a private equity firm with US$1.5 billion committed capital, focusing on the global transportation industry.

Bossard – best six-month result In its semi-annual report Bossard celebrated the best six-month result in the company’s history. All of the Group’s three sales regions achieved double-digit sales growth, although the steep rise in the Swiss franc impacted negatively on development in the company’s reporting currency.

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n local currencies six-month sales rose 14.6%, converting to Group sales in Swiss francs at 252.4 million. European sales were CHF143.5 million, up 13.7% in local currencies and 7.2% in Swiss francs. American sales totalled CHF66.8 million, up 16.6% in local currency but converting to a 2.3% reduction in Swiss francs. Sales in Mexico grew by 24.6%. Asian sales grew 14.6% in local currencies, generating CHF42.1 million, with China, India and Taiwan showing particularly high growth rates.

Gross margin fell slightly to 38.6%. Increased costs of raw materials, which could not be fully passed on, were reported as the prime cause and Bossard said: “The highly volatile foreign exchange situation and the development of raw material prices will present a major challenge in the second half of the year.”

The appreciation of the Swiss franc did, however, assist in achieving lower cost increases than sales growth, so the lower gross margin was off-set on the expense side. Consolidated net income for the six months was CHF25.1 million, the best six-month result in the company’s history.

Bossard describes prospects as blurred in a climate of uncertainty, making it hard to determine the extent that economy in general and the Group’s business development in particular will be affected.

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Max Mothes assets acquired In a deal completed on 17th August the administrator sold the assets of the insolvent Max Mothes GmbH to Schuering & Andreas Group.

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ax Mothes had continued to trade during the preliminary insolvency proceedings, which started four months ago, and the company is said to have maintained intensive communication with more than 4,000 customers to help stabilise the business.

Most of the company’s 230 employees were expected to transfer to the new Max Mothes. One company site in Neuss, which houses both a distribution centre and manufacturing facility for special fasteners, will be retained. Max Mothes also previously operated from a historic site within the city of Düsseldorf. The company had sales of around 42 million euros in 2010 and carries more than 80,000 stock lines.

In a competitive bidding process Schuering & Andreas was identified by administrators Kebekus & Zimmermann as the investor with “the best continuation and strategy concept” for the business. “Schuering & Andreas are known as turnaroundexperts, having repeatedly bought insolvent companies and developed them as profitable enterprises with their long-term

investment horizon,” said insolvency administrator Dr. Frank Kebekus. “The purchase price and the over-all concept have been able to convince us and deliver the best possible result for all parties involved.” The actual purchase price and detailed terms of the deal have not been released.

Schuering & Andreas is a group of entrepreneurs active in four companies with 13 production facilities, around 1,100 employees and an annual turnover of around 150 million euros. The group acquired Honsel Umformtechnik from administration in 2002 and also owns VVG Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co. A number of other group companies in differing market sectors were acquired from administration or were the result of buy and build or growth financing strategies. The group says the goal of its investments “is the preservation and/or creation of independent enterprise units, characterised by a futurable market position and a lasting yield capacity”. It is committed to operating successful industrial production in Germany with “lean structures and costs, efficiency, quality and innovative products”.

NORMA generates record sales and earnings NORMA Group AG continues its growth path after a successful IPO in April 2011, with the company increasing its sales considerably by 28.3% to 296 million euros (H1 2010: 231 million euros) for the first half of 2011.

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he company reports that 19.9% of this came from organic growth, with acquisitions accounting for 9.7%. NORMA Group’s adjusted operating earnings (adjusted EBITA) rose to 54 million euros, an increase of 28.1% over the 42 million euros achieved in the first half of 2010. The adjusted EBITA margin came to 18.2% in the first half of 2011, on a par with the first half of the previous year.

“We are extremely satisfied with the development of business. Our outstanding performance in the first half of 2011 confirms that our growth strategy is working and reinforces our leading position in the global market for high-quality joining technology,” said Werner Deggim, CEO of NORMA Group.

In a positive business environment, demand for NORMA Group’s engineered joining technology and system solutions was high across all of its customer segments and regions in the first six months of the year.

NORMA Group acquired new customers and orders for newly developed products and improved its sales in its three regional reporting segments – EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), the Americas and Asia-Pacific. The first half of 2011 also saw the company expand its production capacities with new centres in Thailand and Serbia.

“By opening new production facilities we are expanding our global network and strengthening NORMA Group’s presence in the emerging markets. Our decentralised structure gives us excellent proximity and access to our customers,” added Deggim.

bigHead appoints new distributor in Denmark and Norway bigHead Bonding Fasteners Ltd has announced the appointment of Icom Composites as its new distributor partner in Denmark and Norway.

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artin Cowell, SD of bigHead goes on to explain: “We have seen a considerable increase in demand for our products from the composite sector and as a result have appointed ICOM Composites A/S as our partner to better serve this sector.

ICOM’s knowledge of composites and local technical support will enable us to service this growing market.” He adds: “Such partnerships represent a key part of bigHead’s strategic growth, improving international customers’ access to our products with high quality local support.”

ICOM Composites has been a distributor of raw materials to the composites industry in Scandinavia since 1990. Supplying customers with materials, know-how and support, the bigHead products complete ICOM’s programme from design to the end product.

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Ferodom celebrates jubilee Slovakian fastener specialist Ferodom s.r.o. celebrates ten years of successful business.

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erodom CEO, Jozef Dominik recalls: “When we started our activities in the fastener sector in 2000, with many strong domestic and foreign competitors, hardly anybody believed in a success. On this day, when we celebrate our 10 year jubilee, we can proudly say that Ferodom® has become an appreciated and respected brand on the fastener market”.

“Bolt connection is not any lifeless monster but a vital organism with its own varied internal life,” he continues.

“Only those who know and respect this life can reckon on a reward in the form of reliability and security.” Ferodom, says Jozef Dominik, focuses on being a creative company in which know-how is the dominant quality, in this way extricating itself from the constraints of routine logistic-only activities.

Striving to achieve the best for its customers, Ferodom has used “well-tried marketing tools, like consultations, expert opinions, seminars, lectures, specialised prospects, exhibitions and predominantly, publications in home and foreign periodicals”.

Additionally three specialist books have been published: “Technologie der Gewindeverbindungen” (DE), “Illustriertes Schraubenwörterbuch” (DE-SK-EN) and “Magický svet skrutkových spojov” (SK). Ferodom’s patented IstLock® locking nut (pictured right) was a prize winner at the 2009 Fastener Fair Stuttgart Innovations Forum and was also included in Fastener Technology International’s Top Products of 2010.

“Such extensive activities we could not manage alone, therefore we cooperate with various home and foreign institutions, to which we want to express our gratitude,” concludes Jozef Dominik.

ForgeFix appoints new Scottish sales agent ForgeFix has welcomed Peter Nicholson to its team. He joins the independent distributor of fixings, fastenings and associated products as its sales agent for Scotland – a particularly important region for the business.

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uring his career, Peter has worked as the national accounts manager for Henkel Home Improvements as well as for B&Q, Texas Home Care and Unibond. He brings with him an in-depth understanding of the trade sector as well as a genuine commitment to excellence.

Speaking of his new role, Peter commented: “I’m delighted to be working for ForgeFix. It’s an excellent company with a strong and growing reputation. I’m looking forward to making my own contribution to its continuing success.”

Mike Smith, sales and marketing director at ForgeFix, added: “Peter’s appointment is great news for ForgeFix and also reflects our commitment to customers in Scotland. With his expertise in the industry, we’ve every confidence he will prove an invaluable addition to the team.”

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The Zwick Roell Group is offering a prize to the value of 10,000 euros to find the oldest testing machine (regardless of maker) still in regular use. As an added bonus, all of the participants’ names will be entered into a free-prize draw to win an Apple iPad 2.

he competition was launched at Zwick’s ‘Modernisations’ symposium, held at the company’s main headquarters in Ulm, Germany on 25th May 2011. As manufacturers and designers of quality materials testing instruments since 1937, the Zwick team would be particularly interested to find a functioning ‘antique’ testing instrument from the early days, although they know this may be unlikely.

The proud owner of the oldest useable instrument will win a voucher to the value of 10,000 euros, to spend on the most up to date Zwick system of their choice. The closing date for entries is 30th June 2012 and prizes will be presented during the 21st testXpo at Zwick’s premises in Ulm in October 2012.

Entrants should send a picture of the complete machine, a calibration report or video as proof of serviceability, and a picture of the clearly legible identification plate, directly to Zwick at josef.leyendecker@zwick.de.

Service second to none The Martyn Price Fasteners team has been monitoring company performance for many years and has seen a reduction in warehouse errors that have reached zero three times during the last six months.

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ecently appointed sales manager, Ray Southam, comments: “I have been touring the UK fastener market and the feedback from customers has been excellent. Comparing Martyn Price Fasteners against our competitor service, we are streets ahead; picking and delivering the right parts at the right time and saving our customers inconvenience and the cost of disruption.”

“Perfection is always difficult to maintain and there are other areas of the business where we continue to strive for excellence,” says Southam. “It is good to see that the team efforts have paid off and customers recognise the efforts that have been made”.

Schnorr goes app Schnorr GmbH says that it is the first company to offer an iPhone app providing detailed information about disc springs, serrated safety washers and load washers.

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he new iPhone app includes a product locator which allows users to simply type in a dimension of a product, such as the inner or outer diameter, and the locator will show a list of products with matching dimensions.

The app will also allow users to find their nearest Schnorr office or representative. All the user has to do is enter the town, postcode, or even use the more convenient ‘around me’ button inside the locator, to be given all the contact details of the nearest office/representative, along with the option of map navigation.

A QR - code reader allows users to identify the corresponding product and access all information directly, meaning that if there are no installation guidelines to hand, the user simply needs to scan the product QR - code and download the designated guidelines or characteristics.

“With the app you will always have the latest news and event notes at hand, the app is available at Apples itunes store and version 1 is dedicated to run on the iPhone.”

Fastbolt golf day provides valued support for hospice Julia Rogerson, events and promotions manager at Willen Hospice, accepts a cheque for £7,000 from Fastbolt directors, Graham Joyce, Amanda True and Rob Brunger.

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he fourth Fastbolt Charity Golf Day, held in memory of Heinz Storch, once again exceeded previous results on behalf of the hospice in Milton Keynes, which provides specialist physical, emotional, spiritual and practical support to people with life limiting conditions, as well as their families.

Speaking at the golf day presentation Julia Rogerson had emphasised the vital importance of events like Fastbolt’s in contributing to the hospice’s fund raising target, particularly in the face of constrained government funding for its services.

Receiving the cheque she reiterated Willen’s appreciation for the generosity of participants at the golf day and the continued commitment of the Fastbolt team to its organisation.

Next year’s event will be staged again at the Mentmore Golf and Country Club on Friday 15th June.

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First Half 2011: North American fastener sales and profit see sustained growth Demand for aerospace and automotive fasteners continued to make strong gains in the second quarter of 2011, reaching double-digit growth by the end of July.

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hile sales in Europe were especially robust and sales in Asia remained strong, U.S. sales also experienced growth, though generally at a slower pace. Sales of industrial and construction fasteners also achieved higher volumes and margins as both market sectors saw consumer demand for their end-products rise.

Among North American publicly traded companies with fastener operations tracked by GlobalFastenerNews.com: • Trimas Corp. reported sales for its aerospace and defense segment, including Monogram Fasteners, increased 23.9% to US$21.33 million, “due primarily to improved demand for blind bolts and temporary fasteners from aerospace distribution customers.”

• Carpenter Technology reported aerospace market sales, including fastener material, grew as “demand for titanium fastener material is approaching prior peak levels with continued strong demand expected in the coming year,” the company stated.

• Precision Castparts reported that its fastener segment is “contractually well positioned for growth and has lowered its cost structure significantly during the downturn, which will enable the segment to drop through solid incremental margins as the sales picture begins to improve.”

For full company results, including more than three years of sales and profit figures, subscribers can click on the Fastener Stock Review section of GlobalFastenerNews.com

Cardinal Fastener files bankruptcy, suspends operations Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, has suspended manufacturing and filed for bankruptcy.

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EO John Grabner said Cardinal’s revenue is growing and the company remains profitable on an operating level. In an emailed statement to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Grabner described the bankruptcy filing as “largely as a result of an impasse in negotiations with Wells Fargo, our primary lender, regarding working capital financing.”

“We have been working with our lenders to secure more flexible working capital arrangements for some time and would certainly have preferred to keep this out of the courts, but this action ultimately provided an appropriate forum to restructure and provide for our future growth,” the Plain Dealer quoted Grabner. Days before the filing, Grabner had said imports were hurting American manufacturers involved in wind energy.

When Cardinal Fastener emerges from Chapter 11, the company will likely have a big new investor - if not a new owner, Crain’s Cleveland Business reports.

Cardinal nearly doubled its revenues in four years with wind energy fasteners. It was supplying more than a dozen wind turbine builders, including the Danish wind manufacturer Vestas and the Spanish Gamesa SA. Customers also included more than 100 global suppliers involved in fabrication, transportation, construction and maintenance of 8,000 parts needed in wind turbines, Maria Gallucci of SolveClimateNews reported.

Grabner has been a leading advocate for lean manufacturing and spoken at several fastener industry events about Cardinal Fastener’s lean efforts. Cardinal Fastener adopted the Toyota Production System lean program in 1998.

Cardinal Fastener gained international attention when Barack Obama toured Cardinal’s plant on 16th January 2009, enroute to his inauguration. Obama touted Cardinal Fastener’s domestic manufacturing of wind energy industry fasteners.

Toggler Anchor acquires Wej-It product lines Toggler Anchor System has acquired the product line of Wej-It Fastening Systems.

Toggler is a division of Norwalk, CT-based Mechanical Plastics Corp.

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he acquisition combines two well-known brands – the Toggler light-to-medium duty anchors and the Wej-It heavy-duty concrete anchoring technology. Wej-It recently introduced a power screw bolt and CCAT cracked concrete anchors. Wej-It stock in Oklahoma will be moved to MPC’s corporate headquarters in Connecticut.

Founded in 1968, family-owned and operated Toggler manufactures all of its anchors in the USA. Customers include Grainger, Fastenal, MSC Industrial Supply, Lowes and OEMs.

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Skeletal Dynamics medical implant relies on self-locking fastener Skeletal Dynamics specifies Spiralock self-locking fastener to withstand up to one million loading cycles for its new elbow replacement implant.

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keletal Dynamics recently developed its Align Radial Head System, an artificial elbow joint designed to restore the natural function of the native radial head.

“We aimed to fill a gap in the market by providing the ability to orient the joint to its natural position during surgery, and then locking it in place for the rest of the patient’s life,” explained Tom Norman, vice president of engineering.

“We considered traditional fastener thread forms, but lacked confidence that they would stay in place for the up to a million load cycles an active patient could subject them to in their lifetime.” said Norman.

Skeletal Dynamics chose a self-locking Spiralock fastener. Spiralock, whose self-locking fasteners are used for design challenges in medical, aerospace/military, automotive, heavy truck, food processing, agriculture, construction, rail, and oil drilling industries, is part of Emhart Teknologies.

Würth Group ranked 50th biggest German firm in the U.S. The German American Chamber of Commerce announced the Würth Group is the 50th largest German company in the U.S.

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ürth Group joins well-known names such as Daimler Group, Siemens, Allianz and BMW on the list. In the U.S. Würth has 98,000 active customers and employs more than 2,300 people.

Würth’s North American sales in 2010 totalled US$794 million.

The Würth Group first tried to establish distributorships in the U.S. in 1969, using successful European formulas. In the 1990s Würth sought to expand in North America by acquiring well-known distributorships, including Eastern Fasteners of Connecticut; RevCar Fasteners Inc., Virginia; Snider Bolt & Screw, Kentucky; Adams Nut & Bolt Co., Minnesota; and Indiana-based Service Supply Company.

Würth increased 2010 sales in North America by 12% by adding 700,000 order lines, to increase its total to 6.7 million.

All five of Würth’s divisions grew in 2010: Trade, wood, metal, auto and industry. The wood division encompassed 46% of North American sales.

Würth projects worldwide sales of US$28.7 billion by 2020 and 100,000 employees.

NFDA drops international membership The National Fastener Distributors Association announced it would drop its international membership recruitment and inclusion program started in 2009.

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FDA executive vice president Mark Lenhart explained: “When the decision was originally made to expand NFDA membership worldwide, the board believed this would be an effective way to unify the international fastener industry toward a common goal, but as sourcing of products worldwide has become more commonplace, it is not necessary for the NFDA to provide international businesses access to our membership.”

Lenhart told GlobalFastenerNews.com that the NFDA will continue to help North American fastener distributors and manufacturers “expand their global footprint.”

The NFDA led a delegation to Fastener Fair Stuttgart earlier this year and has a trade mission scheduled for Fastener Fair Brasil (8th – 9th November 2011).

The NFDA is one of three charter members of the Global Platform for Fasteners with the Taiwan Fastener Trade Association and the European Fastener Distributors Association.

The GFP goals are to “promote an environment where fastener manufacturers and distributors can work together to achieve a strong and reliable worldwide fastener supply chain.”

UK firm to acquire Reid Supply UK-based Filtrona plc has signed an agreement to acquire Reid Supply Co. for as much as US$32 million.

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uskegon, MI-based Reid Supply distributes fasteners and other standard industrial components throughout the US and 57 other countries, and will become part of Filtrona’s Protection & Finishing Products (PFP) division.

“The acquisition of Reid Supply is an excellent addition to the PFP division,” stated Filtrona CEO Colin Day. “These products will significantly enhance PFP’s offering both in the US and Europe, with Reid Supply’s customers also gaining access to PFP’s US distribution network and product range.”

Founded in 1948 Reid Supply supplies fasteners and other standard industrial components to manufacturing, CAD and engineering, transportation construction, food processing, packaging, energy, government, aerospace and medical markets.

Filtrona is headquartered in Milton Keynes, England, and supplies speciality plastic and fibre products. The company has 3,160 employees in 29 manufacturing facilities, 41 sales and distribution operations and six R&D centers.

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Volt Industrial Plastics relocates to boost capacity Volt Industrial Plastics has relocated its manufacturing operations to a larger facility in Yellville, Arkansas.

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olt purchased the former SLM Electronics building and customized the facility for its plastic fastener manufacturing operation. The new 65,000 square foot plant is over two and a half times larger than Volt’s former facility, enabling it to expand its production range.

Stock at the new location will double to approximately one billion parts, allowing for same-day order fulfillment for catalog items. Shipping and receiving facilities are also expanded at the new location.

“The new facility not only enhances the efficiency of our operations, it allows for increased production, inventory, and shipping capabilities to benefit our customers,” stated Volt COO Heidi Volltrauer-Skiver.

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What sells fasteners in South Africa GlobalFastenerNews.com recently visited three fastener companies in South Africa: a manufacturer and a master distributor in Johannesburg and a Cape Town-based national distributor.

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rice competition, importing from Asia, a recession, tariffs, multi-generation family companies and corporate acquisitions were all familiar issues.

Compared with the US, though, fewer companies use barcoding, there are almost no trade associations and few outside sales people.

South Africa is the 25th largest country by geographic size and 28th by population. Its GDP is the 28th largest. At 24%, South Africa’s unemployment rate for its nearly 50 million people is staggering compared with American and European industrial nations.

Except for “safety-critical” applications, fasteners manufactured in Europe and the U.S. are generally too expensive for the South African market. Asia is the major fastener supplier to South African distributors. There is growing interest in importing from India and Malaysia.

Manufacturer: Competing with imports Just as in North America and Europe, a South African manufacturer notices the price competition from imported fasteners and the problem is the first mentioned by Anthony Diamond. “In South Africa, we are faced with problems from imports and the ever increasing challenges we face with skills development in our industry,” the managing director of Impala Nut & Bolt SA (Pty) Ltd., told GlobalFastenerNews.com.

Impala answered the skills development issue by training internally. Located in the Wadeville, Germiston industrial section of Johannesburg, Impala Bolt & Nut is an independent cold-forming manufacturer of large range of bolts, nuts and screws for a wide variety of industries – including construction, engineering, automotive and mining. Products include metric hexagon head bolts and screws; metric round head bolts, hexagon nuts, washers and specials. Steel comes from ArcilorMittal SA, which annually produces 5.8 million tons of steel in South Africa from iron ore sourced there.

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Impala Bolt was founded in 1995 by Anthony Diamond’s father, Aubrey Diamond. The senior Diamond had been in the fastener industry for more than 40 years, owning IFM for many years before its merger with National Bolts, where he became managing director.

Anthony Diamond entered the fastener business in 1995. He began “moving the business in the direction of supplying good quality manufactured products with the service and care of a merchant – effectively passing all the benefits of dealing with a factory to the client and also keeping that personal touch that clients want”. He adds: “The key to success has always been customer service and priority above all else.”

Most of the fasteners Impala manufactures are sold in Africa.

“Impala’s focus has always been to sell to end users, although we have aligned with certain distributors whom we assist in increasing their market share. We have an understanding of cooperating with our distributors entirely so we do not compete at any stage.” Ultimately, the key to success in manufacturing fasteners in Africa is “knowing the market you are competing in and making sure you are always up for the challenges that manufacturing presents in South Africa.”

While more Americans know of “Impala” as a model of the Chevrolet produced since 1958, the bolt manufacturer is named after the southern African reddish-brown antelope with the characteristic “M” rear white marking.

Master distributor: India & Malaysia growing as suppliers “Price, price and price,” master distributor Rob Simes described as the key to the South African fastener market. Simes, managing director of Johannesburg, South Africa-based UPL Socket Screws (Pty) Ltd., and his brother, Richard, are second generation in the fastener industry. Their father, Edward Simes, spent a career in the fastener industry and in finding niche markets.

Today the UPL Group supplies fasteners to a variety of distributors in South Africa.

The keys to success in the South African fastener market are led by “being very aggressive on pricing,” Simes told GlobalFastenerNews.com. “You can’t just open up and wait for customers.” Simes rated delivery on time as the second most

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The recession that most of the world felt in 2008 also struck South Africa. “It has been a tough market. By the end of 2010 we were in recovery, but not back to what we had in 2007.” Inside calls dominate sales - UPL currently has no reps on the road.

Simes finds low employee turnover: “Most of the UPL staff have been here longer than I have.”

Computerization is limited in the South African market in terms of online purchasing. Simes knows of only a few of his distributor customers using barcoding.

Development of UPL Group goes back to 1929 when Gordon Webster founded Gordon Webster & Company (PTY) Ltd - a distributorship for various fixtures and fittings.

Unbrako bought the Webster company in 1966 and changed its name to Unbrako (Pty) Ltd. In 1985 some university-based owners from the U.S. protested the Unbrako ownership of an African company during apartheid.

In 1986 Edward Simes bought the company from Unbrako and changed the name to UPL. Simes’ father had been with National Bolts and was commissioned to open National Socket Screws as its socket screw division. He was then offered the position of managing director at Unbrako South Africa. The market was dominated by National Socket Screws and Unbrako, the only two companies allowed by the government to import fasteners. “Those were the good days,” Simes recalled. Now many distributors can import directly through clearing agents creating more competition for master distributors.

In 1987, Edward Simes opened Minox to import and supply stainless steel and in 1999 he opened Socketex with sole distribution rights of the Taiwanese produced YFS product. In 2010 all the companies were merged into the UPL Group with branches in Durbin, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.

The second-generation brothers each started in warehouse jobs and since their father retired in 2009 they now share management duties at the headquarters in a business/industrial park in suburban Johannesburg.

UPL imports 100% of its fasteners – primarily from the Far East, including India and Malaysia. UPL represents Unbrako for some applications such as heavy machinery where “life and death” is an issue, Simes explained. Otherwise U.S. and European fasteners are generally too expensive for the African market. Simes and his father attended Fastener Fair Stuttgart in 2007 and anticipates going to Fastener Fair India 2013. “We are getting very good fasteners and prices from India,” Simes explained. The Simes brothers attended a fastener show in China this year.

Distributor: Recession ups price pressure “The competition has become more price intense since the recession,” Daneel Herselman observed of the current South African fastener industry. Herselman, general manager of the Boltfast seven-branch distributorship based in Cape Town, finds more competition with smaller, new distributors opening. “It has a quick impact on the market with their low operating cost,”

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Herselman said in an interview with GlobalFastenerNews.com at the Cape Town headquarters. “But they can’t always maintain those lower prices.”

Boltfast seeks to “provide solutions, not just a quick buck,” Herselman added. A key to Boltfast’s success has been “expertise and focus on services. We have stock available with one stop shipping.” Many South African distributors – known locally as ‘stockists’ – “fear keeping too much stock,” Herselman finds.

Boltfast’s fasteners primarily come from Taiwan or China. There are a limited amount from Europe and the United States. Today two-thirds of Boltfast sales are to end users, including manufacturing, mining, boating and marine OEMs. Boltfast’s specialties include stainless steel fasteners.

Boltfast was acquired by a publicly held agriculture-based company, Overberg Agri Ltd., in 2007. Herselman came to Boltfast from Overberg. He started as Boltfast’s finance manager in 2007 and last year became general manager. The South African native’s background is accounting – including working for Deloitte & Touche – rather than fasteners. Now Herselman says he likes the fastener industry. “You can’t live without a fastener,” he explained his realization of why he has grown interested in the industry.

• South Africa has imposed anti-dumping duties on bolts, nuts and set screws, Herselman noted.

• Boltfast is accredited by the South Africa Bureau of Standards (SABS). “Unfortunately, there is not a government body for quality,” Herselman said. There is a Consumer Product Act, but it involves OEM customers more than fastener suppliers.

Though Boltfast is looking into options to provide barcoding, “there is no barcoding yet,” in the country’s fastener industry, Herselman said. Operations manager Shawn Duncan noted the purchasing and accounting departments have full control systems.

“We are going green,” Duncan said of new invoices with barcoding. Herselman noted most sales are by faxes or emails.

Boltfast has outside sales reps and two “well-qualified quality technicians” who also provide technical assistance and training.

More than 75% of Boltfast’s 250+ employees have been with the distributor more than 25 years. Herselman said Boltfast hires primarily through HR agencies, “though with low turnover we don’t have many vacancies.” When there are openings, Duncan noted Boltfast prefers to promote current employees to “grow within.”

Boltfast contributes to a compulsory pension fund, medical insurance and the required unemployment insurance fund.

Across the street in the warehouse neighborhood is Boltfast’s internal plating facility. Boltfast provides galvanizing, yellow zinc plating and black oxidizing primarily for its own fasteners.

Boltfast stocks 24,000 items including stainless steel, brass, high tensile, mid steel, socket head fasteners and roofing & fastening systems.

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Asian News Chin Well confident exports to Europe will increase Chin Well Holdings Bhd, Malaysia’s largest manufacturer of fasteners, expressed optimism its exports to Europe will increase in the next three years, following the exemption from anti-dumping duties granted by the EU.

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n a statement, the Penang-based manufacturer said it was among eight Malaysian companies exempted from the 85% anti-dumping duty imposed by the European Union following completion of its circumvention investigation.

“The group’s exemption from the high tariffs on exports to Europe affirms Chin Well’s reputation as genuine manufacturer and exporter of Malaysian-made fasteners to the world,” said the company’s managing director Tsai Ying Chuan.

Following the exemption he expects exports to Europe to continue to contribute more than 50% of group sales for the next three years. Sales to the domestic market and other foreign markets command 30% and 20% of sales respectively.

Following the application of EU anti-dumping duties on fasteners from China, Chin Well saw a 40% increase in export sales to Europe to RM134 million (31.75 million euros).

CSC holds wire rod and bar prices Taiwan’s China Steel Corporation announced mixed price movement for October and November shipments to the domestic market but wire rod and bar prices remain unchanged.

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n average CSC increased prices across all steel grades by 1% but this included reductions in sheet steel and electrical sheets. Hot and cold rolled steel and HDG sheets all saw increases.

CSC noted that the third quarter was the low season for the world steel market and combined with slowdowns in European and US economies, and pressure to adjust inventory, world prices had generally fallen. However, its own export prices had begun to see a rebound and CSC anticipated price increases in the fourth quarter from other major steel suppliers. Constrained electricity supply in China, together with anticipation of the coming high season, had offset softer demand and the effect of tighter monetary policies on the mainland steel market, resulting in September price increases.

Homn Reen starts production in Vietnam Homn Reen has started the first phase of production at the Vietnam plant it started constructing last year. Two more phases are planned to reach full production by 2014. The plant will concentrate on small-pack, labour intensive, basic and middle grade screws including collated with a target output of 24,000 tonnes annually.

Source: Fastener World

Gem Year cuts profit forecast

Brighton Best world sales increase by 33%

Gem Year has slashed its profit forecast by 50% for the first three quarters of 2011 on concerns over the rail market in China, following safety concerns over high speed rail systems.

Brighton Best International consolidated sales last year were NT$4.609 billion (approximately 108 million euros). Net operating profit for 2010 was NT$157 million.

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n its interim report Gem Year says the frequency of highspeed train accidents raises concern and is affecting existing demand as well as new projects.

For the first half Gem Year profits fell 12% to RMB 105 million (11.5 million euros) despite 21% revenue growth to RMB 1.54 billion (167 million euros). First half fastener revenue rose 24.77% to RMB 443 million (48 million euros) while revenue from high speed rail parts slipped 7% to RMB 485 million.

Higher labour, material and energy costs are also said to be impacting earnings.

Source: Fastener World

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he stockholder committee voted that NT$135 million net income after tax last year would be reserved for continued market expansion and consolidation of distribution channels. Turnover 2011 to May was

NT$2.418 billion up 33% year on year with a net income of NT$111 million compared with NT$19 million for same period 2010.

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Sundram reports 29% sales increase quarter to June Sundram Fasteners reported a 29% rise in turnover to Rs 522 crore (approximately 81 million euros) in the quarter to 30th June 2011. Exports increased 44% and accounted for 28.5% of sales. Net profit after tax was up 55%.

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Sheh Kai new bimetal line Sheh Kai’s new bimetal production line will be in full production during Quarter 3, increasing the company’s monthly output from 15 to 20 million screws.

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Sheh Kai annual revenue last year was NT$750 million with a net profit of NT$110 million.

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Right Tight expands manufacturing capacity Established in 1979, Right Tight Fasteners PVT Ltd (RTF), based in Nashik, India, has gained a reputation in the industrial sector for supplying fasteners and customised products for a wide range of critical applications in the automotive, agricultural, heavy engineering, chemical, and military sectors.

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TF is ISO/TS 16949:2009 certified and has facilities covering 25,000m2 across five locations. The company has recently undergone an expansion programme to expand its bolt manufacturing capacity to approximately 10,000 metric tonnes in the size range of M5 - M22.

RTF is also able to offer heat treatment, zinc plating, zinc aluminium flake coating facilities, bolt formers and secondary operation machines.

“Our aim for the future is to cover a wider market with a focus on high quality, innovative products and excellent service.”

Indian automotive demand hit by anti-inflation policies The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers announced domestic vehicle sales fell by 16% in July - the first fall in three years.

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he slowdown is blamed on rising fuel costs and the Indian central bank’s tough anti-inflationary policies. Benchmark interest rates rose to 8% in July, the eleventh increase in less than two years. India has downgraded its growth forecast for fiscal year 2011-12 from 9% to 8.2%.

New high-end fastener base in Xinyang Chinese Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) has signed a strategic cooperation with Henan Aerospace Precision Machining Co Ltd to establish a high technology fastener manufacturing base in Xinyang, China.

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enan is reported to have invested RMB 230 million (25 million euros) in a first phase of Xinyang Industrial City, to produce up to 80 million titanium alloy fasteners annually. Henan plans further investment in aviation and aerospace fastener production over the coming five years targeted at supplying military and international aviation sectors with up to 200 million units annually.

Shanghai Prime bidding for Shanghai High Strength Bolting Co., Ltd Shanghai Prime Machinery Company Limited announced it will bid for equity in Shanghai High Strength Bolting Co.,Ltd and Shanghai Fastener & Welding Material Technology Research Centre.

