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TECHNOLOGICALLY ALMOST HUMAN

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Being experts in fasteners and having a high performance intelligent warehouse make us more capable, faster, and more efficient in fulfulling your needs; but it is our human team which drives us to excel every day. Technologically almost human.

Experts in Fasteners

E D I TO R I A L Will Lowry, editor, Fastener + Fixing Magazine

Are you ready?

Even with two months to go, the buzz surrounding Fastener Fair Stuttgart seems to be growing by the day. To add to the excitement we have an extensive preview of some of the new products and companies that visitors can expect to see during the show.

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ne of the key visitor attractions of Fastener Fair Stuttgart has always been the opportunity to discover and evaluate what’s new in fastening technologies.

Once again we will be sponsoring the Fastener Technology Innovator Competition and have a preview in this issue of all the entrants’ innovations – providing a great opportunity to learn more about the products and what stands to visit during the show.

As always we will have a presence at the show and will be walking the aisles. Please stop us to say hello and to talk about the fastener news at your company. Alternatively visit our stand – X41, hall 8.

There is only one word that can be used to describe the Cover Story for this issue – TRUST. This is the word that German

washer manufacturer Adolf Pühl has used as its key drive for product quality, commitment to customer service, and much more.

Feature articles in this issue include Phil Matten visiting Polish fastener company – Marcopol – as it celebrates its 30th anniversary; Managing Partner Gerald Hering and Thomas Erb giving an insight into German based Ferdinand Gross; as well as a report from my recent trip to Italy where I visited Bontempi VIBO and saw first-hand the results of its unprecedented programme of investment over recent years.

Other articles include Enthone GmbH looking at the benefits of zinc-alloy corrosion protection for threaded fasteners; the latest developments in construction fixings; as well as a first-hand report from the recent Fastener Fair Turkey show in Istanbul.

CONTENTS INDUSTRY NEWS Europe and World.................................................................... 10-24 Perspective....................................................................................28 North America......................................................................... 30-32 Russia + CIS............................................................................. 34-36 Asia.................................................................................................38 Brazil........................................................................................ 40-42 COVER STORY TRUST – stamped into every Puhl washer............................... 44-45 EXHIBITIONS Events Calendar.............................................................................46 Fastener Fair Turkey report..................................................... 48-50 Fastener Taiwan 2016 preview.......................................................52 MIDEST 2014 report.......................................................................54 parts2clean preview.......................................................................54 Fastener Fair Stuttgart preview............................................... 57-78 Fastener Technology Innovator Competition........................... 80-98 News.....................................................................................106-109 Fastener Fair India preview..................................................110-112 CATALOGUE RACK Fastener Fair Stuttgart........................................................ 100-105 INSIGHT Marcopol – entering its 30th year......................................... 114-115

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Tradition – confirmation and an incentive for the future..... 116-118 VIBO – investing in quality....................................................120-122 Progress at Baker & Finnemore.................................................124 FACE2FACE Succeeding in the UK market...............................................126-127 CONSTRUCTION FIXINGS News.................................................................................... 128-138 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY OPTISORT®: Two decades of innovations.............................140-142 Zinc-alloy corrosion protection for threaded fasteners...... 144-148 News.................................................................................... 150-155 MANAGEMENT + SYSTEMS News.....................................................................................157-159 FOCUS ON Stainless steel + non ferrous....................................................... 171 PRODUCT NEWS Application Technology news............................................... 160-164 Tools news............................................................................ 166-170 Products news..................................................................... 172-184 INDEX...........................................................................................186

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Global fastener demand to reach US$93.8 billion in 2018 Worldwide demand for industrial fasteners is forecast to climb 5.4% annually through 2018 to US$93.8 billion (approximately 78.1 billion euros), accelerating from the 2008 – 2013 pace, according to the latest World Industrial Fasteners report from Freedonia.

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ncreases in motor vehicle, machinery, and other durable goods production will support growth in fastener markets as the global economy expands and fixed investment expenditures rise. In addition, product prices will climb at a faster pace than during the 2008 – 2013 period, boosting demand in value terms.

Industrial fastener market gains are expected to be strong in both developing and developed regions through 2018. Analyst Ken Long clarifies: “Advances in developing areas – including the Asia/Pacific and Africa/Middle East regions, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe – will outpace demand in the US, western Europe, and Japan.” Sales increases will be driven by

healthy economic growth and ongoing industrialisation efforts in most developing nations, resulting in higher manufacturing output and fixed investment spending. Rising standards of living in these areas will help fuel demand for motor vehicles and other fastener-containing durable goods, boosting both original equipment manufacturing and aftermarket fastener sales.

Rebounding levels of fixed investment, along with higher durable goods manufacturing output, will be a primary driver of fastener demand increases in the US, western Europe, and Japan.

Motor vehicle original equipment manufacturing, the leading market for industrial fasteners, will post the largest value gains through 2018. In addition, rising fixed investment World Industrial fastener demand (million US dollars) spending and industry output will boost demand for fasteners used in machinery applications, the % Annual Growth second largest market. Although it is comparatively 2008 2013 2018 2008-2013 2013-2018 small, the construction market will register the 1.9 5.4 Industrial fastener demand 65,450 72,000 93,800 fastest growth through 2018, spurred by acceleration 15,910 16,500 20,050 0.7 4.0 North America in construction expenditure worldwide.

17,260 15,750 18,850 -1.8 3.7 Western Europe The 502 page World Industrial Fasteners report 22,730 29,450 40,750 5.3 6.7 Asia/Pacific was published in November 2014 and is available for US$6,500 (5,415 euros) from The Freedonia Group Inc. 9,550 10,300 14,150 1.5 6.6 Other regions www.freedoniagroup.com © 2014 by The Freedonia Group Inc

Further acquisitions for Bossard Bossard Group has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Aero-Space Southwest, a US high-quality fastener technology provider with operations in Mexico and Hong Kong.

In December the Swiss group also extended its presence in Scandinavia by acquiring a 60% holding in Torp Fasteners AS in Norway.

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ossard Group announced on 21st November that it had signed a contract to acquire Aero-Space Southwest, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded in 1982 Aero-Space Southwest had 2013 revenue of US$43 million (35.8 million euros) and employs 65 people. It has sales and distribution centres in Arizona, California, Washington State, Mexico and Hong Kong. The company serves customers in the aerospace, electronics, telecom and the medical sector.

The parties agreed not to disclose the value of the transaction, which Bossard funded from its own funds and bank loans.

Completion was confirmed on 6th January 2015.

Bossard CEO, David Dean, said: “Aero-Space Southwest opens new doors for us. This well run company provides us with a solid foundation on which we can expand our business, particularly in the economic relevant state of California.”

Robert Budde, owner and CEO of Aero-Space Southwest, commented: “Bossard is the ideal partner for Aero-Space

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Southwest. We are pleased that our company will be going into good hands, and our dedicated employees are assured of a successful future and strong business development in joining the Bossard Group.” Robert Budde will remain with the business for the handover and integration into the Bossard Group.

On 18th December Bossard confirmed it would acquire a 60% share in Norwegian fastener distributor Torp Fasteners.

40% will remain with the previous owners and management.

The acquisition is expected to complete in January 2015.

Based in Oslo and trading independently since 1974, Torp has an annual turnover of around 8.3 million euros and employs 16 people. The acquisition price has not been disclosed.

Bossard CEO David Dean said: “We are already well established in Denmark and Sweden. Torp Fasteners will now contribute substantially to an improved market position of the Bossard Group in Scandinavia.”

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‘Cheesegrater’ bolts inspected following two breakages On 5th November British Land confirmed that two ‘megabolts’ had broken on The Leadenhall Building – a British Land and Oxford Properties’ asset at 122 Leadenhall Street in the City of London.

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art of one bolt fell from the fifth floor of the 225m high building – dubbed the ‘Cheesegrater’ for its distinctive profile – to the ground on 4th November. Another bolt fell from the nineteenth floor but within the frame of the building on 28th October. The ‘megabolts’ are high-strength, threaded pre-tensioned bars up to 76mm in diameter, which connect the nodes on the megaframe of the building.

According to an article on Steelconstruction.info detailing the 16,000 tonne steel structure (www.steelconstruction.info/ Leadenhall,_London) the nodes were fabricated off-site and the megaframe elements bolted on-site. Each node is around 6m x 3m, and weighs up to 30 tonnes. The connections transfer forces of up

to 6,000 tonnes in at least three different directions simultaneously.

British Land stressed that: “No-one was injured in either incident and there is no risk to the structural integrity of the building.”

It said: “The design of the structure allows for isolated events of this type and do not affect the structural integrity of the building.”

Contractor Laing O’Rourke and structural engineers Arup initiated a full investigation, including examination of the remaining bolts. An area around the base of the building was cordoned off while this process is ongoing.

British Land expects the investigation to report in January.

Go to News at www.fastenerandfixing.com for further updates and information.

voestalpine reports solid half year performance

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Despite a persistently challenging economic climate, the voestalpine Group posted a largely solid performance for the first half of the business year 2014/15.

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he business year started with optimistic economic forecasts for the mature economies and mixed expectations for the emerging markets. However, measured against these expectations, and excluding North America and China, the global economic trend cooled down in the course of the first six months. “Nevertheless, in view of the increasingly challenging environment, voestalpine Group performance during the first half of the business year was at a most satisfactory level,” says Dr Wolfgang Eder, chairman of the voestalpine Group.

Significant improvements in all earnings categories Revenue was down 1.5% to 5.56 billion euros. This is the result of the closure of standard rail production in Duisburg at the end of 2013 and the resulting decrease in the Metal Engineering division’s delivery volumes. Weaker price levels in several business segments were the consequence of continued falling raw materials and pre-material costs.

The significantly higher operating result (EBITDA), up 11.2% to 757 million euros, includes non-recurring effects in the Metal Forming division totaling 66.5 million euros (relating to the sale of the Flamco Group and agreement to sell the Plastics Solutions business segment). Adjusted for these non-recurring effects, EBITDA rose 1.5% year-on-year to 690 million euros. Adjusted EBITDA margin increased from 12.1% to 12.4%.

Profit before tax improved even more substantially, up 25.5% to 392 million euros. Even after deduction of the non-recurring effect, profit before tax in the first six months of 2014/15 was 347 million euros, 11% up on the previous year in the same period.

Profit for the period rose 36% to 324 million euros. Factoring out the non-recurring effect, adjusted profit for the period is 281 million euros, a considerable 18% improvement over the previous year, primarily due to lower financing costs.

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New joint managing director at Lederer Peter Henke has been appointed as the new joint managing director of Lederer GmbH, alongside company founder Rainer Lederer and Dr Volker Lederer.

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s sales director at Lederer GmbH, the Ennepetal based specialist in the field of stainless steel fasteners and C-parts management, Peter Henke (pictured left) was responsible for all the divisions’ sales activities. Now he will head the industry and trade sales departments both inland and in the context of Europe, the worldwide export business, and C-parts management.

Peter Henke has worked for Lederer since 1993 and helped to establish its in-house QA department and steered the medium-sized family run company through its first ISO 9001 certification. In the mid-1990s he sold the first C-parts management systems to major customers such as Siemens and remained in charge of this area until recently as authorised representative and executive with power of attorney.

The newly appointed joint managing director has set himself the goal of consolidating and expanding further the company’s selling activities. Presence on customers’ premises, an active approach to sales and personal contact head his list of priorities.

With these methods he intends to increase sales from their current level of over 55 million euros to the next level – a more than realistic objective in view of the current workforce of 150, the additional storage and logistics facilities currently being built, and the automatic small parts warehouse. www.lederer-online.com

Italian acquisition for Bossard On 12th January Bossard Group announced it is acquiring the fastening solutions division of Forind Avio Elettronica SpA, which has an annual turnover of CHF 6 million (approximately 5 million euros) and employs ten people. The parties have agreed not to disclose the transaction value.

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orind Avio Elettronica SpA is well established in Italy as a provider of high-quality fastening solutions of internationally recognised brands. Founded in 1968 and located in Cassina de’ Pecchi on the eastern outskirts of Milan, the company has become recognised as a supplier to the demanding aerospace industry. It has gradually established a foothold in other economic sectors based on proven know-how in terms of reliability, precision and efficiency of the solutions offered.

Today, these include various industries, in particular the medical sector, as well as the telecoms and electronics sectors.

Subject to usual completion conditions the acquisition of Forind Avio Elettronica SpA fastening solutions division will be effective in February 2015.

REYHER wins supplier award F. REYHER Nchfg GmbH & Co KG recently received the coveted ABM Greiffenberger Antriebstechnik ‘Supplier Award 2014’ in the category ‘innovation’.

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EYHER received the award for its Kanban supply system ROM – REYHER Order Management – which was used across all of ABM Greiffenberger’s production sites, both national and international.

ROM – REYHER Order Management ensures seamless production materials supply, with ABM Greiffenberger implementing a customised electronic barcode Kanban solution.

Some 60 suppliers from all over the world took part in the Supplier Day at ABM Greiffenberger in early November. During this event at the headquarters in Marktredwitz, Germany, the ‘Supplier Award’ was presented in three different categories: Cost, delivery reliability and innovation.

ABM is an international supplier of sophisticated, high-performing drive solutions for machinery, equipment and mobile devices. More than 700 employees in several national and international production sites produce nearly 300,000 drive units annually for the most diverse applications in machine and plant engineering. www.reyher.de

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Steppacher and the TFC Group establish TFC Singen

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TFC Europe Ltd has announced the acquisition of Steppacher Schrauben Grosshandel, a move that secures the long-term future for the German quality fastener distributor that is highly rated by its customers.

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teppacher customers will continue to be served by their trusted supplier, which will now be called TFC Singen, operating from its existing Singen premises by the experienced Steppacher team.

Steppacher was established in 1983 and developed into a broad based fastener and associated product distributor focused on the engineering industries of southern Germany. Steppacher was founded by Karl Steppacher who will be withdrawing from the business once he has helped with the transfer to TFC ownership. The existing team will move forward with TFC support and investment under the day-to-day management of Hubert Sieczkowski, who will continue to focus the team on complete customer satisfaction.

Morgan Burgoyne, TFC’s managing director, said: “This is

a great opportunity for our customers and for the TFC Group.

Steppacher has developed huge loyalty from its customers who would like to purchase more were it not for its previous limitations as an independent. However, with TFC Singen we can now offer customers the benefit of a strong and mature business with its great reputation for service and quality, combined with the access to TFC technology, products and skills. This will create a world-class fastener supplier for customers in southern Germany in conjunction with our technical and logistics centre in north west Germany.”

TFC have been operating in north west Germany since 1994 when it established TFC Bochum, which now has a turnover of 5 million euros and over 1,200 customers based all over Germany – but with a large percentage in southern Germany.

US to apply anti-dumping tariffs to Chinese wire rod The United States International Trade Commission determined that a US industry is materially injured by reason of imports of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from China. The US Department of Commerce had previously determined these imports were subsidised and sold in the United States at less than fair value.

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ll six USITC commissioners voted in the affirmative. As a result of the USITC’s affirmative determinations, Commerce will issue anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of this product from China.

The Commission’s public report ‘Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from China’ (Investigation Nos. 701-TA-512 and 731-TA-1248 (Final), USITC Publication 4509, December 2014) will contain the views of the commissioners and information developed during the investigations. It will be available after 23rd January 2015 from the USITC website.