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he proposed sale of 100% equity in the two companies was announced

by Shanghai Electric (Group) Corporation, which is itself a substantial shareholder in Shanghai Prime. Shanghai High Strength Bolting Co., Ltd engages in the manufacture of high strength fasteners and is one of the largest Chinese manufacturers of high strength steel fasteners for steel structures.

Shanghai Fastener & Welding Material Technology Research Centre engages in research and development in innovative fastener technology, product and equipment and conducting fastener quality testing.

Shanghai Prime says if it succeeds in the acquisition it will strengthen its domestic and international fastener business.

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Japanese fastener exports fall Overall volumes of fastener exports from Japan fell 3.5% to 150,791 tonnes in the first half of 2011. Fastener exports by value fell 4.19% to 119.6 billion Yen (approximately 1.1 billion euros).

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ata from Kinzoku Sangyo Simbunsha Press published by ChinaFastener.info shows the largest export category of other iron and steel bolts fell 4.6% to 86,334 tonnes, a 4.66% reduction in value to 51.7 billion Yen. Exports of stainless steel bolts fell marginally by volume to 1,511 tonnes but declined 6% in value to 2.1 billion Yen. Exports of screws grew 13% by volume to 9,500 tonnes but export value fell by 3.7% to 14.4 billion Yen. Self tapping screws saw the largest fall in volume at 13.65% to 4,867 tonnes worth 4.29 billion Yen, a 19% decline. A number of lower volume categories, including stainless steel nuts, spring and other washers, pins and rivets saw volume increases although export value in most cases fell marginally or grew by only a small amount.

The figures suggest that the impact of the earthquake disaster on Japanese fastener production was not widespread.

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Customs Union applies anti-dumping duty on fasteners from Ukraine In June the Commission of the Customs Union (CU) ruled on “measures for protection of the economic interests of machine-building fasteners producers in the Customs Union”.

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he Commission decided to assess an anti-dumping duty, set at 21.8%, on engineering fasteners imported to the common customs territory of the Customs Union from Ukraine and classified under codes 7318 15 810 0, 7318 16 100 0, 7318 16 910 9, 7318 16 990 0 FEACC CU for the period till 13th May 2012. The Commission of the CU approved price obligations undertaken by the Druzhkovskiy Hardware Plant and decided not to levy the anti-dumping duty for fasteners produced by this plant on condition that a Producer Certificate is introduced.

Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation formed a customs union under an agreement signed in October 2007. The superior body of the Customs Union is an Inter-State Council comprising heads of states and governments. The agreement established the Commission of the Customs Union as a common permanent regulatory body. Within the CU territory no customs duties and economic restrictions are to be used, except special protective, anti-dumping and countervailing measures. A common customs duty and other common measures regulating trade with third countries is used by members of the CU.

Rechitzkiy Hardware Plant masters new fasteners Specialists of Rechitzkiy Hardware Plant have mastered self-tapping screws for microwave ovens – a new fastener type for the Belarusian nail and screw manufacturer.

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he new fasteners, designed to replace imported ones, are to pass industrial testing in the assembling workshops of the customer. According to Alexander Pecherskiy, the head of the technical department of the Rechitzkiy Hardware Plant, the drawing and the necessary design documentation were made by the specialists of the plant according to provided samples of the self-tapping screws. Special tooling produced in Taiwan was installed on equipment in the small fasteners production shop to fulfil orders from the Midea-Horizont company. Annual production volume for the screws, taking into account Midea-Horizont produces around three million microwaves per year, is expected to be around 160 tonnes.

New Henkel logistic complex in Permskiy Region In July 2011 the Henkel company started construction of the largest logistic complex in Permskiy Region, which is to become one of the most modern logistic centres in Russia with a CAM system of storage and product dispatch.

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he floor area of the complex will be about 12,500 square metres, providing a storage capacity of up to 25,000 pallets.

Investment for the project will total more than 500 million rubles (12 million euros). Henkel says it is constantly searching for the most environment-friendly approach to logistics, with main priorities rational use of natural resources and reduction of noxious emissions. Building the new complex will allow the company to reduce CO² emission rates through optimised logistic schemes and a shortening of cargo transportation distance by a total of several thousand kilometers per year.

The new logistic centre will help to improve service for the company’s partners, including availability of products and promptitude of delivery. “The provision of high quality services to our partners is the key factor in realisation of the principles of steady development in the chain added value, as well as in various business fields and in everyday life”, said Peter Gunter, president of Henkel Russia.

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Russian aircraft producers mastering lean production Over a period of one year about 600 specialists will take part in the programme: “Elements of lean production” in Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Production Union (KnAAPO) named after Yuriy Gagarin.

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80 men received training in May and June. The programme consists of four main courses: “Elements of Lean production”, “Rational workplace arrangement according to 5C system”, “Standardised work” and “Methods of problem solving”.

In conjunction with Sukhoy company, of which KnAAPO is part, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has created a problem-solving board focused on “lean-technologies”. The members of the board are representatives of the large aircraft building enterprises. Its main goal is improvement of the management methods in design and production of world competitive aviation equipment.

US senator demands easing of Russian assembly rules Debbie Stabenau, a Michigan senator has written to Ron Kirk, presidential representative in international trade negotiations, and asked him to demand from Russia the removal of trade barriers against American cars before Russia is allowed to enter the Word Trade Organisation.

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he senator says: “Moscow’s unjust policy reduces the volume of exports of American cars to Russia.” According to Ms. Stabenau, Moscow should not be allowed to maintain protectionist measures in relation to their automakers during Russian negotiations to enter the WTO. She says that were Russia already a member of the WTO such rules would be illegal. That is why, she says, the demand should be made for the cancelation of the measures during the negotiation regarding Russia’s entry to the WTO. Prime minister Vladimir Putin has already said previously that Russia does not intend to cancel the second set of conditions on industrial assembly in exchange for entry to the WTO. The European Commission has also expressed its annoyance with the tougher industrial assembly rules that have come into force in Russia since February.

“We continue our not simple dialogue with the European Commission and our American partners in the process of our assessment for entry to the WTO. They insist on our cancellation of two requirements: production of 300,000 cars per year and localisation up to 60%. We answered that our position in these points remains unchanged; it is a red line that will not be overstepped as a trade-off of the interests of our automakers”, announced the head of the Russian Government.

Anchor rail fasteners shorten travel time In autumn the passengers of Kursk will have an opportunity to come to Moscow by train for 5 hours, made possible by the introduction of new rail anchor fasteners.

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assenger trains will be able to travel at up to 160kph, announced Sergey Vorobyev, the chief engineer of the Kursk Part of the Russian Railways, compared with the former 110kph. New rails are fastened to the cross sleepers, not with traditional bolts but with new anchor rail fasteners (ARF), which means fastener replacement need only take place every five years.

The work will be finished by 1st November, underlined Mr. Vorobyev. Then all freight and passenger trains will be able to travel as scheduled, in spite of extensive repair work. Later this part of the railway will be able to use new types of trains, but this cannot happen until track stabilisation work is completed on the entire rail stretch from Belgorod to Moscow.

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Partnership shares fastener knowledge Automakers and other users of fasteners in Brazil are sharing knowledge through a partnership.

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rupo Parafusagem Brasil has been active in Brazil since 2009, a partnership between manufacturers, systems and other fastener users in search of improvements and technical solutions through the sharing of knowledge. The group, initiated by Dirley Ottoni de Oliveira, an engineer at PSA Peugeot Citroen, has the support and involvement of other automakers and their management.

The first meeting was held in Indaiatuba, São Paulo, organised

by PSA Peugeot Citroen. The second was in June 2010 in Sao Jose dos Pinhais, organised by Renault Brazil.

Today, the initiative includes 29 individuals, from Renault, Scania, Embraer, Iveco, Fiat Power Train, PSA Peugeot Citroen, VW Trucks, Mercedes Trucks, Stola, Takata Petri and John Deere.

According to Ottoni: “After the creation and implementation of meetings, we improved the knowledge of the technologies used in each company. In addition, networking between equipment and process engineering suppliers has evolved and is offering new

applications and technologies among the participants.”

Objectives of the group include ways to optimise technical synergies between automakers, expanding the knowledge of different providers, and emphasise the advantages of connectivity to share knowledge. The aim is to make the meetings a chance to exchange experiences and to expand technical understanding between companies. The intention is to continue to expand membership to other manufacturers and gain approval of the group with ANFAVEA, the Brazilian Association of Vehicle Manufacturers, and to be members of the MERCOSUR carmakers organisation. “Importantly, we respect the confidentiality guidelines of each company, and the accession of the other automakers will be of fundamental importance for the evolution of the group,” concluded Ottoni.

The 2011 meeting took place in the summer, working with VW Trucks and Stola do Brazil.

New industrial policy facilitates manufacturing equipment investment A new Brazilian industrial policy, provisionally labelled the Competitiveness Development Policy (CDP), will contain four initiatives to make the purchase of machinery and equipment easier.

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ccording to development minister, Fernando Pimentel, the initiative is “a vitamin injection in the vein of industry, which has been suffering from the overvalued exchange rate and unfair competition from imported products.”

The four actions are: the immediate recovery of Brazilian purchase taxes paid by those who purchase production equipment (currently this takes 12 months), accelerated depreciation of equipment from five years to 12 months; the exemption of international taxes for the purchase of machinery and allowing manufacturers of machinery to buy inputs without paying Brazilian purchase or international taxes.“With the cheap dollar and tax relief, we have the opportunity to make a huge modernisation of the industrial park,” said Pimentel.

A wider range of measures are intended to encourage innovation and strengthen trade defence but, as yet, there is no consensus among the ministries participating in developing the new industrial policy.

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ose Gianesi Sobrinho is president of SINPA, the Brazilian Fastener Industry Association. SINPA has 51 fastener manufacturers as full members and links with more than 450 companies in the state of São Paulo associated with the fastener industry. SINPA plays a key role in representing the interests of the Brazilian fastener manufacturing sector with government bodies and other sectors in the fastener production chain. In the June/July issue of Revista do Parafuso Gianesi speaks in detail about the issues facing the Brazilian fastener industry, including a domestic steel market dominated by two major suppliers; why some fastener manufacturers in Brazil also have to act as importers; the need for the automotive sector to increase its sourcing of domestically manufactured fasteners and other government initiatives that could support SINPA members.

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Sacma presents first workshop in Brazil Sacma Limbiate, together with Ingramatic and Carbodies, presented its first educational workshop in Brazil in May, at the Holiday Inn Hotel, São Paulo.

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opics included the ease of operation and efficiency of the Italian heading machinery particularly for production of complex parts; the flexibility of Ingramatic thread rolling equipment, including in SEMS assembly; and some new perspectives on forging.

The event was coordinated by Carlos Camargo and Douglas Camargo, directors of Sacma Brazil, supported

by Sacma’s Latin American commercial director, Luca Romanò and Paolo Redaelli, director of Carbodies Srl, producer of high precision carbide tools for cold forging.

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EVENTS CALENDAR

Fastener Fair Brasil Where: São Paulo, Brazil When: 8 Nov - 9 Nov 2011 Web: www.fastenerfair.br.com What: The fastener event for Brazil.

SAiE 2011

Elmia Subcontractor

National industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo

The 6th Fastener Trade Show

Taiwan Hardware Show (THS)

STAFDA’s 35th Annual Convention & Trade Show

Where: When: Web: What:

Where: When: Web: What:

Where: When: Web: What:

Bologna, Italy 5 Oct - 8 Oct 2011 www.saie.bolognafiere.it Building technology, systems and machines.

Las Vegas, USA 19 Oct - 21 Oct 2011 www.fastenershows.com Fasteners, machinery formed parts, tooling and packaging.

Taipei, Taiwan 20 Oct - 22 Oct 2011 www.hardwareshow.com.tw Tools, building materials/DIY and houseware products.

Where: When: Web: What:

Where: When: Web: What:

Where: When: Web: What:

Jönköping, Sweden 8 Nov - 11 Nov 2011 www.elmia.se For subcontractors and suppliers within the engineering industry.

Guangzhou, China 11 Nov - 12 Nov 2011 www.fastenertradeshow.info Specialist fastener show.

San Antonio, USA 13 Nov - 15 Nov 2011 www.stafda.org Speciality tools and fasteners.

PTC - Asia

MiDEST

AAPEx - Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo

The Big 5 international Building & Construction Show

Where: When: Web: What:

Where: When: Web: What:

Shanghai, China 25 Oct - 28 Oct 2011 www.ptc-asia.com Trade fair for power transmission and control.

Las Vegas, USA 1 Nov - 3 Nov 2011 www.aapexshow.com Automotive aftermarket products exhibition.

BATiMAT Where: When: Web: What:

Paris, France 7 Nov - 12 Nov 2011 www.batimat.com Building exhibition.

Where: When: Web: What:

Where: When: Web: What:

Paris, France 15 Nov - 18 Nov 2011 www.midest.com Subcontracting and services for the processing of metals, plastics, electronics and electricity.

Dubai, UAE 21 Nov - 24 Nov 2011 www.thebig5exhibition.com Building and construction industry.

Construct Canada Where: When: Web: What:

Toronto, Canada 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2011 www.constructcanada.com Building and construction exhibition.

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C o V E R S To R Y

Bringing together two of the most innovative and trusted bolt securing technologies The Nord-Lock Group has acquired US company Superbolt Inc and Swiss company P&S Vorspannsysteme AG.

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ike Nord-Lock, Superbolt and P&S have developed an excellent solution that provides maximum security to bolted joints and holds global recognition. Thereby two of the most innovative and trusted bolt securing technologies are brought together under the same roof.

Mikael Helmerson, managing director of the Nord-Lock Group says: “The acquisition of Superbolt and P&S is another giant step forward in our vision to be the undisputed global leader in bolt securing.” He adds: “We have very high expectations for our new common future.”

Robert Steinbock, president of Superbolt Inc continues:

“The synergies between Nord-Lock and Superbolt are the best we have seen of all the companies that we have ever considered joining with”. Together with vice president Allan Steinbock, Robert is excited about the potential for the whole company and the ability of the group to now meet all bolt securing needs.

The CEO of P&S, Roman Germann, concludes: “Nord-Lock and Superbolt are active in the same sectors and our products are often used in the same challenging conditions”.

If you don’t know about Nord-Lock and Superbolt/P&S products here is a brief introduction:

Nord-Lock wedge locking products

Type of products: Technically innovative system utilising geometry.

Purely mechanical.

Applications: Nord-Lock’s wedge locking washers have grown a global reputation for its reliable locking and easyto-use features. Commonly used in industries such as energy, railway, oil & gas, heavy vehicles, manufacturing and processing.

Production: Mattmar, Sweden since 1982. Full traceability and rigorous internal testing and control.

Products certified by: TÜV, DNV, DIBt, EbA, and Deutsche Bahn.

Product development: Laser marking recently integrated for full traceability down to first assembly. The range of wedge-locking products have grown to include a revolutionary wheel nut and combi bolts which are adapted to specific application and give efficient assembly and fewer parts. Several customer specific items.

“ The acquisition of Superbolt and P&S is another giant step forward in our vision to be the undisputed global leader in bolt securing.”

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Superbolt utilises a series of jackbolts to create a large clamping force.

The jackbolts are threaded through the main body of the nut or bolt.

Mikael Helmerson. “With an already impressive line-up of bolt securing systems, we are naturally expecting some interesting product developments in the future!”

Services included Through the concept Performance Services, the Nord-Lock Group gathers its entire service offering. Performance Services includes tools and services for sourcing, design and aftermarket processes. Each of these services help to contribute to a safe and effective design that will give the end user life cycle profitability.

By analysing and optimising bolted connections, Nord-Lock helps customers increase profitability and productivity.

Nord-Lock Superbolt tensioners Type of products: Technically innovative system utilising multijackbolts. Purely mechanical.

Applications: All over the world, in every major industry, Superbolt tensioners have been used to keep joints tight in critical bolting applications. Examples of applications are mining, steel mills, energy, shipbuilding, gas compression and petrochemical.

Production: Pittsburgh, US and St Gallenkappel, Switzerland since 1984.

Full traceability and rigorous internal testing and control.

Products certified by: Germanischer Lloyd, DNV, TÜV, and US NAVY.

Product development: Constant – more than 80% of products delivered are developed upon customer request and/or customised designs.

Exists as nut-style or bolt-style tensioner. Other products in the portolio includes expansion bolts, studs, flexnuts, thrust collars, sockets and even hand tools.

Unique competence in the industry Both Nord-Lock and Superbolt/P&S have a long history of developing bolting solutions for critical applications together with some of the largest industrial corporations in the world.

As a result, they have built up substantial engineering and R&D expertise.

“Gathering our combined bolt-securing competence into one organisation will make us unique in the industry” says

The service package from the Nord-Lock Group covers design, life cycle cost calculations, testing, simulation, optimisation, e-learning and product training.

With this newly combined product line-up and bolting experience from both companies, Nord-Lock Group has positioned itself as a leading supplier of bolt securing systems.

With global representation through its own offices and partners, the group will continue to work closely with its customers to tackle the toughest bolting problems.

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Launch of first Fastener Fair in Thailand Mack Brooks Exhibitions has announced that it will hold a new Fastener Fair at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre ‘BITEC’ from 6th – 8th September 2012. Fastener Fair Thailand is part of the Fastener Fair series of targeted trade exhibitions for the fastener and fixings industry in key growth markets.

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tephen Brooks, chairman of Mack Brooks Exhibitions, explains: “A professional trade exhibition in an important industry sector such as fastener and fixing technology is vital in the face of Thailand’s economic growth potential and the large number of investment projects. With Fastener Fair Thailand 2012 we are able to present a dedicated industry event for manufacturers, suppliers and traders of fastener and fixings technology. For international exhibitors the new show offers a great opportunity to approach this buoyant growth market and to establish business relations, both with customers, and with potential local agents or partners.”

The Fastener Fair Thailand exhibition profile covers a comprehensive range of products and services for the fastener and fixing industry, such as industrial fasteners and fixings; construction fixings; assembly and installation systems; fastener manufacturing technology; storage, distribution and factory equipment; information, communication and services.

Fastener Fair Thailand is part of the Fastener Fair series of targeted trade exhibitions for the fastener and fixings industry which includes Fastener Fair Hannover, Fastener Fair India, Fastener Fair Brazil and the flagship event Fastener Fair Stuttgart, Europe’s leading international trade fair for this industry sector.

A variety of stand packages that make exhibiting at Fastener Fair Thailand as convenient as possible are available from the organisers.

BLECH Nordic joins Scandinavian Technical Fair BLECH Nordic, exclusively dedicated to the sheet metal working industry in the Northern Countries, will complement the Scandinavian Technical Fair, the leading manufacturing industry event for the Nordic and Baltic regions.

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LECH Nordic, organised by Mack Brooks Exhibitions, takes place 4th – 7th October 2011 in hall B of the Stockholm International Fairs & Congress Centre. One hundred companies will exhibit at this launch exhibition: 45% are Swedish with the remainder from 16 countries across the world, including Germany, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Great Britain, the USA and China. A series of sheet metal research and new technology seminars will be held each day.

Visitors pre-registering at www.blechnordic.com enter free.

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Strong numbers and new look for Las Vegas Expo The National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo scheduled for 19th – 21st October 2011 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, is reporting very strong interest and an unusual number of first-time exhibitors.

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usan A. Hurley, CEM, the Expo’s general manager says: “We have sold 712 booths to nearly 539 companies from throughout the USA and 12 other nations around the world, including Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam. These numbers are well ahead of last year’s pace and we continue receiving new contracts and inquiries on a regular basis. We have added 56 new companies and the machinery & tooling area has grown to 38 companies. We expect to be well over 725 booths by show time.” She adds: “This year’s Expo has it all; a myriad of fasteners, machinery & tooling, inspection, testing and packaging equipment, cutting tools, drills, hand tools, computer systems and much more.”

“The new, earlier dates and Sands Expo & Convention Center location have proven to be very popular with our exhibitors and we believe these changes will be equally pleasing to Expo visitors. The Expo site as well as our official hotels are conveniently situated in the very heart of the Las Vegas Strip, which offers our exhibitors and show visitors a much wider selection of casinos, restaurants and entertainment venues all within walking distance. We completely sold out our original block of rooms at the Venetian and Palazzo and have increased our number of rooms there as well as at neighboring Harrah’s and nearby Caesars Palace”, say Jim Bannister and Mike McGuire, general partners.

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In addition to “North America’s largest fastener expo”, the event includes a full day of conference programmes featuring topics of current interest as well as Fastener Training Institute workshops and a number of meetings on Wednesday 19th October. Presentations include Rob Lucas of Fidelis Fasteners on “Assessing costs and realising savings thru Asian importing” and “Selling nuts and bolts in today’s volatile markets” presented by the Pacific-West Fastener Association. The National Fastener Distributors Association will stage its Fall Forum to coincide with NIFMSE conference day – with a two part programme focusing on negotiation strategies and techniques facilitated by self confessed “negotiation junkie” John Hamilton.

The popular and well attended Welcome Reception is scheduled for the evening of Wednesday, 19th October. This Expo Managementsponsored event offers complimentary beer, wine and soft drinks along with hors d’oeuvres to all registered exhibitors and Expo visitors.

A panel discussion on “The State of the U.S. Fastener Industry” will immediately precede the official opening of the two-day Expo on Thursday morning, 20th October. Panelists include Jeff Connor, president of The Boulder Company; Jim Sullivan, Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company; Mike Smith, Smith Associates Inc; and Jim Witucki, Nucor Fastner Division. The well-known panelists, who represent manufacturing, distribution and sales, will offer their comments and concerns on the current state of the U.S. fastener business and share their vision for the near and long term future of the industry in today’s highly competitive and everchanging business climate.

Complimentary coffee, juice and donuts will be served. “It is our hope that everyone at the Vegas Expo will attend this very compelling discussion which affects every segment of the fastener business. We have selected four respected industry leaders to present their views from different perspectives”, say Jim Bannister and Mike McGuire.

The Expo will be open from 9:00am to 16:00pm, Thursday 20th October and from 9:00am to 13:00pm, Friday 21st October.

The latest exhibitor list, together with registration and hotel information, is available at www.fastenershows.com

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San Antonio set to shine on STAFDA The Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association (STAFDA) is a 35-year-old not-for-profit, educational trade association comprised of distributors, manufacturers, rep agents, and affiliates (trade press) of light construction, industrial, and related products, explains members’ services director, Catherine Usher.

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he Association has more than 2,500 member companies worldwide who supply everything from hand and power tools to diamond and safety equipment.

Each year, STAFDA members convene for three days filled with valuable, practical information, networking, new products, and industry friends. This fall, STAFDA’s 35th Annual Convention & Trade Show will be bigger and brighter as the Association heads to San Antonio, Texas, 13th – 15th November, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.

Here’s a synopsis of what attendees can expect:

a workshop highlighting the 175th anniversary of the siege of the Alamo before the audience recreates one of the Alamo’s frescos using paints and a template.

That night, grab your Stetson or sombrero for STAFDA’s ‘Little Bit of Texas, Little Bit of Mexico’ opening party. The party will be held at La Villita (little village). Established in the 1700s as San Antonio’s first neighborhood, La Villita contains a number of small homes, shops, and plazas. The three-hour event on the banks of the River Walk will include food, entertainment, libations and armadillo races!

Sunday 13th November

Monday 14th November

Sunday is about learning: seven educational workshops will address critical business issues.

Economic forecast: Alan Beaulieu, president of the Institute for Trend Research, will begin the day with a look at the current state of the U.S. economy, key financial indicators, and a regionby-region analysis on the construction/industrial markets.

Strategic planning: Dr. Bart Basi, STAFDA’s business succession, valuation, & tax planning consultant and president of the Center for Financial, Legal & Tax Planning, will lead a programme focused on strategic planning, ESOPs, retirement transitions, and exit strategies.

Technology tips: Jeff Gusdorf, STAFDA’s technology consultant and president of BSW Consulting Group, will delve into what’s current and up-and-coming in technology. He’ll look at tablet tech uses, e-mail marketing, social media, and what members need to utilise to keep up with businesses’ quickly evolving technology.

Executive’s guide to business security: Barry Brandman, president of Danbee Investigations, will dig deeper into security issues facing STAFDA members and how to keep one step ahead of criminals. He’ll expand on issues found in STAFDA’s recently released security manual.

The best (& worse) practices in distribution: Michael Marks, president of Indian River Consulting, will lead an interactive, rapsession-type workshop where members can call out their top business challenges in the supply channel, and he will address them.

The future of green: John Wagner, managing director of Certified Green Dealer and green editor/columnist for LBM Journal, will project what the green building market will look like in the next 5-10 years from both the ‘sell’ and ‘buy’ sides.

He’ll also discuss green trends for contractor customers, manufacturing trends, and how to brand your company ‘green’.

Branch & operations management: Dr. Michael Workman, former professor at Texas A & M University and a current University of Industrial Distribution faculty member, will present new tools for performing and managing functions for single or multiple branch operations in today’s post-recession economy.

These include operational structures, assets, purchasing, and personnel.

The spouse/companion programme brings Texas history to the forefront as Sherri Driskill, director of the Alamo, presents

The “Year-in-Review” A/V presentation, capsulising world events from November 2010 to November 2011, will get the General Session rolling before STAFDA president Mike Kangas, Alaska Industrial Hardware, takes the stage to provide the ‘Stateof-the-Industry’ address followed by Terry Taylor, Wright Tool Co., with the Associate State-of-the-Industry. ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot and author captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger will then discuss ‘Leadership that transforms’ as the keynote speaker.

Next it’s six hours of trade show excitement as members peruse tools from 35 different product categories, take advantage of show-only discounts, test new products, and develop and strengthen business networks. The Tech & Consultants’ Fair also gives members an opportunity to discover the latest in business technology and meet individually with STAFDA’s consultants and endorsed service providers to help their companies operate more efficiently and cost-effectively.

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Tuesday 15th November While members have six additional hours on the trade show floor, spouses/ companions may choose from two tours: Cruisin’ San Antonio or Hill Country Winery & Shopping. The Closing Party will bring everyone together again as the convention comes to an end for the year.

Learn more about STAFDA at www.stafda.org

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First Fastener Fair Hannover offers potential for a greater end user audience Mack Brooks Exhibitions has announced it will hold the first Fastener Fair Hannover from 24th – 26th April 2012 alongside Hannover Messe 2012. Fastener Fair Hannover, an exhibition for fastener and fixing technology, will take place in hall 21 at the Hannover exhibition grounds. The event will adopt a two year cycle alternating with a two year cycle for Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

Here Susanne Rauberger, exhibition director of Fastener Fair Hannover and Stuttgart, provides further insight into the direction of the new show.

Can you give us an update on the current booking status of the first Fastener Fair Hannover?

Susanne Rauberger (SR): The new Fastener Fair in Hannover has been very well received with the fastener and fixings industry; to date some 135 companies have already reserved or booked their stand space. 75% of these exhibitors come from European countries, with the majority coming from Germany and Italy. Asia will also be well represented at Fastener Fair Hannover 2012; more than 20% of exhibitors come from China, Taiwan and India; other exhibiting companies are from North America and the Middle East. More than 3,000m2 net exhibition space is already taken.

Why did you choose Hannover as the location for the new Fastener Fair?

SR: The analysis of the exhibition survey at the highly successful Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2011 event shows that there is demand in the fastener and fixings industry for a business platform in the north of Germany. With Stuttgart as an important industry region in the south and Hannover as a key trade exhibition site for the north of Germany, we now offer our exhibitors the opportunity to present their products and services to a specialised trade audience in both of Germany’s most prosperous business regions.

We are particularly delighted to be able to hold Fastener Fair Hannover alongside Hannover Messe, internationally renown as the world’s most trendsetting technology fair covering all areas of the industrial value chain. For Fastener Fair Hannover this co-location offers the potential for a greater end user audience, in addition to the traditional fastener trade audience which is the focus of the Stuttgart show.

Does this mean that Fastener Fair Hannover has a different audience than Fastener Fair Stuttgart?

SR: As I said, Fastener Fair Hannover will target more visitors from the end users side. Being held during Hannover Messe, there will be a large number of trade visitors from key industry areas at the Hannover exhibition grounds; and Fastener Fair Hannover complements Hannover Messe by offering a comprehensive spectrum of fastener and fixing technologies for

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a wide range of industry sectors. Therefore, from the exhibitor side, Fastener Fair Hannover is particularly attractive for manufacturers of fastener and fixing technology. However – while there is a large number of manufacturing companies on the exhibitor list, there are also many trading companies that will be present at this show; as some trading companies do also target an end user audience. All of the exhibiting companies at Fastener Fair Hannover 2012 - whether manufacturers, traders or service providers – take part in the show as they wish to extend their business contacts into new industry areas, such as the automation, energy and mobility sectors.

Fastener Fair Stuttgart, on the other hand, will keep its traditional exhibition profile and will continue to mainly focus on the fastener and fixings trade audience.

Do you plan any special promotional campaigns for Fastener Fair Hannover 2012?

SR: For the visitor promotion of Fastener Fair Hannover 2012 we will, of course, not only rely on our co-location with the Hannover Messe. We will extensively promote the exhibition to a specialised industry audience all over the world. Our promotional campaign includes a variety of multi-lingual visitor information, such as visitor brochures, direct mailings as well as advertisements and preview reports in the international trade press. We will also offer our exhibitors a selection of free marketing tools to promote their participation at the show.

Any recommendations for companies interested in participating at Fastener Fair Hannover 2012?

SR: Almost half of the total exhibition space in hall 21 of the Hannover Exhibition Centre is already taken. After the summer holidays many companies plan their participation at industry exhibitions for the coming season; therefore we expect a large number of enquiries for this period and recommend that companies interested in exhibiting should contact us as soon as possible, especially to benefit from our early booking rates valid until the end of September. On our freshly designed show website exhibitors and visitors will find detailed information on the exhibition, such as the floor plan and information about travel and accommodation in Hannover.

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The 6th Fastener 2011 Fastener Trade Show set Expo Jiaxing for growth The 6th Fastener Trade Show will be staged 11th – 12th November 2011 at the Poly World Trade Expo Center, Guangzhou. Organiser ChinaFastener.info expects around 400 fastener companies to exhibit and more than 10,000 visitors to attend.

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ith the theme of “Globalisation, Innovation”, says ChinaFastener.info, the 6th Fastener Trade Show, a large international fastener specialised exhibition, will expect around 400 fastener companies home and abroad exhibiting all kinds of fasteners, equipment, tools and moulds, surface treatment and raw materials to more than 10,000 visitors worldwide. It is the best platform for international fastener companies and buyers who would like to learn about the China fastener market and extend cooperation.

Major fastener and related exhibitors include Accuvision Technology, Autocraft Shanghai, CSR Meishan, Dowson’s Fasteners, Haiyan Mingyang, Header Plan, Heaven & Earth Hardware, Jingjiang Hengfeng Rivet, Ching Chan Machinery, Leda Metal, Hongyu Metal, Ningbo Chaoxin Rivet, Shanghai Fast-Fix Rivet, Suzhou Crever Fastener, Tokyo Byora Koki, Welfull Group, Yuyao Xintai Hardware, Zhejiang Aozhan, Zhejiang Jiaxing Chaoboer, Zhejiang New Oriental, Zhejiang Yeswin Machinery and Zhejiang Zhongchao Industry Endoscopy Co., Ltd. Today, says ChinaFastener.info, the biannual Fastener Trade Show has become one of the leading fastener exhibitions in the world in terms of exhibition scale, as well as exhibitor and visitor numbers.

The 5th Suzhou Fastener Trade Show held in April 2011 featured 305 exhibitors occupying more than 400 booths in a 12,000 square metre hall. The show attracted 9,852 visitors, including 763 overseas visitors, setting a new record since the launch of Fastener Trade Show in 2008. In addition to exhibitors from China, the show also attracted some international fastener companies, including Kyouei Fastener, Sala Punzoni, Cogeim Europe, National Machinery, Universal Punch and ND Industries.

ChinaFastener.info tells us it will shortly publish the exhibitors list for the Guangzhou show on its website (www.fastenertradeshow.info). The website also includes information on a series of concurrent activities including the established Fastener FAQ Forums and the San Ren Xing Meeting for members and experts.

Dates and the venue for the 7th Fastener Trade Show have just been confirmed. It will be staged at the Chengdu Century City New International Convention & Exhibtion Center on 25th – 26th May 2012. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province in the south west of China, a fresh location for a fastener show, which ChinaFastener.info says will provide a new opportunity to explore the potential market in West China.

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The China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products (CCCME), Commerce department of Zhejiang, and the Jiaxing people’s government will jointly hold the first 2011 Fastener Expo Jiaxing on 14th – 15th October 2011 at Jiaxing International Convention & Exhibition Centre.

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astener Expo Jiaxing will cover a wide range of standard fasteners, industry fasteners, fastener equipment, fastener raw materials, fastener moulds and consumption goods, as well as fastener technologies and services. It is estimated by the organisation committee that there will be 400 booths sold to around 250 exhibitors.

The concurrent programmes of the 5th China Fastener Summit (CFS) and Plant Tour will be held together during the exhibition.

The organisation committee explains that the industrial cluster of Jiaxing, Ningbo, Wenzhou in Zhejiang are the main export areas of fasteners in China. The 2010 export value of fasteners in Jiaxing reached USD$ 779.95 million, accounting for 48.67% of exported fasteners in the whole Zhejiang province, and 25% of exported fasteners in China.

“Jiaxing in mainland China is like Kaohsiung in Taiwan, owing to the high concentration of fastener production bases, with as many as 2,000 fastener manufacturers in Jiaxing.

Jiaxing is also the closest city to Shanghai making it the ideal place for fastener trading and investment.”

Totally bookings ahead Totally Shows organiser Brintex reports that plans and bookings for the 2012 shows are well underway.

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he Totally Shows will run in hall 16 at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham on Sunday 5th, Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th February 2012 to coincide with Spring Fair International, which will occupy the rest of the NEC complex and be open 4th - 9th February.

“Exhibitor bookings are ahead of the same time last year,” confirmed show sales director Paul Grinsell. “The show is poised to grow again as its continues to exploit and develop its co-location with Spring Fair International and build on this year’s 15% growth in space.”

Visitor incentives include the chance to pick up a NexTorch LED keyring torch and the opportunity for two retail visitors to win a free trip to the National Hardware Show, Las Vegas in May 2012.

Amongst confirmed exhibitors are: A Perry & Co (Hinges), A W Tools (Europe), Abingdon King Dick, Arrow Fasteners, Bulk Hardware, Centurion Europe, Chain Products, Coo-Var, D K Tools, Davenport Burgess, Draper Tools, Elco Lighting, Gorilla Glue, John Guest Speedfit, Monument Tools, Mueller Primaflow, Rolson Tools, Sealey Power Products, Select Hardware, Shurtape, Sycamore UK/Big Wipes and Wagner Spraytech.

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Exclusive interview with Dr Florian Seidl

Having arranged to visit Munich for the Intersolar Fair the opportunity to invite ourselves to one of Europe’s leading fastener distributors was far too good to miss. With his customary courtesy Dr Florian Seidl extended a warm welcome to Keller & Kalmbach – including time to tour what is surely a benchmark in fastener industry central logistics operations.

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eller & Kalmbach was founded in 1878 and, as an early catalogue attests, even then was a distributor of screws as well as blacksmith supplies. “At the time,” explains Dr Seidl, “the products were manufactured in the north of Germany. Keller & Kalmbach provided distribution for Bavaria and some parts of Austria.” The company was successful but continuity became an issue as neither of the two founders, who gave their names to the business, had children. “My great grandfather came originally from Munich but moved to the east of Bavaria,” Florian Seidl says. “His son wanted to move back to the city so looked for a company and found Keller & Kalmbach.” Hence, since 1908, the company has been owned and managed by the Seidl family. Horse gave

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way to internal combustion engine and pre-war Keller & Kalmbach was slow to adapt. It was Florian Seidl’s father that, after the Second World War, emphatically changed the direction of a company to target the industrial market. Keller & Kalmbach became the market-leading distributor to Bavarian industry and in 1960 began to supply the automotive manufacturing sector, starting with Audi and Glas (the latter absorbed by BMW in the 1960s). Agricultural equipment manufacturers also provided an important customer base. Growth and the difficulty of expanding in a central Munich location led to the relocation of Keller & Kalmbach to its current head office location, west of the city at Unterschleissheim.

Florian Seidl came to the family business in 1975. “I had studied political

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science and philosophy so I was not exactly educated for the fastener distribution business, but I had six weeks practice in a bank and then six weeks in fastener production to prepare myself. Of course, I still made many mistakes to start with.” Four years later, occasioned by his father’s illness, he became general manager. “I thought hard about strategies and we decided to do a certain amount of decentralisation into other cities in southern Germany.

From that development came the need for a central warehouse operation here in Unterschleissheim, which served us well until quite recently.”

The business grew steadily and in 2002 Keller & Kalmbach bought Widex Peters in Düsseldorf to strengthen its presence in northern Germany. “It was not a small

face 2 face company,” says Florian Seidl, “but it experienced some real difficulties in warehousing and computer operation that drove it close to bankruptcy. Within two years, though, we had turned the figures back to the black. For several years the company ran quite independently but it is more and more integrated.”

Success brought with it the inevitable challenge of outgrowing the central warehouse. “We bought a place here, rented a place somewhere else but, of course, it became more and more costly and complicated. We could not enlarge here in Unterschleissheim; the presence of the Microsoft headquarters nearby made the land here far too expensive.”

“ M ore than half our turnover today is in logistic systems…”

So the decision was made to design and build an entirely new warehouse and logistics centre at Hilpolstein, close to the A9 autobahn approaching Nürnberg. More on that remarkable facility and equally remarkable thought that went into it, later.

Today Keller & Kalmbach focuses on three market sectors. The industrial business remains the largest. The requirements of the automotive business continue to be serviced from Unterschleissheim, which is home to a special parts warehouse as well as automotive quality control and sales. It also remains the head office, housing central departments, including purchasing, finance and systems. “We are also,” says Florian Seidl, “market leader

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here in Germany to the rail and train industry and have a smaller but good MRO business. We do not target distribution, although from time to time distributors will buy from us.”

Five years ago Keller & Kalmbach started to develop more internationally.

In the east of Europe it now has branches in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania and Austria. It also now has an operation that supports customers in China. In Germany there are eight ‘shops’ servicing MRO with both fasteners and tools. Goods can be collected from the branch but customer deliveries are always despatched direct from the central warehouse in Hilpostein.

“More than half our turnover today is in logistic systems,” says Florian Seidl. The customer is offered a variety of solutions.

While the mainstay remains relatively conventional kanban systems, Keller & Kalmbach offers systems featuring load sensors to detect bin presence and sophisticated solutions using RFID technology. “Behind the scenes we try to standardise the processes,” says Florian Seidl. “We want to be very flexible but also very efficient.” It is an approach that fits the company motto of being fit, fair and friendly. “Our processes are lean, we are fair to our customers and to our suppliers and, of course, everybody should be friendly.”

With an operation supplying more than 50,000 stock lines, which support approaching 1,000 logistics installations and a total of around 20,000 customers; with an annual turnover exceeding 200 million euros, sustaining some 600 employees; there can be no question that the philosophy works – even through recent challenging times.

“2009 was a very bad market,” acknowledges Florian Seidl. “After the crisis we thought it would take a long time to get back to 2008 levels but this year it is now clear we will have a better time than in 2008. Most years we have performed better than the market but the general economic situation in Germany certainly helps us. For now it is driven from three directions. Export has always been good for Germany; right now it is very good.

Industrial investment is also stronger and for the first time in many years the domestic consumer market is also contributing well.”

Will it sustain? Florian Seidl is cautious.

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“This year I think it will probably stay good but I am concerned that there might be a bubble. If it has to go down we need it to do so smoothly.”

The new central warehouse has proven vital in supporting growth. “If we had still been here I really do not know what we would have done. Now we are operating two shifts at the warehouse and could introduce a third if we needed. We have a lower backlog although we are seeing some increase because of the difficulties in the supply chain. We have delivery times now of six, seven, eight months.

Sometimes you have to buy at very high prices to fill in the gaps. The increase in the basic price is also relentless and that, combined with the difficulty in getting acceptance of price movement from major customers, inevitably puts pressure on the margin.”

“There is almost a cultural effect,” he continues. “For so much of the last twenty years the market became used to the cost of fasteners constantly falling. Now people do not understand increasing prices but it is a reality, and not a short term one. At the moment it is a suppliers market for fastener producers. At the moment steel is more stable but the trend for all basic commodities is unavoidably upwards.

Shorter term the real issue is the available capacity in fastener manufacturing.”

Which unerringly moves the conversation to anti-dumping measures.

“When you try to establish the stable relationships, which are crucial to ensure reliability and quality, and the supply chain is suddenly cut there are inevitable problems. The quite irrational application of this crazy high tariff suddenly distorted the market and we continue to feel the impact in supply and, of course, in pricing.”

“So we have to fight it.” Florian Seidl is emphatic. “It is difficult in Brussels but we have to continue to try to obtain recognition that fastener distribution in Europe almost certainly employs more people than manufacturing. More importantly we have to achieve recognition that we give our customers not just the parts but also a level of service that no manufacturer can give. This situation is not good economically, it is not good for European industry, and it is not good for many of our partners. What it has done is drive up prices immensely – but somebody has ultimately to pay for that.”

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A benchmark in fastener distribution These days there are quite a few large-scale, automatic warehousing and logistics facilities across the European fastener industry. Inevitably in a close knit industry each one draws from the experience, sometimes the mistakes, of the others. The Keller & Kalmbach facility at Hilpolstein, though, sets a new bar for future fastener logistic centres and possesses all the qualities to pass the test of time.

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r Ingomar Schubert is a passionate and highly informed guide to the Keller & Kalmbach logistic centre. He ought to be – recruited direct from university, where he specialised in logistics systems and technology, the project was quite literally his from conception to delivery. “It is the most ambitious construction project in the company’s history,” says Dr Schubert. It was also one of Jungheinrich’s largest installations. Today, as head of supply chain management its operation remains a core element of his responsibility.

The overall site extends across 44,000 square metres; of which 10,000 square metres is currently occupied by buildings, designed and built to ensure future expansion can be seamlessly integrated. The automatic pallet warehouse is 40 metres high and 120 metres long, providing 35,000 spaces serviced by five picking machines. At a distance from it but in the same plane is an automatic small box warehouse, providing 164,000 carton box spaces plus a dedicated area for storing up to 8,000 empty KLT boxes. Within the warehouses the primary location logic is security – stock of core lines is held in different aisles within the same warehouse and in both warehouses, obviating the risk of delay if there is a mechanical failure. The speed of the warehouse mechanisation makes location by relative speed of demand less significant. Between the two buildings is space to effectively double the pallet warehouse. Similarly there is space to expand the small box warehouse.

At right angles and in front of the two warehouses is the building housing the picking zone as well as goods receival,

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quality inspection, assembly, packaging and despatch. Ten identical picking stations are each able to handle pallet, carton box and KLTs. Pickers operate from touch screens and each station has a vertical sorter, which sequences the carton boxes extracted from the small box warehouse into the correct order for the picker. Although a greater short term investment it delivers longer term advantages in both efficiency

and speed. Incidentally and perhaps surprisingly, cardboard boxes are preferred – for lower fire risk, lower cost and greater environmental responsibility. Similar boxes are also used for customer deliveries.

Speed these days is of the essence, which makes a time frame of less than one hour to pick an order from the small box warehouse both impressive and invaluable to a business that really values flexibility and responsiveness. Currently the facility handles between seven and eight thousand orders line a day on a two-shift system that employs 30 people.

Accuracy is also a prerequisite in meeting the needs of customers of the calibre Keller & Kalmbach services. Of course, a sophisticated warehouse management integrates a series of checks and balances but there is also clear evidence of simple, straightforward thinking. For example, empty KLTs are stored in the small box warehouse. When the customer order is entered the system selects not just the product but also the empty bin to take it, ensuring a one to one relationship that minimises potential error. Easy in hindsight, but someone has to see the need in the beginning. Something that is true of many facets of this impressive operation.

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Avdel turns 75 This year Avdel® commemorates its 75th anniversary. Phil Matten visited its Warrington production facility to find out, not only how far the rivet manufacturer has come from 1936 minute beginnings, but also how it is faring nearly a year after becoming part of the Infastech global fastener technology group.

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n 1936 Stanley Thomas Johnson started a business called Aviation Developments, quite literally from a small shed in Godalming, Surrey. The company was established to manufacture and supply riveting technology, primarily to a rapidly developing aviation industry, which needed to replace wooden construction with compact, stronger aluminium structures. Working with Jacque Chobert, an aviation development engineer, Johnson invented a radical new fastening technology, the Chobert® riveting system, which for the first time allowed rivets to be installed by a single operator using a hand tool from one side of the work surface. Rapidly adopted by

the UK aviation industry this blind fastening system was key in construction of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft. During the 1940s and 1950s the global aircraft industry moved into the jet age and sales of the Chobert® increased as it was recognised as standard fastening technology.

Today, Avdel is one of three lead fastening brands manufactured and marketed by Infastech™, the new global fastener technology group formed in August 2010 when CVC Asia Pacific Limited and Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited acquired Avdel® and the Global Electronics & Commercial (GEC) businesses from Acument Global Technologies.

Headquartered in Singapore, Infastech™ has manufacturing operations in Iowa and North Carolina, USA; Malaysia, Taiwan, China and at Warrington in the United Kingdom. Sales and distribution operations cover North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. The combined GEC and Avdel operations employ more than 2,000 people. Daran Hopper, vice president and general manager at Avdel, explains more. “GEC’s footprint was Asia Pacific centric, and was Avdel’s biggest distribution partner so with Avdel’s strength in Europe the match is unique in

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achieving our aim of delivering innovative engineering solutions to customers globally.” Hopper confidently expects Infastech to exceed targeted sales of US$ 450 million (315 million euros) sales in 2011, of which Avdel expects to contribute slightly less than one third.

In addition to Avdel, the group leads with the Elco brand of construction industry targeted fasteners which dates to 1922, and iForm – created from the new business and described as a “future reference point” as the group builds future programmes on the brand.

“Emphasis on innovation is a key element of our future development,” says Hopper. “Avdel has always been a market leader although previous owners have had very different spins on the business model and we’ve gone through a phase of stepping back and working through a distributor network. Now we want to get back to being actively in contact with the end customer. That is quite a big shift in our expectations. We’ve already put a lot of emphasis on applications engineering, customer services and reinvigorating our sales teams back in to face-to-face discussions.”

“The main theme of the two major investment houses backing us now is to grow the business,” Hopper continues, “so we are very well set up to do what we need to do. We want to make it more entrepreneurial delivering a genuine value proposition to the customer as a full service and logistics provider.” In addition to the group’s research, development and manufacturing capabilities that means increase third party sourcing and an approach to inventory holding that can effectively respond to customer requirements. “Acument was an inventory restrictive company following an automotive model,” says Hopper. “Our business unit needs an abundance of inventory to respond to walk in orders and the sporadic changes in demand patterns characteristic of fasteners – which are all too often forgotten until the last minute.” In Europe that has meant a radical restructuring of distribution operations, consolidating traditional distribution centres across Europe into a “Euro hub” – one of several conceptual changes targeted at achieving “record lead times to customers”. Meeting stringent service requirements also means an ethos now of “wherever the product is sold that is where it should be made”. This increases flexibility in manufacturing, says Hopper, reducing lead times and freight costs.

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insigHt fallow period of Avdel innovation under previous ownership.

“The decline in the number of innovations being made was clear,” says Daran Hopper, “and a clear decision was made the moment we broke away from the shackles of our previous owners that development would be a key area. That means a lot of pressure on our R&D team to develop and push out new products to repair some of the damage incurred.” The recently launched NeoSpeed™ range, developed at Welwyn using the latest finite element methods and manufactured at Warrington, is the first example of this commitment. Daran Hopper describes its launch as “a poignant moment for Avdel. You could call it the new Chobert, the next evolution of its capabilities and application flexibilities. We’ve pushed the development hard and in quick succession we’ve had a few really good wins come out of the marketplace.”

A related development is the current establishment of a Sample Production Cell at Warrington, aimed at taking products concept to reality in under one month. Together with Welwyn’s

advanced finite element technology and skills, the cell will also provide a far more reactive response to customer prototype requirements.

The Sample Cell, though, is really only a small wave in a sea change for the Warrington facility. The plant was established in 1974 and extends across a little short of 12,000 square metres; employing 250 permanent staff. Home to Avdel Speed Fastening® systems as well as break stem products, amongst others including Avbolt®, Monobolt®, and T-Lok®, the plant headed 2.7 billion fasteners in 2010: after assembly that translates to around 1.8 billion. Output at within group transfer rather than ultimate sales value was US$47 million.

“It is a facility culturally ingrained in technology,” says Daran Hopper. “There is lots of intelligence and lots of good engineering skills – the average time in service is 15 years. With that can come a ‘set in the way’ mentality. Our achievement has been in instilling flexibility and adaptability to persuasively demonstrate that a UK facility can compete in the world manufacturing market.” Given Infastech’s ‘make it where it is sold’ ethos that is

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a crucial achievement – nevertheless there is some progressive skills and machinery transfer to Wuxi for breakstem products with primary demand in China.

While 80% of Warrington’s volume is in 180 part numbers there are more than 750 parts variances, factoring up to 6,000 part number variances. One result, and a cogent demonstration of the level of complexity that has to be managed at the plant, is an active tooling component inventory numbering some 30,000.

To drive the necessary cultural change and evolution Avdel has applied visual management systems throughout the plant.

“This makes sure everyone understands what their roles are, how they have to perform against those roles, and how that works through to the sales to customers and the volumes we deliver to them,” explains Daran Hopper. Strong operator ‘ownership’ for equipment has been developed through an ongoing ground-up, on-site refurbishment programme.

“It works, says Hopper, to the extent we have operators clamouring for their machines to be next.”

The consequences of ever increasing zerodefect requirements are evident in eddiecurrent testing of wire prior to feed into the headers, process monitoring on production equipment, and extensive use of camera technology, not least in a bank of inspection machinery tailored for Avdel products. In the podding section - a growth area as demand for collated fasteners continually grows - controls are also extremely stringent because of the high risk of component cross contamination.

Getting it right is one thing, getting it right quickly is the modern imperative.

“Average manufacturing lead time is the key to everything now,” says Daran Hopper, “because the customer will not wait any longer. Customers are not willing to hold inventory and fasteners are all too often the last thing ordered.”

In 2010 that extended to the acquisition of what is now known as Avdel Metal Finishing.

Located at one end of the plant the heat treatment, coating, lubrication and cleaning facility was upgraded with the addition of a new continuous feed heat treatment line. “We have gone through a lot of pain to realign our manufacturing processes,” says Hopper, “and although AMF was already on our doorstep we felt the need to get our hands on it as part of that process.”

In an area of the UK where heading operation and tool making skills are not naturally available, there is one other clear proof of commitment to Warrington’s future. The plant reactivated an apprenticeship programme in 2007 and currently four young people are sharing their time between formal education and factory floor experience to develop the skills base Warrington needs if it is to continue to effectively compete with its international counterparts in efficient and responsive fastener manufacturing.

Time of course will tell whether Avdel’s vision for regeneration of a 75 year old brand truly comes to fruition. It is clear that its new owners have provided the latitude to reinvigorate the business. “The business has been given the respect and freedom, ” says Daran Hopper, “to demonstrate its entrepreneurship and to grow itself.”

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ürth explains that its ASSY® screws are known for their ability to connect wood, not split it. The self-tapping ASSY® 3.0 particle board screw is unique in its ability to allow for maximum power transfer with no wobbling motion and no wood splitting. The asymmetric coarse threaded 34 degree tip allows for pinpoint accuracy and can increase time efficiencies by up to 30% compared to conventional particle board screws. By drilling the screw into a piece of wood, almost no shavings are produced, which makes the ASSY® 3.0 an ideal product for coated wooden surfaces.

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Excalibur unveils its strongest screwbolt to date Excalibur has launched its strongest ever 20mm diameter Excalibur Screwbolt, which has an ETAG approval.

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he super-strength M20x300 Excalibur Screwbolt can support an impressive 25 tonnes ultimate tensile load in 25Nm2 concrete.

This makes it the strongest product in the growing Excalibur Screwbolts range.

Available as HSB (hexagonal head) and SSB (studbolt), this bespoke development of Excalibur’s market-leading 20mm Screwbolt range is expected to find many niche applications in the heavy construction industry particularly those in the formwork, tunnelling and pre-cast concrete manufacturing sectors.

Excalibur says this innovative development has already attracted considerable interest and believes that the product will open up many new specialist areas. “This new development further strengthens our range of twin helix-threaded anchors which are globally recognised as the original market leaders in versatility, quality and performance.”

Excalibur’s comprehensive range of twin helix threaded products - including hex head, countersunk, dome head, studs, hooks and rings – have been successfully used globally across a range of sectors including general construction, scaffolding, formwork, security, railways and tunnelling.

EcAP elects new board The annual meeting of the European Consortium of Anchor Producers, held in Bergamo in June, elected a new chairman and board members.

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he general assembly elected a new board comprising: Mr Gianluca Bertamino (Italy), managing director Tecfi SpA; Mr Urs Joos (Switzerland), managing director Chemfix Products Ltd, Mr Jaume Juher (Spain) CEO Roberlo S.A.; Mr Lars Mortensen (Denmark), technical manager, Expandet Screw Anchors A/S; Mr Vittorio Pilla (Italy), CEO, Friulsider SpA and Mr Andrea Taddei (Italy) CEO, Bossong SpA. Mr Urs Joos was elected chairman of ECAP and Mr Andrea Taddei managing director. Mrs Barbara Sorgato was confirmed as secretary general, assisted by Mrs Luisa Caimi as project manager.

The ECAP working group is composed of technical specialists from the member companies and is led by technical advisor, Mr Giovanni Muciaccia of the Milan Polytechnic. This group deals with CE marking of anchors, screws, powder actuated tools and cartridges; the calculation software for design of anchors according to the Eurocode; and the implementation of the new Construction Products Regulation.

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Problem free anchoring into cavity walls The new Spit iD-ALL is an innovative new anchoring product from the Spit Chemical Anchor range, which promises to resolve a number of common problems found on site when using chemical resins to fix to cavity and hollow wall materials.

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TW Construction Products Ltd explains that the unique mesh material and shape of the Spit iD-ALL anchor allows for flexible resin coverage and an even distribution for a more accurate and secure fixing, whilst keeping resin waste to an absolute minimum.

The iD-ALL boasts advantages over standard plastic resin sleeves and similar products, with its distinctive shape which allows for ease of use in all base materials. When used in conjunction with Spit C-Mix Plus resin applied using a shortened mixer nozzle, the iD-ALL provides 360° resin distribution, filling any cavities left by material destroyed during drilling and reinforcing brittle substrates.

The nozzle has also been specifically designed to provide a regulated resin flow, which leaves little or no resin waste whilst still assuring that an evenly distributed coverage is given behind the base material, where secure anchorage is needed most. ITW points out that the same drilling and setting process is used as with standard plastic sleeves and, when used with Spit C-Mix resin, curing time is faster and pull out values have proved to be much higher than that of competitor products.

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“The cutting edge iD-ALL anchor provides end users with a universal resin anchoring solution which not only provides superior performance and even coverage, but also ensures limited resin waste to offer a more cost effective and cleaner fixing.�

To ensure optimum results, ITW says that the iD-ALL should be used as a complete system along with Spit C-Mix resin and short mixer nozzles. This complete system has been approved by the Socotec laboratory and performance of the anchor cannot be guaranteed if used with any other resin.

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The screw for all weather conditions High quality material and intelligent design for utmost longevity and versatility - the new all-weather GaLa-construction screw, with universal application, from BiERBACH® allows multiple wood-wood connections in outdoor areas.

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iERBACH® explains that the development of the new all-weather GaLaconstruction screw was rigorously guided by the practical requirements of professionals and DIYers for garden and landscape building (GaLa) as well for agriculture and forestry demands. Applications start with cladding boards on carports, construction of shacks or sheds and extend to the installation of garden wood for GaLa building, and mounting of floor coverings and planks for decking.

The BiERBACH® all weather GaLa-screw is completely made of high grade rustproof stainless steel giving the fastener long durability and weather resistance.

The slim screw tip with wood cutting thread and integrated notched slot allows for precise positionning and rapid drive-in with reduced cleavage and cracking. The possibility of screwing-in without predrilling results in time and cost saving operations.

The counter thread beneath the head creates a permanent vice effect for extremely high holding forces. The proven BiROX® drive ensures optimum torque transfer when driving in.

The stainless steel fastener combines the advantages of a countersunk head screw with those of a surface covering head. The small panhead gathers protruding chips from the upper drill area burrying these evenly. Thus, the all weather GaLa construction screw is almost invisibly flush - the optimum solution for esthetically demanding qualitiy screw fixings with value conservation and without rust stains oder discolourings like chemical reactions of tannic acids.

The BiERBACH® all weather GaLA-screw is available in dimensions of diameter 5mm x 50mm up to diameter 5mm x 100mm.

Grayson opens EuroTec’s new Scottish new screw service centre generation

To service its growing Scottish client base, Grayson (GB) Ltd has opened a new Scottish service centre.

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his unprecedented step will ensure Grayson (GB) Ltd can offer all its Scottish clients the unparalleled levels of customer service the company is renowned for.

In recent months Grayson has seen the demand for its products and services grow significantly, with the company wining several major contracts in the region.

These gains have prompted a review of how the business will best service its construction base.

“Servicing the construction sector often requires ‘boots on the ground’ to react to changing demands.

With the new service centre positioned just off the M8 near Glasgow, we can now easily access the motorway network to reach all regions more rapidly.”

Grayson highlights that it is working with regeneration agencies and is committed to investing profits made in the region back into the regional economy, creating jobs and supporting local projects to regenerate the wider area.

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Hagen based EuroTec have announced two innovative additions to its extensive range of fixing technologies.

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anelTwistec AG blue+ features a new Chrome VI free blue+ coating, which offers much higher corrosion resistance than traditional galvanising.

Surfaces treated with blue+, says EuroTec, are very resistance to mechanical stress. The new ‘AG’ tip draws the screw into the material thanks to its special geometry, reducing the screwing torque significantly. This means much higher screw in speed, explains EuroTec, and less splitting. The new range is available in both countersunk and flanged head versions. PanelTwistec AG blue+ may be used for fastening compression-proof rafter insulation.

Also new to the EuroTec programme is the roofing screw TopDuo blue+, which shares many of the features of PanelTwistec AG blue+. Its additional thread under the head, however, allows it be used to secure over rafter insulation with non-pressure resistant insulating material.

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Screws from the anchor producers’ viewpoint After almost 10 years working on the norms for anchors, the Consortium of European Small and Middle-sized Anchors Producers (ECAP) has turned its thoughts to screws, explains secretary general Barbara Sorgato.

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CAP has taken this step because threaded fasteners are one of the components of anchors and also because, taken individually, screws are an important fastening technology in the construction field.

There is not a unique norm for screws. The term screws is itself generic; screws can be defined in different ways, according to design, intended use, base material, and the application in which they are used. Consequently there exist different regulations, each one with its own history. The following is a normative view on some of the most significant screws present in the ranges of our anchor producing members.

Concrete screws By now this is considered an anchor, for its normative history.

In October 2003 DIBt (Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik), the German member of EOTA (European Organisation for Technical Approvals), at the request of a German producer, issued a CUAP (Common Understanding for Assessment Procedures) called: ‘Concrete screw for anchorage in normal weight concrete’.

Just to remind you, the CUAP is a procedure for innovative products which are not covered by any harmonised European specification, and it allows companies to place on the market their products with a CE marking, without waiting the time required to produce a standard.

The CUAP structure on concrete screws and the tests established were very similar to those provided by ETAG guidelines on anchors, with the addition of specific tests calibrated on the product of the company that requested the CUAP. There are many producers of concrete screws, so EOTA decided to ’promote’ the CUAP and transform it into a guideline.

In August 2010 concrete screws were added to the ETAG 001 guideline for anchors, in Part 3 (undercut anchors). Through this process concrete screws have come to be defined as a type of undercut anchor.

Plasterboard screws Plasterboard screws follow the way of their base material, plasterboard, and are, therefore, regulated by standard EN 14566:2008 ‘Mechanical fasteners for gypsum plasterboard system’.

Wood and chipboard screws Since 1st August 2010, European producers of wood screws put the CE marking on their screws according to the standard EN 14592:2008 “Timber structures – dowel-type fasteners –

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requirements”. In this case, screws having a diameter between 2.4mm and 24mm are defined “dowel-type fasteners”.

For some months a group of German producers of wood construction screws and chipboard screws has given information in newsletters to its customers, saying that; since the provisions in the present version of EN 14592:2008 do not permit them to comply with all indications and determinations of the norm, they have jointly decided not to declare compliance to EN: 14592:2008.

They have requested an amendment of the standard and, at the same time, asked the German EOTA Approval Body to draft a CUAP on this product. The amendment may be approved by the end of this summer. However, the CUAP is also ready.

It is therefore feasible that European Technical Approvals on wood and chipboard screws (the product may be described in a different way) could appear on the market before the approval of the amendment of the standard. We will see.

Wood screws as components of timber connector kits In this case the wood screws are regulated by EOTA, but within a kit. What does ‘kit’ mean on a normative level? Kit establishes the use of a product and its components in a closed system.

Once a kit has obtained the CE marking, if just one component is changed, for example a screw, even if present on the market and standardised, the CE marking is no longer valid.

Since 2002 there exist two EOTA Technical Reports on timber connectors and related fixing elements on wood: TR 015: “Principles for the static calculation of connections made with three dimensional nailing plates, with examples” and TR 016: “Method of testing three-dimensional nailing plates with examples” and a CUAP on annular ringed shank nails and connector screws for use in nailing plates and three-dimensional nailing plates in wood structures (October 2003).

On the EOTA webpage www.eota.eu, under the section ‘ETAs without ETAGs’, one can find a number of CUAPs issued on screws. Some examples: • Annular ringed shank nails and connector screws: CUAP 108.

• Fastening screw for metal sheet roof covering: CUAP 197.

• Self-tapping screws for use in timber constructions: CUAP 288.

• Fastening screws for sandwich panels: CUAP 296.

Also on www.eota.eu one can find all ETAG guidelines; EOTA Technical Reports; ETAs obtained on the basis of ETAGs or CUAPs and the CUAPs list (but not their text, as CUAPs are not public!).

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safe anchoring from fischer

To anchor post installed rebar safely in concrete, fischer offers two special systems. fischer highlights that these rebar systems open up entirely new opportunities for structural engineers and also make professional post installed rebar applications significantly easier for site engineers and installers.

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einforced concrete is used in virtually all building constructions: foundations, (floor) slabs, beams and columns. Civil engineering construction such as bridges, tunnels or power plants are often made totally of reinforced concrete. Often, existing buildings are extended or rebuilt. This means in practice that the reinforcement of old and new sections of buildings have to be connected.

Choice of two systems

fischer now offers two special systems which make the installation of post installed rebar a straightforward process.

The rebar is inserted, into the maximal two metres deep, drilled and cleaned holes in the concrete member. Post installed rebar are handled and loaded like cast-in rebar after the full curing time. Both systems have European Technical Approval (ETA) and a General Construction Approval by the ‘Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt)’.

The two systems are:

• The established fischer Injection Mortar System FIS V (ETA-10/0383) based on a high-performance vinylester hybrid mortar for easy handling and rapid curing times.