New plant largest ever investment for ARaymond A new state of the art ARaymond production plant in Germany, the largest single investment ever made by the company, is on schedule to be fully operational by early 2016.

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Raymond’s four metal production sites in the country are currently located in and around its headquarters at Lörrach, close to where the German, French and Swiss borders intersect. ARaymond GmbH will relocate these operations to the 43,000m2 facility under construction at Weil am Rhein, where the manufacture of plastic components is already based.

“Building work began in the summer of this year and everything is on schedule,” said Jürgen Trefzer, CEO of ARaymond GmbH. “We will begin to relocate the 110 stamping and bending machines and 320 employees spread across our four existing sites in September 2015.” The plant will ramp up to full production in the second quarter of 2016, from when all processes involved in the manufacture of metal components will take place at one location, increasing efficiency, improving capacity and reducing lead times.

“The new plant, by far the largest project undertaken in the 150 year history of ARaymond, will reinforce our position as one

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of the world leaders in fastening and assembly solutions for the global automotive market.”

The move to Weil am Rhein will be a huge logistics effort as some of the presses to be transported weigh nearly 1,000 tonnes. The exercise is being carefully planned to ensure OEMs do not experience any delay in parts supply.

Lean manufacturing processes will be integral to the plant, which has been designed using the expertise of the Hannover based Institut für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik (Institute of Production Systems and Logistics). The manufacturing area will be divided into modular sections of equal size to optimise workflows and enhance flexibility. The investment also includes advanced technology to improve workplace ergonomics and save energy, including automatic collection of scrap, and recycling heat generated by equipment to heat the building.

ARaymond GmbH, which employs nearly 1,700 people, accounts for approximately 30% of the total annual sales of ARaymond.

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NORMA Group promotes responsible business with suppliers

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NORMA Group has developed a code of conduct for suppliers to ensure sustainable and ethical business practices. Beyond environmental aspects, the ‘Supplier Code of Conduct’ also addresses social issues such as fair wages and occupational safety and health protection at their suppliers.

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erner Deggim, CEO of NORMA Group, explains: “As a manufacturer we are aware that we have a responsibility for the environment and society. Since we seek to continually improve our supplier relationships, we also want to promote responsible and social practices in our business environment.”

NORMA Group also seeks to exclude the use of conflict minerals in production. Ores like cassiterite, coltan or wolframite are extracted in war zones in conditions that severely breach international law. The special ores are used in the metals industry, for instance as coatings for screws.

Going forward, suppliers of NORMA Group will be reviewed to assess whether they comply with the principles of the code of conduct. NORMA Group will be entitled to discontinue the relationship if they do not comply. The criteria is based on international guidelines such as the UN Global Compact under which companies undertake to comply with social and environmental standards such as, for instance, the international environmental Norm ISO 14001.

In 2013, NORMA Group bought materials with a total value of about 269.4 million euros from suppliers. This corresponds to approximately 42.4% of group sales. www.normagroup.com

Grainger plans Fabory improvement Grainger reported October sales, including fasteners, increased 6%. Excluding acquisitions and foreign exchange, organic sales increased 7%, driven by 6 percentage points of volume growth and 1 percentage point contribution from sales of Ebola-related safety products.

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ales in the US gained 7%, while sales in Canada increased 2% and sales in Grainger’s other businesses segment – including results from Asia, Europe, and Latin America – rose 16% in October.

But the bigger news for the fastener industry, reports GlobalFastenerNews, involves Grainger’s plan for its European fastener business, Fabory Group, which the company chided last month for its “soft performance”.

Grainger purchased Fabory in 2011 for US$346 million (288 million euros). The previous year, Fabory had generated sales of US$295 million (245.8 million euros), and Grainger hoped that acquiring Fabory, which had 120 locations and more than 1,600 employees, would significantly enhance its presence across Europe.

However, Fabory is currently generating approximately US$280 million (233.3 million euros) in annual income, a sum Grainger called “roughly break-even” in its 11th November investor presentation.

To improve Fabory, Grainger plans to trim 10% – 15% of cost out of the business in 2015, which will include branch “rationalisation” and “internal process efficiencies.” In addition, Grainger intends to refocus Fabory on “core fastener growth” by enhancing sales force effectiveness and eCommerce capabilities.

Globally, Grainger is adding 3,000 new fastener SKUs on its way to realising 15% fastener revenue growth in the US. The company estimates it will achieve “purchase savings” of 43% in 2014. In addition, the company intends to add 17,000 new fastener items in the first quarter of 2015. www.globalfastenernews.com

SPIROL receives 2014 General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award For the third consecutive year, SPIROL Industries Ltd has received the General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award. General Motors (GM) has 2,300 North American suppliers and Spirol was one of 80 companies to receive the award all three years.

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ccording to GM: “Suppliers who receive this award have met or exceeded a stringent set of quality performance criteria and have achieved the cross-functional support of the entire GM organisation. The award recognises those suppliers that have demonstrated the highest levels of quality performance over the past 12 months.”

Each supplier that won the award met thirteen quality criteria over a period of twelve months with one notable criterion being: “Zero number of defects in parts and components delivered by Supplier Quality Excellence Award winners.”

SPIROL highlights that this is a significant achievement and a testament to its operational excellence and quality control considering the millions of parts supplied to General Motors from its global locations.

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Owlett-Jaton secures major contract Owlett-Jaton, part of the Hexstone Group, has secured a deal with Selco, one of the UK’s largest builders merchants, to supply its comprehensive range of more than 30,000 products available for next day delivery.

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elco is continuing to expand its branch network with the recent launch of its Isleworth location and another scheduled to be opened in Redhill. Selco chose Owlett-Jaton due to the company’s long-standing reputation in the UK construction industry as the leading supplier of fasteners and fixings to the distributor and merchant trade.

Owlett-Jaton is supplying its range of pre-packaged nails, screws and bolts across Selco’s 35 branches in the UK. Andy Connor, national commercial manager at Owlett-Jaton, said: “We are extremely proud to have Selco stock our products in a time of prosperity for the company. It is a brand that is synonymous

with quality and high performance and we are delighted to have their network of branches supplying our products.”

He added: “We are also continuing to grow as a company, having recently invested GB£250,000 into a warehouse picking system, and our contract with Selco signifies this growth.

This deal reiterates Owlett-Jaton’s position as the leading supplier of fasteners and fixings in the UK.” Tony Pontin, purchasing director of Selco, said: “We’re very pleased to be working with Owlett-Jaton as they have a very comprehensive product range.” www.owlett-jaton.com

New SARIV warehouse in Croatia SARIV d.o.o, the Croatian subsidiary of SARIV Srl – the Italian producer of blind rivet and blind rivet nuts – has just opened its new plant in Samobor, 15km from Zagreb and just a few kilometers from the Slovenian border.

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ristijan Kobešćak, director of SARIV d.o.o, explains: “By opening the new plant in Samobor we have achieved our goal of building our own warehouse after opening the company in 2006. It offers a new starting point for SARIV Croatia.” “ Our main target now is to enforce our position as one of the main distributors of fastening in the building and industrial sector in Croatia. With the new warehouse we can increase the safety stock levels on all our catalogue products to reach a higher service level,” says Kristijan. “We plan, within the next six months, to increase that performance even further to a 97% service level.”

After a strong 2014, with company records both in turnover, up 15% from 2013, and profit, the company’s aim is to increase its product range – enabling it to offer a wider fastening selection to its customers.

Jeveka moves to Almere Poort Jeveka B.V, a Dutch independent wholesaler for fasteners and tools, has moved from Amsterdam to Almere Poort – the first time the company has been based outside of Amsterdam since it was established in 1937.

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ontinuous growth and the wish to expand further, created the need for Jeveka to make the move to Almere Poort.

The new site has a total size of 10,000m², of which the warehouse takes up 5,000m². The new location has given Jeveka the opportunity to professionalise its quality department and to expand its production facilities for custom-made parts and specials to 300m².

Jeveka explains that it has paid a lot of attention to sustainability, including solar panels, seasonal thermal energy storage, under floor heating, triple glazing and an optimal use of daylight. This has created a very agreeable working situation for the 63 employees.

Adriaan Veltkamp, general manager of Jeveka, says: “With this facility we are ready for the future. It allows us to offer an even better service to our customers, expand our already extensive range of fasteners and tools, and provide an even more professional platform for the brands we represent in the Dutch market.”

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Thanks to its focus on the research and development of new products, and to its continuous internationalisation effort, Italian based Specialinsert Srl was recently selected to participate in an exclusive GAP business project.

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AP is an exclusive programme at the UCLA Anderson School of Management – University of California, USA – that is accessible every year to a limited group of 50 companies of 10 selected countries based on the level of product innovation.

Cinzia Arduini, Specialinsert CEO, explains the content of the project involved: “Working for 6 months with a team of executive MBA students at the Anderson School of Management we developed an effective business and marketing plan for the US market. The team did a massive job, with hundreds of interviews of key players in the fasteners industry in Italy and the USA.” Federico Sarti, export manager at Specialinsert, added: “The market forecasts for our new products are really encouraging so we need to execute strategies defined within the plan soon.”

Therefore in 2015 Specialinsert is planning to establish a network of distributors within the US and is planning to launch its two newest families of product – Keep-Nut® and Master-Plate® – before extending distribution to all of its range.

2015 – new chapter for The Washer Factory In November The Washer Factory Limited attained ISO 9001 accreditation and in December the company took possession of the keys for an additional building. No surprise the Wolverhampton manufacturer of non-standard washers and light pressings is looking forward to 2015 as a new chapter in its development.

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he new premises is dedicated to raw materials allowing the company to carry more stocks of nickel alloys, duplex, super duplex and other exotic materials. Production in The Washer Factory’s existing premises will also expand with the introduction of new machinery. In turn, its in-house tool room will grow to keep up with production demand.

Additional office space means the company will be looking to add to its internal sales staff. “Our customers will benefit from an even better first contact service, right through to receiving their goods, which will place us in a good position for future growth,” says David Webb, managing director. He adds: “We look forward to continuing to satisfy our customer’s quality and deadline requirements as we proceed into 2015.”

New QC manager at TIMco T.I. Midwood & Co Ltd (TIMco), the UK independent supplier of screws and fixings, has announced that Cris Tonks is to be its new quality control manager. Cris has been with the company for more than 18 years and will be located at the company’s head office in Nantwich.

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ince Cris joined TIMco in 1996 he has gained a wealth of knowledge about the company, its products, and the fastener and fixing industry. He will now use his valuable experience in the new role as the QC manager and will oversee new product development, deal with existing and new suppliers within the Far East and Europe, as well as developing on-site training programmes for both merchants and end users. He will also be responsible for checking containers daily, spot checking products, as well as offering product support and answering technical questions.

Cris joined TIMco as an office junior and soon flourished at the company and within 18 months joined the sales team

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working with clients. 10 years later, Cris become a customer service manager and assisted with internal sales. This role then led Cris onto becoming one of the company’s key account managers where he was soon involved in assisting with new product development in core ranges.

Simon Midwood, managing director at TIMco, comments: “Cris has been with the company for nearly 20 years and we’re privileged to have such a loyal member of staff work for us. Cris’ new role will allow him to use all of his existing knowledge and experience to help create, design and test our new products.” www.TIMco.co.uk

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After starting to manufacture long wood construction screws in 2013, E.U.R.O Tec GmbH says that it is planning additional acquisitions of production facilities in the future, so that it can further enlarge its portfolio of screws produced in Germany.

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.U.R.O Tec offers a wide range of wood construction screws made of stainless steel, V2A, V4A and galvanised steel.

Products include the Topduo roofing screw, Paneltwistec AG Blue+ for over rafter insulation, as well as the KonstruX fully threaded screw for main secondary beam connections, joist-doubling and reinforcements of supports.

E.U.R.O Tec also offers a variety of special solutions such as PediX-post feet, which can be mounted on the end grain using fully threaded screws with no need for joinery work or pilot-drilling. After assembly the PediX post feet can be adjusted to balance out manufacturing tolerances or subsequent settlement.

Other products include the IdeeFix hidden wood connector as well as Atlas, which can be used for visible or non-visible timber-timber connections. E.U.R.O Tec points out that the big benefit of Atlas is that the connection can be completely prepared prior to assembly and it only needs to be fixed by a single screw during the construction.

Another big product portfolio of E.U.R.O Tec is the field of substructures and fasteners for decking construction. Beginning with accessories for the preparation of the surface, fully adjustably feet in different heights (2.2cm – 60cm) in specialised layouts (for stone slabs, wooden joists, etc), up to substructures made of aluminum profiles, E.U.R.O Tec offers everything from a single source. www.e-u-r-o-tec.de

Kommerling appoints new sales executive Kommerling UK has announced the appointment of Neil MacWatters, formerly of 3M, to the role of sales executive, south. Neil will be responsible for identifying and building business for Kommerling’s expanding range of sealants, adhesives and tapes in the automotive, manufacturing and industrial sectors.

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ommenting on his new role, Neil said: “Kommerling is a proven market leader and this new role provides me with the opportunity to develop my key account management skills whilst also offering these industry sectors access to some of the highest quality products currently available. One area where I think there is real scope for development is with the signage industry – we are surrounded by signs all day everyday and they all require safe and secure fixing.”

Neil will be working alongside Ian Little, business manager for Kommerling’s automotive, construction and industrial division, who commented: “As we start to introduce some of the new Royal¹ products, Neil’s knowledge of the market and in particular specialist tapes will be a real benefit. As a company we are always keen to develop the relationships we have with our customers so that we are seen as more than just a supplier of products, but an organisation that will work with them to overcome the inevitable challenges that arise as technologies and requirements continue to change.”

¹ Kommerling’s former parent company ADCO Global Inc was acquired by Royal Adhesives and Sealants LLC in August 2013. This gives the company access to an enhanced range of sealants and tapes, as well as other complementary products and technologies.

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by Phil Matten, executive editor, Fastener + Fixing Magazine

Phil Matten reflects on some of the key topics currently involving the fastener industry I’m finding it hard to get a feel for 2015. Every month I trawl through the Manufacturing Purchasing Manager Indices from around the world.

December’s reports all make rather subdued reading. To twist a T.S. Eliot line, 2014 seems to have ended with rather less of a bang and more of a whimper.

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orth American manufacturing is evidently still growing strongly but there are clear signs of slowing, although Mexico is still surging.

Eurozone readings are, at best, showing patchy growth, with France and Italy displaying accelerated contraction. Significantly reliant on its EU trading partners, UK manufacturing growth slowed at the year-end. Chinese manufacturing stagnated; India looks to be performing much better; other Asian economies including Indonesia and South Korea reported output contraction. Growth in Turkey stagnated, Brazil contracted and Russia continues to suffer from isolation and the fall in oil prices.

What does it bode for 2015? Lower oil prices, I guess, offer a potential driver for consumer spending but the toxic mix of potential deflation and stagnation must weigh heavily on government economists, with few effective stimulus tools in their armoury. China’s gross over-capacity continues to depress world steel markets, although cold heading wire, as usual, is not directly following the headline trend.

In the round, it’s not bad, but it’s not exactly good either so I don’t envy those trying to forecast fastener business.