• The fischer Injection mortar System FIS EM (ETA-10/0012) based on best performance epoxy resin mortar for rebars up to a diameter of 40mm. Also suitable for diamond drill holes with easier drill hole cleaning.

Special anchor FRA

The fischer rebar anchor FRA has been designed especially for extreme tension loads, e.g. at a column base, which can’t be transmitted to the concrete member by conventional anchors.

The FRA is composed of a rebar connected to a stainless steel threaded rod by friction welding. Therefore it is also approved for outdoor use. The approval regulates connecting threads from M12 to M20 and allows tension loads up to 97.6kN.

tecfi ensures high quality products Tecfi S.p.A, an Italian company specialised in design, production and distribution of fixing systems, explains that some of its fixing systems are covered by ETAG Guidelines, through which it is possible to get European Technical Approvals preparatory to the CE mark of the products.

In particular, Tecfi products are covered by the ETAG Guidelines: • Metal anchors - Guideline ETAG001.

• Plastic anchors - Guideline ETAG020.

• Three dimensional nailing plates - Guideline ETAG015.

The ETAG001 Guideline, which regulates metal anchors, provides a number of very difficult and selected tests at qualified laboratories and many tests are run in extremely hard conditions, especially if you choose option 1, which guarantees the installation of the anchor even in cracked concrete.

The ETAG020 Guideline, which regulates nylon anchors, provides a number of very challenging tests too. Many tests are run in extremely hard temperature conditions and during span of time which can be quite long (about 3 months, without any interruption).

The ETAG015 Guideline provides a big number of tests, finalised to the determination of characteristic resistances of the connection, helpful to the design of connectors for wood

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structures, in compliance with Eurocode 5.

Tecfi S.p.A says that it has taken the hard way of gaining technical approvals in order to ensure its products reach CE certification, and due to this has received some very impressive results.

Below are the range of Tecfi products that have already received ETA accreditation: • Tecfi high performance anchor HVE Rock® ETA 10/0060 - Option 1.

• Tecfi steel anchor with conical nut and sleeve DXE ETA 10/0453 - Option 7.

• Tecfi steel anchor DSE anchor - ETA 08/0058 - Option 7.

• Tecfi DGE02 bonded anchor - ETA 10/0102 (with rod) and ETA 10/0103 (with rebar).

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Simpson launches new range Simpson Strong-Tie has launched an innovative new range of chemical anchors and fixings, adding to its impressive portfolio of products and services.

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esigned to meet the needs of a comprehensive set of applications, the range includes the Poly-GP - a styrene free resin ideal for medium duty use in hollow or solid block applications.

The range also includes the ETA approved AT-HP resin (ETA-11/0139) which has been specially formulated for high performance for fixing threaded rods or rebar into concrete, making it ideal for fixing timber to masonry or even the installation of satellite dishes. Completing the range for particularly high specifications is the SETXP - a pure epoxy resin.

Available in a variety of cartridge sizes the resins are complimented by Simpson’s extensive range of threaded rods alongside a full range of installation accessories.

Malcolm Paulson, managing director of Simpson Strong-Tie, comments: “The launch of our chemical anchors range coincides with the expansion of our anchor support division. Steve Canty is joined by Paul Cruickshank and Laurence Parker, forming a highly experienced team, providing technical support and engineering advice on site, where it’s needed the most.”

New epoxy resin from G&B Fissaggi G&B Fissaggi, based in Turin, Italy, says that its GEBOFIX EPO PLUS RE (ETA – 11/0182) is a pure epoxy resin 3:1 which is CE Option 1 approved for use in cracked and non-cracked concrete supports with reinforced bars and threaded rods for applications in wet concrete and flooded bore holes.

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&B Fissaggi highlights that the GEBOFIX EPO PLUS RE can be used with a special application gun, and static mixers, and offers safe fixing and high load values even on semisolids and hollow supports. It is also fire resistant, offers very high chemical resistance, has a flexible working time in high temperatures, is low in odour and has no shrinkage.

The GEBOFIX EPO PLUS RE was designed especially for the anchoring of threaded rods, reinforcing bars or internal threaded rod sleeves, and can be used in a variety of applications including structural applications of reconstruction and renovation, the anchoring of concrete rebar steel, as well as fixing in holes immersed in water and in diamond drill holes. It can also be used for difficult anchoring in the main construction materials: stone, concrete, solid and hollow bricks, as well as wood.

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Offering approved solutions Koelner Group states that its wide range of products, under the Rawlplug/Koelner brand, allows customers to find approved solutions for both the simplest and most sophisticated applications.

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oelner’s leading bestseller is its new line of chemical fixings based on vinylester styrene free polymer.

The first product is a two component mortar named R-KER (ETA-10/0055) which covers a large selection of fixing diameters and rod steel types. Koelner points out that the R-KER-W is the only “Winter” product on the market with approved application temperature down to -20ºC. R-KER is also available in a patented Cartridge Free System (RV-200) together with the popular RP-30 polyester mortar.

The next product is the spin-in type chemical capsule R-CAS-V (ETA-10/0108). In addition to the above mentioned features of R-KER, the R-CAS-V allows installation in wet concrete and flooded holes; moreover the use of high corrosion resistant rods solves the problem of highly aggressive environments.

Last but not least in the vinylester range is the hammerin capsule R-HAC-V, designed for application of reinforcing bars. Koelner explains that the ease of application, by simple hammering of the rod, caused extended discussion within EOTA since the less complicated use of bonded anchors was not endorsed by EOTA. “Our demand for changes in ETAG001 prolonged the circulation period and delayed granting of the first ETA for hammer-in chemical anchors.”

Recently, the innovative Koelner anchor TFIX-8ST (ETA-11/0144) joined Koelner’s façade insulation fixing family. The advanced design of TFIX-8ST allows full control over the precision and quality of fixings on every façade, reducing the possibility of installation errors. Patented system of insulation layer integrated with the anchor plate guarantee uniform façade surface and faster applications without thermal bridging.

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Recent European Technical Approvals for fixings Here is a list of recent ETAs granted in the last three months to fixings products, following the agreement with the European Organisation for Technical Approvals.

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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.

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

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TRADE NAME

COMPANY

ETAG 001 Metal Anchors for use in Concrete (all parts) ETA - 11/0074

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Berner Montaje Fijacion S.L., Poligono Industrial la Rosa VI

ETA - 11/0093

fischer concrete screw FBS 6

fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG

ETA - 11/0095

fischer concrete screw FBS, FBS A4 and FBS C

fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG

ETA - 11/0146

MASTERFLOW 920 SF for rebar connections

BASF Construction Chemicals Z.I. Petite Montage Sud

ETA - 11/0155

FRP

Friulsider S.p.A

ETA - 11/0164

COLLAK TACO QUIMCO

Collak S.A.

ETA - 11/0165

DESA-CHEM VSF

Desarrollos Espciales se Sistemas de Anclaje S.A.

ETA - 11/0182

G&B Fissaggi Injection system EPO PLUS RE for concrete

G&B Fissaggi

ETA - 11/0186

GRK concrete screw Caliburn 7.5

GRK Canada Ltd

ETA - 11/0213

BTV Anchor Bolt BMC

Bautechnik Vertriebs-GmbH

ETA - 11/0214

BTV Anchor Bolt SAX

Bautechnik Vertriebs-GmbH

ETA - 11/0216

fischer Injection system FIS EM cc

fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG

ETA - 11/0244

BTI Compound mortar UVT 390 Top-Z

BTI Befestigungstechnik GmbH

ETA - 11/0245

EFG RVE

Mungo SRL

ETA - 11/0246

MIT V

Mungo SRL

ETA - 11/0247

Vinylester epoxy acrylate

RAM Chevilles et Fixations Z.I. de Villemilan

ETA - 11/0248

Molly

PLOMBELEC, zone synergie

ETA - 11/0249

Moser Anker kleber

Franz Moser GmbH

ETA - 11/0256

Vulcan Chemical capsule VSP

RAMFAST Co Ltd

ETA - 11/0273

Rebar connection with BTI injection mortar UVT Top -Z

BTI Befestigungstechnik GmbH

ETA - 11/0323

Index Root Anchor SLRT

INDEX - Técnicas Expansivas S.L.

ETA - 11/0366

PSRe, PSRe-A4

Dromet SWH Drazikowscy

ETAG 014 Plastic Anchors for ETICS ETA - 11/0144

Koelner TFIX-8S and TFIX-ST

KOELNER S.A.

ETA - 11/0192

EJOT H1 eco

EJOT Baubefestigungen GmbH

ETA - 11/0315

DBM-275TOP-FIS

D.B.M. s.r.l.

Vorpa: Constantly improving Vorpa Srl has several products which have received European Technical Approvals, all issued by prestigious European Institutes in accordance with ETAG Guidelines.

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orpa highlights that it is always looking to improve the quality of its products and is constantly working to gain further European Technical Approvals.

Below are just some of the ETA approvals it has received so far:

ETA 07/0031 option 7 issued by STC Servizio Tecnico Centrale – Rome – Italy: Relates to the through steel anchor VSP, which is characterised by a high load-bearing capacity which enables it to be used for anchoring machinery, heavy duty timber and metal constructions. The VSP anchor can be used in non-cracked concrete and natural stone.

ETA 08/0138 option 7 issued by ITB Instytut Techniki Budowlanej – Warzawa – Poland: This concerns the CV. VSF PRO CE which is a vinylester chemical anchor. The CV. VSF PRO is available in sizes 300ml, 345ml and 400ml and is suitable for numerous applications, particularly high load applications on concrete, natural stone and solid brick. The CV. VSF PRO can also to be used with reinforcing bars.

ETA 09/0175 option 7 issued by DIBt Deutches Institut für Bautechnik – Berlin – Germany: This approvals relates to the heavy duty anchor TOP which is manufactured in the range of M6, M8, M10 and M12, both in galvanised steel and A4 stainless steel, and is suitable for concrete C20/C25 to C50/C60. The TOP anchor is suitable for all bolts or studs with metric thread, and the surface-flush fixing allows the mounted item to be removed and refitted several times.

ETA 10/0125 option 7 issued by ETA-Danmark A/S: The final approval is for the through steel VE.CE7 anchor. The VE.CE7 features one A2 stainless steel clip characterised by excellent load bearing capacity in non-cracked concrete and suitable for medium and heavy duty applications. Vorpa’s range includes several sizes from M8 to M16 and even extra long anchors M12 and M16 whose lengths are available from 200mm up to 400mm.

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Index commits to EOTA certification Index Fixing Systems, a manufacturer of anchors, fixing systems and screws, has set itself a target to constantly improve and certify the quality of its products to help fulfil its customer’s requirements.

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ndex is already able to offer customers the CE marked heavy duty anchors SLVT option 8 (ETA-04/0100), MTH & MTH-A4 option 7 (ETA-05/0242), and CA-QU chemical anchor option 7 (ETA08/0350). In addition, Index is currently working to obtain the Certification Option 1 on SLVT (heavy duty anchor for high performance in concrete) and MTH (through bolt anchor for heavy loads) families.

Index highlights that it also offers totally safe mortar installations for all types of base materials. The company is able to offer both epoxy and vinyester products which are suitable for any installations on concrete by means of double threaded screws, both stainless steel and yellow-zinc plated, and threaded rods.

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enowned within its individual markets for a strong distribution capability and a high level of customer service, Hexstone’s offer to the market now covers over 30,000 core and specialist product items, most of which are accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and are available for next day delivery.

Keith Harrison, chief executive of Hexstone, explains: “The bringing together of our various fastener businesses, each sharing the same values of quality and customer service, has created a substantial platform which gives a clear illustration of our collective offer and strength. The individuality and personality behind the names remain as strong as every and our customers continue to receive the same excellent service they are used to, while benefiting from the confidence of dealing with a powerful combined force that is one of the major buyers of fasteners in Europe.”

He continues: “Thanks to the scale of our business we represent a significant and strong link in the supply chain and ensure access to quality product, sourced from industry leading manufacturers.”

For customers, Hexstone reinforces the message that they can source all their needs from one organisation – as a ‘one-stop-shop’ total solution – offering a comprehensive stock range in both depth and volume, a continuity of supply, and a stock and buying power that is unique to the market. Each company is dedicated to continually developing its product portfolio to reflect the demands of the market and offer customers as much choice and flexibility as possible.

Keith adds: “OJ Trade, our online trading facility at Owlett-Jaton has proved to be a big hit with our customers as an invaluable tool for placing orders and accessing information 24/7. The ‘real time’ functionality of the site means product enquiries and selling prices can be generated instantly and for products ordered in office hours, next day delivery is available anywhere in the UK.”

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getting closer to the customer ITW Construction Products, manufacturer and distributor of the Paslode and Spit brands, has experienced a lot of changes over the past 12 months including a restructuring and refocus of the business, all with the sole purpose of improving the service to its customers.

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t the forefront of the changes is Justin White who was appointed general manager of the Crawley based company in July 2010. “The first thing I noticed when I arrived at ITW was that there seemed to be a perceived ‘gap’ between the company and the customer,” says Justin. “My immediate plan therefore was to get closer to our customers.”

Getting closer to the customer involved reorganising the company which enabled ITW to listen better to what its customers needed and ensure that it could achieve a stronger sales focus without affecting the customer service.

“ITW’s customer service has an excellent reputation,” states Justin. “By restructuring the company it made it easier for our sales team to combine with customer services. We talked to the customers, explained what we could offer and then asked them what parts they were interested in. From this base we have built the business back up on what the customer wants us to do, not what we want to do.”

The restructuring involved the ITW sales department being broken down into independent and national sections. These two sections were then broken down further into an end user team that pushes business through ITW’s distribution partners and a team that deals directly with its distributor accounts. The end user team was also increased to the same size as the distributor team which was a big refocus for the company.

“By concentrating on independent and national end users as two different groups it has allowed us to tailor our service to fit the different requirements,” says Justin. “Our sales team for the national end users are focused on training, certifications and open days. The independent end user sales team concentrate

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on going to visit sites, discussing customer needs and demonstrating the products, before channelling the end user through to the relevant distributor.”

By working with the end users and establishing solutions to their problems, ITW has been able to then work with its distributors to make sure that it is delivering what the end user needs.

“The barriers that have been there in the past we are breaking down,” explains Justin. “The reason we have been able to break them down is because our distributors are seeing the benefits that our end user sales team are bringing to them. Our sales team has a vast experience in the fastener industry and the amount of work they are doing to help sell for our distributors has increased significantly. We are proactively targeting end users and the interaction we have with both distributors and end users is greater than it ever has been. We are actively working to increase the business of our distribution partners, pushing business to them via our end user sales team. We are therefore very focused on how we can help distributors to boost their sales.”

A key part of helping distributors boost sales has been ITW making full use of its CRM system to help partner end users

“We have created a business plan from the customer upwards…” with distributors and to make sure that trends are being spotted.

“We try and keep everyone in the loop as much as possible, because if everyone knows where we’re heading, and how we are trying to get there, it easier for people to understand and get on board,” states Justin. “We have created a business plan from the customer upwards, we know what growth we want and recent results show that we are on the right track.”

ITW Construction Products posted double digit growth for the first six months of 2011 and Justin emphasises that the success has been throughout the company with growth shown in both ITW’s Paslode and Spit brands, with sales of Spit products in the first six months of 2011 increasing by 32%. “We had a good year in 2010 which continued into 2011,” says Justin. “The growth we

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insigHt have seen in the first six months of 2011 is due to the hard work of all the team and by focusing on the key areas of our business.

We will be looking to continue this for the rest of the year.”

“The key at the moment in the market is to be a different to make sure that you get the interest of the customer,” adds Tom Wavre, marketing manager at ITW. “In Q1 we ran a promotion

to the Paslode IM350 gas nailer and even though it is the market leader we took the decision to introduce a newer version in the form of the IM350+ (pictured right).”

After just two and a half months of sales the IM350+ broke through its target sales mark with over 3,000 tools being sold. “To break the target sales mark so quickly was a fantastic result and a testament to the quality of the tool as well as the sales team we have on board,” states Justin. “It is of course important that we continue pushing the new IM350+ to ensure that the sales remain very healthy.”

The introduction of the iD-ALL and IM350+ underline ITW’s commitment to introducing new innovative products, with the company planning to introduce several more products over the following months. “We see the Spit side of the business as a great opportunity to increase market share, which has been underlined by the growth in chemical sales, “explains Justin.

“We believe there is a lot of business to be won under the Spit brand and by introducing new products over the coming months, and by continuing to target key growth areas, we can expand our market share.”

The recent success at ITW could have seen the company resting on its laurels, but Justin is keen to push on and continue to get even closer to the customers. “An independent company has recently carried out a customer satisfaction survey for us. Our customers have been asked to give feedback on our products, service and areas in which we can improve. With the survey complete, we are very proud too say we have achieved record results, having improved in all areas of our business as measured by our most important critics, our customers.”

He concludes: “We are currently six months into a three year business plan, which is constantly being developed and enhanced to help us achieve our long term vision. Our aim is to continue the success of the Paslode brand, as well as ensuring that the Spit product range grows and gains further market share, whilst constantly connecting with our customers and ensuring that we always meet and then surpass their expectations.”

“ The key at the moment in the market is to be different…” on our chemical anchor range which saw us double our sales. The sales then continued after the promotion which has been key to us increasing our market share.”

Tom is keen to point out that the doubling of sales of the chemical resin range was by focussing on ITW’s existing range and did not include new products such as its iD-ALL resin system (on which more in the Construction Fixing news section – page 66). “The introduction of the iD-ALL resin system is an example of ITW’s commitment to innovation and introducing new products,” states Tom. “Another example is the introduction of the new IM350+ gas framing nailer, which offers a series of technical and design improvements on the existing IM350 model.” (On which more in the Tools section – page 150).

Justin White adds: “It had been 15 years since we last made any changes

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Corrosion properties of drill screws The choice of the steel type in the case of corrosion-resistant steel is defined by the requirements of corrosion protection. Below Etanco GmbH Bauverbindungssysteme describes the principle damage mechanisms of various types of corrosion and the countermeasures that can be taken during the production of the steel.

Erosion corrosion By erosion corrosion we mean evenly or nearly evenly distributed erosion of the material surface under the influence of a corrosive medium, usually involving liquids containing chloride or sulphur dioxide.

This type of corrosion is described as rust for in the case of non and low alloy steels.

If the erosion rate is less than 0.1mm/y, the material is viewed as being adequately resistant against corrosion.

Countermeasures: corrosionresistant steel, stainless steel The chemical element chromium (Cr) is added to the steel to achieve a general improvement of resistance against erosion corrosion. As of a proportion of approx.

12 M-% Cr, one refers to stainless steel.

Stainless steel acquires its resistance to corrosion due to the formation of the socalled passive layer on its surface, which consists of a compound of chromium and oxygen. In contrast to an oxide layer, in order to retain this passive layer, the steel must be in constant contact with oxygen.

The addition of molybdenum (Mo) further improves corrosion resistance.

The pitting index PI = %Cr + 3.3. % Mo[ + (16 á 30). %N] describes this influence of increasing corrosion resistance in a relationship with the increasing of the alloy elements. Steel is resistant against seawater starting at and above a pitting index of 33. The commonly used names V2A and V4A for corrosion resistant steel are not standardised and are only differentiated by the question of whether they contain the material Mo (V4A) or not (V2A). Accordingly, the material V4A is characterised by the fact that, due to its Mo content, it has a higher pitting index and thus demonstrates significantly greater general resistance to corrosion.

However, because the addition of Cr and Mo also significantly reduces the ductile values of the steel, nickel (Ni) is added to improve these.

The resulting iron-chromium-nickel alloy with a minor proportion of carbon (C) is imbued with an austenitic structure due to the addition of nickel (approx. 10 M-%), which is why one also refers to these stainless steels as austenite. The

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composition of the material X7CrNi18 10 (1.4301) approximately corresponds to that of the first austenitic steel manufactured.

According to its description, this steel contains approx. 0.07 M-% C, 18 M-% Cr and 10 M-% Ni.

Pitting corrosion This starts with small, often only pinprick sized holes on the surface of the

Schematic diagram of various corrosion types: a) intercrystalline corrosion

material, which result from the fact that the passive layer required for corrosion resistance has, for example, been locally destroyed by deposits, foreign rust or tarnishing. Mostly resulting from aggressive chlorides, large cavities extend out from these small holes into the interior of the material. This corrosion is very often the cause of all kinds of damage to stainless steel.

Crevice corrosion This occurs in crevices, because the surface of the material is not supplied with enough oxygen to form a passive layer. The corrosion process for crevice corrosion is very similar to that of pitting corrosion.

Countermeasures: increasing the pitting index b) erosion corrosion

The best way to prevent pitting or crevice corrosion is to increase the pitting index (alloying of Mo), by using a material with Mo (V4A, e.g. 1.4404). This prevents almost all damage that occurs when using a material without Mo (V2A, e.g. 1.4301) with a corresponding corrosion stress.

Intercrystalline corrosion (IC), intergranular attack c) pitting corrosion

d) crevice corrosion

IC is a form of corrosion that occurs when chromium carbide (compound of Cr and C) forms at the grain boundaries of the material. Because this also takes place on the surface of the material, there is no longer enough Cr available at the interfaces of the grain boundaries with the surface to form the passive layer. In the event of an attack by a special medium, the material corrodes from these points along the grain boundaries. Because the material grains are effectively separated from the material, one also refers to this type of corrosion as intergranular attack.

Countermeasures: stabilisation, low-carbon steels / extra low carbon e) stress corrosion

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IC is avoided by preventing the formation of chromium carbide. This is achieved either by removing carbon from the material (LC, ELC steel) or by adding an element having a greater affinity to carbon than chromium, such as titanium.

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Stress corrosion This involves a type of corrosion that occurs almost entirely without corrosion products and is therefore extremely dangerous. It only occurs when the material surface is subject to tensile stress, a specific medium is present (chloride ions) and the material is vulnerable to this kind of corrosion. The austenites with approx. 8% to 12% nickel principally belong to these vulnerable materials and dramatic cases of damage have been reported. However, stress corrosion is of little significance for screws used in the construction industry. Nonetheless, in critical application cases one should also not neglect this here, especially when used in swimming pools.

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In order to prevent stress corrosion in corrosion-resistant austenitic steels, one must either increase or reduce the nickel content. However, increasing the nickel content leads to a significant increase in price, while a reduction means that there is no longer an austenitic structure present, and thus all of the advantages of the austenites are lost. However, it can principally also be said of this type of corrosion that an increase of the pitting index, meaning the addition of Mo (V4A), reduces the danger of the initiation of cracks and thus of corrosion.

Table 1 (above) compiles several selected austenitic materials with their resistance class against corrosion. It can be seen that the screw groups A2, A2L and A3 correspond to steel type V2A and the screw groups A4, A4L and A5 to steel type V4A. One can also see with the help of the family tree in Table 2 (below) that, for example, the material 1.4404 has two decisive advantages relative to the material 1.4301.

The alloying of Mo means that the material is imbued with significantly improved resistance against general corrosion, pitting corrosion and crevice corrosion due to its higher pitting index and can thus also be used for inaccessible constructs and subjected to moderate chloride and sulphur dioxide stresses. The removal of C avoids the danger of intercrystalline corrosion.

Inferences for the use of screws Even for constructs subject to moderate chloride and sulphur dioxide stresses (industrial atmosphere) and generally for inaccessible constructions, screws of the material groups A4 (1.4401), A4L (1.4404) or A5 (1.4571) can be used due to their significantly better resistance to corrosion. This results from the corrosion resistance of the steels and is reflected in building regulations.

General technical approval Z-30.3-6 The general technical approval Z-30.3-6 of 5th December 2003 [1] from DIBt (Deutsches Institut Für Bautechnik) deals with “Products, joining materials and components of corrosion-resistant steels”. The determinations contained in this approval are binding according to building law and may only be breached in exceptional cases for good reason.

Table One of Z-30.3-6 contains 15 different steel types according to DIN EN 10088. Table Two contains 13 different steel types for joining materials according to DIN EN ISO 3506.

With the resistance classes against corrosion also defined in both tables and the given typical application examples, the architect and the structural engineer have the possibility to select the suitable material from an abundance of available corrosion-resistant steel types. Worthy of note here is the remark that at least the steel types of resistance class III/medium (V4A, e.g. 1.4404) must be used for inaccessible constructs, meaning constructs whose condition cannot be inspected or can only be inspected under difficult conditions, and which can only be repaired with a great degree of effort, even without appreciable content of chlorides and sulphur dioxides.

Examples of damage Cases of damage again and again show that the previously described cases are not merely theoretical. This will be illustrated with one example. While restoring the roof of an aluminium foundry in the north-east of the Netherlands, the joining materials were also replaced. The approximately 20-year old roof consisted of aluminium trapezoid profiles joined with the substructure with screws of material group A4 (1.4401). There were no signs of corrosion attacks on the screws. The new roof construction, also made of aluminium trapezoid profiles, was fastened to the substructure with screws of material group A2 (1.4301). All of the screws had to be replaced after less than 2 years due to corrosion. Many of the screws were already broken as a result of the considerable corrosion damage. The screws of the material 1.4301 were not suited for the corrosion stress existing in this case.

The aluminium trapezoid profiles could be lifted by hand

Some screws were already broken due to corrosion damage

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A rEvolution in quality assurance For more than a decade Evolution Fasteners has determinedly pursued improvement in quality and performance to differentiate its products from general imported product supplied to the construction sector. Over the last year that determination has been reflected in the establishment of an exceptional test and research facility in Glasgow. Phil Matten took the morning flight to gain a first hand impression.

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volution Fasteners started trading in the UK in 2000: the company was founded the previous year in Canada. With the recent establishment of offices and distribution in Lich, Germany, the company now services distributors in both North American and European markets.

Its UK warehousing and distribution, and now testing and research facility, is centred in Glasgow, the company relocated this year to a new, purpose built unit in the south west of the city.

Differentiation has always been at the core of Evolution’s

marketing strategy. “We targeted connecting things into or through steel,” explains managing director, Michael Keisner. “That’s where the performance of the fastener becomes much more important, compared with construction applications into softwood.

Once you start going through steel things are different.”

“We started on the basis we wanted a drywall screw that would prove to be the best. Since then we have developed the same concept through other products; that includes collation, where the technology of both screw and collation strip have a major effect on performance on site, and more specifically in the Tek screw range. More recently we have started to look at products to fix into concrete, again technically challenging applications where design, manufacture and quality control are critical to both performance and safety.”

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Evolution’s drywall screws do stand out from the crowd. A drill test in which a sharp point drywall screw penetrates 1mm of steel in substantially less than half a second, leaves no room for doubt.

Manufactured to exceed ASTM C-1002 requirements from hardened C1022 steel, the super sharp point dimples the steel on contact providing the remarkable, wobblefree, high speed installation that makes the Evolution screw a benchmark. “A lot of sharp pointed drywalls will not even penetrate 1mm of steel,” says Michael Keisner, “because the hardening is simply inadequate. With Evolution products the operator can use every one of the thousand drywall screws in the

box, they will work quicker than any other, and will ensure zero wastage. That extends to super strong packaging - so if you drop the box the screws will not spill out.” Today Evolution drywall screws are CE marked, and in addition exceeding to BS EN 14566 and to EN-1364-1 fire requirements.

In addition to sharp point screws, phosphate coated or zinc plated, Evolution supplies self drilling drywall screws, cementitious board screws, tough board screws, flooring screws and drywall screws in stainless steel with collated options for the core ranges. From drywall screws Evolution graduated to construction application self-drilling screws, with carbon steel Tek screws for both light and extra heavy steels, supplied in the company’s trade marked 500 or 1,000 hour rated Evoshield®

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coating. A full programme of bimetal Tek screws combines the corrosion resistance of 304 stainless steel with the drilling performance of a carbon steel tip.

Alongside Evolution offers its distributors a series of specialist application screws including for stitching, for fibrous cement board, metal framing, and both timber and steel purlins.

So with more than ten years market reputation for high performance construction fasteners why commit to a testing and analytical facility that, Michael Keisner wryly acknowledges, is the investment equivalent of a couple of Ferraris?

“There are three key driving forces behind our decision,” says Keisner. “One is Evolution’s desire to offer a much higher level of technical support

and service to our customers than is currently available in the market. The second is, if it is possible, to technically improve what we do. Thirdly, the advent of the Construction Products Regulation and the sheer amount of empirical data and testing required to comply with it was a massive incentive to get on and make the investment.”

The decision was made in October 2010 and Ryan Murphy, who runs Evolution Testing & Analytical Services (ETAS), lists what has been achieved in less than nine months. “In that time we set out where we wanted to go; researched and purchased the equipment we required; recruited additional personnel; devised the whole regime behind it all – which is very

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important when it comes to obtaining UKAS accreditation; wrote the quality manual and procedures; underwent training on all the equipment and test procedures; and applied for UKAS accreditation.” As Evolution’s national sales manager, Scott Anderson, adds, while Ryan recovers his breath: “It only felt like a lifetime!”

In fact preparing and writing the manual and documentation required for UKAS accreditation took 6 man months alone. In addition to Ryan Murphy, who “has an honours degree, IEng status with the Engineering Council of the United Kingdom and experience in advanced structural engineering design and analysis, Evolution has two qualified civil engineers with experience in design and build construction who also worked on the project.” All three, together with Scott Anderson, whose claim he is simply old disguises a depth of practical experience, have extensive knowledge of metallurgy and structural dynamics.

ETAS, which had just taken delivery of its salt spray cabinet and is now only waiting for delivery of a drill speed tester specifically designed and constructed to accommodate Evolution’s range of Tek screws up to 225mm long, is unquestionably impressive. The selection of equipment has evidently been the result of careful consideration and reflects a major financial investment in advanced technology. Chemical composition analysis is carried out using X-Ray Fluorescence and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry. An advanced but remarkably compact Tensile Tester transmits test data direct to computer and, as Ryan Murphy is quick to emphasis, means instead of simply establishing the ultimate strength of the product opens “a whole new world in R&D” by allowing Evolution to see how the products actually behave in critical phases of usage. “The microscopy resource is also hugely important,” says Ryan, “in allowing us not just to understand the metallurgy to a much greater degree, but also in areas such as failure analysis. If something does go wrong we have a far greater probability, with this facility, of being able to determine why – we can see the nature

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of the problem, whether a shear failure or a problem with hardness.” While you might not naturally share Ryan’s unquestionable passion for his testing equipment - who needs a Ferrari anyway? – you should take a look at Evolution’s extensive capabilities listed on this page.

Impressed? Rightly so, but as Michael Keisner says, “It is not just the physical equipment – it is the psychology behind it, the people and their skills base … and we are proud to have a first class team of Scottish engineers.” As far as he is concerned, “improving what Evolution does is as much about product development as quality assurance.”

Evolution has already designed products, the most notable a new concrete screw anchor, part of an extension to products securing into concrete and brickwork, developed with characteristic Evolution emphasis on quality and performance.

Part of the analytical investment also reflects a commitment to further research into coatings. “There are still misunderstandings about the function of some coatings,” says Michael Keisner.

“The phosphate coating on a standard drywall screw is an example. It is primarily there to protect against corrosion during transit, not in application where whether it corrodes depends on how it is installed and what protection is applied on site.”

As the 500 or 1,000 hour capability of Evoshield® has already demonstrated, says Keisner, “you can do better than that”. He also feels that the construction industry must, sooner or later, address the environmental issues relating to some coatings. “Electronic and automotive industries have already moved away from plating containing Chrome 6,” he notes.

“In the pursuit of constantly improving standards the facilities we have here now make an absolutely massive contribution,” says Keisner. His vision is also of a facility that will address a significant shortfall in the provision of testing and analytical services to the fastener industry.

“Recognising that we needed to obtain approvals for some of our key products, both specific German approvals and European Technical Approvals, we

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surveyed testing laboratories and accreditation bodies in all 27 countries of the EU. Apart from the fact they were universally expensive, the lead times were all very long, and feedback on the progress of your project was poor. Once UKAS accredited, which we hope will be by the end of this year, Evolution Testing & Analytical Services will be able to provide the test data required. Operated as an independent division by Ryan Murphy, it will also be able to offer competitive rates and, probably more importantly, quick turnaround and timely communication for third party testing.”

Evolution Testing & Analytical Services are able to perform the following tests and analyses: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Tensile strength/resistance.

Compressive strength/resistance.

Shear strength/resistance.

Bending/flexure/deflection behaviour and resistance.

Hardness testing (Rockwell, Vickers, Brinnel).

Pull out load.

Pull through load.

Carburisation depth.

Surface/case/core hardness and depth.

XRF spectrometry.

FTIR spectrometry.

Coating mass and thickness measurement.

Neutral salt spray testing (NSST).

Cyclic corrosion testing (CCT).

Hydrogen embrittlement testing.

Torque testing.

Drill speed testing.

Tapping speed testing.

Proof loading of nuts, bolts, fasteners and other components.

Atomic composition of metals.

Failure analysis of metals.

Chemical analysis of metals.

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committed to excellence – not for years but for generations Based in a rural Black Forest location; under family management since 1888; employing 200 people committed to the development and production of some of the most innovative of fixings solutions – few companies epitomise the Mittelstand companies that have long formed the backbone of Germany’s manufacturing success than HECO Schrauben.

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oday seven members of the Hettich family are actively involved in the management of HECO Schrauben, including managing partners Stefan and Guido, the latter returning to the family company in 2006 from a senior role in the automotive sector. Another of four brothers, Andreas, takes hands-on responsibility for product management and marketing.

“ A clear declaration of loyalty to our location, our staff and acceptance of our social responsibility.

Some call it philosophy.

For us, it is just simply the everyday routine of a medium-sized family company.” Stefan Hettich Guido Hettich is emphatic about the importance of family ownership and management, and the presence of the next generation of the family providing the guarantee of its continuity.

“It is about,” he says, “commitment to excellence in the long term, not for years but for generations.”

In 1888 Karl Hettich, an inventor with a head for business, established the family business, not making screws but producing special parts for clocks – the area at that time home to one of the largest clock producers in Europe. It was not until 1936 that the Hettich company began production of screws in Schramberg, to support another arm of the family company, which produced hinges. In 1967 the screw business was hived off by Ludwig Hettich, father to the four brothers today leading the company’s management - the start of HECO’s commitment to excellence in wood screws. In 1972 the company moved to a newly built production and administration building in Schramberg-Sulgen – a site that Ludwig Hettich believed would serve three generations to come.

In 1975, following the death of his father, eldest son Stefan

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took over as managing director, moving the business into its fourth generation. In 1978 the HECO-FIX® chipboard screw was first presented to the market and, in 2002, the company was renamed HECO-Schrauben GmbH & Vo. KG (HECO simply from HEttich & CO) to differentiate it from the other arm of the family business, by then also producing screws.

Such was the company’s growth, driven by a series of highly innovative product launches, of which more later, that by 2008 Ludwig Hettich’s estimate of the capacity of the site was two generations adrift. The construction of the HECO Academy - a facility that extends training to end users and distributor personnel as well as HECO’s own team – filled the final available site space, presenting the Hettich family with the need to give careful consideration to its further growth plans. Guido Hettich explains: “We needed to consider where a new factory could be located. A far eastern location was simply not consistent with the company’s philosophy. It had to be in Europe but it also had to realistically reflect the requirements of a competitive marketplace. For these reasons we decided to establish a new plant in Romania in 2009.” Presently S.C. HECO-Schrauben S.R.L, situated in Câmpia Turzii, employs forty of HECO’s two hundred people. In total the company now has some 20,000 square metres of production, consuming more than 7,000 tonnes of steel annually to produce 1.5 billion screws under stringent quality controls.

The business services a total of thirty markets around the world. Core markets, in which it operates its own sales force, are Germany and Austria, Benelux and France. In other key markets - Scandinavia, the UK, Russia and Spain - HECO has established long term relationships with a primary importer to market its programme. Additionally the company recognises a series of “focus markets” - Romania is one – where it sees longer term development opportunity.

Throughout, HECO supplies via distribution rather than servicing the user directly. It is committed to being a reliable partner to the specialist trade and professional user – the DIY market represents a relatively small element of HECO sales.

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c o n s t r u ct i o n f i x i n g s The company defines its target fields as: screws for universal use, for wood construction, for use in concrete and solid masonry; and less significantly the supply of special screws.

It is fundamental to the company’s philosophy that its products are all developed, produced and branded by HECO. “HECO is and will remain a screw producing company,” says Andreas Hettich.

“This is very, very important to us. We do not want to secure the future of our company by transferring production to a low cost economy in the Far East. We want our company to develop and provide innovative screw solutions to the market – you could say, to make the business more and more intelligent.”

A series of innovative product introductions over the last twenty years underline the point very clearly. In 1990 HECO launched the HECO-FIX-plus®, which in spite of the subsequent launch of new screws with distinctive performance characteristics remains an active range programme. “In contrast to other manufacturers we believe it is correct to retain our original production series,” explains Andreas Hettich, “otherwise we would lose the ability to service some of our customers’ applications to the best of our ability.” HECO-FIX-plus, for example, continues to offer optimum performance when using a nylon plug.

1995, though, saw what appears, at first sight, to have been a major departure from HECO’s woodscrew heritage. Within two years of its launch the patented MULTI MONTI® screw anchor was awarded a coveted innovation prize presented by the state of Baden-Württemberg. At ‘first sight’ because MULTI MONTI moved HECO firmly into the concrete, stone and brickwork fixings sector. “In reality,” says Andreas Hettich, “MULTI MONTI was an extension of the tooth design of HECO-FIX-plus®. In exploring its potential universality we tried HECO-FIX-plus® in concrete and brickwork – and it worked. Typical, you could say, of HECO we thought if we can do it in brickwork and concrete then we must optimise the performance in these new to us materials.”

That heritage can be clearly seen on the starting threads of MULTI-MONTI where the teeth fulfil the same function of cutting the thread into the material.

“From time to time,” Andreas Hettich continues with a somewhat wry smile, “it is good not to know what you have to expect when starting a new product programe. If we had known how much money, how much work and how much resource we would invest in developing this screw, in obtaining the approvals and in convincing the market of it is effectiveness we might very well have never started.” Two very significant elements of that commitment were the necessity of developing calculation software to support users as well as achieving, as far as HECO was concerned, crucial approvals and certification for the product. The HECO Calculation Software is a powerful tool for precise planning, developed in-house and subsequently reworked and improved. User friendly and interactive its interface is well structured and precise – and now in seven languages. New three-dimensional graphics make planning easier and enable detailed presentation of construction plans. HCS is based on DIN 1052:2008-12 and will shortly be complemented by calculating capabilities conforming to Eurocode 5. For those not wishing to make the calculations themselves HECO also provides a calculation service, which aims to respond to customers within 24 hours.

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“MULTI-MONTI achieved a series of firsts,” says Andreas Hettich.

“It was first to have the M10 diameter approved; it was the first with single approvals for cracked and for non-cracked concrete; the first with an ETA approval (ETA - 05/0011); and the first in stainless steel (ETA - 05/0011).”

“Today, all the experience we had in developing this screw, in developing the software calculations, in obtaining the approvals, is very, very helpful – because we know how to do these things and what to expect from the designers and the users.” It is an experience most recently resulting in the development of the MULTI-MONTI® -TimberConnect. The innovative soleplate anchor combines the patented concrete thread with a HECO wood thread. In this way, the MMS-TC (pictured right) guarantees simple and safe joining of wood elements to solid masonry and concrete as well as joists on concrete.

Back to 2000 and the market saw for the first time the HECO-TOPIX® -delivering, through revolutionary shank and point geometry, performance and speed, and backed with building regulation approvals for both steel and stainless steel variants.

Subsequent development saw the launch of HECO-TOPIX-T® for securing soft roof insulation without damage through compressive force. 2007 saw the launch of HECO-TOPIX-CombiConnect®.

Described by Andreas Hettich as a “typical example of offering innovative solutions and technical excellence” HECO-TOPIX-CC is a double thread screw for the wood construction sector, enabling transmission of high traction and compressive forces and carrying approvals for general construction applications.

In 2010, though, HECO brought to market arguably its most distinctive performing wood screw. HECO-UNIX is a patented full thread screw featuring a variable thread pitch, decreasing from the tip of the screw to the head, which creates a contraction effect, drawing together timber components and eliminating the need for clamping or other measures. Any number of words could be written about HECO-UNIX but a couple of simple demonstrations speak infinitely greater volumes and are utterly convincing in the performance and value of this new screw.

By now it is questionable whether it need be said but quality in all aspects of its business is an imperative for HECO. Actually imperative might be a rather lacklustre expression. “Safe and Secure” is not so much a slogan but - as a day in the company of its management and a unrestricted tour of its production, quality and training facilities irrefutably demonstrates - a way of daily life. Not that anyone in HECO finds that exceptional.

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Looking forward to são Paulo Well, who wouldn’t? Putting aside the fairly obvious attractions of visiting São Paulo in November, Fastener Fair Brasil shows all the signs of another exciting launch show - in one of the world’s still fastest growing economies.

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hile European growth expectations have downgraded to little better than one percent, Brazil has also seen a downward revision – but that still means four percent. Last year GDP grew 7.5% and while president Dilma Rousseff faces challenges in her first year, domestic consumer demand remains strong, not least because of record employment levels and wage growth. The relative strength of the Brazilian Real has sucked in imports. Not surprisingly, in a distinctly protective business culture, that has led to strident calls for stronger tariffs and regulations – rewarded recently by anti-dumping duties on steel pipe from China, unlikely to be the last such measure. On the other hand, and despite continued risks of high inflation, the government has been radical in cutting interest rates, albeit to a still hefty 12%, and announcing a major programme of tax breaks and stimulus to encourage capital investment by local manufacturers. Not just local either – the intention is clear to entice, or rather accelerate, inward investment for electronic and other product manufacturing: most prized jewel the potential for a new iPad plant in São Paulo.

That’s the thing to recognise about Brazil’s largest city, with getting on for 20 million people in its metropolitan area: it is the

country’s most important commercial and manufacturing centre. Sorry to say this, São Paulo is actually about 70 kilometres from and about 750 meters above the Atlantic Ocean beaches. The weather can also be a mite unreliable: when it rains in São Paulo, it cascades. Warmth, though, is guaranteed from a sub-tropical climate and from many Paulistas.

So while the food is great, the nightlife starts at midnight, and the shopping is spectacular, this is really the Brazilian city to do business – and for the fastener industry this November that means the Expo Center Norte. At last count, 150 exhibitors have signed up for the Fastener Fair, including many of Brazil’s leading fastener manufacturers. It is definitely a show for the Brazilian market, and while Fastener Fair’s now familiar international flavour is assured, the primary visitor base will unquestionably be Brazilian, particularly from São Paulo’s extraordinary spectrum of industry, infrastructure and services.

Fastener + Fixing Magazine will be there to bring you a special report in November. Meantime read on for our preview of Fastener Fair Brasil.

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fastener fair Brasil 2011 key facts Venue Expo Center Norte. Rua José Bernardo Pinto, 333 Vila Guilherme, CEP: 02055-000, São Paulo / SP, Brazil

Dates and opening times Tuesday 8th November 2011 13:00h – 20:00h Wednesday 9th November 2011 13:00h – 19:00h

Entrance Fees Pre-registered visitors Free of charge Visitors registering on-site Free of charge

Why fastener fair Brasil?

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São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and the seventh largest

Expo Center Norte is a 20 minutes drive from Guarulhos International Airport and 5km from São Paulo city centre.

The venue is conveniently situated close to Tietê bus terminal and subway station, with direct access to the Marginal Tietê expressway. It has hotels and facilities nearby. Center Norte shopping mall with cinemas, restaurants, foreign exchange centre and shops is 600 metres from the venue.

metropolitan area in the world, is the ideal location to exhibit for the fastener and fixing industry.

• São Paulo is the foremost industrial and business centre in Latin America. It is also the biggest and most important city in the Mercosul/Mercosur economic territory.

• São Paulo is South America’s trade fair capital, hosting 90,000 events each year.

• São Paulo accounts for 41% of the domestic industrial production.

• São Paulo’s five refineries represent 42% of the total refining capacity of the country.

Panel discussion Fastener Fair Brasil will feature a special panel discussion on key issues relating to the Brazilian fastener industry and its markets. Panellists will include:

• 40% of the automotive plants and 59% of the car parts manufacturers are located in or around São Paulo.

Brazil – a growth market • Brazil has the seventh largest GDP in the world (estimated at US$ 2.19 trillion – for 2011).

• GDP growth in 2010: 7.6%.

• GDP growth forecast for 2011: nearly 5.5%.

• Leading Latin American aircraft exporter.

• Fourth largest market worldwide for car consumer and sixth for car production.

• Fifth largest market worldwide for computer sales.

• 198 million mobile handsets in operation.

• Industrial construction will increase by 16% in 2011.

Sr José Gianese Sobrinho presidente, SINPA (BR) Sergio Milatias editor, Revista do Parafuso (BR) Phil Matten editor, Fastener + Fixing Magazine (Europe) Mark Lenhart executive vice president, National Fastener Distributors Association (USA) The discussion will be conducted in Portuguese, with translation to English. During the discussion Fastener Fair visitors will be able to put their questions to the panellists. To ensure informed answers visitors are invited to send their questions in advance of Fastener Fair Brasil to: info@fastenerfair.br.com

• Demand for domestic air traffic will increase by 15% in 2011.

Figures for 2010 onwards, include some estimates.

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fA s t E n E r fA i r B r A s i L Company Name Stand Actfix Distribuição de Fixadores Ltda 361 Acument Brasil Sistemas de Fixação S/A 451 Agarwal Fasteners PVT. Ltd 362 Aimreach Enterprises, Co., Ltd. 248 Alloy & Stainless Fasteners 466 Al Metal Special Metal Parts B.V. 190 Anand Bolts 162 Arber Parafusos 251 A-Stainless International Co., Ltd. 175 Atotech do Brasil Galvanotécnica Ltda.

565 Autocraft Industrial (Shanghai) Ltd 271 Belgo Bekaert Arames Ltda.

341 Boltinox Com. Rep. Imp. Exp. Ltda.

511 Boltun Corporation 131 Bralo S.A. 544 Brighton Best International (Brazil) 461 Canco Fasteners 515 Changshu Fuxin Fasteners Mfg Co Ltd 545 Changzhou Junhe Company 545 Chemfix Products Ltd 617 Chin Lih Hsing Precision Enterprise Co., Ltd 130 Ciser Parafusos e Porcas 351 Colombo Giovanni & Figli Srl 374 Condat Lubrificantes do Brasil Ind. 243 Continental Parafusos 525 Deepak Fasteners Ltd - Unbrako 161 Dejond N.V. 152 Dell’Era Ermanno & Figlio Srl 374 Dörken MKS-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG 420 DP2 Brasil 446 D.S Fastener (China) Company Limited 648 Eastport Fastener Manufacturing 642 EJOT GmbH & Co. KG 283 Eurolls do Brasil 372 Europressvit S.r.l.

342 Excel Hardware Industrial Co., Ltd 179 Exports Unlimited (India) 393 FAR Srl 352 Fastener World Inc. 230 Fastener + Fixing Magazine 561 Fastener Manufacturers Associations Of India 652 Fasteners & Fittings 531 Fastenique Structural Rivets Co., Ltd. 471 Faster Srl 241 Fiofort Metalúrgica e Estamparia Ltda 111 Flecha Indústria e Comércio Ltda 114 Fontana Finanziaria SpA 160 Gebr. TITGEMEYER GmbH & Co. KG 152 Gem International Co., Ltd 242 General Fix Fastening Solutions 205 Gesibras Industria Brasileira de Rebites Ltd 405 Growermetal Srl 370 Haiyan Mingyang Fasteners Co.,Ltd 146 Haiyan Yuxing Nuts Co., Ltd 435 Hard Comércio de Fixadores e Resinas Ltda.

331 Hariton Machinery Co., Inc. 110 Header Plan Co., Inc. 145 HJZ 383 Home Soon Enterprise Co., Ltd. 171 Homn Reen Enterprise Co., Ltd. 168 Hunan Liangang Fasteners Co., Ltd 291 Index Fixing Systems 465 Industria Metalurgica Max Del 603 INOVAN 621 Inoxdadi S.r.l.

616 Inox Mare Srl 535 Inox Par Indústria e Comércio Ltda 571 Irmãos Parasmo S/A Indústria Mecânica 148 Italbolt Inox Service Srl 172 JAMO Equipamentos Ltda.

265 Jet Fast Company Ltd. 143 Jingjiang Hengfeng Rivet Manufacture Co., Ltd. 630 Jomarca Industrial de Parafusos 575 Kimeseal - Sealants and Adhesives, SA 279 KS Importacao e Comercio Ltda 482 KVT-Koenig Brasil 611 Lakshmi Precision Screws Ltd 102 Landmark Fasteners Pvt. Ltd 164 Linkwell Industry Co., Ltd 625 Lucky-Winsun Enterprise Co., Ltd 274 Lusavouga 321 Magazine Bulonero 118 Master United Corp.

244 MDM Chatillon 381 Mectron Engineering Co. Inc. 613 Metalbrax Indústria Metalúrgica Ltda 261 Metaltork Ind Com Ltda 205 Metalurgica Manzato 211 Metalúrgica Agathon 621 Mitter Fasteners Ludhiana 280 Multiple Overseas Exports 382 National Fastener Distributors Association (NFDA) 120

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National Machinery LLC New Star Industries Nexo Industries Ltd Ningbo Anchor Fasteners Industrial Ningbo Jinding Fastening Piece Co., Ltd Ningbo Jingle Corporation Ningbo Sijin Machinery Co Ltd Ningbo Zhongjiang Nylok S/A Oesp Mídia LTDA Old Machine Comércio OR Brasil Comercio Importacao e Exportacao Oriental Multiple Enterprise Ltd Patta International Limited Pecol China Pecol Sistemas de Fixação Perfix Perfuracao e Fixacao Ltda.

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Revista do Parafuso Rivex Comp Rivit Srl Rotor Clip Company, Inc. Sala Punzoni Srl Screwtech Industry Co., Ltd. Sen Chang Industrial Co., Ltd. Shanghai Jingyang Import and Export Shanghai Chaenchia Fastener Co., Ltd Shanghai Prime Machinery Co., Ltd Shanghai RECKY International Trading Shanghai Sunray Co., Ltd. Sheh Kai Precision Co. Ltd Shin Chun Enterprise Co., Ltd SINPA Sodell Procurement International So Pinos Sormat West Europe EURL SouthWind Comércio Importação e Exportação Super Par Industria e Comercio de Parafusos

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SurTec do Brasil Ltda Suzhou Hongly Hardware Co., Ltd SW Industry Peças de Fixação Ltda Ticho Industries Ltd Torcisao Torneados de Precisao ltda Trafilerie San Paolo S.r.l.

Tramev Srl Tycoons Group Enterprise Vertex Precision Industrial Corp.

Vlier Products Wafios Brazil Weighpack International, WPI Services Wenzhou Junhao Industry Co., Ltd Wenzhou Sanlin Metals Products Yow Chern Co., Ltd. YuYao Fastener Factory Zhejiang Aozhan Industrial Co., Ltd. Zhejiang Huantai Fastener Co.,Ltd Zhuji Ouyang Hardware Co., Ltd ZM S.A.

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Precision parts forming machinery Induction Heating at Hilgeland and Kieserling Formers for Aerospace Machinery for the production of fasteners for the aerospace industries and light-weight engineering.

Hard steel materials can be formed with less force.

Temperatures possible more than 900°C (also for Titanium and Inconel).

Induction heating system in the machine between the cut-off knife and wire in-feed.

Even Titanium is not hard enough for our machines Machines with induction heating is the best solution for aerospace

VIVA LAS VEGAS - NIFS / IFE – SHOW in LAS VEGAS From 19th – 21st Oct. 2011 WAFIOS Umformtechnik will join the National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo in Las Vegas, USA. Talk with our experts at the show: Booth 1450 - 1550

Agent for North America and Canada BW Walden Group Phone +1 905 482 2659 Fax +1 905 482 2663 sales@bwgroupinc.com www.bwgroupinc.com

WAFIOS Umformtechnik GmbH Im Rehsiepen 35 42369 Wuppertal / Germany Phone +49 (202) 46 68-0 Fax +49 (202) 46 68-225 sales@wafios-umformtechnik.de www.wafios-umformtechnik.de

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As a result: Minimum heat loss and high energy efficiency.

The wire temperature is regulated by means of control technology.

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rotor clip excited about fastener fair Brasil Rotor Clip Company Inc says that it is excited to be exhibiting at Fastener Fair Brasil and will be entering the Brazilian market with a full line of retaining rings, spiral rings, wave springs and hose clamps.

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or over 50 years, Rotor Clip has been providing quality products worldwide to such industries as automotive, appliance, off-shore, wind power and distribution. Its products are manufactured in one location in the USA to ensure lot traceability.

All processes are conducted in-house ensuring the quality and reliability of the products produced. These processes include engineering, which designs the tooling required to produce retaining rings, tool and die making, stamping and wire forming, heat treating, post-finishing, packaging, warehousing and shipping.

Rotor Clip manufactures to DIN, inch, ANSI metric and JIS standards and supports its market with a full line of installation tools including applicators, pliers, dispensers and automated assembly equipment.

“We are very excited to be exhibiting at Fastener Fair Brasil and to reward those visitors to our stand (number 521) we will be giving away free t-shirts (whilst stocks last).”

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new topcoat to be presented at show Dörken MKS-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG, a technological pioneer in the field of zinc flake systems, is strengthening its local team in Brazil in order to be able to service the important South American market even more intensively in future.

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n addition to Anna Kemper, who joined Doerken do Brasil in May as its new business administrator manager, the company will also be exhibiting at Fastener Fair Brasil to promote among other things its brand new topcoat.

The new Delta-Protekt® VH 301.1 GZ topcoat offers optimised screw-fastening properties, especially where fasteners are screwed in a long way in fittings against components made of aluminium (with double taper) or parts made of steel or with a KTL coating (in each case with fivefold taper). The coating features exceptional corrosion resistance, achieving a figure of 720 hours in salt spray tests, and also provides greater resistance against brake fluid, oil and cleaning agents. It improves mechanical properties, prevents problematic stick/slip effects, withstands temperatures of up to 180°C for 96 hours and ensures that friction coefficients are kept constant.

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Dejond’s anti-turn solution For over half a century, Dejond’s brand name TUBTARA® has stood for a high quality, in-house headed range of blind rivet nuts in aluminium, steel and stainless steel 304 and 316.

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ejond’s manufacturing plant specialises in cold forming techniques and its R&D team is constantly looking for new solutions to keep pace with the latest market requirements, such as two tailor-made TUBTARA’s in stainless steel for the latest aerospace programmes.

However, Dejond’s participation at Fastener Fair Brasil will mainly focus on its expertise in cold forming stainless steel 304 and 316 and the innovative Anti-Turn solution.

Located in Antwerp, this Belgian manufacturer offers one of the widest ranges of blind rivet nuts in headed stainless steel.

Open and closed end versions from M4 - M10 with round or hexagonal shank and different head forms, are all available from stock.

In addition to its 304 product range, Dejond introduced a cold formed stainless steel 316 blind rivet nut range. This material is

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Dejond’s latest innovation is the Anti-Turn TUBTARA®, a blind rivet nut with cylindrical shank and special anti-rotation head which eliminates spin out problems by offering torque-to-turn values that are at least twice as high as those of the standard cylindrical equivalent.

“The Anti-Turn TUBTARA® is a blind rivet nut which is very effective if you can only use or drill round holes or when you have an application in very hard or slippery material.”

Brighton-Best extending range offer Brighton-Best International (BRASIL) says it stocks the widest range of socket screw, shoulder bolts, set screws, dowel pins, and hex keys in the industry.

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righton provides fully traceable quality fasteners in inch, metric, ferrous and non-ferrous materials. All Brighton products are manufactured to ISO, ANSI, ASTM and DIN standards.

“In the near future, Brighton hopes to be your one-stop shop for fasteners and will be extending its range of product lines to include hex cap screws, bolts, nuts, washers, structural products, and threaded rods.”

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Stainless steel fastener specialists Inox Mare, established in Rimini, Italy, in 1977, has been dealing with stainless steel fasteners for more than 30 years.

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n 2007 Inox Mare transferred its offices to new premises to enable the company to grow in the market and also to increase the amount of staff members to over 80 people. Inox Mare also moved its warehouse to Bologna, a strategic point of the peninsula which allows it to rapidly forward its goods all over Italy and abroad.

Inox Mare is specialised in the distribution of standard metric screws, nuts and bolts, stainless steel fastening systems for solar installations, marine accessories and fittings. All its products comply with the DIN/UNI rules and are in AISI 304 (A2) and AISI 316 (A4). Inox Mare’s quality handling system is certified by the ISO 9001/2008 rules, since its priority is to perform at the highest level in everything it does.

“We meet all our clients’ requirements thanks to the service of our professional staff who speak a total of twelve languages.

Also, thanks to the vastness and efficiency of our warehouse, all our products are available in stock, and we are able to deal with more than 300 orders a day.”

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rivit establishes partnership in Brazil Rivit Italy has always considered the Brazilian market as a strategic goal for its international expansion, which is why for many years Rivit has taken steps to establish partnerships in the market.

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n 2007 Rivit announced its collaboration with ASSAHI Máquinas e Equipamentos Ltda, with ASSAHI distributing Rivit products into the Brazilian market.

Due to this collaboration, Rivit and ASSAHI say that they could not miss the opportunity to participate together in the first edition of Fastener Fair Brasil. At stand number 401 there will be many of the Rivit tools for the assembly of fasteners (blind rivets, rivet nuts, self clinching, blind bolts, studs), and even those designed for special applications (tools for rivet nuts M14 - M16; tools for blind rivets with diameter 6.4mm, 7.8mm and 9.8mm; tools for blind bolts with diameters from 4.8mm to 10mm; as well as tools for cartridge rivets).

The ASSAHI staff will be at disposal of the Brazilian visitors to answer any technical question, while the Rivit staff will be there to ensure their support to all other visitors, to illustrate the range of products and the partnership strategies.

Rivit is known in Italy and in more than 40 countries around the world as a manufacturer and distributor of fastening systems and tools for sheet metal assembly and working. Founded in 1973 Rivit has come to develop a wide range of products for industrial fasteners (blind rivets, threaded rivet nuts, self clinching, studs, blind bolts, latches, cage nuts, spring clips) and necessary tools that go with them.

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Mectron Inspection Systems has announced that it will be exhibiting its First Scan 150R non-contact, fully automatic precision measuring system designed for cylindrical components, at the upcoming Fastener Fair Brasil 2011 exhibition in São Paulo.

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ectron explains that the major benefit of this technology is the ability to perform non-contact measurements with accuracy and speed and is easily networked to provide data to a variety of SPC formats.

The First Scan 150R utilises a telecentric backlight illuminator to produce a high contrast silhouette of the workpiece to be inspected. The illuminator increases edge contrast and measurement accuracy designed specifically for gauging applications. The images are received by a high resolution digital line scan camera that can take measurement data from the part at rates of over 14,000 updates per second. This data is collected by 8,160 sensitive pixels that can detect changes in the light pattern at sub-micron resolution. During the scanning process, a calibration cone (which is incorporated into the workpiece holder) provides the basis for all measurements to be automatically provided by the machine.

Once the part image is scanned, an unlimited number of measurement zones can be pre-set along with the corresponding dimensional specifications and control limits. Each measurement zone allows the user to input minimum and maximum tolerances, control limits, and displays actual measurement output by the machine. Specific thread tolerances are provided automatically via drop-down features for all standard and metric thread sizes. The custom reporting feature provides a visual graph that indicates where the measurement falls within the pre-set tolerances and control limits.

The First Scan 150R scans the part utilising two separate servo drives. The first scans the part on the linear axis for geometric tolerances of features like diameter, width, radii, angles and threads. The second rotates and scans the part on the radial axis and inspects for concentricity, flats, hex, perpendicularity and cylindricity, providing 360º capabilities.

“The First Scan 150R is capable of inspecting parts up to 35mm in diameter and lengths up to 150mm. For a complete demonstration, please visit us on stand number 613 at Fastener Fair Brasil.”

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Totalforge can be used with carbon steels, stainless steels and similar materials. Power from 15kW to 300kW is available and the heating bobbin works in low tension.

Totalforge provides excellent quality in the finishing of the part and does not generate scrap. There is an option for cooling using deionised water and also for either hydraulic or pneumatic advance. A 60Kw installation can produce up to 150kg/hour of material at 1,250°C.

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Acument Brasil Sistemas de Fixação S/A has a broad range of manufacturing capabilities available to the fastening industry.

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cument’s extensive array of advanced manufacturing capabilities enables it to provide high quality, cost-efficient engineered components that are custom designed to meet specific application requirements.

Acument produces a wide range of products including bolts M3 – M22 (1/8 inch – 7/8 inch) in lengths 5mm – 300mm (3/16 inch – 11 inch), nuts from M6 – M22 (¼ inch – 7/8 inch), as well as cold formed and cold extruded parts.

Jet fast is ready Jet Fast Company Limited, a manufacturer of a blind fastener line that encompasses more than 450 items in different sizes, will be exhibiting at Fastener Fair Brasil.

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et Fast highlights that its product range includes rubber nut inserts which function as a threaded insert and fastener which effectively seal against air or liquid leakage at the assembled joint. The rubber nut inserts reduce the effects of vibration and can be used on both thin sheet and anchor applications on either uniform or non-uniform holes.

Other products in Jet Fast’s range include metal rivet nuts, available in a variety of materials and head types, which offer a maintenance free alternative to welding tapping or conventional nut and bolt, and nylon nutinserts, which are reusable and can be used in metal, fibreglass and plastic panels.

Proven quality from flecha fiXaDoreS Founded in 1935, FLECHA FIXADORES is a company with more than proven quality in the manufacture of screws and fasteners.

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Depending on their features, the products have dimensions ranging from 2mm to 8mm in diameter and 4mm to 130mm in length. In addition, FLECHA produces a wide variety of screws, bolts and special rivets according to the specific design of its customers.

Combining the technology of large companies with the flexibility of smaller companies, FLECHA has establishd itself as an excellent option to meet the needs of its customers with products based on national and international standards.

Super-Par group:the Dna of Brazilian fasteners Brazil is following a path of rapid growth and Super-Par says it is proud to contribute as a reference in fasteners in the country.

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ach product line coming from Super-Par’s inventory, carries with it the certainty that Brazilian projects and achievements are developing strongly, the company says. “In Fastener Fair Brasil, we will bring a little of our DNA and present 90 square metres of market expertise in fasteners and successful partnerships, which together build the future of the nation”.

Super-Par’s hot dip galvanised line will be featured on the stand. Today, Super-Par says, it is an expert on the subject, with its own process and the largest inventory of screws in this segment. Super-Par will also show its line of stainless steel fasteners, “with new and unique business conditions”.

In addition to presenting its product range Super-Par will have an exclusive business team, with special promotional offers prepared for the event.

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M’s experience in cold forging acquired over many years enabled it to add the fastener line to its product mix in 2010. A variety of bolts are aimed at different market segments including automotive, industrial tools and equipment, among others.

Wheel bolts and nuts is a product line undergoing further expansion of business today. Wide acceptance by consumers has led ZM to invest heavily in this area. Applications include passenger cars, SUVs, trucks, buses and trucks including Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Scania, GM, Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat, Agrale and Randon.

In the accessories segment ZM has developed a line of wheel bolts and nuts with epoxy paint and chrome finished, which are available in blister packs. This line also includes anti-theft nuts and bolts, supplied in kits of 4, 16 or 20 pieces with a special key that can be adapted to each wheel.

ZM’s tractor segment screws are all produced in Class 12.9 steel.

Special bolts for various applications complement the ZM fastening line.