One reason, amongst several, that I am looking forward to Fastener Fair Stuttgart in March – a unique opportunity to catch up with a huge cross section of the global fastener industry – is to gauge 2014 performance and, after a couple of months’ trading, 2015 prospects. For three

of us at the magazine, ‘Stuttgart’ 2015 has a personal significance in marking ten years since a UK entrepreneur, supported by a small team, convinced a couple of hundred brave ‘early adopters’ to back the concept of a dedicated fastener event in Germany. Five Stuttgart shows later and I shall not be alone in reflecting how it has become the world-leading industry event, nurtured by the professionalism of Mack Brooks in the last four years.

For Jerry Ramsdale, the entrepreneur in question, it is actually a double anniversary – the twentieth year since just 27 truly courageous exhibitors huddled together at Castle Donington for the first ever Fastener Fair. Ironically, as the UK fastener industry turned up en masse to eye this curiosity, the visitor to exhibitor ratio has probably never been bettered!

A final mention of something close to my heart: Fastener Technology Innovator. Innovation is the lifeblood of any industry but never easy in fasteners, so this magazine’s continued sponsorship of this competition between Stuttgart exhibitors is an important recognition of the energy and funds that many companies pour into the development of a still widely under-valued range of technologies. Please take a special look at every stand displaying the Fastener Technology Innovator logo. I’ll be there to help judge the entries, and as in previous years, look forward to encountering you in the aisles.

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by John Wolz, editor, GlobalFastenerNews.com

NFDA: What shapes your supply chain?

Jay Queenin of Specialty Bolt & Screw Inc started a National Fastener Distributors Association discussion on supply chains by noting that “getting customer data can be difficult”.

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nformation is important to suppliers and distributors too, Bruce Wheeler of Star Stainless added during the NFDA autumn conference in Naples, FL. “I know some can’t forecast a customer,” Wheeler acknowledged. “But any information you can share can help.”

Several participating distributors and manufacturers reported they have found some ways around a lack of information from customers. Ed McIlhon said Assembled Products Inc has an 18 month forecast system and is working with its IT department to interpret the numbers for ‘Purchase Order Adjustments’.

“They are getting to the point of knowing what major customer John Deere will need before they send it to us,” McIlhon said.

The information Assembled Products compiles is “great information, but we still must massage it,” McIlhon acknowledged. There also are circumstances beyond the control of everyone in the supply chain from manufacturers to customers, McIlhon added. For example, when corn prices fall, John Deere orders also drop.

Queenin said SBS uploads ordering information every night.

“That can help,” he said. But one problem supplier or customer can create a “weak link in the chain,” Queenin observed.

“You’ve got a problem.”

Dave Monti of Fall River Mfg pointed out it is important for distributors to understand that lead time involves every stage back to raw materials and tooling. Sufficient lead time “allows manufacturers an ability to react.” A conversation with one

distributor about those steps in production back to the raw material stage, “helped reduce lead time from ten weeks to four weeks,” Monti found. “That’s a 60% improvement,” he calculated.

The alternative is “crisis mode” ordering, Monti said.

The supply chain working as much together as possible is vital, Wheeler said. “The last thing we want to do is lose a sale.

The last thing you want to do is not supply a customer.” Part of developing a strong supply chain is education. “Knowledgeable buyers instead of clerks. Buyers need to understand supply chain lead times.”

Queenin added that the purchasing department must understand the supply chain. “We can work with them and for them.” Monti suggests not letting “a lack of data turn into a lack of planning.” Use what you have “to best of your ability”.

Gary Huck of Würth Industry Group finds that “looking in the rearview mirror” can help. Take a look back at seasonality and “how models phase in and out,” Huck recommended.

Queenin said it isn’t just sales people and the purchasing staff that must understand lead times. The CFOs may need to be “directly involved in the supply chain”. They are making decisions on terms, credit worthiness, liability, obsolescence and cash flow, Queenin explained.

“Communication is the key,” Wheeler said. “Let intentions and needs be known”.

“Communication both ways,” Queenin added.

Oberton leaving Fastenal; Hein new CEO Will Oberton announced his resignation as CEO of Fastenal Company effective the end of 2014 and the company’s board of directors promoted President Leland Hein to CEO.

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ein, 53, started with Fastenal in 1985 and held various sales and managerial roles, including as a general and district manager, regional vice president, and executive vice president for sales. He was named president in 2012.

Earlier this year Fastenal co-founders Bob Kierlin and Steve Slaggie retired. Since they founded Fastenal in 1967 the corporation has grown from a 1,000 square foot store in Winona, Minnesota, to more than 2,700 stores in 20 countries with 18,000 employees.

Oberton was recently named as one of the 100 best performing CEOs in the world by Harvard Business Review.

He ranked lowest for CEO compensation, with a base salary of US$794,761 – the only executive on the list with base pay below US$1 million.

Fastenal operates approximately 2,700 stores primarily in North America, plus in Asia, Europe, Central and South America and Africa. Fastenal has 11 US distribution centers.

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STAFDA: North American economy improves This past year has been exciting as the economy continues to expand, Edge Construction Supply CEO Eric Grabowski told attendees of the Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association convention in Charlotte, NC.

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n his Distribution State of the Industry address, Grabowski said: “Over the last year, we’ve seen a stronger overall economy, increased construction spending, a decent return of the residential market, and lower unemployment. While government construction spending has slowed, it continues to hold its own, fueled partially by increases in state and municipal projects.”

Grabowski noted that in August President Barack Obama signed a stop-gap highway bill to extend bridge and road funding until next summer. “While home building remains lower than expected, there is growth in residential construction, especially in multi-family homes and condos.” In addition, construction starts in the commercial, industrial, institutional, and engineering sectors are expected to exceed pre-recession levels in 2015.

Now that the economy is growing, distributors must consider how to add inventory, deal with price increases, decide how much money to borrow, determine how to ‘strategically’ add staff, and figure out what technologies to invest in. “These are all good problems to have,” he emphasized.

Grabowski noted the impact price increases have on the supply chain. “Manufacturers justify their higher prices by citing the skyrocketing costs of raw materials and other expenses,” Grabowski explained. “End customers are deciding if they want to accept increases or if they’d rather find different sources and brands.”

Distributors are caught in the middle, bargaining with manufacturers and negotiating with customers. Eventually, product availability becomes a factor in making purchasing decision. “This whole dynamic puts a strain on the relationships

between the distributors and the manufacturers,” Grabowski noted. “This strain is passed on to the end customer who ultimately decides what price and lead time they will accept.”

Technology is putting new pressure on pricing, Grabowski explained. “I hear from my peers across the country about customers coming into their showrooms, scanning a barcode with their smartphone, and searching the web for the ‘best price’ on that exact product.” But Grabowski insisted that success in a tech-driven marketplace has less to do with how well you understand technology than how you apply it to your business.

“While I challenge everyone here to implement more technology, I also caution that it should only be done if your company or customers can realize a direct benefit.”

Another pressing issue for distributors is e-commerce.

Reasons for entering e-commerce vary. Some companies are trying to stave off competition, while others only want to provide access for their best customers. The rise of technology and e-commerce has made same day delivery increasing important.

Services to meet this demand include Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), ‘keep-fills’, and vending machines. While VMI and ‘keep-fills’ have been around for a while, vending machines are a new “source of frustration” for distributors.

“It appears many of these machines produce minimal profits, especially considering the high cost of the asset and physical limitations. No (STAFDA distributor) likes them much, but some are forced into them.”

Fastener suppliers face greater conflict minerals scrutiny By now most US business owners have heard of the federal Conflict Minerals Regulations. The US law requires companies to publicly disclose their use of conflict minerals that originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or an adjoining country.

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ined in areas of armed conflict and human rights abuses – especially in Africa’s eastern Congo provinces – conflict minerals are tin (cassiterite), tungsten (wolframite) and tantalum (coltan) – dubbed the 3Ts or the 3TGs including gold.

Primarily the law affects publicly traded US companies. But starting in 2015, the law will place more emphasis on suppliers to those public companies, according to Lawrence Heim, consultant with the Elm Consulting Group International.

In a Pacific-West Fastener Association session at the National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo in Las Vegas, Heim told attendees that the SEC regulations involve a confluence of human rights, natural resources and business practices.

“This is the first time anything like this has been turned into law,” he stated. But the SEC has issued “very little guidance” on compliance for the “disclosure-based” law, which has led to uncertainty. “Your customers are struggling with this ambiguity,” Heim told his audience.

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Mexico’s Auge expands Auge Industrial has appointed Steve Cabral as vice president of sales and Richard Cowen as director of business development, CEO Jorge Goudet told GlobalFastenerNews.com

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abral’s 44 year fastener career includes 38 in sales and marketing roles for LoneStar Group. Cowen has 28 years in fastener and gasket manufacturing and distribution.

Cowen co-founded the Sealing Technologies division of LoneStar Group.

Founded in 1965 in Mexico, Auge Industrial supplies high-pressure/high temperature fasteners, gaskets, precision machined components and coatings for the oil and gas, petrochemical, construction and wind power industries and OEMs. It currently exports to 20 countries. Auge’s 150,000 square foot plant near Mexico City handles all processes from raw material stocking to heat treatment, platings and coatings.

Auge also has offices in Texas, Singapore, Malaysia and China.

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

GAZ Group and Bulten start automotive fastener production GAZ Group, part of the Russian Machines Holding Group combining the machine building assets of the Basic Element Group, and Swedish fastener producer Bulten have announced the opening of a new joint venture – Bulten-Rus – at the facilities of the Gorkovsky Automobile Plant.

The new operation is the first Bulten production site in Russia.

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ccording to the cooperation agreement signed in 2012 between GAZ Group and Bulten Company, Bulten-Rus is to develop and produce fasteners and components for the automotive industries of Russia and CIS countries.

The company’s products will be supplied to foreign vehicle producers with Russia located production sites.

To realise the project GAZ has provided its production competencies and infrastructure. Bulten, which is a major supplier of fasteners and components to the global automotive industry and wishes to expand its business in Russia, is responsible for development of the products, implementation of new technologies and distribution. The total initial investments from GAZ and Bulten into the new production operation amounted to 12 million euros.

As part of the joint venture agreement, 12,500m2 of production area has been renewed and new Italian, Japanese and Chinese equipment supporting all stages of fastener production (cold heading, thread rolling and heat treatment) have been installed at the GAZ production site. The annual capacity of Bulten-Rus is 6,000 – 8,000 tonnes depending on the assortment, with initial output expected to be around 4,000 tonnes.

Vadim Sorokin, president of GAZ Group, said: “The foundation of a new high-tech joint venture with Bulten Company is an important step in the realisation of the Russian motorcar industry strategy regarding localisation of production of automotive components

and substitution of imports. Bulten-Rus progresses our projects to organise modern, world standard production of auto components around GAZ. The output of the joint venture will be used in the production of a new family of commercial motor cars – NEXT – under the GAZ brand name, as well as supplying other motor car producers in Russia.”

Tommy Andersson, president and executive director of Bulten Company, said: “Bulten is a company with vast experience in fastener production, founded in 1873. Bulten’s capacities in the production of high-quality fasteners made the company a leading supplier to motor vehicle assembly. Bulten has production facilities in Sweden, Germany, Poland and China. Bulten-Rus will become the fifth production site of the company and will make it possible to offer high-quality fasteners on the CIS markets. Bulten and GAZ organised a modern joint venture with a high-level of economic efficiency and I think we will be successful in Russia.”

The governor of Nizhegorodsky Region, Valery Shantzev, commented: “The opening of a joint venture at a Gorkovsky Plant will make it possible to create 130 additional work places with good labour conditions. It is expected that next year the joint venture will give almost 35 million rubles of tax revenue to the regional budget – and there are additional possibilities for the development of the social sphere of the region.”

Medvedev says UAC should match Boeing and Airbus The prime minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, met with ministers and top managers of the USC (the United Shipbuilding Corporation) and the UAC (the United Aircraft Corporation), which included discussions about long-term programmes of development for these corporations with state participation.

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r Medvedev commented: “Both corporations, aircraft and shipbuilding, were founded in order to unite the engineering and production potential of these industries and, of course, to preserve, where possible, the personnel backbone of these enterprises. The other objectives are to renovate plants and to raise the competitiveness of the produce itself.”

He added: “Today, through the state defense orders, considerable investments are being made for the production of military equipment.

For this we need economic stability of strategic branches, which is why the backlog of orders should possibly be diversified. It is necessary to develop and increase the range of the civil produce.”

The prime minister specified priority tasks for each corporation.

“By 2030 we plan to increase the labour capacity in shipbuilding more than twofold. Besides, it is necessary to raise the share of export in the line of military and technical cooperation from

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10% to 25%, while the share of civil produce should be increased up to 22%,” said Mr Medvedev.

As for the UAC, the priority of this corporation, according to the prime minister of the Russian Federation, is the creation of the third world centre of aircraft construction by 2025, with the volume of aircraft production matching that of Boeing and Airbus for both military and civil segments. “To reach this goal we plan a number of measures including a 7.5-fold increase of labour capacity comparing to the level of 2012,” explained Mr Medvedev.

“The other capital aim is growth of production of competitive civil aircraft, which means their share in the overall production must be increased from 30% to 50%.” The head of the Government of the Russian Federation called on the aircraft producers to “work actively for the domestic market and to master international markets, including those of southeast Asia”.

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‘Fasteners. Quality and Responsibility’ conference attracts leading Russian specialists The Conference ‘Fasteners. Quality and Responsibility’ took place in the PetroCongress Center in St. Petersburg on 27th – 28th November 2014.

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pening speaker was the general director of Prommetiz Association, Boris Mikhaylovich Yarantzev, who talked about the development of fastener production in Russia. Other speakers included senior managers from BelZAN and Severstal-Metiz, and from leading foreign specialist suppliers of equipment for hardware productions – including WSD GmbH and Profiroll Technologies GmbH amongst others.

There were reports from the Russian leading specialists on ‘A new method of improving the tenacity of metal in high-tensile fasteners’ (Igor V. Gorynin, doctor of engineering science, FSUE Central Research Institute of Structural Materials ‘Prometey’); ‘Main causes of discrepancy of strength class 10.9 and 12.9 high-tensile bolts with the requirements of GOST Р 52643-2006’ (Vitaly M. Goritzky, doctor of engineering science, Central Science and Research and Design Institute of Metal Constructions by Melnikov); as well as Alexey Ishmuratov, an expert from the Duerer Company, considering problems, solutions and prospects in the field of coating of threaded parts.

The main theme for the second conference day was the

development of standardisation of fasteners. This topic was covered by the Head of TK 229 ‘Fixing products’ A. V. Gromak; the general director of ‘SPC of Bridges’ V. S. Ageev; and the deputy director of the Central Construction Bureau of Fittings Construction and executive secretary of TK 259, S.N. Dunaevsky.

Another important issue discussed was the connection between the qualification of specialists and the quality of produce. Anton Zaytsev, the head of the representative office of SACMA Group, analysed this problem in detail.

In the final part of the event the Chairman of TK 229 ‘Fixing products’, A. V. Gromak, answered questions from members of the conference. The general director of the representative office of WSD GmbH, Ole Dentzyn, commented on the development of business in the industry due to the current economic situation.

All speakers noted the richness of the information at the conference and suggested organising it in sections next time.

The main content of the conference will be published in the next issue of the magazine “Fasteners, Adhesives, Tools and ...”, which will be distributed at Fastener Fair Russia 2015.