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Baker & Finnemore Ltd manufacture the Starlock Push-on Fastener, a product designed for use where a quick, permanent, cost effective and efficient means of assembly is required to retain plain shafts of steel, non-ferrous and plastic materials. They eliminate costly threading and grooving operations, assist rapid assembly and once in position they can not be removed without destruction. See our web-site for further information.

Bülte offer more than 20 000 metric plastic products, standard screws, spacers, plugs, nuts, handles, retaining rings, washers, bushings, seals and cable ties are available.

Bülte fasteners are manufactured to DIN standards.

All products can be customized (forms and colours) in order to always answer your specifications.

Ask for free catalogue now.

email: bulte@bulte.com www.bulte.com

Changzhou Junhe Company

Corbetta Srl We have been producing high quality forming screws, rivets and pivots according to drawing for 40 years.

The recent generation change allows us to adapt our experience to the fast market changes.

Our mission: Highest quality and flexibility for a product entirely manufactured in Italy. email: corbettaviti@corbettaviti.it www.corbettaviti.it

tel: +49 2330 63243 www.doerken-mks.com

Make perfect surface!

A company from China in zinc flake coating field.

Junhe® Zinc Flake Coating system Junhe® Zincover chemicals series Pre-treatment Base Coat Top Coat/Seal Coating Equipment Degreasing cleaning machine Shot Blaster Dip/Spray Coating Machines Curing Machines Job Coater www.junhe-china.com Delta MKS® in China email: marketing@junhe-china.com

Dörken

Fasteners & Fittings

Dörken MKS-Systeme has been developing micro layer corrosion protection systems for over 30 years. Under the brand name DELTA-MKS®, Dörken produces and configures extremely effective surface protection mainly for the automotive industry. Our worldwide approved products like DELTA-PROTEKT® are without any heavy metals, such as chrome (VI).

Fasteners & Fittings is a leading manufacturer of cold and hot forged fasteners from India.

An export subsidiary of Rishi International, which has been in business since 1974.

Exporting standard and special fasteners to meet the requirements of the automotive industry, and other industrial/electrical requirements. Exporting fasteners to all over Europe for the last 8 years.

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Faster SRL

Fastenique Structural Rivets Co., Ltd. is specialized in manufacturing high strength rivets and structural rivets.

Italian’s leading manufacture of: cage nuts in carbon steel zinc plated and total stainless steel - Square nuts - Cage screws - Deep threaded u-nuts - U-nuts and clips - Spring latches with retainers and studs

Experienced technicians, advanced equipments, complete quality control system and professional sales service are the best guarantee for our clients.

For any enquiries please contact us www.fastenique.com fax: +86 21 5156 1771

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Italbolt Inox Service SRL

INOXDADI S.R.L. Manufacturers and exporters of stainless steel and brass nuts, bolts and washers.

Producers of nuts and washers in Aluminium, Copper, Monel, Duplex, Nickel Alloys, Hastelloy, Titanium, ASTM A194 Gr.2H and 2HM, Stainless Steels like AISI 316Ti, 904L, etc.

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Lederer is one of Europe’s most specialised suppliers for stainless steel fasteners. It has more than 20,000 different articles in stock, primarily normed and standardized parts (ref. DIN, ISO and others).

Industrial consumers, as well as retailers and wholesalers, all over the world rely on Lederer’s almost 40 years of experience. fax: +49 2333 8309 18 www.lederer-online.com

Lindapter International

RIVIT Srl

New Oil & Gas Brochure

Lindapter has released a new brochure for Oil & Gas Industry Engineers. The brochure illustrates innovative steelwork connections in heavy applications, from piping support to electrical and instrumentation, that eliminate the need to weld or drill. Available in Brazilian Portuguese or English. email: enquiries@lindapter.com www.lindapter.com

Italbolt Inox Service is an Italian Trading Company specialized in stainless steel fasteners. We are a leading company on national and foreign markets and our strengh is a very quick service, and a wide range of products such us hexagonal, socket and countersunk screws, washers, nuts and threaded rods‌ and much more!

EVERYTHING...BUT IN STAINLESS STEEL ONLY !!!

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Multiple Overseas Exports is Exhibiting a vast range of fixings, clamping, bracketry for builder hardware products, solar panel and automobile sectors.

Also on exhibit are threaded rods, brackets channel nuts and washers in normal steel and stainless steel grade 304 and 316.

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Founded in 1973, Rivit is a European leader for fasteners and tools, proposing a complete programme of fixing systems, tools, machines and technical support for the whole sheet metal universe (automotive, electronics, household appliances, sheet metal working, air-conditioning, building, roofing, metal door and windows frames, etc.).

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Sala Punzoni SRL

RLS manufacture flat thread rolling dies for most machines and thread forms including Metric, Ogival, Gimlet Point, Concrete, Wood screw and many specials.

We are Licenced to make Taptite®, MAThread® and Screwbolt® dies.

RLS also manufacture circular thread rolls for most 2 and 3 roll machines from Fette F1 up to Ø315 machine rolls.

Sala Punzoni srl, established in 1966, is a company manufacturing standard and special high speed steel and carbide punches to customer drawing and high speed steel flat dies for thread rolling.

Nowadays the company is the leader in Italy and even in the international market, always updating its productive and planning processes in order to maintain the best standard of manufacture.

tel: +39 0341 633 237 www.salapunzoni.it

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Tecfi Spa

ColorGuard® Coating - With nonChrome Zinc plating, high-grade Polymer Organic binder / top coat, it offers strong surface protection but no harm to environment.

Various colors are available.

TECFI S.P.A. is an Italian company specialised in design, production and merchandising of fixing systems with an own brand.

Our daily work strongholds are: the employment of selected raw materials, a large stock availability, quick delivery service, focusing on customer satisfaction and extreme respect for environment.

Winer Screw® - With specialdesigned thread, it successfully reduce drilling-torque but no obvious affect to fastening function.

Screw-driving can be easier and quicker. email: paul@sce.com.tw www.sce.com.tw

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TITGEMEYER Group

Viteria Fusani SRL Italy

The TITGEMEYER Group develops and manufactures fastening technology solutions, including blind rivets, rivet nuts, lockbolts and associated installation tooling.

Fastening of non-corrosive stainless steel products is becoming increasingly important in industrial applications. We have undertaken intensive testing of our products and present our range of A2 and A4 fastening solutions in a special brochure.

Screw manufacturers since 1955.

Production of standard and special screws to customer design.

Screw size from Ø 1,6 to Ø 8 • Metric screws (from M1,6 to M9) • Self-tapping for plastic materials • Dual thread self-tapping • Wood screws • Screws for chipboards • Self-forming with trilobated profile • Machine screws • Security screws Different types of materials and treatments.

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Germany Contact: Claire Lake email: claire.lake@fastenerandfixing.com • Tel: +44 (0) 1727 814 508 www.fastenerandfixing.com

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rotary punching renovates the building profile industry Baust Stanztechnologie GmbH says that it has developed an innovative punching method that will enable building profile manufacturers to cut production costs.

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aust explains that its innovation has the potential to replace the widespread stroke-punching technology in continuous metal profile manufacturing lines. Due to its design, conventional stroke-punching often becomes the bottleneck when in-line with a roll-forming process. The up-and-down movement of a stroke-punch puts a ‘stop & go’ to the otherwise flowing process of the profiling plant. By contrast, rotary punching works on a system of rollers, just like a rolling mill. Based on the same principle, roll former and rotary press can run at the same line speed, eliminating the bottleneck previously caused by stroke punching.

Baust rotary punch presses can reach production speeds of up to 200 metres per minute, continuously processing materials

such as metal, plastic or paper. Even metal profiles of up to 3mm thickness can be processed.

Further advantages include a lower strain on material, machine and production floor, as well as reduced set-up and change-over times due to the straightforward integration of the punching equipment into a profiling line.

The rotation principle can be applied to a number of different sectors. It is already being used in the electrical installations industry for manufacturing cable ducts and in the building industry for a broad range of construction and dry wall building profiles, as well as in rack and shelf systems. Baust can also offer individual concepts, particularly due to the great variety of customers who already use its technology.

leanfX gaining worldwide recognition National Machinery LLC explains that in today’s ever changing global marketplace, where investment budgets have been reduced but the need for high quality, profit producing equipment has increased; its LeanFX is helping deliver results and at the same time gaining worldwide recognition with installations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

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ustomers are discovering the LeanFX’s capability to not only produce standard but complex parts to tighter tolerances through the machine’s linear feed system and large die space. The linear feed system advances wire more accurately and provides better volume control of the cut off blank. While the large die space allows the user to run larger, higher, tonnage parts on a small and fast machine.

National Machinery also points out that part product can be made at high speeds due to the LeanFX’s superior engineering across machine components, in particular the straight across transfer system. Straight across transfer maintains part concentricity and produces evenly filled shoulders and heads on fasteners by accurately delivering and positioning the blank on the centre of the die. A direct result of this accuracy is the high speeds at which the machine can form parts.

LeanFX has carried over other features from the FORMAX that lead to its component durability and extended machine life. The sealed zero clearance heading slide provides long term parts forming consistency and longer tool life by delivering excellent tool and die registration. The clearances in both the vertical and horizontal planes are eliminated during the working stroke for more accurate and consistent tool to die registration. Also the entire heading slide is sealed off from foreign material that can cause wear and lead to excessive clearance.

Additional cost saving are achieved by LeanFX offering less quick change features than the traditional FORMAX. The LeanFX’s change over time is longer than FORMAX but still considerably less than traditional formers.

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eWmenn testing facility Through its own testing facility EWMenn GmbH & Co. KG says that it has been able to help the development needs of customers and die manufacturers alike.

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orking closely with its customers is a major objective for EWMenn and through the wide variety of testing modes and techniques that can be provided by its test facility, it has been able to meet this objective and provide optimum conditions for thorough testing of new parts and concepts.

The test facility features advanced technology and includes a specially prepared EWMenn Model AF-14 high-speed, flat-die thread roller. This machine is equipped with hydraulic die carrier clamping, push button die match, push button height adjustment for feeder and feed rails and many other features that allow reliable and repeatable testing. Maximum available die length for the AF-14 is 230mm - 255mm or Waterbury #40. Shorter dies may also be used.

A Brankamp PK 4U process control system has been integrated to the EWMenn Model AF-14 now installed at the test centre. This system includes calibrated sensors for measuring actual pressure load at each of the machine’s four pressure screws as well as total combined rolling load. Electronic die match control is an additional system feature that enables not only process control and documentation but also exact electronic measurement and monitoring of die match. Adaptive Die Match (ADM) is yet another system feature that continuously monitors and automatically corrects for imperfect die match in real time.

A further advantage is that R&D work and test series can be undertaken away from the daily (and often distracting) production environment.

“Taken together all of the above described items provide the optimum condition for research and development projects. This truly is as good as it gets.”

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new warehouse for manassero Manassero & C. Srl has just celebrated 20 years of activity by opening its newest and largest warehouse in a new industrial area in Buriasco near Torino, Italy.

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ased on a 4,000 square metre site, Manassero has a new 1,500 square metre warehouse, an overhead crane with a capacity of 30 tonnes and a forklift truck with a capacity of 10 tonnes. This means that Manassero is now perfectly equipped to host more machines, compared to the past, as well as concentrate on achieving both its growth and market aims in the future.

“We invite all our customers to come and visit our new premises and machines at their convenience,” says Marco Manassero. “Moreover in the near future there will be a new Nakashimada header on display to demonstrate as we have recently been appointed as Nakashimada’s agent for Italy, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In fact we recently sold the first 7 die Nakashimada machine in Italy, which will be delivered around Christmas time.”

Marco adds: “European customers are being forced to go towards more complex parts in order to face the strong competition coming from the Far East. Our insight on the future remains positive; as a matter of fact we are looking to buy more machines for stock.”

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Ingramatic designed a new machine series size 7 (M12-M22) for thread rolling of extra long screws under head up to 370 mm.

The Design has allowed the machine realization also in R1 version by means of a washing assembly group suitable for washing assembly on screws up to 200 mm. under head.

To facilitate the extra long parts production, Ingramatic supplies a specific vertical feeder that allows a continuous machine feeding.

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Together with the load and set-up control during production, Ingramatic supplies the discharging guides with parts rejection, able to discharge the nonstandard parts.

The electronic handwheel allows also the perfect regulation of the feeders in order to attain an extra precise regulation of the feeding unit and an optimum production speed.

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Even titanium is not hard enough WAFIOS Umformtechnik has introduced HILGELAND and KIESERLING formers for the production of fasteners made from high alloys for applications in the aerospace industry.

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he extreme dynamic load capacity of titanium and titanium alloys, as well as the materials lightweight (approximately 42% of weight can be reduced compared with steel), enables titanium to be used in important applications in the aerospace industry.

WAFIOS has developed the formers for titanium forming (hot forming) with integrated induction units to gain a forming temperature of 700°C up to 900°C. Warm forming (forming temperature up to approx. 300°C) of low alloy stainless steel is installed to achieve long tool life.

WAFIOS’ new formers are equipped with an induction heating system in the machine, located between the cut-off knife and the wire in-feed, which means that high-tensile materials (titanium, inconel, etc) can be formed with less force.

“The formability of a special part highly depends on the ductility of the material, where as the formability of steel depends in part on the tensile strength.

Ultra-high-tensile fasteners range in a tensile of more than 1,000N/mm² and have the characteristic of an abrupt hardness increase. These materials can only be processed with means of hot forming.”

The formers also feature tool cooling technology and an

optional CO2 fire extinguishing system. WAFIOS also provides a competent consulting service to all customers in developing long life tools that includes design engineering, manufacturing and also testing if requested.

Customers are invited to visit WAFIOS at the National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo, 19th – 21st October 2011 in Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Schematic plan of a cold former (1-die 2 blow) modified for hot forming of titanium alloys.

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We have significantly improved our waterbased topcoat DELTA-PROTEKT® VH 301 GZ, but we spent so long on our research that we just didn’t have time to think of a good name. But DELTA-PROTEKT® VH 301.1 GZ has a bit of a ring to it, particularly if you look at everything it’s got going for it: when used with the tried-and-tested basecoat DELTA-PROTEKT® KL 100, it offers excellent highperformance corrosion protection with consistent coefficient of friction, even when used in multiple screw situations against steel, aluminium and E-Coat. On top of this come the excellent characteristics of good adhesion, no stick-slip effect, no loosening under temperature of 150°C and it’s eco-friendly. Find out more about DELTA-PROTEKT® VH 301.1 GZ at www.doerken-mks.com

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Eldes – Electronic design Since 1983 Eldes has been producing and installing real time control systems applied to metal cold forming and thread rolling machines.

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ldes’ real time control systems are based on the supervision of the force developed in the production process, by means of piezoelectric sensors applied to the sensitive points of the structure.

Today this type of control is well proved and used worldwide. It is the necessary condition for starting a production cycle, which includes periods when operators are absent.

Since it was established, and by preserving continuity and always looking for innovation, Eldes has always followed, and often anticipated, the progression in cold forming technology, developing the new generation of process monitoring to which Helios 2K and Titanus 2F belong. Eldes’ aim was to give the operator a means to understand and oversee the forming process, tailoring the controls according to the user’s ever increasing needs and continuously improving the man-machine interface.

The technological know-how Eldes has developed in cold forming has enabled it to create dedicated networks for production data collection and dimensional measures acquisition systems.

The shop floor data collection network Fastener Factory enables the complete control of data production in the directional centre of any manufacturing company specialised in cold forming. To control production quality the Themis 2K optical mobile station for SPC checks is ideal for organising recurrent measurements in production for statistic control of processes.

“We managed to overcome the economical crisis thanks to our flexible structure, and we are looking to the future with passion, enthusiasm and self confidence,” says Eldes. “Our project activity is continuously involved with the innovation of products and technology, including the improvement of the user interface and of measurement methods. Thanks to our experience, we can also supply dedicated systems for customised applications, in addition to the standard instruments.”

New website for NOF Metal Coatings Group NOF Metal Coatings Group has launched a unified corporate website to offer a global one-stopsolution for anti-corrosion coatings.

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he newly designed corporate website allows visitors to click through to their local NOF Metal Group representative, whether they are in Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, South America, Korea or China.

Other main features of the new corporate website include the latest news from NOF Metal Coatings Group, its business activity, its environment policy, as well as different ways to contact each company in the group.

The NOF Group is composed of 500+ persons supported by representations in Europe, Japan, China, Korea, India, Americas and at places where the automotive industry is located. It supplies more than 450 installations with products for corrosion protection all over the world.

“For the last 35 years we have focused our development efforts on satisfying the ever increasing demand for high performance corrosion coatings from the car industry, and have become a leading force in the global market of corrosion protection under thin layer for metal parts and especially fasteners. The commercialisation of GEOMET® and DACROMET® and the technical support are ensured by NOF Metal Coatings Group on a worldwide scale.”

Prelok plans strategic alliance Plans for a strategic alliance in Spain between Prelok and Inelca are to go ahead in an attempt to offer a range of benefits to the customer.

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he plans are in a response to customer demand and it is hoped that the alliance will optimise costing, lead to shorter delivery terms and improved logistic solutions.

Streamlining the communication with customer through the introduction of a single point of contact to handle all plating, coating, packing and transport needs will ultimately lead to customer benefits.

Spanish firm Inelca have more than 40 years experience in surface treatments and plating technologies. They are experts in Zn, Zn-Ni, Zn-Fe platings, passivations, top coats and Zinc flakes.

Prelok offers a wide range of pre-applied and locking products including the Tuflok® nylon locking patch and the Precote® range of thread adhesive and sealant coatings, with key advantages being the elimination of secondary locking features such as nuts and washers. With over 50 years experience in the field Prelok has become a main provider of sealing and locking coatings for threaded components and have a number of production plants throughout Europe including Barcelona in Spain.

Both companies have quality approvals including ISO 14001 and TS 16949 and focus mainly within the automotive sector.

Jordi Agullo, general manager of Prelok Spain said: “We believe that this alliance will offer customers significant benefits including reduced delivery lead-times and overall cost advantages.”

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Trouble free fitting through new topcoat A new Dörken MKS Systems topcoat offers optimised threaded connection properties when fitting against parts made of aluminium or against KTL-coated surfaces.

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n launching the Delta-Protekt® VH 301.1 GZ topcoat, Dörken MKS-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG of Herdecke says it is providing an enhancement of this silica-based seal with integrated lubricant. In particularly difficult applications it prevents stick/slip effects when building chromium(VI)-free surfaces against KTL-coated parts. The new topcoat can also be assembled against aluminium without any problem and thus fulfils the specifications of VW’s new norm 1131-1/2.

Dörken explains that in the changeover from surfaces with chromium(VI) content to chromium(VI)-free surfaces, there were problems in the past when fitting against KTL-coated components.

These are reflected in VDA 235-203 test specifications and the surfaces approved there. Currently the only areas where these so-called stick/slip effects are still evident are in particularly difficult applications. These include, for example, fasteners with extreme outer supports.

Another problem is presented by the increasing demands for reduced weight in vehicle construction. This is now leading to the use of appreciably more lightweight metals, such as aluminium and magnesium. The connecting surfaces below the bolt head range here from die cast parts, to milled or polished backing runs. As regards the thread, screw-in depths are required of three times diameter into the grooved thread. High coefficients of friction lead here at full load / when tightening the angle of rotation to high levels of fastening torque, which exceed the control limits and even the capacity of the power screwdrivers being used.

The new Delta-Protekt® VH 301.1 GZ topcoat has been

developed specifically for such scenarios and meets the specifications of VW’s new 1131-1/2 norm, such as, for example, double fastening into the yield point against aluminium or fivetimes fastening into KTL. The new topcoat has been used in various build locations both in lightweight construction and in the difficult applications mentioned and successfully solved the fitting problems there.

Dörken points out that combined with the tried and tested Delta-Protekt® KL 100 zinc flake basecoat the system features corrosion resistance times of over 720 hours in salt spray testing and also provides greater resistance to brake fluid, oils and cleaning agents. It improves mechanical properties, prevents the problematic stick/slip effects, withstands loosening under temperature of up to 180°C for 96 hours, achieves better grip results and ensures that coefficients of friction are kept constant.

Depending on the layer build-up and the shape of the coated part, the coefficient of friction here, as defined by DIN EN ISO 16047, falls into a range between 0.09 und 0.14µges (VDA – Association of the German Automotive Industry). The corrosion protection layer’s particularly high resistance to mechanical stress also enables constant coefficients of friction to be maintained even when parts are screwed in or out numerous times. The screw connection retains its friction-locking capacity even when exposed to heat. In terms of heat-induced loosening as defined by VW 1131-2, a value of > 0.06 is achieved.

Magni 501 enters the market New to the coatings market is Magni 501, a single-layer, thin-film, zinc metal coating system designed to replace zinc plating, electroplating and trivalent passivation.

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S based Magni Industries’ research and development staff along with senior design leader, Paul Badryka, engineered this new zinc-rich metal component coating to increase corrosion resistance with no added costs.

The key to the new chrome-free coating is the combination of unique anti-corrosion pigments blended into the Magni 501 coating system as a perquisite to extending the service life of the steels used to make fasteners and stampings. The other key design goal was creating the rheology necessary to achieve better film forming characteristics when coating fasteners in bulk applications without sacrificing cathodic protection.

Magni points out that the chemistry selection of Magni 501 results in improved physical properties that help achieve uniform film thickness and better coverage of sharp dihedral thread crests over a wide range of g-forces, resulting in improved adhesion and chip resistance to accommodate common bulk processing issues.

“Other performance properties, such as no hydrogen embrittlement concerns, no waste treatment, torque tension consistency, paintability, no post-coating sealers and environmental compliance (WEE, ELV, REACH, and RoHS compliant) are exactly the traits desired by metal component manufacturers. Magni 501 is ideal for fasteners (nuts, bolts, screws) and especially recessed parts and is typically applied via dip-spin or spray methods.”

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the top of top coats FINIGARD topcoats were developed in the 1980s by Coventya to meet the increasing number of specific automotive requirements. Chromated zinc parts could not withstand the high temperatures encountered in an engine compartment and parts were showing very poor corrosion resistance when submitted to a tempering of 120°C or more.

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he very first FINIGARD 100 was therefore developed to increase the corrosion resistance of chromated parts and to decrease the coefficient of friction of screws and nuts to facilitate or improve assembly, thanks to the use of a specific dry lubricant incorporated into the film. It immediately became obvious to the mechanicians that the coefficient of friction had to not only be reduced but also monitored within a very accurate and defined range to enable the automatic assembly of fasteners.

FINIGARD 105 was developed in close partnership with the fastener industry in order to fulfil this requirement. This top coat, referenced worldwide, not only protects fasteners against corrosion but also ensures a perfect monitoring of the coefficient of friction in the 0.12_0.18 range.

Today, the range of FINIGARD topcoats listed in the table below has grown to include more than 12 references that cover all requirements of the industry in terms of friction, aspect and corrosion resistance.

coefficient of friction

approvals

finigarD 105

0.15 +/- 0.03 (ISO 16047)

RSA, PSA, VW, GM, Volvo

finigarD 105 s

0.15 +/- 0.03 (Volvo)

Volvo

finigarD 107

0.06 – 0.09

finigarD 111

0.11 +/- 0.03

Audi/GM

finigarD 113

0.13 +/- 0.03 (DIN 946) on Zn/Ni

GM on Zn/Ni

finigarD 113 g

0.13 +/- 0.03 (DIN 946) on Zn

GM on Zn

finigarD 114

0.15 +/- 0.05

finigarD 115

0.15 +/- 0.03 (ISO 16047)

finigarD 150

0.15 +/- 0.03 (ISO 16047) on Zn/Ni & Zn

finigarD 450

0.17 +/- 0.03 (ISO 16047) on Zn

finigarD 460

0.17 +/- 0.03 (ISO 16047) on Zn

Volvo, Toyota

fom Zinthium 302

0.15 +/- 0.03 (ISO 16047) on Zn/Ni & Zn M8 screws

PSA, RSA

fom Zinthium 302 cf

0.15 +/- 0.03 (ISO 16047) on Zn/Ni & Zn > M8 screws

PSA, RSA

fom Zinthium 302 l

0.15 +/- 0.03 (ISO 16047) on Zn/Ni & Zn M8 screws

PSA, RSA

RSA, PSA

Most of these products can be used in both rack and barrel and several contain identifiable tracers to confirm conformance to specifications. In addition to improving corrosion protection and controlling/reducing friction, these finishes have overcome some of the most difficult surface treatment challenges faced by Coventya customers.

Case study 1: Use of lighter metals can lead to severe wear A major fastener supplier was faced with severe failure due to wear of an aluminium component mating against a very hard and nodular zinc nickel deposit. The problem was solved by the use of a PERFORMA 285 grain refiner to reduce the nodules and FINIGARD 150, a top coat with broad approvals from both Peugeot and Renault. FINIGARD 150 is highly adherent lubricant made up with a dedicated grafted polymer. It has a very dense yet permeable layer that provides heat resistance and self-healing properties.

Case study 2: New FINIGARD increases productivity A customer was struggling with inserting zinc electroplated self tapping screws into a steel assembly. The customer was obliged to use a dedicated lubricant on top of FINIGARD 105. Switching to FINIGARD 107, he was then able to obtain in a one step application the low tightening torque required. This result is not only valid for the tightening of steel but also works on softer materials such as aluminium. The tightening torque always remains low whatever the type of self-tapping screw.

FINIGARD 107 technology applied on zinc electroplated screws reduced the tightening torque by more than 30% when drilling the screw into a hard and dry support like beech wood. It results in an increase of the number of screws that can be assembled by an automatic screwdriver, thus reducing the drudgery of this task for the workers.

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DIN 25201 - Important new standard for testing fasteners

By Morten Schiff, Vibrationmaster ApS Not re-testing fastener stock to DIN 25201 could cause product ranges to become obsolete. The following explains the important differences between DIN 25201 and its predecessor, DIN 65151, when conducting Junker Testing of fasteners for self-loosening behaviour.

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new age of fastener testing was heralded in 1969 when Gerhard Junker published his classic paper, ‘New criteria for selfloosening of fasteners under vibration’, in the Transactions of the Society of Automotive Engineers. The Junker Test, as it became known and was later prescribed by the original DIN 65151, tested the self-loosening behaviour of fasteners under transverse loading conditions by vibration testing. It has been a byword of trust, safety and security in the fastener industry.

But now that has all changed with the publication in 2010 of the new DIN 25201.

Certainly the new DIN standard builds on the original DIN 65151 defined by Junker, but it also takes things much further in setting out exactly how to conduct vibration testing of fasteners. For the first time, the new DIN allows researchers, test engineers and clients worldwide to conduct fastener vibration tests that genuinely compare like with like.

This also gives greater confidence to engineers specifying components, because the testing standards of critical fasteners are so much tougher than under DIN 65151. But there are still manufacturers and customers in the fastener industry unaware that the old standard, DIN 65151, has been superseded, and that a much tougher new test regime is in place. They are in danger of losing competitive advantage, and their products could simply drop out of the market. That’s because, unless a re-testing programme is initiated, many fastener products lacking test certification to DIN 25201 will begin to disappear from engineers’ specifications.

Demanding new test requirements While the original DIN 65151 only specified that vibration testing must be conducted using a Junker Test Bench, the new DIN 25201 sets out exactly how the

testing must be completed. It introduces new mandatory requirements to conduct reference and verification tests that compare the self-loosening behaviour of bolted joints, requires the use of a washer during testing and sets out strict test reporting procedures.

Vibration testing must be completed using a test block that, when the schematic provided of the test equipment to be used is examined, is to all intents and purposes a Junker Test Bench. A considerable advance on the old DIN test conditions is that the new test must match the likely application and operating conditions of the fastener as closely as possible.

The first stage of the test is called the ‘reference test’. The aim is to discover the effective displacement at which the bolt starts to self-loosen, so that the performance of the securing element, or locking mechanism, can be effectively tested. The rest of the testing programme will depend on this initial stage.

A washer meeting specific DIN standards must be included The new DIN spells out in detail that the test fittings should include the bolt and nut in standardised dimensions, and a washer, which is another new feature. The washer is now included to play the part of the surface that would normally support the fastener when used in practice. All test subjects must be new, unused and not previously tested or stressed. They should conform to a manufacturer’s standard product specification so that the results can apply to a range of standard fastener products made of the same materials and to identical specification. The quality standards of the test fittings should be in quality categories A or B. Even the washer’s parameters are detailed. The parameters must be compliant with DIN EN ISO 7093-1, the surface of the washer must be ground,

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The new DIN 25201 at a glance • Introduces a comparative assessment of the self-loosening characteristics of bolted joints.

• Introduces a reference test to determine at what effective displacement the unsecured bolted joint loses its preload.

• Introduces verification tests on a secured bolted joint, which confirms that the preload is not lost at the same effective displacement at which it was lost in the reference test.

• Details exact methodology of how the reference and verification tests must be conducted.

• Requires a surface washer compliant with DIN EN ISO 7093-1 for hardness/ roughness and DIN EN ISO 4759-3 for plane parallelism and flatness.

• Introduces strict reporting requirements.

• Specifies the test equipment to be used, such as a Junker Test Bench (as it was with DIN 65151).

• Demands that every bolt size must undergo testing —the results of testing one fastener size can no longer be applied to another.

• To learn more about the important differences between DIN 25201 and its predecessor, DIN 65151, when conducting Junker Testing of fasteners for self-loosening behaviour, contact the author or visit the Vibrationmaster website at: www.vibrationmaster.com

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m a n u fa ct u r i n g t e c h n o lo g y Important differences between the new DIN 25201 and old DIN 65151 New requirements – DIN 25201

Old requirements – DIN 65151

Specifies a reference test using an unsecured bolt and verification tests using secured bolts.

Did not specify test types.

Specifies test fittings, testing frequency and stressing and pre-stressing force.

Did not specify test parameters.

Every fastener size must be tested. The results from a Junker Test on one size of bolt cannot be applied to another size.

Did not restrict test results from one size of bolt being applied to another.

Requires a washer compliant with DIN EN ISO 7093-1.

No washer was required.

The washer surface must be ground to comply with DIN EN ISO 7093-1.

Also the shape and flatness must comply with DIN EN ISO 4759-3.

No washer was required.

with the roughness also complying with DIN 7093-1. Its shape and flatness must comply with DIN EN ISO 4759-3. The washer’s contact surfaces should be coated with molybdenum disulfide paste and its hardness must be in the 200HV (Vickers Pyramid Number) ranges for strength grades up to 8.8 and 300HV for strength grades above 8.8. During testing, the washer should be fixed in place and not allowed to turn. All these requirements are new and much more demanding than previously.

To start the reference test, the fastener must be placed securely in a Junker Test Bench and the displacement varied until the point when it self-loosens after 300 load cycles, ±100 load cycles at a frequency of 12.5Hz. Once this initial reference test displacement has been discovered, the fastener should undergo three subsequent reference tests to ensure that the effective displacement is correct and the results are consistent.

This means running the same test again, but with fresh fastenings and washers and under exactly the same conditions.

Maintaining consistency is very important, because the test report will require the exact test conditions to be precisely recorded. Clearly, just with that covered so far, the new DIN 25201 already exceeds the requirements of the old DIN 65151, but we are just getting started.

Conducting the verification tests The objective of the next stage is to test the performance of the securing element of the fastener and to find out at what point it starts to loosen. There are some important points to note here. First, there must be 12 verification tests for

each set of measurements recorded from the reference test. This is a significantly greater requirement compared to the old DIN 65151. It can also be a painfully slow process with some Junker Test Bench models that require manual operation and set-up. Each verification test must be performed on the fastener, with its locking mechanism in place, either until it loosens or 2,000 load cycles have been completed.

The 12 tests must measure and record the following variables: • The pre-stressing force.

• The transverse displacement under load.

• The number of load cycles.

Crucially, the test results can only be used for the specific diameter of the fastener being tested. This might seem like an obvious point, but under the old DIN 65151 testing regime, which did not impose this requirement, many manufacturers only tested the securing effect of their locking device on one diameter of their fastener range. It was then assumed that the results of the Junker Test on a 5/16 bolt, for example, were probably okay to apply to a 7/16 bolt.

This is no longer acceptable, meaning fasteners rated on this basis will fail the new DIN. It also means that many manufacturers’ product ranges will require re-testing to the new standard, if they are to remain on specification lists.

Assessing the securing effect Having completed the 12 verification tests, the next stage is to plot the results of the pre-stressing force against the number of load cycles. The securing effect is then assessed according to whether the

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bolt failed before 2,000 load cycles were completed or on the percentage loss of the pre-stressing force after 2,000 load cycles.

The DIN says that the securing effect of the locking mechanism is considered to be ‘adequate’ if there is 80% or more of the pre-stressing force, from when the test started, remaining after 2,000 load cycles.

So when demonstrating the performance of locking mechanisms to potential clients, it is important to show that the fastener is still tight in its test bed. Also, based on the plot of the pre-stressing force against the number of load cycles, the pre-stressing force curve must show that it is unlikely that the fastener would have failed if the test continued beyond 2,000 cycles.

The test report demands considerable detail Another major departure from the requirements of the old DIN 65151 is the reporting procedures. Effectively, what the new DIN 25201 demands is much greater rigor when recording test results. However, despite the extra effort, the benefits of this new approach are considerable.

The new test report requirements will not only provide customers with data about the products they are buying, but will also allow researchers and test engineers to exchange data about locking device performance with much greater confidence.

From the outset, it should be known that detail is a key factor. The test report must first describe which test fittings were utilised in detail and include the number used, their dimensions, material and surface designations and quality

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Next, the DIN asks the test technician to record the: • • • • •

Test frequency.

Clamp-length ratio.

Pre-stressing force.

Effective transverse displacement.

Lubrication used.

The following report specification could be challenging for many, as it asks how the test equipment has been constructed. This could be problematic for some manufacturers, researchers and test-houses that use non-standard test rigs, as it is likely to cast doubt on the validity of the test results. But if a Junker Test Bench from a test equipment

manufacturer has been used, then the specification manual that comes with the equipment can be used to detail how it has been constructed.

Time series data reporting can now be automated Clearly, one of the most important parts of the final test report is the plot of the pre-stressing force against the number of load cycles. This is important because this data demonstrates the effectiveness of the fastener locking mechanism.

There are now Junker Test Benches available that can automate this element of the reporting process. The benches can even provide the data in a time series, together with a graph in real-time during testing and then output the results into standard file formats. That makes it

particularly easy to import the information into users’ and clients’ preferred analysis software.

Equally important is the final part of the report. This should detail the exact conditions under which the fastener’s securing element can be used, and if the test determined this, the level of prestressing force at which the fastener can be expected to fail. Details such as lubrication, surface coatings and the range of diameters are also requested.

The new reporting requirements of DIN 25201 mean that some models of Junker Test Benches and many test rigs will simply be unable to provide the level of detail required, nor in a format that can be easily converted into a report format.

Conclusions There is no doubt that DIN 25201 represents a significant advance for the fastener industry. It will ultimately lead to higher quality specifications and higher quality fastener securing devices and products. Engineers will have greater confidence when specifying fasteners that have been tested to, and shown to comply with, the new standard. Research and development teams will have greater confidence when exchanging data about the performance of specific locking mechanisms.

There will also be a requirement for some manufacturers to rapidly update their product testing/compliance to ensure that all of their products qualify under DIN 25201. Not to do so will lead to their products simply being removed from specification sheets.

Fortunately, there is now a new generation of affordable, yet advanced high specification Junker Test Benches and demonstrators available. These can help make this process smooth and swift, ensuring that the safety and quality of fasteners and locking mechanisms meets the most demanding standards of the new DIN 25201.

company profile Vibrationmaster designs and manufactures advanced testing technology. Its products include Junker Test Benches to analyse and demonstrate the self-loosening behaviour of fasteners and bolted joints to DIN 65151 and the new DIN 25201.

“With a head office and R&D function in Denmark and advanced manufacturing facilities in India

and China, we operate globally. Our customers span the commercial, academic, research, public, government and not-for-profit sectors. We offer highly reliable test solutions to organisations seeking innovative, market-proven and costeffective technology to test and prove the reliability, consistency and safety of their products.”

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Co-creating value with customers When dk Business Solutions decided to enter the UK´s fasteners and fixings market, the decision was based on what the company considered to be an excellent fit between its product offering and the key requirements in the fasteners and fixings market.

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aving enjoyed continued success in the market since entering, dk Business Solutions believes its decision has already been well justified, with its system having proved its worth for various companies in the market.

However, dk is only too aware that there is always room for improvement.

A trademark of dk Business Solutions has always been how closely it works with its clients. Customer feedback has long been a major driver in identifying key areas in which the company can enhance the system. This can rank from being minor adjustments of data inputting where margins and cost prices are always on hand - to building new functions or whole modules into the system. Amongst its latest and most significant additions to the systems are a Works Order Processing (WOP) module with outwork to control plating and machining, and a shopping list function.

The WOP module was designed in close collaboration with a well-respected and firmly established UK fastener company

and appears as a sub-module in the inventory system. It is designed so that its operationalisation is quick, seamless and user-friendly. The shopping list function allows a user to create a shopping list and to send it out to their suppliers and directly create a purchase order when they receive the best price for individual goods. The powerful drill-down capabilities that are already in the system enhance the functionality of both of the new additions as it provides full traceability of the stock and stock history. A user can also get a full overview of an item by accessing the information tree which cuts through the system and shows all the information relating to the item, such as sales orders, purchase orders, WOP´s and quotes. The same applies for customers and vendors where a user can see the complete sales/purchase history with a click of a button.

“As our operations in the fasteners and fixings market continue to grow so does our system and it is our hope that we will able to continue co-creating value with our customers for years to come.”

OGL celebrates 35 years OGL Computer, creator of the prof.ITplus software for stockists and distributors in the fastener and fixing industry, is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year.

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GL was founded in 1976 where it serviced and repaired Olivetti typewriters for businesses in the Midlands. In the seventies and early eighties the company also began software development with its own early stock control and accounts package.

Today, OGL’s flagship software, prof.ITplus, has more than 4,000 individual users spread across the UK. Prof.ITplus hosts features including sales order processing, stock control, accounts and modules including CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Business Intelligence and eShop ecommerce. Progressing from its e-commerce software module, OGL recently launched WebServices that helps give a commercial advantage to businesses in the fastener and fixing sector wishing to build their on-line strength. WebServices offers e-commerce, website development and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).

In addition, OGL provides IT support and cutting edge IT solutions to over 1,000 organisations, large and small, primarily throughout central England and Wales, including its managed Disaster Recovery Service.

“It is a great achievement for OGL to be celebrating our 35th anniversary. Looking back at the technologies we used to sell compared to what we are able to offer now shows how technology has developed over the 35 years OGL have been trading,” says Neil Morris, operations director. “I look forward to where the future technologies are going to take us.”

TydenBrooks adds further security measures To satisfy the increasing demands for an effective security packaging material, TydenBrooks Security Products Group, now offers customisation of its popular range of security void tapes.

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customised security message, numbering under the surface, top surface design in any language, and a variety of colours possible on larger quantities, are now available to further enhance the security of KT tamper evident packing tapes.

The KT range of packaging tapes from TydenBrooks have been developed to specifically meet the needs of logistics managers responsible for the secure transportation of high value goods. They can be used on all types of fibreboard, plastic and wood packaging containers.

Mark Obeney, European sales manager for tapes and labels

indicative seals division, says: “These tapes are simple yet smart - any attempt to remove or lift the tape will result in the de-lamination of the top and bottom layer, leaving an obvious and clear irreversible security message. It is therefore difficult to remove or alter the tape without tamper evidence. If the material has been de-laminated, its design also means that without any further adhesive residue, replacement or resealing of the tape is impossible, and therefore acts as a deterrent to theft or tampering. The KTB product closely resembles standard buff packaging tape, avoiding high value goods being highlighted.”

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EDP relocates to new head office The EDP Group and owner of subsidiary BML Office Computers Ltd has relocated its head office to the heart of Sheffield city centre.

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he Fountain Precinct office building, which recently underwent an extensive refurbishment programme, boasts an ultra-modern reception area with stylishly revamped offices. The landmark building, named after the fountain formerly standing at the top of Fargate, is adjacent to Sheffield City Hall.

Julian Wassell, chief executive of EDP commented: “When we decided to move from Beauchief Hall after 19 years, it was an obvious choice for our new head office.

It is in a superb location in the heart of the city with onsite parking and it is befitting of a dynamic and forward looking software company. The refurbishment has been completed to an exceptionally high standard and the facilities and office layout are first class. We are thrilled to join the other leading businesses in Fountain Precinct.”

Dematic flexes its Multishuttle Dematic, supplier of logistics systems for the factory, warehouse, and distribution centre, has introduced a new version of the Dematic Multishuttle® staging buffer, called Dematic Multishuttle Flex™.

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ultishuttle Flex™ is an enhanced configuration that provides all the same performance features as the original Multishuttle, but with the added capability of accommodating multiple load sizes. Furthermore, Multishuttle Flex accepts totes, trays and cartons.

The Multishuttle Flex expands and contracts to accommodate the size of the load. It automatically adjusts ‘on the fly’ as it travels to a storage location so that the extractor device is set to accept the load. The load width range is 8 inches 24 inches (200m - 600mm) and the load length range is 6 inches - 34 inches (150mm - 850mm). It is also capable of providing single or double deep loading in the rack structure.

According to Ken Ruehrdanz, distribution market manager for Dematic: “The ability to accommodate cases, totes and trays allows users to load SKUs directly into the Multishuttle system without the added step of placing every load onto a standard size tray or tote.”

He adds: “The Dematic Multishuttle solution is a highly efficient storage/staging engine that provides precise load sequencing at high rates, in a compact footprint with operational flexibility. The Multishuttle system is ideal for supplying items to piece pick fulfilment modules (goods to person picking) or mixed case pallet building operations. It is also used in applications for shortterm buffer storage as well as applications involving storage for production operations.”

Increase in Production Control Solutions sales Merlin Business Software has reported an increase in its sales of Production Control solutions to independent UK manufacturing companies.

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hatsworth highlights that keeping control of material, machinery and man-power costs and the monitoring of work-in-progress has never been so important. In a climate where the margin on a job can be lost due to the slightest miscalculation and the inevitable ‘knock-on’ effects, the ability to take immediate action requires a proven system that can alert the production team in real-time.

Chatsworth’s Merlin Business Software has recently won several contracts across several industry sectors; one of which has seen an existing user extending its original manufacturing software license across the whole of its a 160 user business system.

Merlin Business Software was also the choice of midlands based, speciality fastener manufacturer, Dinstock Limited, who has been amongst the first European companies to be awarded certification in accordance with the requirements of

the Construction Products Directive 89/106/EEC, as amended by 93/68/EEC for the manufacture and supply of fasteners to the standard BS EN 14399: 2005.

Indeed, it was Merlin’s ability to provide finite traceability of materials and finished products that enabled Dinstock to gain the CE mark.

Dinstock’s commercial director, Steve Paskin commented: “The totally integrated system provided by the Merlin Business Software which includes sales order processing, stock control, with full traceability, and manufacturing has enabled us to move forward with the speed required to enable us to achieve the certification needed for our future business development.

We continue to work closely with Chatsworth, developing the software to mutually enhance our business along with the Merlin System as a whole.”

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Establishing you.com

By Cresta Norris Never before has a small business had the opportunity to punch above its weight in the world.

Through the Internet political movements have mobilised online, governments have been shaken (if not actually toppled), and there has never been a more powerful time to make your voice heard around the globe. Businesses are using the online world to communicate directly with other businesses as well as with their customers.

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s you will know, online consumers can express an opinion on products and persuade others to buy a particular brand – or not. Amazon encourages readers to review books they buy from the site. Almost any online selling operation has links to product reviews posted by individual consumers, who do not mince their words if they do not like a particular product. There used to be an old adage in business that one dissatisfied customer could lose you, on average, eight other potential purchasers via word of mouth.

Today, the same principle can be numbered in thousands. There is no refuge for the business that messes up.

“Online conversation, at whatever level, is going on all the time. No one is isolated from it.”

But now there are opportunities to communicate on a business to business basis as well. It can be argued that the majority of online conversations are trivial in the extreme, and often time wasting. Indeed it is hard to disagree with that view, should you happen across one of the online entertainment chat threads, but to sneer at online conversation because in some instances the level of discourse is less than brilliant is to miss the point entirely. Online conversation, at whatever level, is going on all the time. No one is isolated from it. The minute you have an online identity of any sort, you too are out there in public space. This is not always to your advantage and your online reputation is crucial to your business life. Research published this year by the international PR company Edelman shows that people use search engines as their first source for finding information about a company.

The technology and techniques of controlling information online can improve your business profits, Googling your

company name is not an act of vanity but an essential strategy in discovering what is out there about you. Monitoring what’s being said where and by whom is the starting point for moving to take control of your online profile. By itself, though, monitoring is not enough. You need to understand how to use Google and other search engines so that when a business searches for information about your company online, they will be directed towards positive sites rather than those that might cause you embarrassment.

You also need to understand how to use social networking sites so that you are pro-active in what is being said about your business brand.

What does your online business profile say about you? If you are hoping to attract a financial backer for an entrepreneurial idea, it will sum up both your vision for your project, and what is driving you to make it succeed. If you are trying to create a profile for a product or service it will be about why you feel so strongly about its value. I am not going to pretend that getting either of these written elements right is easy, and if it feels easy, you are probably not doing it right, because it requires you to do one of the hardest things in the world – sum up your aspirations in a paragraph or two, objectively, honestly, and realistically. If your company already has a website it will contain a summary paragraph that describes what you do, now is the time to make sure it really represents your brand.

Using the same paragraph as the basis, make a video version.

Research shows that video brings your website or web page to the attention of many more people than simple words or pictures.

When you have prepared your paragraph and your video, you are ready to develop your business to business social networking, it will not cost anything except your time. It will enable your business to develop close connections with other companies that are online, and trust me, they all are already there.

Step 1. Open a company Facebook account Facebook is probably the largest and most popular social networking site online with over 500 million users worldwide - and many of them are businesses. It’s free to use, because it is funded by advertisers. To start your account you need a username and password. It is a great place to find customers who are interested in your product. It will provide a simple and straightforward place to describe your company.

On your Facebook account, upload your carefully written company information statement.

Step 2. Set up a company blog A blog is rather like a website, or part of a website but is written by one person (that is you) and then added to by regular commentary – usually describing events or activities. So on a

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blog the most recent entry is the one you will see first. Many blogs are written as marketing for new ideas and services.

To find a blog space you can google ‘Free Blog’ and see the list that pops up.

will get a confirmation that goes to your e-mail.

Upload your short video and it will be displayed on the homepage. Follow YouTube instructions to embed your blog text within your video.

Step 3. Open a LinkedIn account

5. Open a Twitter account

LinkedIn is a business-oriented site for professional networking, with more than 45 million registered users across 170 countries. It aims to maintain contact details of people in a business network.

Visit www.linkedin.com and open the LinkedIn sign-in page, ensure that all those in the company are signed in as well. Fill in the information using your biography and company statement and make a link to your company blog. Every time you update your blog it will update LinkedIn. Once you are a member you can add your business contacts and connections.

Twitter allows its account holders to send and read other user messages, known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters and they are placed on the users profile page. Many clever people love tweeting because they see it as an intellectual discipline to find something interesting to say that can be compressed into such a short space – rather like composing a haiku poem.

Your tweets will all be visible to everyone in the default setting, unless you restrict them to your ‘friends’ list. When you have an account you can subscribe to other people’s tweets and become a ‘follower’ of a tweeter.

Use the same company statement, linked back to your blog.

Use your company name for the username. You can use capital letters to make it more attention-grabbing.

There are various ways you can use Twitter to enhance your online presence, such as sending a tweet about your video on YouTube or your blog. Find the individuals who you would like to do business with and follow their tweets. If you aim to please them, re-tweet their ideas.

Having set up your account, go to the tweet aggregator. After you have downloaded the software, you can identify customers that may want to buy your product and you might want to follow their tweets. Then add your own tweets that are based on something interesting you have to say about your product.

“Googling your company name is not an act of vanity but an essential strategy in discovering what is out there about you.”

4. Open a YouTube account YouTube is the biggest of the video sharing sites and is owned

by Google. Go into the ‘sign into YouTube now’ – if you don’t have a Google Mail account you will need to create one and then use your Google account password to get going. To create the account, you need to give information about your location. You

Creating links Now you have the basics in place for your own online business profile. Before you do anything else, check the links to all the accounts. The idea is to make everything work together, so that if you update one, all your other networking accounts update simultaneously.

The online world aggregates links – the more your social networks are linked, the higher profile your company will have in the search engines. The more you use the online world to tell people about your business the more active your links. You have a new communications tool at your finger tips – use it!

About Cresta Norris Cresta Norris has a wealth of experience in online marketing.

She has been the head of new media content at UKTV (joint venture between Virgin and the BBC) and creator of online content for the marketing arms of the BBC and Freeview. She has written and published business books for many blue-chip clients.

you.com you.com is published by Kogan Page, specialists in practical books for profitable business. For more on you.com and its availability together with up to date information on Kogan Page’s full spectrum of business books visit www.koganpage.com

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Improving inventory turns

by Jason Bader, principal, The Distribution Team After a recent seminar, one of the participants reached out to me about his company’s inventory turn rate. After learning how to properly calculate the formula, he realised that they had been overstating their turns for a long time and were lulled into state of complacency. When he looked at the real turn numbers, the results were less than stellar. They were of great enough concern that he felt his employment might be in jeopardy if a plan for improvement was not developed. Fortunately, creating a plan is easy. Execution may be a whole other story.

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ike many companies, this one had been a victim of misinformation and comparison. I have always been skeptical of industry benchmarks when it comes to inventory turns. Not that the method of information gathering is flawed, rather the method of calculation by the reporting companies can vary greatly. Here is the proper equation:

Annual cost of goods sold from stock sales Average inventory value Many companies overstate their inventory turns by inflating the numerator in the equation – annual cost of goods sold from stock sales. They do this by including all sales. This may include direct ship or non-stock sales. Remember, when we are studying inventory turns, we are trying to determine how well the inventory we have invested in is performing. The faster we turn inventory, the more times we are able to collect the gross margin associated with the product. When we perform a direct ship transaction, we are not using stocking inventory we have carried in our warehouse. We are relying on the supplier’s inventory investment. This is why these transactions should be excluded from the calculation. In a similar vein, a special order of non-stock product does not rely on our stock inventory. Because we did not carry the product in our warehouse, it should not be part of our turns calculation. Don’t get me wrong, both of these types of transactions are really good for distributors. They just don’t need to be included in measuring the performance of our inventory.

Then trying to improve turns, we can attack the numerator of the equation, sell more stuff; or we can attack the denominator of the equation, stock less stuff. When working with distributors on this decision, I generally ask the question: “Where is the control?” Although we have some control over the numerator, sell more stuff, the customer generally dictates how much product they can consume. When we look at the denominator,

stock less stuff, the discretion rests solely in the hands of the stocking distributor. Because we have ultimate control, the denominator is where distributors can make the greatest improvement in inventory turns.

“The faster we turn inventory, the more times we are able to collect the gross margin associated with the product.”

As many of you know, I tend to rely very heavily on a reporting tool called the hits report. It is my go-to tool for a majority of my inventory consulting engagements. As a quick reminder, the hits report analyses the number of times an SKU appears on a sales order in a calendar year. Quantity sold is not relevant to this analysis. In this report, I generally want to see these columns: • • • • • • •

SKU Quantity on hand Unit cost Current on hand investment Hits Average monthly usage Months of inventory on hand

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m a n a g e m e n t + sy s t e m s Some distributors have found it useful to add an item description column and package quantity column. The report should be run by location for our purposes. There are benefits to a company-wide report, but not for improving turns. From this simple inventory movement analysis report, we can formulate a plan of attack designed to reduce the average inventory value without jeopardising our customer service level.

With this client, my first suggestion was to rank the report by the number of hits in descending order. His first task was to segregate any item with less than 4 annual hits. These items are clearly not the favourites of your customer base. Since your customers don’t seem to be supporting them with their wallets, should we be carrying them with our wallets?

“How much money do you have sitting idle?”

The simplest answer would be to convert all these items to non-stock status. This doesn’t mean that we can’t sell them.

These items would just be sourced rather than stocked. Since they are so infrequently purchased, the additional time spent on sourcing should be minimal. Before we get out the broad sword and kill all of these items, we need to identify a few potential exceptions. Some of these items might be part of a greater whole. I tend to view repair parts in this manner. Keeping a few on hand is probably a good idea. You may have a contractual obligation with a customer. Just make sure it is one that pays you on a regular basis. You may have an obnoxiously high gross margin on the item when it is sold. As long as you don’t break it in the several months it sits on the shelf before you sell it, I can live with this one. All others should be converted to non-stock.

Let the liquidation proceedings begin.

My next suggestion with this client was to look at the surplus inventory from the last column of the hits report. I asked him to rank the remaining items, after moving the slow and dead to non-stock status, by months of inventory on hand. The next

step is to isolate the SKUs with several months of inventory on hand. I generally isolate anything with more than 8 or 9 months of inventory on hand. This is the first shot. I can dig deeper, meaning 6 or 7 months on hand, if I don’t have enough targets.

For most distributors, 9 months is a good start.

Take this newly isolated group and re-rank the items by current on hand invested in descending order. Start looking at the big dollars. Why do I have this much on hand? Is it because of a manufacturer package size? Did I buy at a higher quantity to get a lower price? Are my buyers using gut feel versus the inventory replenishment system we paid for? Is there a bad min or max number in the system? Do some research and find out what is causing the inflation. Take appropriate corrective action.

In order to set a goal for yourself, take a snapshot of the slow and the dead items. How much money do you have sitting idle?

If you reduced your average inventory value by this amount, what would your inventory turns be? This is a good first goal.

Determining the surplus dollars is a bit more challenging depending on your software. First, you would need to know the maximum quantity on hand, for any given SKU, for optimal replenishment. Then you would subtract this from the current dollars on hand. This may be more analysis than you are ready to handle. If you are able to determine an amount of dollars in surplus, subtract this from the new average inventory value.

Re-run the turns calculation and see where it takes you.

If the spread between your current inventory turns and your first goal is greater than one full turn, don’t expect to hit your goal in the first 12 months. It often takes more than a year to improve one full turn. Set a goal of half or three quarters for that first 12 months. A great deal will depend on your ability to convert these captured assets into cash. Liquidation of inventory is a whole other subject of discussion.

I will freely admit that there are additional methods of improving turns. Consider these methods the low hanging fruit.

This analysis will yield the largest group of captive dollars. Once you feel like you have exhausted these first two areas, let me know. I will be happy to introduce you to some of my advanced digging tools. Good luck.

About the Author: Jason Bader is the managing partner of The Distribution Team, a firm that specialises in helping distributors become more profitable through operating efficiencies. The first 20 years of his career were spent working in distributor operations. Today, he is a regular speaker at industry events and spends much of his time working with individual distribution companies. For more information, email him at Jason@Distributionteam.com. Also visit The Distribution Team’s website at www.thedistributionteam.com

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Henkel invests in young engineers

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he design competition attracts a great deal of interest internationally, with teams from colleges and universities from all over the world taking part. Competing against all other entrants, the teams have to design and build the prototype of a new racing car from scratch, present it as a business case, and test its performance in various trials and a final race. 78 teams in the combustion category and 31 more in the electric category made it to the final round which was judged at the Hockenheimring in August.

For the ‘general industry’ business of Henkel, as one of the main sponsors, the five-day event is one of the highlights every year. Up to eight Henkel adhesives experts were available at any time to give the contestants advice or lend a helping hand – in the pits, working on the cars themselves, or at the Henkel stand.

The latter was not only well-stocked with high-performance repair and maintenance products from Henkel’s Loctite and Teroson brands, but also featured workbenches and even a heating cabinet to accelerate curing of different adhesives.

For three years now, Henkel has been engaging in promoting young engineers. In addition to offering numerous training programmes, participation in the annual Formula Student contest for engineering students at the Hockenheimring has become a central component of Henkel’s commitment in this area.

Special award for best use of adhesive

In order to inspire these enthusiastic students to become even more creative, Henkel established a special award for the best use of adhesive throughout the whole contest. Submissions are judged on the attractiveness and creativity of the bonding application, the way the adhesive was selected and verified, the presentation made to the jury, and the students’ knowledge about bonding technologies.

From a large number of submissions, seven teams made it through to the final round. The award went to Bayreuth University, ahead of last year’s winner Zwickau University, with Coburg University taking third place.

“Last year, the entries were already of a very high standard,” says Rudolf Neumayer, head of application technology, industrial adhesives, Europe. “But this year, they raised the bar several notches further. This trend shows that we are definitely moving in the right direction with our educational approach.”

The changing face of car design Techsil highlights that its RTV silicone adhesives deliver improved performance and increased productivity for demanding automotive headlamp design.

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s designers push the boundaries of vehicle styling, and technology drives improved performance and smaller headlamps, the demands on key materials such as adhesives has increased.

Techsil’s business development manager, Steve Morrow, has been working with a number of automotive manufacturers to provide solutions for design and productivity issues with vehicle headlights.

In one case an adhesive was required to bond the dissimilar substrates of the reflector and a polycarbonate lens. The adhesive colour needed to be black to match the reflector housing and it also needed to operate in extreme high and low ambient temperatures. The versatile nature of RTV silicones allow the bonding of many different substrates; at the same time giving a long term level of elasticity that can cope with thermal expansion differentials over a wide range of operating temperatures.

Another application was an electric car where there was a need for an adhesive to bond a glass lens to the ABS housing. The silicone selected was clear and also fast-curing which enabled leak testing to be performed straight away. This helped decrease the manufacturing time by 22 hours thereby greatly improving productivity.

“Constantly increasing demands on the performance of vehicle lighting means they need to be incorporated into more complex and compact packages. In addition to bonding solutions, we offer a broad portfolio of products for lighting including LED encapsulants, thermal interface adhesives and lens materials.”

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Pin and insert installation technology Spirol Industries offers a wide range of technology solutions for cost-effective pin and insert installations.

The correct application of this technology enables users to provide lower cost, more reliable assemblies, which can be delivered faster.

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oth semi-automatic and fully automated installation machines are available and Spirol offers customers a full project management service to ensure specification of the correct machine to meet any specific customer requirement.

Spirol’s range of pin and insert installation machines are based on modular designs that can be customised to suit specific assembly and production needs. To provide the most suitable solution, Spirol works closely with customers to determine their objectives. Based upon identified requirements, Spirol will then develop the most suitable assembly concept before submitting a detailed and fixed cost proposal with a performance guarantee.

On confirmation of acceptance of the proposal, the assembly concept is assigned to a Spirol project engineer and a detailed assembly layout is developed. The required Spirol pins and inserts are specified and control packages are developed. Spirol also designs fixtures to hold and align components accurately during assembly - a critical element of the assembly process.

All specified machines are then tested, installed, set up and certified whilst training is provided to operators.

New vertical screwdriver bench stands

New adjustmentfree welding gun

Kaisertech, a supplier of electronic and engineering consumables and production equipment, has introduced a new range of vertical screwdriver bench stands from Hios.

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he arrival of the new VMS40 and VMS50 models, which will be sold exclusively through Kaisertech in the UK, follows strong demand for the company’s existing range of Hios electric screwdrivers.

The new stands are compatible with almost all existing Hios drivers and are designed to keep the screwdriver in a precise vertical position allowing accurate screw tightening and preventing any faulty screw adjustments. The lightweight products weigh just 2.5kg and 2.63kg respectively and feature a reach of up to 615mm. The spring loaded arms are also designed to automatically move back to the home position after each use.

Kaisertech’s CEO, David Sibley, commented: “We have seen demand for Hios drivers continue to grow so we are delighted to be able to offer these additional products. It is another example of Kaisertech listening to the needs of its customers and providing the products they really want.”

Heinz Soyer GmbH has recently launched its new adjustmentfree PS-9 stud welding gun with innovative user guidance.

he new PS-9 welding gun is equipped with an innovative and adjustment-free stud chuck (patent application: DE 102010 001 629.2). This means that there is no need to change chucks when using different stud lengths from 6mm - 40mm, helping the user save time and work more efficiently.

The PS-9 also offers other interesting technical features such as a circular, multi-coloured, LED display showing the current operating status from any angle. The green LED display on the welding gun tells the operator when the stud welding equipment is ready and can be operated, whereas the red LED display signals the operator that a malfunction has occurred.

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Starlock PUSH-ON FASTENERS

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Huntsman helps achieve maximum efficiences Tooling and production materials from Huntsman Advanced Materials have been selected to construct a new One Design carbon racing yacht in a project which sees Huntsman supporting each stage of the project; from design through to the finishing techniques in production.

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he CODE8 is a light displacement, high performance racing yacht which was designed by America’s Cup yacht designer Andrej Justin and professionally crafted by Carbon Innovation Ltd. Carbon Innovation decided to use Huntsman’s production materials after consultations with Farix Ltd, Huntsman’s distributor in Hungary. The materials were chosen for their toughness, high quality surface finish and dimensional accuracy. Also, in the case of parts production, they were specifically selected for their heat and chemical resistance properties.

CAD data was initially used to produce a plug of the yacht from a PSFoam substructure and (RenPaste® SV36/Ren® HV 36) modelling paste. The parts were then CNC machine milled to create a master model for fast extrusion, exhibiting both low shrinkage and a smooth surface finish.

A high performance gel coat (Resin XD4615/Ren® HY 5159) was then applied to the master model and a backing layer was built up (using Renlam® CY219/XB5173 in combination with glass fibre) to form the mould for the hull, deck and all other parts.

For other components, including the mast and rudder, an Araldite® pre-preg system (Araldite® LY 1556/Aradur® 1573/Accelerator 1571/ Hardener XB 3403) was selected and used in combination with Carbon Innovation’s self-developed pre-preg machine. This system has an easy B-staging and GL certification and can also be used for wet lay-up; filament winding and resin transfer moulding.

“Using Huntsman’s products and systems throughout the project has optimised our management time and provided a central expert source of technical know-how and product supply,” said Tamas Simon, managing director at Carbon Innovation.

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September 2011

socket screws + hexagon Bolts This issue’s Focus On is dedicated to Socket Screws & Hexagon Bolts.

Suppliers of products within this market sector have provided details of their capabilities along with up to date contact and product information.

Coming up in the next issue…

nuts, washers & locking systems

Contact Claire Lake Tel: +44 (0) 1727 814 508 email: claire.lake@fastenerandfixing.com

Achilles Seibert GmbH achill - offers you full-ranged din/isonormed screws with hexagon socket and hexagon bolts and stock specialties in unusual dimensions.

• “Thick Bolts” - diameters from M30 to M56 and lengths up to 1000 mm and longer • “Long Slims” - small diameters and extreme lengths • “Little Things” - M1,6-M5 NEW SPECIALTIES IN OUR PROGRAMME: • ISO 10642 / DIN 7991 8.8 zn • ISO 7380 with six-lobe 10.9 zn • ISO 7380 10.9 black zn • DIN 6912 8.8 zn Our quality system is improving year-on-year. Not only the ISO 9001:2008 is standard. In the 10.9 and 12.9 high-strength range, we guarantee products from qualified European and Taiwanese manufacturers.

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Albert Pasvahl offers you their experience and expertise in special connection elements and accessories, resulting from over 75 years in business. During the course of this time, they have become a leading stockist of special standard screws.

In addition to the standard product line, AppMo manufactures semi-standards and special fasteners.