Chinese auto plant will open in Lipetsk in 2017 The Ministry of the Economic Development of the Russian Federation approved the proposal of the Chinese automotive manufacturer Lifan to create an assembly plant in Lipetskaya Region.

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he plant will be launched in July – August 2017. By the end of 2015 the company plans to complete all the project surveying. The payback period of the project will be seven years. By 2023 Lifan plans to increase the share of cars sold in Russia from 1.04% to 1.9% of the market.

Lifan intends producing a wide range of models including 650, 730 and 820 Sedan models and X40, X50, X55, X60, X70 and X80 offroader models. The company intends investing up to US$300 million in the creation of the production site.

Presently Lifan cooperates with Russian automotive company Derways in car assembly. In 2007 production of motorcars under the Chinese brand started in Cherkessk, including Breez, Solano, Smily and X60 models.

Opening of high-tensile fastener plant near Ryazan postponed The opening of the plant of high-tensile fasteners in Rybnovsky District of Ryazan Region was rescheduled for May of 2015.

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istrict governor, Oleg Kovalyev, made the announcement at a press conference on 13th November 2014.

According to him, the reschedule is connected with the delivery of manufacturing equipment. In June, Vitaly Larin, the head of the Ryazan Ministry of Economic Development, announced that the production would start in August 2014, later he said the opening date would be January 2015.

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CSC holds New Year CHQ wire prices On 18th November Taiwan’s China Steel Corporation announced it would cut its domestic prices for January and February shipments by an average across grades of 1.71%. However, cold heading wire prices were unchanged.

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SC said slowing growth of the global economy was leading to a decrease of steel demand in Quarter 4, the traditional demand season, and the spot price drop of iron ore and coking coal was also dragging steel prices down further. It said Taiwan’s domestic downstream customers were facing weak prices and a slack market.

To enhance export competitiveness, promote order placing, and eliminate the hesitant attitude among customers, CSC decided to decrease domestic steel prices by an average of 1.71% or TW$352 (9.18 euros) per metric tonne. However, cold heading and low alloy wire rod prices would remain unchanged for January and February 2015 shipments.

Feng Yi demonstrates Taiwanese R&D capability Feng Yi started its business as a trader for coils and wires, reports Fastener World Magazine.

In 2006, General Manager Kern Hsiung Huang, noticing the potential of titanium fasteners, began to pay attention to the R&D of titanium fasteners.

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owadays, its monthly output of titanium fasteners has reached 5,000 tonnes, making it one of the few Taiwanese manufacturers that is able to develop and manufacture titanium fasteners.

Mr Huang explains that the manufacturing cost of titanium fasteners is high and requires the introduction of high-end technology, and therefore, few companies have stepped into this market sector thus far. However, as titanium screws are usually considered “corrosion resistant, with high strength, and lightweight,” they have wide applications in military, automotive, medical, chemicals, energy, and marine industries. Due to the scarcity and high competitive edge of titanium fasteners in the market, Feng Yi is gradually increasing its export of titanium fasteners year-on-year and is also looking for European/US partners or distributors. It wishes to bring the world’s attention to the R&D capability of the Taiwanese fastener industry.

Chinese 2014 steel exports already 42% higher YoY Having reached 73 million tonnes by the end of October, 42.2% higher than same the period 2013, China’s exports of steel products are forecast to exceed 80 million tonnes by the end of 2014.

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he China Metallurgical Industry Planning & Research Industry forecasts domestic steel demand growth for 2015 at little more than 1% – with expectations 2014 growth will be around 2.5%. 2014 steel output, on the other hand, is expected to have grown by more than 5% year-on-year to around an official 820 million metric tonnes and is forecast to outstrip domestic requirements again in 2015. China’s installed capacity for steel production is still reckoned to be in the order of 1.1 billion metric tonnes.

Analysts have consistently argued that China underestimates its steel output and a recent revision of 2013 data by the World Steel Association suggests China probably produced more than 820mmt that year. 2014 figures will probably also end up being uprated.

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Sumeeko wins approval for new plant Fastener World reports that Sumeeko Industrial Co Ltd has received approval from the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs for support in establishing a plant in the Pingtung Export Processing Zone (on Highway 189 between Kaohsiung and Pingtung).

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umeeko is investing TW$0.6 billion (approximately 15.5 million euros) in the plant to produce fasteners and semi-finished automotive components. The Ministry approved total support of TW$1.9 million for five companies, including Sumeeko, aimed at creating 255 jobs.

San Shing Q3 profits weakened by exchange rate San Shing Fastech Corp told the Taiwan stock exchange its gross profit level for Quarter 3 was 22.64%, down from 24.31% in Quarter 2.

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an Shing identified the adverse effect of the Euro exchange rate as the main cause.

Analysts expect Q4 performance to improve.

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

Fastener Fair Brasil a success Fastener Fair Brasil 2014 closed the Brazilian trade show season with success and announced the fourth edition in 2016.

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n Brazil the trade show season, along with the intensive activities in the country’s industries, practically stop during the last month of year. Industry restarts properly one or two weeks into January but the business fairs restart in March after the Carnival. The third edition of Fastener Fair Brasil was, therefore, the last event in 2014.

Fastener Fair Brasil was held on 11th – 13th November, with the event lasting three days – Brazilian exhibitors and visitors are used to fairs with at least three days or more, differing from many countries that are used to only two day long events. In this edition there were more than 1,500 visitors and more than 80 companies exhibiting.

Fastener Fair Brasil is a symposium that combines business and technology and is a novelty in that it is a unique event relating to the fasteners market not only in Brazil but also in all South America.

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The show has been the best opportunity to find specific people from this market, as one visitor told us. Mr Edison Boetcher, commercial director of Fey, one of the most important Brazilian fasteners companies, declared: “Yes, it was interesting. I attended because I met with many people from our market, in just one day.”

Another visitor surprised by the volume of attendees was Mr José Rosa, CEO of Metalúrgica SAM, an important manufacturer of nuts from São Bernardo do Campo city, SP state. “I had an unexpected meeting in this fair with a customer company, far from our headquarters, which we had tried a lot of times to contact to make business, without success.”

From the exhibitors’ point of view, Mr J. Graef, CEO of SouthWind, the leading company in Brazil and South America for the supply of machines and tools for fasteners manufacture by cold and hot forming, commented: “The participation of local companies here is really important. We could have even more exhibitors and visitors, because it is a unique event in the continent for selling and/or buying essential materials for industrial production of bolts, screws, nuts, washers and others.”

SouthWind works in partnership with Weighpack, the Dutch manufacturer of automatic packaging machines for fasteners, the CEO of which, Mr Andries Kout, was also present at the fair.

David Tellett, managing director of Mack Brooks Exhibitions, announced that Fastener Fair Brasil would happen again in 2016, in the same month and at the same place.

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Retrospective 2014: Perspective 2015 In the latest issue of Revista do Parafusos, José Gianesi Sobrinho, president of the Fastener Industry Syndicate (SINPA) reflects on 2014 and looks forward to conditions for the industry in 2015.

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ecidedly 2014 is a year to be forgotten by the Brazilian industrial sector and consequently for our fastener manufacturing sector. We cannot get carried away by excuses that this year is typical because we have had at least three events that negatively influenced the production: Carnival, FIFA World Cup and elections. Our reading is that despite these events, other factors were much more significant to the poor performance of our industry, such as: • Unfavourable macroeconomic parameters.

• Inadequate and inefficient logistics resulting from lack of planning and government investment, which caused considerable rise in production costs.

• Towering interest rate levels impeding investments essential to modernise the means of production.

• High inflation, outside the forecast parameters, causing increased costs, which it was not possible to pass on in selling prices.

• Overvaluation of the Real, causing exchange rates that prevented exports and boosted imports.

• Labour rate increases above inflation without reciprocity in increased productivity.

• Disappointing GDP growth compared to other developing countries. Stronger growth is essential to provide continuous investments in modernisation and thereby ensure the much desired sustainable development.

As a result, we experienced a 2014 that was perversely backward in economic terms, in which our greatest asset – the potential of our internal market – was being replaced by imported products and causing delay in our competitiveness with other better organised countries.

On the other hand, we cannot lose heart in the arduous task of rescuing our competitiveness and achieving a return to the prospect of sustainable growth. In this sense we must view 2015 with optimism, as some new facts should contribute to this, such as: • The formation of the new government led by President Dilma Rousseff, who was re-elected on 26th October. From what was revealed in the course of the campaign, we could learn that the president is fully aware of the serious problems that plague our industry and restricts the growth of the economy – requiring urgent measures to be implemented to facilitate the regaining of confidence in the recovery strength of the economy.

• Through the essential corrections by the administration, with long awaited reforms to fight corruption and investment in high priorities (safety, health, education, etc), the confidence should return to reenergise the entrepreneurial drive of our investors and employees.

We know that this process is not instantaneous. It takes some time to show signs of recovery and may even consume most of next year. However, it should provide the foundation for a 2016, in which there will already have been a resumption of the sustainable process for growth of our industrial park and therefore the country as a whole – which is undoubtedly the vocation and the desire of our people.

BMW of Brazil recalls Minis to replace nuts Owners of Mini Cooper models manufactured between December 2013 and September 2014 were advised to take their cars to dealers for the replacement of a nut securing the emergency wheel compartment plate, according to an announcement by BMW of Brasil in December 2014.

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rust is one of those words we often use quite casually without really reflecting on all its facets. This magazine has regularly visited Plettenberg and on each occasion seen the entire Pühl Stanztechnik operation without reservation – a clear indication of the complete confidence its directors have in how this 118 year old business conducts itself today, and will conduct itself in future. Our latest visit to the Sauerland was early in December, and the welcome extended by joint managing director, Christoph Schulte, and his area manager, Sebastian Pieper, was as warm and open as ever.

Pühl product quality is unimpeachable – something that definitely does not happen by chance. Over the last eight years this magazine has witnessed continuous, substantial investment in production equipment, logistics and internal infrastructure to ensure the company is competitive and has all the capabilities to meet – one could reasonably argue, exceed – its customers’ needs.

A major building programme in 2011 provided the space not just for more production capacity but also for continued improvements in efficiency. Most recently the company invested in state of the art production machinery – both eccentric and hydraulic presses. Currently Pühl operates 25 pressing machines, most modern, highly automated and efficient.

Eccentric press capacity ranges from 1,000kN to 4,000kN; hydraulic presses range from 3,200kN to 10,000kN, most of them are operated via a fully integrated 100% infrared control system.

Pühl’s direct control over quality begins in its tooling department.

All tooling is designed, manufactured and maintained in-house on some of the most advanced equipment one will see in this industry.

The tooling inventory is huge – more than 1,500 assemblies now stored using an innovative system to ensure safe storage and handling of these heavy pieces of precision engineering. In this area of the plant Pühl also has a processing centre for engraving parts – whether for the hardness and company identification on washers for structural bolting assemblies or for specific customer part numbering or identification requirements for automotive parts.

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Definition: ‘Confidence in and reliance on the ability, character, strength and truthfulness of someone or something’.

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Pühl has long relationships with its material suppliers, built firmly on trust and experience, but nevertheless underpinned by systematic inspection – now in a newly installed quality testing room. An advanced new spectrometer ensures correct chemical composition of materials. Hardness testing of washers is, of course, essential and Pühl is thoroughly equipped for it. A new microscope and associated preparation equipment is dedicated to ensuring correct metallurgical structure and Pühl ensures consistency and accuracy of washer coating with its own X-ray fluorescence measuring instrument. Pühl also has high-speed optical inspection systems to provide 100% control, where required, to 50ppm.

As well as being able to provide all the necessary certificates (2.1/2.2/3.1/VDA6/PPAP, etc) Pühl now also holds a full CE certificate of conformity.

Is it all necessary, dare one say, for a washer? Christoph Schulte smiles, acknowledging how often the significance of the apparently simplest of fastener is underestimated. Some of Pühl’s fastener manufacturer customers do now require washer quality assurance through systematic inspection but, here as in many other areas, Pühl is investing as much in anticipation of future customer needs as in response to current ones.

That thought is fundamental to the consideration of what ‘trust’ is really about in relation to this company. Pühl’s ‘Made in Germany’ product is inherently trustworthy. What distinguishes the company is how, throughout all it does, Pühl shoulders the responsibility – it would say obligation – of being trusted.

There is an absolute and inseparable alignment between that obligation and the company’s future prosperity and success.

That is far from unique amongst German ‘Mittelstand’ companies, of which Pühl is characteristic: More than a century in business, still in family ownership, employing 165 people, and in five years growing by more than 50% to a current turnover well in excess of 60 million euros.

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That said, amongst even the culture of the ‘Mittelstand’, Pühl demonstrates a remarkable and tenacious commitment to that alignment.

Anticipation rather than reaction is an important key. Christoph Schulte puts it succinctly: “If you do not do your homework now and prepare for the future, then when that future comes you will find you are losing out”.

That is self evident in the production and quality areas, as it is also in the logistical aspects of the business. Pühl has a 5,000 pallet space high-bay warehouse. On a site which has now expanded to its available limits optimising space utilisation is crucial so washers are now stored on sliding racking systems. 80% of Pühl’s output is packed into polybags using automated systems, with the capability to print bespoke part numbering or information. The company sees this as by far the most efficient and cost-effective packaging method, invaluable in protecting the integrity of the washers from the elements on-site. That said, Pühl has now invested in an automatic box packing line to meet some distributors’ preference for small packs for shelf storage and resale.

The next investment phase dedicated to further improving efficiency will be the integration of Pühl’s commercial and production software into a single, highly flexible system. Production and inventory traceability will increase accuracy and eliminate potential errors. “The system is planned to go live during 2015 and will provide us with far more flexibility,” explains Christoph Schulte.

Pühl has invested and continues to invest in another alignment, between responsibility to the environment and its own cost controls, with certification to the ISO 50001 standard a key goal. The new buildings take fullest advantage of natural light and an exchanger converts heat output from production to heat the offices and other areas of the factory. Now Pühl has begun to critically analyse the peak power load of its machines, generally at start up, with the objective of smoothing electrical demand to avoid peak surcharges.

Where does Pühl’s 25,000 tonne annual output of washers go these days?

Pühl’s washers are used in diverse and often critical markets: Amongst which are wind energy, rail tracks, the agricultural sector, steel construction, automotive and traffic engineering.

Its core competence remains in producing flat washers DIN, EN, ISO and ASTM – and a number of national standards.

This range has now been supplemented with DIN 6796 spring and DIN 6319 spherical washers. Around a third of output is in a variety of customised pressed parts.

For close to a decade Pühl has been a mainstream supplier of critical quality washers to fastener manufacturers for inclusion in structural bolting assemblies. More recently it has developed the supply of captive washers for SEMS fasteners – an area expected to accelerate as Pühl is specified into new projects. A distinctive

competence here is Pühl’s ability to supply washers with material characteristics compatible with high-tensile fasteners. This permits simultaneous heat treatment of washer and screw as an assembly – delivering significant savings through reduced tool wear and the elimination of a separate heat treatment process. It’s one, particularly impressive, example of how Pühl is now engaging far more closely with its customers to provide technical support.

Self-evidently Pühl is far from complacent and its commitment to investment has played a major role in being able to supply both consistent quality and service to its customers. Interestingly,

in some quarters at least, Pühl has achieved clear recognition of the value of supplying a ‘Made in Germany’ washer, with customers that previously treated the company as their main European supplier now adopting it as their main washer supplier. Pühl sets an internal minimum hardness standard for several flat washers at HV200, significantly exceeding the actual requirements in many markets and certainly way above the levels typically encountered in a commercial Far East washer.