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Fo c u s o n s o c K e t s c r e W s + h e X a g o n B o lt s Ash Fasteners Manufacturing Ltd

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Ash Fasteners is the UK’s foremost manufacturer of Long Length and Specialist Cold Forged Fasteners in Steel, Stainless, Aluminium & Brass.

new products in the world of plastic screWs

Based close to the centre of Birmingham the company has established itself as a proven manufacturer of cold forged components from 3mm to 12mm in short to long lengths. To complement the forging we have a wide range of threadrolling machines which means we can provide you with quality thread rolled products, currently we forge one particular M8 stainless steel set screw and thread roll it to 400mm under the head.

Ash Fasteners also specialises in the manufacture of custom designed fasteners for all varieties of fasteners. Tri Head Security Fasteners, Tee Bolts and Long Cup Square Bolts to name a few.

The company typically works to provide a 3 to 5 week turnaround from receipt of order. Frequently we produce and deliver within 5 to 7 days.

Ash Fasteners is efficient and flexible and tailors its solutions to the needs of the customer.

Whatever your requirements think Ash - Why?

Bülte adds a new screw to its range.

The grub screw 551F is a selflocking design to bring efficient thread security and sealing to your assemblies and applications.

It is usable throughout a variety of industrial sectors (industrial, electronics, chemical, aeronautics…).

The advantage of this screw is its self-locking system. There is a non threaded section at the top of the screw that works like a lock.

When the screw is tightened into the female thread, that thread cuts into the non threaded section of the screw effectively locking the threads together preventing loosening.

Why choose a Nylon screw? The standard material, polyamide 6.6 natural, is resistant to various chemical products, has excellent mechanical properties including wear resistance, low friction coefficient, high melting point, good impact resistance and is also very light.

Ash Fasteners is Well Bolted to the Market

The dimensions are M4 to M12, length from 11 to 50 mm.

Other colours and sizes on request.

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Fabory

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Fabory offers wider product range on higher classes 8.8, 10.9 & 12.9

Fastbolt is a range specialist - our focus is on a small number of areas within the comprehensive spectrum of fastener types available. Being a specialist and not a generalist enables us to be competent in those areas that we encompass. Our current stock range covers a portfolio of eight product groups. Besides a comprehensive range of small screws we also offer:

HT Strength is usually attributed to property classes equal or higher than 8.8. What are the main benefits of HT Fasteners?

Savings on space, material and labour (drilling times). A comparison of bolts with same load capacity, approx. same length but in different grades, shows that those in higher classes have thinner diameters to allow for smaller holes, lighter and more compact assemblies.

The market demand for HT is not limited to one class (e.g. 8.8 only) and is diverse. FABORY’s product range - one of the largest available in the market - includes over 30,000 HT fasteners.

10.9 and 12.9 fasteners play a significant role in FABORY’s extensive range which now offers a wider spectrum of types and sizes - all readily available.

Few examples: • Hex Bolts & Sets • Studding • Socket Caps, Shoulder and Csk screws • Socket Button screws including flanged & tx versions • Socket sets (45H)… And many more!

10.9 Bolts in exceptional diameters from M39 to M45 are the latest additions to FABORY’s original range M6 - M36 covering also fine threads.

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• Hi Tensile Bolts & Setscrews DIN 931 8.8 plain, zinc plated and yellow zinc plated M 4 - M 30 DIN 933 8.8 plain, zinc plated and yellow zinc plated M 3 - M 30 New in our stock range: • Hexagon Socket Head Screws DIN 912 (ISO 4762) 8.8 plain and zinc plated M 3 - M 24 DIN 7991 (ISO 10642) 08.8 plain and zinc plated M 3 - M 20 DIN 7991 (ISO 10642) 010.9 plain M 4 - M 20 We strive to constantly increase our stock range, but place product competence above size of range. We believe that this competence is prerequisite to being a successful strategic partner with European distributors. email: info@fastbolt.com

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Fo c u s o n s o c K e t s c r e W s + h e X a g o n B o lt s Harrison & Clough Ltd

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harrison & clough ltd wholesale an unrivalled range of quality socket and hexagon bolting products.

Knoke company is serving the market with satisfying quality products since 1964!

• Metalmate® Hexagon products including metric High Tensile Bolts & Sets DIN 931/933 grade 8.8 & 10.9.

• Unified UNC/UNF through to carriage bolts DIN 603 • Available in Zinc, Self Colour, Stainless, Nylon & Brass • Largest range of Socket & Hexagon Bolts which include even longer lengths & larger gauges.

• Extensive range of 12.9 & 10.9 Metalmate® Socket Cap Screws DIN 912 & DIN 7991 • Full batch traceability to source • Full 3.1b certification • Manufactured by world leading YFS Fang Sheng Taiwan • Accessibility to special parts to your specification as well as meeting any requirements for volume container business.

• All delivered on our next day delivery service on our own fleet of vans.

Beside our PROFIX® products we are also supplying DIN 912 / 931+933 and 7991-8.8 plain and zinc-plated.

We are offering delivery from our stock within 24 hours upon order receipt or long term delivery and even direct container import-delivery!

We are certified acc. ISO 9001.

From a box to a container. Harrison & Clough have the answer. tel: 0844 571 2222

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Norm Fasteners

Schröder Schrauben

Norm Fasteners is a unique company who produces Specials & Standards; Bolts & Nuts; Automotive & many other industries, present in both National & International Markets at the same time.

Quality System has been approved by ISO TS 16949:2002 in 2003 by BV valid until 2010, Environmental Respect approved with ISO 14001 until 2009; and Q1 by Ford Motor Co. in September 2004.

Having the philosophy of flexibility, scheduling and keeping the quality of each process under control, Surface Treatment, Cold Forging, Heat Treatment, Tooling Manufacturing, Organic and Inorganic Platings made in house. 48,000 tonnes is the recent capacity and 60% of the total manufacturing is SPECIALs. Please contact our sales team to meet our products like: Six & Twelve Lobe Parts, Hexagon and hexalobular head bolts and screws, Hexagon and hexalobular socket head cap screws, Cup head square neck bolts, Wheel Bolts, Studs, Flange Bolts, Special Weld Bolts, Special Rivets, Inch Sizes, Hexagon Nuts, Hexagon Thin Nuts, Round Weld Nuts, Square Weld Nuts, Hexagon Weld Nuts, Prevailing Torque Type Hexagon All Metal Nuts, Prevailing Torque Type Hexagon Nuts with Non-Metallic Insert, Hexagon Nuts with Flange, Special Bushes, etc.

american & British inch sized hex head and socket screws in grade 5 (8.8), alloy and stainless steel!

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Immediately available from stock or can be supplied at short notice.

Furthermore we also supply special items to drawings or pattern.

This broad spectrum spans from the simple slotted screw to the MS/AN/ NAS specifications and specifically finished items.

In practically every design, material and type of thread.

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75 years of Wera Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co. KG, based in Wuppertal, Germany, recently celebrated its 75th anniversary.

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era has developed during the course of its corporate history to a successful and internationally renowned group in the hand tool segment.

Instead of focusing on diversification, Wera has specialised resolutely over generations on the development and production of ergonomic and durable screwdriving tools for professionals – from screwdrivers, ratchets and bits to L-keys and torque tools.

When the company was founded in 1936 under the name of Hermann Werner KG, trading with tools was the focus of activities. The company name Wera originated in 1951 from the names of the owner families Werner und Amtenbrink, and in the following decades it developed very successfully into a manufacturer.

The company currently employs some 700 staff in Germany, the USA, Canada, England, Spain and the Czech Republic. Nevertheless, Wera is still a family enterprise and decisions are always taken with a long-term view in mind. The company highlights that the reason for its continued success is its relentless pursuit of innovations.

“At Wera we attach a great importance to a systematic, progressively organised innovation process. Supported by the most modern technology and software, the individual development phases are always structured and success oriented. The process ranges from ideas management - that includes current creativity techniques – to the construction of prototypes and even extends to cover the application-oriented training of all staff and partners in sales. To offer customers the best possible benefit, users are involved at a very early stage in the development of any new products in the form of professionally implemented group sessions.”

To enable Wera to be successful worldwide in the future, too, the Wuppertal-based group pursues a global property right strategy.

Thanks to international market monitoring, any infringement of property rights can be immediately addressed.

Norbar extends non-magnetic range Norbar Torque Tools recently launched a new 50Nm non-magnetic torque wrench to complement its 20Nm version introduced late last year.

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orbar TruTorque™ non-magnetic torque wrenches have important applications in the medical field, specifically for MRI manufacture and maintenance, where there is the presence of a strong magnetic field.

Using non-magnetic tools on MRI scanners can avoid serious risk of injury to the operator and damage to sensitive and expensive equipment.

Torque wrenches are used by factory staff, installers and field based personnel working on the cable connections and sub-assemblies around the magnet when it is energised. They are also used around the top of the magnet on the refrigeration sub-assemblies, valves and seals. In both cases the magnet is at full field.

Norbar’s Philip Brodey explains: “These magnets can be ‘switched off’ by removing the permanent current flowing in the coils but this is costly, time consuming and dangerous. Sometimes this action can trigger a spontaneous quench, instantaneously boiling off 75% of the liquid helium present, which can cost anything up to £10,000 to recover from. Working with non-magnetic tools is essential for anyone working on ‘live’ systems, especially at the critical and risky ‘ramping up’ and ‘ramping down’ process when you bring a magnet to field.”

The new Norbar TruTorque™ 50Nm non-magnetic wrench is acceptable for the majority of MRI scanners in use today and has further applications across a range of industries where tools also have to be used in the presence of a strong magnetic field, such as clean rooms, radar transmission centres, precision magnetic equipment, permanent magnetic generators, nuclear products and mine sweepers.

Norbar TruTorque™ non-magnetic torque wrenches are manufactured using carefully selected and tested non-ferrous materials. Accuracy of reading is +/- 3%, exceeding international standards.

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Goebel´s new battery rivet tool GO-1 Goebel, with headquarters in Erkrath, Germany, has launched the new battery powered rivet tool GO-1 into the market.

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he GO-1 is for 2.4mm – 5mm blind rivets in all materials and only weighs 2.25kg, including the 14.4V/1.4Ah battery. Goebel points out that a traction power of 12,000N and 20mm stroke guarantee the installation of more than 550 5mm diameter stainless steel blind rivets on only one battery charge (14.4V / 1.4Ah).

The li-Ion-technique of the batteries guarantee a long battery life and the batteries can be fully recharged in less than 50 minutes.

The remaining power of the battery can also be easily checked visually on the tool during installation by pressing ‘power inspection’.

The nosepiece diameters 2.4mm – 5mm are kept, together with the wrench, in the tool. The GO-1 battery tool is delivered in a re-sealable steel case with one 14.4V/1.4Ah battery and a charger. Also available from stock is a larger 14.4V /2.8Ah battery.

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paslode launches the new iM350+ gas nailer ITW Construction Products recently launched the new Paslode IM350+ gas framing nailer, which it says offers a series of significant technical and design improvements to the existing IM350 model.

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he new Paslode IM350+ gas framing nailer replaces the existing Paslode IM350 tool to offer tradesmen specific performance and user advantages. This year Paslode’s patented and unique linear internal combustion engine celebrates 25 years and the technology has undergone recent improvements to increase reliability of the tool and extending the periods between servicing.

Over two kilos lighter than the original tool - the Paslode IM350+ allows for a lower actuation force. This, combined with a new non-slip soft grip handle, increases user comfort and reduces fatigue. In addition, a new five teeth aggressive nose probe can help tradesmen improve the quality of installations by ensuring easier access to any awkward angles.

“Providing our customers with technologically advanced gas nailers is of paramount importance,” explained Tom Wavre, marketing manager at Paslode. “The new Paslode IM350+ represents the very pinnacle in design and capability - significantly improving ease of use and performance.”

The IM350+ gas nailer drives 51mm - 90mm stainless steel, hot dipped galvanised, Galv Plus®, bright, ring, uni-lock and straight nails across a wide variety of timber applications including timber frame erection, roof decking and battening, joists, cladding, fencing, stud work, panelling and packaging.

gage Bilt’s “can do attitude” Gage Bilt Inc has been manufacturing blind rivet and lock bolt tools at its plant in Clinton Township, Michigan, USA, since 1956.

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ince 1979 Gage Bilt has been selling a complete line of tools, noses and swage gauges to the global aerospace and industrial markets. Gage Bilt strives to meet the three basic customer value requirements of price, quality and delivery but adds an important fourth customer value and that is a “can do attitude”.

Gage Bilt explains that its team takes the time to uncover the true needs of the customer. In several cases the company has uncovered opportunities for innovation where a competitor has said no or avoided the opportunity because of volume consideration.

One such example is an offset pulling head for an aerospace blind rivet. The customer complained that a competitor’s tool single jaw system would slip when pulling the rivet. Gage Bilt redesigned the part that grips the top of the rivet to include jaw teeth to create a double jaw system. This simple innovation eliminated the need for two pulls with the competitor’s tool making the rivet installation more efficient with just one pull.

Another example is a rivet series not breaking in certain minimum grip applications. Gage Bilt altered the tool by slightly increasing the stroke to solve this customer’s problem. The tool has now become standard as Gage Bilt’s offer for that type of rivet.

Recently a customer complained of a competitor’s right angle nose breaking too often. An application investigation revealed the need for an offset nose as a better solution. With a quick check of the Gage Bilt nose assembly database an existing offset nose was found and tested at the customer’s location with very positive results.

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riV509: the success continues

Several years have passed since Rivit Srl won 3rd prize at the Innovation Showcase at Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2005 for its RIV509 tool.

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ivit explains that the award gave the company the optimism and confidence to continue to work and develop projects, so that today the Rivit programme for tools and fasteners can be considered one of the most comprehensive in the world.

The RIV509 was originally designed for installation of Rivlock and Rivlockgrip blind bolts for diameters 6.4mm, 8mm and 10mm. These characteristics determined immediately the tool success, but after sometime Rivit Srl believed that the tool could be improved, adding the possibility of placing Magnariv and Monriv rivets of diameter 9.8mm, by means of new dedicated kits.

In addition, RIV509 has since been revised in its structure, has been streamlined and made more compact. Rivit also highlights that thanks to its great power, RIV509 can now manage very large diameter structural rivets.

“We also wish to underline that RIV509 features kits to cut the collar of the installed blind bolts, thus allowing their removal. The kits are available for diameters 8mm and 10mm.”

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The invisible tape Lohmann GmbH & Co. KG has drawn on its decades of experience in the development of customised adhesive solutions for the building and renewable energies market segment to help develop and patent a product for fixing cells within crystalline solar modules.

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he product is a single-sided adhesive laminating tape comprising an Ethylene-Vinyl-Acetate (EVA) - compatible substrate together with a mesh-like coating of special adhesive.

Lohmann points out that this adhesive tape represents a completely new way of securing solar cells and has many advantages for the user. For example, it has a sufficiently high initial tack with respect to the EVA material and the rear of the cell. This enables the ‘strings’, a collection of solar cells connected in series within a module, to be held in place during the lamination process. As the substrate and the multi-layer films in the solar modules are made from EVA, the adhesive tape is rigid and resistant to deformation prior to lamination. This prevents the cells from ‘drifting’ and facilitates both manual and automatic application.

Another factor that Lohmann says makes its DuploCOLL adhesive tape unique is its adaptability. Owing to its compatibility with all other components, it remains invisible following lamination – no inclusions or discolouration.

“The adhesive tape can be supplied as a directly applicable die-cut for ease of use. Taken as a whole, the ‘invisible tape’ optimises the manufacturing process for crystalline solar modules and helps reduce cycle times.”

WASI presents new product database WASI, the global system partner for stainless steel fasteners, has introduced a new online product database which contains all listed products from divisions WASI Norm, WASI Maritim and WASI Spezial, with detailed information on size, material, DIN-norm and sales unit.

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irk Kiele-Dunsche, managing director of Wagener & Simon WASI GmbH & Co. KG says: “Our aim is to optimise the procurement management of our customers and therefore help them save expenses.

The new product database is an important milestone on this way. It is a digital tool for our customers, to have faster, easier and informing access to all our products.”

All available products are clearly categorised in sections such as metric screws, nuts and inserts, washers, wire ropes and fittings, as well as HVE leveling adjusters or special fasteners. Even those customers that do not have the specific DIN-description at hand, but know the product requirements

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concerning material and purpose, will find their way through the product diversity of WASI easily.

All products are shown by a 3D-model and a 2D-engineering drawing; with the engineering drawings containing all relevant measurements. Each product overview is also available for download.

“Compared with the former product database the new one stands out for extended search functions, improved structures and for plenty of information on each article. The range of products of the divisions WASI Norm, WASI Solar (completely available in summer 2011) and WASI Maritim are completed by the individual fasteners of WASI Spezial.”

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Taking cam latches to a higher level Southco highlights that its customer-centric approach enables it to offer products that have improved levels of quality, enhanced and upgraded functionality, and an enriched user experience.

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lobal product manager, Jesús Albillos, explains: “Whilst acknowledging the cam latch is fundamental to an almost infinite array of industries and applications, we believe users deserve levels of security, functionality and choice that are equal to those designed into more sophisticated and complex access hardware – and at affordable prices.”

He adds: “Therefore, in addition to providing off-the-shelf product options, we work closely with our customers to develop cam latch solutions tailored to meet individual requirements and applications.”

Notably, modifications to the Southco E5 range of fixed grip cam latches have been developed at the request of customers seeking such attributes as intuitive push-to-close convenience, material options – such as stainless steel - and a choice of T-handle and L-handle styles.

Other E5 enhancements include styling and access control options, such as hand, tool, and key-actuated models and a choice of single-point and two-point latching installations.

Applications range from light-duty use with covers and access panels to large storage compartments. All E5 latches, regardless of head style, include a latched/unlatched position indicator.

Expanding to meet demand Self-Fix Metals Ltd is expanding its range of structural rivets, and is also planning to invest in dedicated machinery, in order to meet new demand for its products.

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elf-Fix Metals’ product range is based on special and structural rivets, and its customer base around the world includes some of the major distributors of blind rivets. The company recently invested a substantial budget in R&D in order to launch its new Ultra-Bolt patented structural rivet, and now intends to purchase new heading machines in order to meet demand in Europe and on other continents for its special products.

“We are rapidly expanding and we still see exciting opportunities for our rivet products in Europe and in several other industrialised areas of the world,” comments Danny Chesterman, marketing vice president. “We will also be purchasing sophisticated heading and thread rolling machines to increase production and improve delivery times to existing customers.”

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New captive panel screws PennEngineering says that its new PEM® Types PF7M™ and PF7MF™ captive panel screws introduce two distinct mounting styles for permanent installation into thin sheets.

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oth types feature small, compact, and low-profile designs suited for limited access areas and benefit from patented MAThread® anti-cross threading technology that easily corrects off-angle installations, aligns components, and slides through clogged internal threads. PennEngineering also highlights that the screws’ Phillips® recess allows for tool or hand operation.

Type PF7M captive panel screws integrate a self-clinching mounting design providing high pushout resistance. These fasteners install flush on the back side of panels as thin as 0.036 inch/0.92mm and are available in two screw lengths with thread sizes #4-40 through #8-32 and M3 to M4. They can install reliably into panels with hardness of HRB 80 or less or HB 150 or less.

Type PF7MF captive panel screws feature a flaring design, which allows them to be installed permanently into any panel hardness with minimal force.

Closer centerline (of fastener) to sheet edge can also be achieved with the flare-style mounting.

They install flush on the back side of panels as thin as 0.031 inch/0.79mm and are available in two screw lengths with thread sizes #4-40 through #8-32 and M3 to M4.

As with other PEM captive screws, both types feature a shoulder on the retainer portion of the fastener to help simplify installation.

“These new captive screws join a growing family of PEM brand hardware allowing for subsequent access to an assembly. Captive screws remain intact without risk of loosening or falling out and additionally reduce the number of loose parts to be inventoried and handled.”

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New instant grab hybrid structural adhesive 3M has launched an innovative two-part hybrid technology structural adhesive which it says can save days of time when bonding bigHead® and general fasteners.

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M Scotch-Weld Epoxy-Acrylic Hybrid Structural Adhesive 7271 B/A has been designed to instantly secure bigHead and other mechanical fasteners. It is suitable for a wide variety of substrates including composites, GRP (glass reinforced plastics), epoxy-based resins, aluminium and stainless steel. Dispensed using the easy to use 3M ScotchWeld EPX system, the adhesive can be applied with a manual or pneumatic hand-held applicator.

Imran Idrees of 3M’s industrial adhesives & tapes division commented: “3M’s vast expertise and experience in adhesives has enabled the development of this exciting new product. 7271 B/A can instantly hold mechanical fixings unlike commonly used two-part acrylic adhesives which can take anything up to three hours to hold fixtures.”

He adds: “Moreover, when compared with pungent, basic entry-level acrylic adhesives this ‘instant grab’ adhesive is odourless, which eliminates the need for a respirator to protect against odour during use. The adhesive can also be applied vertically or even upside down without it dripping.”

DustBubble captures BT DustBubble, the originators of the innovative solution for collecting dust and swarf from drilling, has become the new provider for British Telecom.

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DustBubble underlines that the aim of its products are to make life a little easier for the user, by making drilling operations quicker, easier and cleaner. Through a combination of adhesion to the wall and the action of the drill itself, DustBubbles enable users to have both hands free to hold the drill steady, as well as the added benefit that there is no clearing up afterwards.

“We are in constant negotiations with potential distributors all over the world. We want everyone to be aware of and appreciate this innovative product which we are very proud of.”

There are four versions depending on the application – available in packs of 10, 100 or tubes of 500: • For wallpaper and painted walls.

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sherex adds to riV-Float® family Sherex Fastening Solutions, based in New York, USA, says that it can ensure easy, accurate, and fast attachment of components in off centre applications with its new addition to the RIV-FLOAT® family - RIV-FLOAT®-SHORT.

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he RIV-FLOAT®-SHORT was developed for applications requiring backside clearance similar to cage nuts and riveted nut plates. The new RIV-FLOAT®-SHORT has all the features and benefits of the original RIV-FLOAT® including knurls which increase spin out resistance in soft materials.

RIV-FLOAT® was developed to allow manufacturers the benefit of accounting for tolerance stack up, and resolve alignment issues during product assembly. This saves costly rework of components and the expensive downtime associated with stripped or cross threaded fasteners. RIV-FLOAT® also allows installation from the front side of the work piece which improves assembly time by allowing the fasteners to be installed post paint, powder coat or other surface treatment.

“RIV-FLOAT® is the next generation of fastening technology that was designed for post installation in applications where cage nuts, clinch nuts, floating nut plates or weld nuts are typically used. This innovative family of rivet nuts is RoHS compliant and can provide higher thread strength than regular rivet nuts.”

These breakthrough rivet nuts can be installed with the new SFS FLEX tool, a hydro-pneumatic rivet nut tool from Sherex. Automated installation systems with process monitoring/control are also available for the RIV-FLOAT®, RIVFLOAT®SHORT and the full line of Sherex fasteners.

Make clamping a Breeze Groen Bevestigingsmaterialen BV, a stockist for hose clamps and pipe clamps, is now stocking a full range of Breeze Constant Torque hose clamps.

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he Constant Torque hose clamp is an active pressure-compensating clamp. Groen explains that virtually all rubber hose compresses ‘cold flow’ after installation of a clamping device, resulting in an almost immediate torque loss that can exceed 80% of installation torque. Similarly, virtually all metal connections expand as a system heats up and then contracts as the system cools. Conventional worm-gear, T-Bolt, and other clamps are passive, in that expansion and contraction of components cannot be compensated for without retightening or loosening the clamps.

However, the Breeze clamping system is an ‘active’ clamp mechanism, which monitors and then compensates for the temperature changes by actually changing diameter through a unique worm-gear Belleville assembly.

Groen Bevestigingsmaterialen BV is specialised in hose clamps, pipe clamps and couplings, and under the brandname KLEMFIT Groen can supply in-house developed special tools for mounting and demounting its clamps.

Groen supplies on an exclusive basis to international wholesalers in various industries including hardware, automotive, sanitary, as well as building and road maintenance.

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New high temperature resistant epoxy adhesive Permabond Engineering Adhesives Ltd has added a new high temperature resistant structural epoxy adhesive to its range. Permabond ET5401 has been developed to bond a wide variety of engineering materials such as composites, thermoplastics, metals and ceramic materials.

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raditionally, standard two-component epoxy adhesives (resin and hardener) can only resist temperatures of up to around 80°C before they soften, resulting in joint failure. Permabond ET5401 can successfully survive 140°C continuously, and maintain its performance characteristics. Permabond highlghts that it can be exposed to temperatures higher than this for short periods, providing the adhesive is not overly stressed, and says that exposing the adhesive to such high temperatures actually increases the adhesive strength and long-term structural performance.

“Permabond ET5401 is a toughened product which is ideal for bonding dissimilar materials (such as metal to composite) where differential thermal expansion and contraction could be an issue. It is also suitable for applications where good impact and vibration resistance is important.”

Permabond points out that Permabond ET5401 would be ideal for the composites bonding industry, the transportation market and automotive industries.

New adhesive for high technology industries Intertronics says that its new adhere ADH9105 is an excellent example of a precision engineered application specific adhesive for high technology industries.

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dhere ADH9105 is a high viscosity black rubber toughened formulation that can tolerate temperatures up to 105°C (125°C intermittently) and is suitable for bonding metals, plastics and rubbers providing a bond of suitable flexibility, even capable of withstanding wave/reflow solder processes.

The tough peel and cleavage resistant one-part adhesive features room temperature cure in seconds (without an external energy source) and at 3,500cps - 5,000cps viscosity will not droop, run or sag before cure is completed. Dispensing is readily achieved in small quantities via standard squeeze bottles and in larger quantities, (e.g. for flow line production, by pressure pot, manual, semi-automatic or fully automated equipment available under the adhere brand).

“The adhere ADH9105 has higher impact, humidity and temperature resistance with a more flexible bond than mainstream cyanoacrylates – thus making it the adhesive of choice where gap filling and resistance to vibration, thermal shock or motion compliance are required, for example in mounting of electrical or electronic components, assembly of enclosures, cable boxes or in strain relief or simple wire tacking.”

Custom springs direct Lee Spring has introduced the ‘custom springs direct’ service to speed up delivery of bespoke customer solutions.

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ustomers can email the company a drawing of their design idea direct to the dedicated custom spring design department and the team will respond with a quote within 24 hours.

“The Lee Spring brand name has a global reputation for providing the highest quality and widest range of ‘off the shelf’ catalogue spring products.

However, more engineers are becoming aware of the in-depth spring custom design and manufacturing capability that the company can provide,” says Darren Eyre, technical sales engineer. “We are able to provide extensive custom design and production services for springs, wire forms, washers, stampings, four slide parts and assemblies via a streamlined process, to meet the timescales of most projects.”

Since 1918 Lee Spring has been manufacturing custom springs and wire forms for a wide variety of applications. Darren adds: “Our experienced engineers can work closely with customers from inception to completion so that nothing is left to chance. Our aim is to turn the engineer’s idea into reality; whatever the application, location or quantity.”

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CornerTape launches SiliconePro to tile market CornerTape has launched its brand new sealant to the tile market through Tile Depot, a large UK independent tile, stone and wood retailer.

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perfect complement to Tile Depot’s wide selection of tiles and tiling products, CornerTape SiliconePro is now available from all 18 Tile Depot stores across London and the south east of the UK. CornerTape highlights that the decision to stock the sealant in all branches came just one week after the start of a three store trial - such was the response from Tile Depot’s staff as well as trade and DIY customers.

Easily identified with its distinctive black tube and multi-coloured nozzle, CornerTape SiliconePro is a durable and versatile silicone sealant available in a choice of four colours – white, translucent, cream and grey.

CornerTape points out that the SiliconePro features an anti-drip valve and pre-cut nozzle system, designed by CornerTape for easy use, to prevent waste and save mess. The anti-drip valve is conveniently positioned on the front of the tube – one simple quarter turn of the valve cuts the flow of sealant, preventing the traditionally inevitable overspill.

The pre-cut nozzle system comes in four sections and a lid, each of which unscrews. Each nozzle is cut at an angle of 45° for greater control and a better finish and, although professionals are capable of achieving a neat bead of sealant without any help, the various nozzle colours and sizes all correspond to the available widths of CornerTape to further reduce the ‘normal’ amount of silicone wasted when compared to using other traditional methods.

“The pre-cut nozzle system can be used over and over again, with the cured sealant cleared easily by unscrewing the nozzles and just pulling apart.There is no more need for prodding and poking at hard sealant and no need to purchase new nozzles.”

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‘Slimming down’ – with EJOT® Industrial fasteners specialist EJOT® supports lightweight design strategies in the plastic field.

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ightweight design is one of the central starting points of cross-business research and development activities of many companies. Intelligent lightweight design concepts will be of crucial importance for compliance with future CO2 limits in the automotive area. For that reason special importance will be attached to the lightweight suitability of fasteners for direct assembly into plastics.

The EJOT DELTA PT® screw, which has been the benchmark for reliable and easy direct assembly into plastics for many years, will also have to meet these new demands. The DELTA PT® screw supports lightweight design concepts, says EJOT, through its outstanding fastening performance and possible reduction in dimensional parameters. Additionally a reduction of bolting points is possible for many applications.

The sum of these measures is a significant contribution to weight saving. If the full utilisation of weight savings potential is requested in the customer’s product specifications, a variation in the choice of the fastener material can also have the desired effect. For example, many DELTA PT® variants can be made from aluminium instead of steel.

EJOT® sees the last evolutionary step for innovative material selection in the use of plastic material for the DELTA PT® screw. The fastening elements made of the thermoplastic Grivory HTV-5H1 with 50% fibre glass offer the same joint reliability as metal screws, but with a much higher potential for weight reduction.

A plastic screw with similar dimensions weights up to 85% less than its counterpart made of steel.

EJOT® will be demonstrating different lightweight design applications for the new DELTA PT® P at this year’s FAKUMA from 18th – 22nd October in Friedrichshafen (Germany), hall B3, booth B3-3114.

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Moulded-in inserts part of standard range Spirol Industries has introduced a new range of inserts intended to be placed in a plastic mould prior to plastic injection.

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he Series 41 and 45 inserts can be used in applications where torque and pull-out/through resistance are required. They feature a hexagonal head on each end and a large centre undercut, with this design providing a high level of bi-directional torque resistance and high tensile strength.

The Series 41 is a through hole moulded-in insert and Spirol Series 45 a blind-end moulded-in insert.

They do not require any specialised insertion tools as the operator places the insert directly into the mould prior to plastic injection.

In addition, Spirol has designed these inserts to simplify orientation and placement on to the mould core pin, thereby increasing productivity and reducing potential scrap rates.

Low thermal expansion epoxy Master Bond Inc says that its Master Bond EP30LTE-LO, formulated with a special blend of polymeric and inorganic materials, features unparalleled dimensional stability and sets new standards of performance for bonding, sealing, casting and coating applications in the aerospace, electrical, electronic, chemical, optical, and computer industries.

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his two component epoxy combines performance with a very low thermal expansion coefficient, which Master Bond says is a significant breakthrough from the high thermal expansion that is typical of most epoxy compounds.

Serviceable over the wide temperature range of -60°F to 250°F, EP30LTE-LO cures at room temperature with 85% of its maximum strength developed within 48 hours. Faster cures are possible at elevated temperatures.

Master Bond points out that this 100% reactive epoxy features an exceptionally low coefficient of thermal expansion of 12x10-6 in/in/°C and a low shrinkage rate of less than 0.0002 in/in. It also bonds well to metals, glass, ceramics, wood, vulcanised rubbers and most plastics, and produces bonds with a tensile strength over 5,000 psi.

This electrically insulative system resists thermal cycling and chemicals including water, fuels and many acids, bases, salts and organic solvents. It has a long working life of up to 60 minutes for a 200g mass.

EP30LTE-LO has a 10 to 1 mix ratio by weight and can be easily applied with a spatula, knife, trowel, brush or paint roller. It can also be readily cast as thick as 1 inch without undue exotherm developing. EP30LTE-LO is available in half-pint, pint, quart, gallon and five gallon container kits.

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