This combined with Pühl’s dimensional consistency has been effectively marketed by some distributors and, curiously, even where not actively promoted has won recognition from users that have clearly discerned the quality advantages.

Trustworthiness, then, is a many faceted quality. Product quality is critical but – certainly for Pühl – it is really the tangible manifestation of an array of deeply ingrained values – commitment to customer service and value, management integrity, financial stability and business foresight. Above all, a commitment to prepare for the future and whatever an ever changing business environment presents. www.puehl.de

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EVENTS CALENDAR

Fastener Fair Stuttgart Where: Stuttgart, Germany When: 10 Mar – 12 Mar 2015 Web: www.fastenerfair.com What: The fastener event for Europe.

Totally DIY:Totally Tools

InterStroyExpo

Where: Coventry, UK When: 15 Feb – 17 Feb 2015 Web: www.totallydiy.co.uk What: DIY, hardware, tools and security products.

Where: St. Petersburg, Russia When: 18 Mar – 21 Mar 2015 Web: www.interstroyexpo.primexpo.ru What: International construction exhibition.

ACMA Automechanika New Delhi Where: New Delhi, India When: 26 Feb – 1 Mar 2015 Web: www.acma-automechanika.in What: Trade for the automotive industry.

Asia-Pacific Sourcing Where: Cologne, Germany When: 3 Mar – 5 Mar 2015 Web: www.asia-pacificsourcing.de What: A platform for asian companies in import and export.

Intertool Kiev Where: Kiev, Ukraine When: 3 Mar – 5 Mar 2015 Web: www.intertool.kiev.ua What: International exhibition for hardware, tools + DIY.

BUDMA 2015

BLECH Russia Where: St. Petersburg, Russia When: 25 Mar – 27 Mar 2015 Web: www.blechrussia.com What: Sheet metal working.

Fastener Fair Russia Where: St. Petersburg, Russia When: 25 Mar – 27 Mar 2015 Web: www.fastenerfair.com/russia What: The fastener event for Russia.

St. Petersburg Technical Fair Where: St. Petersburg, Russia When: 25 Mar – 27 Mar 2015 Web: www.ptfair.ru What: Metallurgy, welding, metalworking, tools and

instruments, materials and machinery exhibition.

Construct Expo

Where: Poznań, Poland When: 10 Mar – 13 Mar 2015 Web: www.budma.pl What: Building technology, equipment and materials.

Where: Bucharest, Romania When: 26 Mar – 29 Mar 2015 Web: www.constructexpo.ro What: Construction equipment and tools, construction

materials and interior and exterior design.

FEICON BATIMAT

MosBuild

Where: São Paulo, Brazil When: 10 Mar – 14 Mar 2015 Web: www.feicon.com.br What: Construction industry fair.

Where: Moscow, Russia When: 31 Mar – 3 Apr + 14 Apr – 17 Apr 2015 Web: www.mosbuild.com What: Construction technology, materials and equipment.

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EXHIBITIONS

Istanbul hosts second successful Fastener Fair Turkey Exhibitors and visitors reported a fruitful second edition of Fastener Fair Turkey, held once again at the IFM – Istanbul Expo Centre from the 20th – 21st November 2014, with a total of 1,700 managers, engineers and buyers visiting the show.

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he mix of visitors reflected the diversity of markets served by the fastener and fixing industry. Organisers – Mack Brooks Fuarcılık AŞ – reported that half of visitors were either wholesalers (25%) or distributors (25%). Around 21% were end-users, with fastener and fixing manufacturers accounting for the remaining 29% of those attending. 25% of the visitors were from outside turkey – representing 47 countries.

The industry sectors most strongly represented were automotive, construction, mechanical engineering, electrical products/domestic appliances, civil engineering, agricultural/off highway machinery, and furniture manufacturing.

Davut Dolgun, customer relations manager at Berdan Civata, commented: “We had a very successful show. It was our second time at Fastener Fair Turkey and this year’s show was definitely better than the previous edition. We were able to meet with a lot of new potential customers and had visitors from across Europe, as well as neighbouring countries to Turkey.”

Tobias Grobe, from first time exhibitor HEICO Befestigungstechnik GmbH, also reported a successful show.

“It was the first time we exhibited at Fastener Fair Turkey and we received lots of Turkish and international customers to our stand – who were able to review our product range and efficiency.

New product lines at the show included the HEICO-LOCK® Ring Lock Washers and the HEICO-LOCK® Wedge Lock Nut.” Lee Procter, marketing manager at Lancaster Fastener Co Ltd, was happy with the quality of the visitors to the show, but disappointed with the number of visitors.“Overall the quality of visitors was good and 60% of recorded visitors were from companies that are ‘new’ to Lancaster. During the show we welcomed visitors from 15 countries over the two day period mainly from Eastern Europe but also from as far afield as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran. 60% of visitors were as expected from Turkey.”

“The major disappointment was the volume of traffic not only to our stand but throughout the exhibition. The second day was particularly quiet and up to a point, deserted in the afternoon.

However, having followed up on a number of meetings over the last few days, we have generated numerous enquiries

The organisers also pointed out that visitor quality was noteworthy, with managing directors or board members accounting for 29% of those attending. Department heads and senior managers totalled 15% of attendees, while a further 15% were engineers and technicians.

130 exhibitors took part in Fastener Fair Turkey, filling the venue’s Hall 11. Among foreign nations strongly represented were Germany, Italy, France, Spain, China and Taiwan, while companies from Croatia, Denmark, India, Norway, the UK and the USA also took part. While 45% of exhibitors were foreign companies representing 12 countries, participation by Turkish firms increased compared to the 2013 show. The Turkish stands dominated the front of the hall, with several large, high presentational stands underlining the capabilities of Turkish manufacturers.

One of the most impressive stands was Berdan Civata – a manufacturer of bolts, nuts, anchor bolts and studbolts.

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and have ‘spread the word’ to a number of fastener distributors that we were unaware of prior to the exhibition.”

He added: “In summary, geographically we were happy with the diversity of visitors to the exhibition and have perhaps met potential customers that would not make the trip to Stuttgart.

It’s just a shame that there weren’t more of them.”

HEROSLAM SAL – a manufacturer of thread rolling tools – presented its latest products at the show as it looked to increase and consolidate its business in Turkey. The company presented innovations such as the GG coating, made in-house, which significantly improves threading quality and tool service life for the most demanding threading applications, as well as the recently obtained TRILOBULAR® line of licensed tools.

For its second successful participation at Fastener Fair Turkey, RIVELIT, belonging to Titanox, took the opportunity to show its full range of blind fasteners including speed rivets, speed installation tools, blind rivets, structural high strength

rivets, bolting systems and blind threaded nuts.

“Alongside many Turkish visitors, our visitors came from all over the world. They were attracted by our broad range of riveting fasteners and our speed installation technology. Speed technology is a unique automated feeding system aimed to reduce setting time, operator fatigue and to increase productivity with an initial low cost investment,” commented Anaït Kuntz, communication manager at Titanox.

Commenting on the success of the event, Olivia Griscelli, exhibition director at organisers Mack Brooks Fuarcılık AŞ, said: “We were especially pleased to receive very favourable feedback from exhibitors on the quality of visitors to this show. It was also good to see such strong international participation. This strengthens our belief in the many opportunities in the Turkish market for the fastener and fixing industry. With Istanbul such a dynamic business centre at the crossroads of Asia, Europe and the Middle East, it is the ideal host city for Fastener Fair Turkey.”

More stand space in 2016 Having adopted a pattern to return every two years, the third show in the series will take place on 13th – 14th April 2016. The venue will again be the IFM – Istanbul Expo Centre and there has already been very strong demand for stand space. Following the success of last year’s show, some 60 companies have confirmed their participation in Fastener Fair Turkey 2016, with around 1,600m² already booked. In response, this next exhibition will occupy two halls – Halls 9 and 10 at the IFM – to provide additional stand space.

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Fastener Taiwan already planning for 2016 The 2016 International Fastener Show (Fastener Taiwan), scheduled to take place from 11th – 13th April 2016 at the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center, will once again showcase the vast and varied innovations from a sector in constant change, and build upon the support it received from the fastener industry during the successful edition of the show in April 2014.

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n just two days the Fastener Taiwan 2014 show established itself as a world competitive event for fasteners by welcoming 2,000 international buyers (+10.2% on 2012) from over 70 countries, as well as 20,000 domestic visitors, to generate an estimated US$400 million (approximately 338 million euros) in business.

Organised by MOEA (Bureau of Foreign Trade) and Kaohsiung City Government, and implemented by TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) and TIFI (Taiwan Industrial Fasteners Institute), the International Fastener Show (Fastener Taiwan) is based just minutes away from Taiwan’s largest and most dynamic syndicate clusters for bolts, nuts, screws, clamps and other fastener products.

Last year Taiwan’s screw exports grew 10%, reaching US$4.2 billion (3.5 billion euros) in value and 1.55 million tonnes by volume according to the Taiwan Industrial Fasteners Institute. Taiwan is the second largest exporter of fasteners in the world, with the top five destinations for exports being the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, and the UK. In 2014 the Taiwan International Fastener Show attracted buyers from top companies in Germany, France, the USA, the Czech Republic, the UK, Japan, the Netherlands, and Italy.

Including big names such as Theo Förch GmbH & Co KG, Magna Steyr Shanghai, Würth Industrie GmbH & Co KG, Johnson Controls, and Busch Armaturen spol s.r.o.

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For Fastener Taiwan 2016, organisers expect 400+ exhibitors across 1,000 booths, which will include international and Cross-Strait pavilions. Notable manufacturers and service suppliers already confirmed as exhibiting at the 2016 show include Zyh Yin Ent Co Ltd, San Shing Fastech Corp, Taikyu Co Ltd, Ying Ming Industry Co Ltd, Chun Yu Works & Co Ltd, Taiwan Shan Yin Int Co Ltd, Fang Sheng Screw Co Ltd, Tong Hwei Ent Co Ltd, Chun Zu Machinery Industry Co Ltd, Rodex Fasteners Corp, LU CHE SHIN YEE Works Co Ltd and Tycoons Group Ent Co Ltd. Once again exhibitors at Fastener Taiwan 2016 will cover a wide variety of fastener products, fastener manufacturing services, fastener manufacturing equipment, fastener tools, meters and instruments, and steel material supply. Organisers reported that more than 85% of fastener exhibitors in 2014 vowed to join the coming 2016 show, with more than 90% of buyers in 2014 saying they were very satisfied with the show.

“The fastener Industry has praised the 2014 event for helping national exhibitors to consolidate their status while dovetailing into new markets. This has further spurred industry developments that beckon at Fastener Taiwan 2016. To make sure you make the best connections join us at Fastener Taiwan 2016 in Kaohsiung!” www.fastenertaiwan.com.tw

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Dates announced for new Torque-Expo show Torque-Expo – a brand new trade only two day exhibition for the UK stockist and distribution market – is to be launched in October 2015.

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orque-Expo will take place on the 13th – 14th October at the exciting new state of the art Silverstone Wing of the iconic Grand Prix circuit in Northamptonshire. The event is aimed at key decision makers, influencers and purchasing managers within stockist and distribution companies in the UK and Eire, who are looking to source new products.

Stand space is already selling quickly at the show, which will feature exhibitors who are manufacturers, importers and wholesalers selling any of the following associated products through distribution to the trade: • Hand & power tools.

• Hardware & ironmongery.

• DIY products.

• Fasteners, fixings & adhesives.

• Locks & security.

• Abrasives & lubricants.

• Clothing, safety & janitorial.

• Consumables.

• Other associated products, IT and support services.

Torque-Expo is being launched by St Albans based Stag Publications, organisers of the highly successful Fleet World Fleet Show. The man behind the event is Jerry Ramsdale, current publisher and event organiser at Stag, and the previous owner of the long-running Fastener Fair, the first of which was

held at Castle Donington in 1995.

The new B2B event is intended to provide exhibitors at Torque-Expo with two busy days of focused selling and networking with relevant industry professionals, with a core objective being to further develop their distribution business.

Torque-Expo also provides an opportunity for event visitors to learn new management techniques within dedicated seminars, workshops and demonstrations.

Organiser Jerry Ramsdale said: “We are really excited with the uptake levels for our new Torque-Expo event at Silverstone next October. We already have a very healthy number of exhibitors signed up to attend, and that’s with more than 10 months still to go.”

He added: “The Silverstone Wing of the Grand Prix circuit is an ideal venue as it is new, modern and has all the very latest facilities.

Visitors will find they will have everything they possibly need from a show of this kind under one roof. At Torque-Expo, visitors will have the chance to meet and do business with a large group of exhibitors who sell through distribution. It will provide visitors with an opportunity to meet new and existing suppliers and enhance their range of products, leading to increased sales and profits.”

The two day event will also feature a gala dinner for exhibitors at the end of the first day. As an extra incentive for all those who pre-register to attend before 31st January 2015, there is a free to enter prize draw to win a drive around the world-famous Silverstone circuit in a Ferrari.

parts2clean – reliable and efficient cleaning Better cleaning performance, reduced consumption of energy and resources, lower environmental impact and great flexibility – these are just some of the requirements for which users of industrial cleaning technology worldwide are seeking solutions. And the first port of call in that search is the trade fair parts2clean.

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laf Daebler, director of parts2clean at Deutsche Messe, reports: “The trade visitor quota is very high indeed at 99%, and most of these people who attend parts2clean at the Stuttgart Exhibition Center are decision makers.”

This is confirmed by the experience of Michael Höckh, managing director of Höckh Metall-Reinigungsanlagen GmbH: “It’s well known by now that the people you meet at parts2clean are all high caliber contacts. I would say around 70% of the visitors we saw in 2014 came to us with specific projects in mind. Around 30% were seeking information that would help them formulate their inquiry at a later date. From the discussions we had it was clear that the trend is increasingly towards better monitoring of process chains and improved cleaning performance.”

Organisers reported that the overwhelming majority of visitors at parts2clan 2014 shared this positive assessment.

So it is not surprising that more than 100 companies have already confirmed their stand bookings for the upcoming international trade fair for industrial parts and surface cleaning from 9th – 11th June 2015, including nearly all the market leaders and technology pioneers from all the various

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segments represented at the show. These include plant and installations, processes and process media and their preparation for the degreasing, cleaning and pre-treatment of parts and components, baskets and pallets, handling and process automation, clean room technology, corrosion protection, preservation and packaging, contract cleaning, quality assurance, test methods and analytical procedures.

Popular add-on – the Trade Forum in both English and German parts2clean has made a name for itself among users around the world for its comprehensive and representative range of exhibits, but its reputation rests not just on its effectiveness as a platform for information gathering and procurement. The show also boasts the highly regarded Trade Forum. This is the go to place for users to learn more about industrial cleaning technology, compare notes with fellow professionals and extend their network of contacts. The Forum hosts a programme of talks in English and German by experts on a wide range of themes, with simultaneous translation provided.

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Looking forward to Fastener Fair Stuttgart From 10th – 12th March 2015, Fastener Fair Stuttgart will once again be the meeting place for the fastener and fixing industry sector. Here Nicola Hamann, managing director of organisers Mack Brooks Exhibitions, gives visitors an insight into what to expect during the show.

What can visitors to Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2015 expect?

“Some 800 exhibitors from all corners of the world will showcase a comprehensive range of industrial fasteners and fixings, construction fixings, assembly and installation systems, fastener manufacturing technology, storage, distribution and factory equipment, as well as information services. Visitors will be able to discover the latest technical developments as well as conventional fastener and fixing solutions. For professionals in this industry sector the show is the key marketplace to source products and systems, to build new and maintain existing business partnerships, exchange expertise and learn about the prevailing industry trends.”

How big will Fastener Fair Stuttgart be?

“Bigger than ever, Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2015 covers a net floor space of 18,000m2. For the first time, the show is held in four exhibition halls at the Stuttgart Messe Trade Fair Centre, in halls 4, 6, 8 and C2. Some 800 exhibitors from 40 countries will present their product and service range at the coming exhibition.

Many of the exhibitors will present themselves on bigger stands compared to the previous show; visitors will therefore be able to discover an even larger choice of fastener and fixing solutions.”

What is the breakdown of exhibitors?

“Major European exhibitor countries next to Germany are Italy, Great Britain, Turkey, the Netherlands and Spain. Asian exhibitors mainly come from Taiwan, China, India and South Korea.”

How is pre-registration for the show going?

For those people planning on not attending, why should they visit the show?

“Fastener Fair Stuttgart is the world’s key event for the fastener and fixing industry. The target audience consists mainly of wholesalers, distributors, suppliers and manufacturers.

For these industry professionals the show is a must attend event if they would like to keep up to date with industry trends, exchange expertise, meet with key industry players and find out about what is available on a global scale.”

Will there be any special events during the three days of the show?

“Fastener Fair Stuttgart plays a significant role as an international platform for the exchange of technological expertise and as a source of inspiration for future business trends in the industry sector. The show will, therefore, once again present a Fastener Technology Innovator Competition, organised by Fastener + Fixing Magazine. All the stands where visitors can discover and evaluate the latest developments in fastening technology will be signposted.”

Is there still an opportunity to exhibit at the show?

“Even though we have added a fourth hall to the event, the show is almost fully booked. Companies that would still like to exhibit at Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2015 should therefore contact us very quickly, as there are very few stands left at the exhibition.”

“Pre-registration will start in January 2015. To benefit from discounted prices and quick admission to the halls on-site, visitors can purchase their entry ticket online on the show website, ahead of the show. Alternatively, visitors can purchase their ticket on-site. Entrance tickets are valid for all three exhibition days and cost 25 euros when registering online and 35 euros on-site.”

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Schnorr Safety Washers Schnorr GmbH is an international company specialising in the specification and manufacture of disc springs, safety washers and load washers for a variety of applications.

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chnorr GmbH says it has established itself, since the introduction of the original Schnorr Safety Washer, as one of the largest manufacturers of mechanical fastening systems. Its customers are able to consult Schnorr’s experienced engineers and technical staff in the development of custom made products and in the choice of suitable application solutions.

Applications include automotive, aeronautics, manufacture of plant and machinery, power and energy systems, as well as many other technological areas. www.schnorr.de

Competence in stainless steel Schäfers + Peters GmbH (S+P) says that its primary objective is to be its customers’ partner for stainless steel and anti-corrosion fasteners, DIN and standard parts such as wood screws, metric screws, tapping screws, washers, nuts, as well as products such as heavy-duty fastenings, safety screws and solar fastenings.

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S+P has successfully pursued a quality management system for a number of years, in order to guarantee its customers the highest quality products, and is certified in line with DIN EN ISO 9001:2008. www.schaefer-peters.com

Find out the most effective method of procurement Want to know why ‘cherry picking’ is not always the most economic, easiest and effective method of procurement? Visitors to Fastener Fair Stuttgart will receive convincing answers to this question at the Wagener & Simon WASI GmbH & Co KG stand.

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his is because WASI, the global system partner for stainless-steel components, says that it can significantly shorten the procurement management process chain for its customers – helping them to reduce costs and the expenditure of time during the procurement process, whilst increasing profit margins.

At Fastener Fair Stuttgart the WASI trade fair team will showcase its entire service spectrum, highlighting its product ranges, quality and the most modern IT procurement solutions.

“The right IT setup allows businesses to automatically process their orders and design their entire procurement process – from product selection and ordering to delivery – in a more efficient, time saving, secure and error free way. In addition, customers have an exact, up to date overview of their orders at all times.” www.wasi.de

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Vorpa – fixing together

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Since the foundation of Vorpa in 1974 the company has characterised its method of doing business in two directions: Offer excellent production quality level and always look at the future in an innovative way.

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his has resulted in Vorpa Group (Vorpa Srl and Vorpa Officine Meccaniche Snc) establishing a long-term relationship of ‘fixing together’ with its customers and becoming an important national manufacturer of fixing systems.

Vorpa invites all Fastener Fair Stuttgart visitors to its brand new stand to help it celebrate 40 years in business. In addition to the new stand, Vorpa will present several new anchoring products, as well as what it says is an ingenious system for fixing window shutters on insulated walls. A highly skilled technical and commercial team will be available to welcome visitors and answer any questions they may have. www.vorpa.com

Arras looking for distributors

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Arras Construction Furniture OÜ, based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a manufacturer of wood connectors, with its top selling products including angle brackets, nail plates, joist hangers, post feet, barb connector plates and steel straps.

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rras Construction uses modern production equipment and consistently invests into new product development and technical approvals, such as ETAs, CE marking, and DoP. The company points out that standard products are always available from stock, with private label requests mostly produced to order.

“Our vision is to become the first choice in fasteners through high-quality products, accurate and fast deliveries, flexible pricing and personal customer service. At Fastener Fair Stuttgart we will be looking for new distributors from Europe and beyond.”

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It’s the finer detail that makes a product great

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Since 1980 Defremm SpA – a cold forming manufacturer located in the north of Italy – has been designing and making special parts to customer drawings, as well as producing standard fasteners such as blind rivets and rivet nuts.

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t Fastener Fair Stuttgart Defremm will present its product range of small metal parts for a range of highly specialised applications. These include fasteners for brakes, locks, doors, roof systems and engines in the automotive industry. The company also makes parts for household appliances as well as fittings for plumbing, window and door frames, sports equipment and general mechanical applications.

Materials used to produce parts from 5mm to 90mm in length include carbon steel, aluminium alloy, copper, brass and stainless steel wire in diameters from 2mm to 18mm.

Now, thanks to the constant improvement in technology and the efforts of Defremm’s R&D team, the company is increasingly focusing its energy on cold forming solutions in stainless steel.

To meet increasingly complex customer requirements, and to increase its production capacity, Defremm has invested heavily in state of the art multistage horizontal heading machines and machinery for recovery, threading, punching, turning and assembly.

Since 2003, Defremm has been certified to ISO TS 16949 and its new selection of machinery and calibration equipment ensure the highest standards of quality control to satisfy customer requirements.

“Our experienced team carries out technical and feasibility studies to co-design products together with clients. We then design and build the necessary tooling in our own workshop to manufacture initial samples and start standardised production.

We constantly strive to improve our production processes and service, developing quality products and professional customer care in order to create opportunities and increase value over time for all involved.” www.defremm.it

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We supply more than a thousend million connection fittings of all kinds annually, whith a full range of standard items and also customized solutions.

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

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BRALO’s global reach

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BRALO, a manufacturer and distributor of blind rivets, insert nuts and riveting tools, says it is constantly searching for materials and innovative technology to create a wide range of products.

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RALO has 12 categories of blind rivets covering all industry requirements, from standard rivets or rivets with a multi-grip feature, to rivets with high shear and vibration resistance.

With production plants in three different continents, and 400 employees worldwide, BRALO has a global warehousing and distribution network made up of nine subsidiaries and numerous distributors and authorised concessionaires.

With customers in more than 60 countries, the company says it is a brand of reference in the fastening market.

“We can also offer a wide range of riveting tools, both manual and pneumatic tools. We can also work alongside customers to find customised fastening solutions and services for customers’ needs.” www.bralo.com

SCRAIL® – combining the advantages of nails and screws

Raimund Beck KG will present its SCRAIL® fasteners at Fastener Fair Stuttgart, which it says provide speed and flexibility to users when used in a common nailer.

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aimund Beck says its SCRAIL® fasteners are the ideal solution for large projects where the use of screws is time-consuming. Collated nails can be installed very fast with a pneumatic nail gun, but the connection becomes quite rigid and the fasteners cannot be removed or adjusted. Screws provide a significantly stronger holding power than nails. Taking this into account, the SCRAIL fasteners therefore combine the advantages of a nail and a screw.

With a common nailer, Beck says its SCRAIL fasteners can be driven into the boards rapidly, and due to their aggressive thread design can reach 80% of the holding power of screws.

Special items from Mecavit Mecavit Srl produces standard unified screws and special screws made of high resistance carbon steel and stainless steel for any industrial sector.

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hrough the research and experience it has gained over the years, as well as its business relationship with important international companies, Mecavit says it has been able to reach a top quality level. After recent investments in new technologies, Mecavit has managed to gain significant new orders for special items.

Mecavit’s special production accounts for approximately 65% of the company’s whole production and satisfies the demand of a number of industries including automotive, motorcycles, electronics, aluminium profile accessories, and household appliances.

Due to its large stock, Mecavit says it can assure quick and flexible deliveries including screws in carbon 8.8, 10.9, 12.9 and stainless steel A2, as well as metric screws from diameter M3 to M12 (DIN 912, DIN 7991, DIN 7984, ISO 7380/1 and ISO7380/2).

The production process – carried out using state of the art machinery – allows flexibility and reliability, acknowledged by TÜV Italia in compliance with ISO 9001 2008. www.mecavit.it

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Holding the world together

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In the changing landscape of the global fastener market there are only a select few companies that have survived for 100 years. US based Industrial Nut Corp celebrated such an accomplishment in 2008 – whilst continuing to grow and expand its coverage of special nuts and locknuts.

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s an engineering based supplier of critical components to many industries – including heavy truck, construction equipment and farm machinery – Industrial Nut has not deviated from its mission to supply the best nut for customers’ applications.

While the company is most noted for its trademarked BLUE Collar® nylon insert locknuts, it continues to manufacture a wide range of special inch and metric series nuts to customers’ requirements. With the integration of Vendor Managed Inventory programmes, and in response to competitive pressures from low cost countries, Industrial Nut has made the necessary investments to improve productivity through technological advances in equipment and embraced certain Lean manufacturing methods. This translates to more competitive pricing and improved product quality by eliminating costly secondary processes, which can now be performed in a single operation on state of the art CNC manufacturing equipment.

“We have long been recognised as a leader in the range of products we produce,” says Michael Hurst, sales manager at Industrial Nut. “Thanks to our experienced sales, engineering and production personnel we are able to manufacture and market products for customers located primarily in North America and western Europe.

With the quality systems that we have in place and the longevity that Industrial Nut has enjoyed, both manufacturers and distributors alike can have confidence in their part specifications being met.” www.industrialnut.com

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Fastening solutions for land and sea

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Lederer GmbH, based in Ennepetal, Germany, has been one of the leading suppliers of stainless steel fasteners for more than 40 years and offers more than 20,000 different articles direct from stock.

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ederer’s range includes screws, pins, nuts, rings, and washers made from high grade steel, ordinary steel and non-ferrous materials, and includes standard and designed parts – DIN, EN, ISO and in-house. Special parts and special materials are also available according to customer drawings.

The company will also be showcasing its ‘Maritime’ assortment at Fastener Fair Stuttgart, which contains essential stainless fasteners for a variety of applications including maritime, as well as indoors and outdoors, houses and garden, architecture and plant construction. Lederer can provide 16 different product categories containing over 100 different articles including spring hooks and shackles, wire rope clamps and thimbles, turnbuckles and eye bolts, quick links and rings, and wire rope swage terminals.

Lederer says its high-quality, corrosion protected A4 stainless steel ensures safety and stability in all weather conditions and its extensive in-house warehousing guarantees the immediate availability of all the important types and dimensions.

“At Lederer we are big enough to realise substantial and elaborate projects, but at the same time small enough to react quickly, flexibly and un-bureaucratically to market and customer requirements.” www.lederer-online.com

BAER on the loose C2.2/460 at Stuttgart BAER Vertriebs GmbH is a specialist in all threading solutions thanks to its BaerCoil® and BaerFix® thread inserts – which create and reinforce internal threads in metal and plastic – as well as its range of taps and dies.

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n addition to the vast range of threading tools, thread inserts, taps, dies and custom-made items, BAER customers also benefit from quick availability and the highest precision and quality standards – helping to provide solutions for future construction possibilities.

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KTXTorpedo The Total & Best Fastening Solution For All Light Duty Constructions

Archimedesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; secret The KTX-Torpedo 1 Screw has been developed for a wide range of applications in that it unites many different thread types. It can, for instance, be used as a drywall screw, chipboard screw and decking screw. Moreover, it may also function as a general wood screw in soft and hard woods or be used in steel-frame constructions. In addition, the torpedo screw is characterised by environmentally friendly properties, a fast grip with little force required, strong holding power and a very low risk of splitting.

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Innovation key for Schotte

Entrust your project to the specialists

Schotte Automotive GmbH & Co KG has been a producer and distributor of individual, metallic fasteners and connecting elements under the brand Schotte Automotive Fasteners for over six decades.

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rom prototype to large series production, as well as sorting and logistics service, Schotte Automotive says high-quality and stable products – in addition to optimised production processes – are a natural part of German standards and are essential, as is steady investment in R&D and analysis.

The Schotte team of engineers, technicians, logistic experts and an internationally operating partner network reflects customer needs, leading to a quick reaction time with the best possible service.

A distinctive understanding and the long-standing experience concerning customer wishes and customer standards, offers the highest production standards and competitive prices. As part of a full service, Schotte also guarantees an all round carefree package, the ‘Schotte-0-ppm-Strategie’ as well as a contact for all customer interests.

Owner Jan Mach recently extended his portfolio and founded Schotte Automotive Engineering GmbH. “We would like to develop together with our customers the individually fitting solutions, starting from the very first customer idea. Our decades of experience, the narrow linking of the areas of engineering and fasteners, the high-class claim, and the logical orientation and observance of the automotive and industrial standards, make us a dependable internationally operating partner.“ www.schotteautomotive.de

For more than 35 years, Bäcker GmbH & Co KG has stood for solutions in plastics at the highest level.

Bäcker products can be used in a wide variety of industries including mechanical engineering, plant construction, sanitary engineering, medical technology, furniture production and electrical engineering.

A comprehensive standard range of 5,000 different articles underlines the capabilities of this German plastics specialist, with the range of products organised into four groups: • PlacoGrip® – control elements including clamping levers, indexing bolts and star grips.

• PlacoTec® – standard elements such as screws, nuts and washers.

• PlacoCap® – protective elements such as cover caps and protective caps.

• PlacoEngineering – project solutions to customers’ specifications.

A standard article does not always offer a perfect solution for specific requirements. As a backup to the standard range, Bäcker can also develop totally new plastic articles and can work with customers from the initial idea to the finished article.

Production and assembly is carried out across three shifts, with articles up to 600g manufactured on ARBURG machines with a mould clamping force of 250kN to 2,750kN. Product materials include high performance plastics such as PPA, PEEK, PVDF; industrial thermoplastics including PA 6, PA 6.6 and POM; as well as large quantity plastics such as PP, PE or ABS. www.baecker.eu

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Fastbolt – unsurpassed service

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As a leading wholesaler of industrial fasteners to European distributors, Fastbolt says that the keystones of its business are a consistent high product quality coupled with unsurpassed service and competitive pricing.

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As a designer, manufacturer and supplier of superior quality industrial components, TR Fastenings is able to offer an extensive range of products to European fastener distributors.

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uring Fastener Fair Stuttgart TR will be showcasing its range of branded components, the Euro Rivet Bush and K-Series nut, as well as brass inserts and an extensive range of plastic fasteners.

TR supplies over 1.4 billion self-clinching fasteners per annum to high profile companies across a wide range of industry sectors and says it has Europe’s fastest growing distributor network, which now encompasses 31 Master Distributors located in 30 European countries.

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n addition to a highly specialised product range ex stock, Fastbolt offers individual supply solutions such as customised packing, direct container imports, pre-import quality inspections and a revolutionary online availability check and ordering system – FBonline 2.0.

Fastbolt has locations in Germany, the UK and China, which enables it to provide close proximity to its customers – with the permanent geographical presence in the ever changing and constantly growing supply markets also enabling the company to be reactive and flexible.

Fastbolt’s current stock range covers product groups such as self-tapping screws, self-drilling screws, machine screws, screws for roofing and cladding, chipboard screws, thread forming screws, high-tensile bolts and set screws, threaded rod, hexagon socket head screws and nuts. www.fastbolt.com

TR Fastenings to showcase expanding range

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We are used to extreme conditions and face the toughest challenges on a daily basis. We never lose sight of our aim to give the customer just what they want. and we always offer that little bit extra.

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National focusing on FORMAX® XXV

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National Machinery, a provider of advanced cold and warm forming machinery, process technology, and customer support services, will be focusing on its new FORMAX® XXV machine at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

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ORMAX® XXV is the second of the newly designed 25mm cut off machines, launched at the 2014 wire show in Düsseldorf. It combines the best features from a small and large FORMAX with all new technology including servo controlled adjustments, expanded die-space and high production speeds – all in a 25mm cut-off machine.

In addition, the stand at Stuttgart will also feature extensive information on National’s warm forming machines, used machinery, customer support services and Met-MAX Innovations (National’s application development department).

The stand will also be staffed with experts from Mectron Engineering, who will be available to assist customers with all their parts inspection needs. Mectron will also be displaying a Q-5000 Qualifier. www.nationalmachinery.com

New 4.D140 products from NORMA NORMA Group has announced that it will be showcasing four new products on its stand at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

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n show will be a new range of NORMA Compression Fittings, which allow fast and secure connection of polyethylene tubing for industrial, commercial and domestic applications. There will also be the NORMA High-Torque Signage Clamp that facilitates installation of signs; NORMA Tube Clamp Fittings for the easy assembly of pipes; and finally the NORMA Stepless Ear Clamps, designed for optimum seal and roundness.

“Come visit us at the Fastener Fair Stuttgart and check out our latest product innovations.

We look forward to welcoming you.” www.normagroup.com

friction testing machines for screws, bolts, and nuts sizes from M2 up to M80 types like carriage bolts, tension bolts, self drilling screws, … patented transducers integrated heating-up solution extensometer as option standard-conform to ISO 14399, ISO 16047, company standards from FIAT, GM, Hyundai, PSA, Renault, VW and much more extended range of products vibration testing machines (Junker) tension testing machines TesT GmbH torsion testing machines Helena-Rubinstein-Str. 4 D 40699 Erkrath +49 (0)211 20 99 03-0 test@test-gmbh.com www.test-gmbh.com

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Brand new HEICO product at Stuttgart

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In 2015 the HEICO Group celebrates 115 years of experience and expertise in production and development in the field of fastening technology and cold forming.

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t Fastener Fair Stuttgart HEICO, with its numerous sales offices worldwide, will present its comprehensive product range on more than 50m² of exhibition space. In addition to the established products, such as the HEICO-LOCK® Wedge Lock Washers, the company will also focus on the innovative HEICO-LOCK® Ring Lock Washers and the HEICO-LOCK® Wedge Lock Nuts, which it introduced at the 2014 Fastener Fair Hannover show.

HEICO also plans to expand its product range again with another brand new product, just in time for Fastener Fair Stuttgart. Further information about the new product will be available at the show. www.heico-lock.com

Washers for all applications

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Founded in 1950, Growermetal Srl specialises in the production of railway, security, spring and flat washers, as well as parts according to customers’ specification.

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roduction at Growermetal is divided into two main families of products – pressed parts and products made of wire.

In 2013, the company produced 3 billion pressed pieces – approximately 1,600 tonnes.

The product range includes over 1,500 standard washers according to DIN, ANSI, NFE and other international standards. Available products include toothed washers with internal and external teeth, conical washers, contact washers, Sperrkant washers, spring lock washers, spring washers for railway applications, corrugated washers, terminal washers, flat washers, flat ripped washers, as well as the new Grower Twin-Lock® – a wedge lock washer. Products are available in steel, carbon steel, stainless steel, bronze, aluminium, copper, brass, Inconel and other alloys upon customers’ requests.

The company’s manufacturing and distributing processes are certified according to ISO/TS 16949, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. www.growermetal.com

Liebig® Superplus at Stuttgart

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Finnish based Sormat Oy is a manufacturer of fixing products for construction and general industry, including the Liebig® Superplus – an anchor that it says guarantees smooth installation even in difficult to reach areas.

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ormat says its Liebig® Superplus is simply the quickest, safest and the most installation friendly self-undercutting anchor on the market. The anchor has ETA Option 1 approval (ETA – 01/0011) so it is suitable for cracked concrete. Grade 8.8 carbon steel and stainless steel A4-80 versions are also available.

“Tested on every level over the past 40 years, Sormat has proven to be a professional, competent, reliable and agile business partner for customers of all sizes. Our consistent product quality, delivery accuracy and value for money are par to none, but we really stand out from the competition with our ‘Best-In-The-Business’ service attitude. We aim to bring good old service back to the fixing business!”

Flexibility and openness Metall + Fastening Industrie GmbH (MFI) will be showcasing its extensive range of products, along with its Jet-Fast® chipboard screw and Terrassco® decking screw, on its stand at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

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FI’s extensive range of products also includes a number of other brands including PARCO®, Twistec, and SILISTO® and features fastening and solar technology, anchors, screw and blind rivet technology, roof and wall fasteners, sealants and tapes, chemical products, and fittings for windows.

“Our motivated and skilled employees, our flexibility and openness towards the individual needs of our customers, and the loyalty that our trade customers have placed in us, makes us the perfect partner and we look forward to meeting you at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.” www.mfi-fastening.com

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FASTENER FAIR S T U T TGA R T The Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No.1

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Visit these four Hexstone companies in Hall 6 at Stand J04.

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Over 125 years experience

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F. REYHER Nchfg GmbH & Co KG has 125 years experience as one of Europe’s leading distributors of fasteners and fixing technology, supplying 80,000 items to customers worldwide.

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ue to customer and market requirements across all industries, REYHER recently added an additional 10,000 items to its range – including inch fasteners, items of material 1.7218 and BUMAX® high-tensile stainless steel products.

At the company’s central location in Hamburg, Germany, the 600+ employees ensure efficient procurement procedures by providing individualised customer care, flexible solutions, and a daily fill rate of over 99% – thus also guaranteeing C-parts availability.

“REYHER offers state of the art, fully automated warehouse logistics that facilitate an extensive range of services that are highly future oriented. We therefore offer a perfect combination of tradition and modernity, from which our industry and retail trade customers benefit greatly.” www.reyher.de

precote® from omniTECHNIK

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omniTECHNIK Mikroverkapselungs GmbH says that the key to its success is its ability to offer customers a wide base of knowledge and experience, a range of excellent products, a first class service, as well as close cooperation.

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key product in omniTECHNIK’s range is precote®, which comprises of a programme of products that satisfy a vast array of requirements in the area of coatings for fasteners. The products can be used for locking, sealing, assembly and disassembly, and applications include the automotive industry, electronics industry, aeronautical engineering and railway vehicle manufacturing.

“Our global network of coating partners enables the worldwide availability of precote coated parts.” www.precote.com

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New Sacma headers           ►

Solid Iron one piece cast frame Patented wire feeder “S-Feed”, wire and bar feeding, alternate blow Desmodrive transfer, new driving system and hydraulic camshaft, transfer Assistance Package Heading slide made of NiCrMo alloy steel casting heat treated with an exclusive taper slide New Quick changeover with hydraulic clamping Fully motorized adjustments, touch screen command panel and clamping SC-Loadmatic for part quality management Electronic handwheel for slow motion jog control Special series for automotive bolts and net shape parts and n.16 Warm Former models available New models including SP570C (360tons, Ø25/27mm cut-off); SP451EL (Ø22, n.5 dies, 300mm dko) ; SP360SL Super Long (Ø15, 160mm dko)

New Ingramatic CNC threaders          ►

Exclusive design and reinforced bed frame Motorized die match adjustment Patented servomotor control for the Single and Double Starter units Double starter unit with self-learning adjustment Motorized adjustment in height / width of the feeding rails and vibratory feeder Quick diameter change with spacers set Electronic handwheel for slow motion jog and all machine adjustments New QTC washer assembly units New vertical elevator for parts loading New models including RP720 (CNC W50), RP820 (CNC W60), stand alone washer assembly unit

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Fastener Technology Innovator 2015 Competition One of the many attractions of Fastener Fair Stuttgart is the first-hand opportunity to assess new products and services that exhibitors have brought to the market since the last show.

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astener + Fixing Magazine is once again pleased to sponsor the Fastener Technology Innovator Competition.

The editorial team will review the products and services you can find on the following pages, looking for a worthy recipient of the title of Fastener Technology Innovator 2015.

To find out more read on – we have a record number of entrants this year. Remember to take a note of the stands numbers or look out for the distinctive Fastener Technology Innovator 2015 logo on participants’ stands.

There will be a special presentation to the winners on the organisers’ stand during the show.

616 WS – 6-die progressive header

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Carlo Salvi SpA has recently launched onto the market the header model 616 SW – a 6-die progressive header capable of handling wire with diameter from 10mm to 17.5mm.

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ust by touching an icon on the control panel the operator can recall, in a few seconds, jobs that have been previously produced. In fact it is possible to set up electronically the position of the K.O pins inside the dies and the wire feed without using wrenches.

Wire is fed by grippers, which ensure very high precision (+/-0.05mm) thus avoiding damage to wire and offering the maximum clamping over a greater wire surface area. One set of grippers covers the whole standard wire diameter range for which the machine is rated and avoids the use of wire stops, reducing drastically set up times and operating costs.

The cutter holder is fully guided in order to avoid even minor flexing, while transfer fingers consist of independent finger units. The part to be transferred is pneumatically serrated by fingers so that the correct air pressure can be applied to each set of fingers as needed.

The oscillating transfer provides for greater flexibility and degrees of operation available for the opening and closing of the fingers; a special device allows retention of the part during ejection from dies and is ideal for the production of short, special and very complex shape parts.

K.O on the punch side is innovative and independent from ram movement; trimming is made with an advanced cam system that is permanently assembled on the header and the independent hydraulic lock of the dies are further devices that make the 616 a complete machine.

The header model 616 WS, can be equipped with a pre-heating system. The pre-heating system with induction, if housed in a strategic position, allows the operator to heat the material from

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A special refrigeration system positioned in the die holder ensures circulation of the cooling fluid, while the fire-proof sound enclosure and automatic firefighting equipment assures the maximum safety when working in extreme situations. www.carlosalvi.it

Fastener + Fixing Magazine • Issue 91 January 2015

Triofast supplies a full range of fasteners. A range of items in which you can recognise more than half a century of knowledge and experience. As a team we know what the market wants and what it can offer. You may see us as a service partner with whom it is a joy to work together. We don’t think in terms of items, but in solutions and in terms of relations. We are happy to take the initiative in this respect. And you gain by it. Fasteners?

We gladly deliver more than a quick fix.

VISIT US AT FASTENER FAIR - STUTTGART 10 TH - 12 TH MARCH 2015 - HALL 8 - STAND Z50

Triofast BV - Ketelweg 61e - NL3356 LD Papendrecht - P.O. Box 55 - NL2950 AB Alblasserdam - The Netherlands Tel. +31 (0)78 641 60 30 - Fax. +31 (0)78 642 70 07 - E-mail info@triofast.nl - Internet www.triofast.nl

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Jubilee’s new Quick Release Straps In 2013, Jubilee Clips acquired Elms Lightning Fasteners in Birmingham, UK, which enabled it to increase its involvement in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and sign fixing markets.

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hen talking to both Elms’ existing and new potential customers for the Multiband banding system – the core of Elms Lightning’s production – there was a demand from some customers for a convenient pre-assembled clip, specifically designed for use where slipping the clip over the end of a fitting is not possible, i.e. where a closed installation requires the clamp to be opened fully for positioning of the clamp.

The result of these discussions is the new range of Quick Release Straps manufactured at the Birmingham plant. They are available in zinc protected mild steel 11mm band width, and in 304 stainless steel, available in both 7mm and 11mm band width. All 11mm band straps now have newly designed 7mm Hex-Head captive screws for ease of assembly with either a Jubilee Clipdriver or socketdriver or a screwdriver. Jubilee explains that this housing/screw combination is unique to its company, as it allows the user to tighten the straps using a high torque, without the need to lock the housing into place.

Having only been introduced towards the end of 2013, Jubilee Clips has already seen significant sales of the Quick Release Straps to the telecommunications and rail sectors, which shows the diverse potential markets for these products beyond HVAC, cable retention, fence repairs and sign fixing. www.jubileeclips.co.uk

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RIV939 – for rivet nuts up to M12

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Rivit Srl, a specialist in the production and distribution of fasteners and installation tools for sheet metal working, will be launching RIV939 at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

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IV939 was designed to place rivet nuts up to M12, and it is the upgraded version of the RIV938 that, for the time being, is on the market for rivet nuts up to M10.

The new RIV939 model is designed to place Rivsert female rivet nuts from M3 to M12 and Rivbolt male rivet nuts from M4 to M10. It installs the rivet nuts using the adjustment of the oil pressure (force). Rivit points out that the hydro-pneumatic system and the mechanical parts of the internal structure of the tool, when compared to other models of riveters, ensure excellent reliability.

RIV939 features a substantial reduction of the problems due to wear of components, with consequent increase in duration and functionality.

Further advantages include: • Kit assembling with ring nut gear (the key is not necessary).

• Tie rods are now commercial screws.

• One phase trigger mechanism.

• Lightweight.

• Easy handling.

• Easy stroke adjustment.

• Adjustment ring stops against the counter ring. www.rivit.it

One system – precise screwing With the new collation system from adunox GmbH many screw types can be used in a collated system instead of using them screw by screw – offering a much higher efficiency in the working process.

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n the adunox-ONE collation system the screws are collated in an oblique position, with the magazine strip automatically returned. On one side the strip is used for the transport in the magazine. On the other side, the screw is held. This separation means that all head shapes and thread forms can be used. Even screws of different lengths can be collated. adunox-ONE also features a screw tip that is visible when installing, leading to a more precise installation being guaranteed. The system can be used in a variety of applications including slate fixing, timber connectors, decking, cladding, and perforated plates. adunox-ONE is also suitable for the furniture and automotive industry.

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Environmental responsibility 4.C04 without performance loss

fischer launched its greenline range in April 2014, initially with six plugs and one two-component injection resin for heavy loads, reflecting the company’s longstanding concern for sustainability and environmental protection but also ensuring performance was in no way compromised.

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ischer is formally committed to active environmental management and owner and CEO, Professor Klaus Fischer is emphatic this is more than paying lip service.

The first evidence of that commitment was the launch of UX GREEN 2012, the world’s first synthetic plug made from renewable materials. For the greenline programme, fischer added five more tried and tested plug types in green alternatives, as well as FIS GREEN 300 T – the first chemical injection resin made from renewable primaries.

Fixings must always be safe and fischer was adamant its biobased fixing systems must comply with technical requirements. The green plastic plugs, therefore, have the same performance features and load bearing capacities as the grey originals – and are naturally just as long-lived.

Chemical injection resins are complex products and there are currently few biobased equivalents for their base substances, precluding the simple substitution of an identical biobased substance. In developing FIS GREEN 300 T fischer, therefore, had to totally reformulate, adopting organic components that fulfilled varied functions.

FIS GREEN 300 T resin is suitable for fixing high loads in concrete, perforated and solid bricks for inside and outside use. It carries the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) of the Institute Bauen und Umwelt e.V and therefore has a database for ecological building assessment. The resin is extremely low in emissions, placing it in the French emission category A+ “very low in emissions” for volatile substances. It carries no hazardous substance markings whatsoever.

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Portable inspection 4.D134 with INSPECTpro SCHATZ AG has introduced the new INSPECTpro – a portable system for torque, angle and clamping force – that uses changeable batteries and can be operated by bolt manufacturers, coaters and users of fasteners to determine friction coefficient on-site.

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Friction is always present, and due to friction it is not possible to determine the clamping force of a bolted joint directly from the torque alone. This is only possible if the friction coefficient of the fastener concerned is known.

Factors that can cause changes in friction characteristics are roughness, hardness, surface treatment, lubrication, temperature and others.

It means that simply handling a bolt or nut can lead to failure of a bolted joint. A drop of oil on the operator‘s hand or a drop of oil falling from the tool can dramatically change the friction properties of the bolt.

Since friction has such a large impact on assembly results, it is important to be able to check the relationship between torque and clamping force in production.

Accordingly, bolted joint analyses for determining the relationship between assembly torque and clamping force are usually performed in labs or research departments.

Although lab tests are in any case indispensable, most production departments need to be able to carry out quick tests on the assembly line with portable devices that are easy to use and therefore take less time than lab tests.

A suitable device for such tests is the portable INSPECTpro instrument, which allows a clamping force sensor and a manual torque/angle sensor to be connected simultaneously. Using the touchscreen of the INSPECTpro, the operator can quickly select the type of analysis to be performed. After the measurement data is acquired the friction characteristics of the fastener are shown in numerical or graphic form, as well as whether or not the lubrication complies with the specification. The display is swivelling and can be set in 10° steps from 0° to 100°. www.schatz.ag

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At Stafa, private labelling can start with 25 packages! We offer lots of different packaging options; everything is possible with labels printed to your requirements!

Automated high-speed bagging and kitting With the most modern packaging machines in Europe Stafa can put together custom made sets, exactly to your requirements.

We efficiently sort and pack components together with instructions as required.

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High strength and security with FH FiberLock

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Flaig + Hommel GmbH, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institut and the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, has developed the FH FiberLock, especially for use in lightweight applications.

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ased in Aldingen, Germany, the company says the FH FiberLock is a modern, resuable, state of the art connection for fibre plates. For installation, the FH FiberLock consists of a bolt and an expansion sleeve to be inserted into a borehole. When tightening the hex nut, the profiled sleeve becomes locked into the borehole and forms a reliable and stable attachment – resulting in simple and fast assembly/disassembly.

The borehole has to be drilled into the plate with a commonly used drill – no special tools are needed to install the FH FiberLock.

To avoid a twisting between the expansion sleeve and the borehole during the mounting, the bolt is designed with an inside hex to keep the bolt in position. This allows the user to obtain the highest strength and the highest security for this type of connection.

The FH FiberLock can also be used in a large-scale production, as well as in a single application, and can be custom designed according to customers’ specifications.

New Microvert PRO from Imanpack Imanpack, with 40 years of experience and more than 45 agencies worldwide, offers complete lines of automatic packaging equipment to meet the needs of any industry such as hardware, food, non-food, plastic, medical and technical products.

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ew to its product range is the Microvert PRO – a vertical packaging machine equipped with motorised film unwinding, pneumatic reel-holder and encoder controlled pouch-length. This renewed version of the Microvert integrates all the features of the previous models including small dimensions, quick and easy bag length adjustment, pneumatic cross seal jaws and user friendly PLC controls.

The Microvert PRO is designed to package small hardware and can be integrated in automatic production lines and synchronised with automatic feeding, counters and scales – with a maximum bag width of up to 270mm.

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The machine can be additionally equipped with print-on-film systems, bag support for heavy products, and a chain package option. Other features of the Microvert PRO include: • Painted steelwork or stainless steel frame.

• Film pulling unit by pneumatic adjustable toothed belt.

• Double film unwinding system for long bags.

• Available in a PE or heat sealable material version.

• Available in an incline version of 45°.

“We give our customers the most suitable and profitable packaging solution, from the smallest economic wrapper to complete and customised packaging lines.”

Driving for number five Tite-Fix Ltd, previously a recepient of a Fastener Technology Innovator Award in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011, has once again entered the competition for 2015 with the Tite®-Recess and drive bit.

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ite-Fix states that the drive outperforms, yet accepts, a standard cross recess – eliminating both the infuriating search for a driver bit or having to constantly change bits.

The Tite®-Recess and drive bit is ideal for awkward applications and where driving efficiency is crucial thanks to its stick-fit. There is minimum cam out due to the bit’s resistance to unseating, leading to a straight and accurate drive because the bit sits perpendicular in the recess.

Accurate driving means that there is less bit wear, meaning a longer life for the bit. It also means there is minimum damage to the timber, as the bit is less likely to slip out of the recess.

“At Tite-Fix we are proud of our ability to produce innovative products that really make a difference in the market. The Tite-Recess and drive bit is the most efficient cross recess drive available, thanks to its ability to accept standard cross recess bits perfectly – whilst maintaining drive efficiency. We invite all visitors to Fastener Fair Stuttgart to come to our stand to find out more.”

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GESIPA® AccuBird® Pro – as fast as air More than twenty years ago, GESIPA® invented Accu-riveting technology.

Now, at the beginning of 2015, the new AccuBird® Pro by GESIPA will be ready to replace the proven AccuBird®, which has been used for thousands of jobs by craftsmen on construction sites and in industry for two decades.

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ESIPA says that its construction and development team has not only succeeded in providing a modern, attractive and extremely functional design but also in revolutionising the proven and robust technology in such a way, as to enable the AccuBird® Pro to set rivets easily at a frequency that is up to four times higher than of any other Accu-riveting tool on the market.

This enormous speed is possible due to an almost wear-free brushless motor with a setting force of 10kN, as well as the auto-stop/auto-reverse function. In other tools, the pulling mechanism has to finish the pulling process completely and then return to its forward end position again. However, the integrated intelligent control function on the AccuBird Pro detects the exact point where the mandrel breaks off and then immediately stops the pulling process. The pulling mechanism directly returns to its operating position and is ready for the next setting process.

“As the first of its kind in the world, this innovative technology allows the AccuBird Pro to work at the same setting speed as pneumatic-hydraulic setting tools, for example, the TAURUS® 3 produced by GESIPA.” In addition, the AccuBird Pro comes with the jaw system proven in thousands of applications, as well as with the ergonomic design of the TAURUS setting tool series. The quick charging function and the precise charge level indicator will provide real added value for the user, with the low weight of the tool being an additional advantage. To add to this LEDs, precisely focused on the workpiece, will illuminate the darkness in poor lighting conditions. www.gesipa.com

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Two part wood filler now in foil bag cartridge UK based Chemfix Products Ltd has launched the Pre-Mix wood filler – the first ever two part styrene free wood filler in a foil bag cartridge that is ready for extrusion.

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re-Mix wood filler is ready for extrusion, without cutting the bag, thanks to the patented ChubSeal system. The result is a mix of resin and hardener in the perfect ratio during extrusion. Designed for fixings and repairs in wood, the resin is extruded using a simple DIY silicone tool giving a simple and clean mixing and filling process.

Pre-Mix wood filler can be used to fix screws, hooks or threaded rods into wood for a durable high strength bond. It can also be used to repair wooden applications, with the optional mixing nozzle simply pointed directly into long strips and gaps. The cured resin is then sanded down with ease, and over painted or stained.

The Pre-Mix wood filler is also suitable for bonding various wood materials to a range of substrates. The bond is cured within just a few minutes of application.

“By combining our wealth of specialist knowledge in cartridge technology, along with the prestigious and strong history of the Metolux brand, we have been able to produce the first ever two part wood filler in a cartridge.”

Revolution in cylindrical thread rolling technology At Fastener Fair Stuttgart Regg Rolling, a division of Regg Inspection Srl, will introduce its R40 HD ‘High-Speed’ two-dies cylindrical thread rolling machine.

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40 HD ‘High-Speed’ has a production rate of up to 60 parts/min and can roll threads with diameters ranging from ½ inch to 3 inches. The machine ranges from 40kN up to 1,000kN force for the widest range of applications – from a small high precision, high tensile aerospace fastener to large threaded bars for the oil and power transmission industries. A new PLC control also helps to reduce set up and cycle times.

All machines at Regg Rolling are designed with the most updated technologies to grant maximum rigidity and to constantly maintain a high degree of accuracy and uniformity of parts.

“At a production rate of up to 60 parts/min, the new R40 HD ‘High-Speed’ is four times fastener than any other machine. It is a real revolution in cylindrical thread rolling technology.”

Introducing the Intervis® for UHPFRC With 85 years of innovation in assembly, fastener and fixing systems, Gardette Groupe has departed from its usual markets to offer what it sees as a true innovation to the construction sector – a special insert for highly technical cement called Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC), allowing unseen architectural applications.

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rchitects and concrete manufacturers were looking for an innovative solution to easily fix the new UHPC (Ultra High Performance Concrete). The defined specifications were to have a particular length depending on concrete thickness, high wrenching resistance for optimal security, and a moulded item to avoid drilling and thus weakening of the panels. Last but not least was the necessity of a mass-produced item responding to all requirements of this highly performing concrete.

LGC, a subsidiary of Gardette Groupe, developed a special insert within its Intervis® range especially for this Ultra High Performance Concrete. It responds to all criteria demanded by the end users. The insert is directly cast in when the concrete plate is poured. The size remains compact but still ensures an exceptional resistance to wrenching, offering high security, even on the thinnest thickness. Because of the direct casting, Intervis for UHPFRC allows perfect anchorage in the concrete plate, without any slack with the receptive piece. A specific design

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development has permitted avoidance of insert rotation in the concrete during tightening. With Intervis UPHFRC plates can be fixed with maximum security, minimum operations and sustain the unique design offered by this high-end concrete.

The high performance of this concrete means its main applications are building façades, urban furniture, interior architecture and modern art pieces. Intervis for UHPFRC was recently used for fixing the façade of the Louis Vuitton foundation, which opened in Paris in October 2014.

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Reinhardt: New and better solutions for coating

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Located in the south of Germany are the production floors and construction facilities of Ernst Reinhardt GmbH. Once more, one of the biggest innovations in the coating sector comes from this area.

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he tasks set for the construction and the R&D departments were clearly defined – develop a coating unit that can easily, efficiently, and at low cost, coat small batches. Of course, it must feature well established Reinhardt quality, have a starting price less than 100,000 euros, and a delivery time of less than 12 weeks. The unit has to come in basket or barrel variation and comply with all the large material producers. To guarantee the required high grade of flexibility the unit also must be expandable as a construction kit system.

This was the kick off for project ‘Coatingflex’. For the first time it was possible to economically cover small batch sizes with a large coating unit (with a performance of 6 tonnes per hour).

With an average capacity of 1,200kg per hour (700 litres per hour) and a set up area of just 3x3 metres as the basic configuration, Reinhardt hit the bulls’ eye – the only way small batch sizes can be processed profitably.

Maximum flexibility equals maximum efficiency. For starters, the coating medium can be changed without great hassle.

Secondly the conception of the unit is for modular growth.

Key is the capability to easily and quickly change batches – multiple changeover processes in a day are no problem.

The coating unit alone can be run with an existing batch furnace. At a later stage a flow furnace with cooling zone can be installed as well. The unit adapts to a company’s development.

“25 years experience has delivered a well engineered list of options, covering each and every scenario. Automatic part feeding, batch documentation, separate up and unloading stations, part-handling (half and fully automatic), cooling zones, and different drying processes (batch, belt or pallet oven), are not expensive special requests but standards that can be included into the base unit.”

Reinhardt also never forgets the environment and the people working with its units, so they are set up for maximum results with the least possible material use – the unique and well engineered centrifugal method means an immense reduction in the use of material.

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Efficient, flexible, varied Walter Lumberg GmbH & Co. KG is a privately owned German company which was founded in 1922. We develop, produce and store flat washers and sealing gaskets, as well as stamping parts made from numerous materials like steel, stainless, brass, copper or aluminum. Our product range is extended through square washers and socket rings in steel, brass and stainless steel. Furthermore, we have significantly enlarged our production program by washers and stamping parts according to customer-specific drawings and samples.

We are certified in accordance to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008.

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Fixing for seismic load Bossong says that its EPOXY 21 is the first pure epoxy resin on the market to have received the seismic qualification C2 with standard threaded rods. Since 2011 the product has also received two ETAs and has been CE marked for approval for threaded rod (Option 1 and Option 7) and post-installed rebar connections.

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he new seismic assessment according to ETAG 001 Annex E (design method TR045) with standard threaded rod for category C2 applications was released in 2013.

The assessment, which is optional, determines that the product is suitable for structural and non-structural applications and for every level of seismicity.

Two test protocols are identified in Annex E: • C1: Limited – only for low seismicity level areas.

• C2: Universal – for all levels of seismicity, both for structural and non-structural uses.

The C1 protocol requires fewer, less severe tests compared to protocol C2 – which is very different and substantially more stringent. The C2 protocol requires a minimum of 30 tests per diameter. Anchors must also be qualified in cracks up to 0.8mm in width by simulating the inversion of the moment through the active compression of the concrete around the anchor.

EPOXY 21 is certified for fixing with variable anchorage depths.

This means that the project engineer has considerable flexibility in the design phase. The ETA for post installed rebar connections

is in accordance with Eurocode 2 and TR023 with maximum allowed depth of 250cm, including certified installation with both drill and core-drill (dry/wet cutting system), which makes it most suitable for professional rebar applications.

In addition, the Option 7 for uncracked concrete and Option 1 for installation in cracked concrete with rods guarantee to the user an extreme broad spectrum of applications. EPOXY 21 is available in many different sizes: 900ml, 470ml, 400ml and 265ml.

“Thanks to these qualifications, BCR EPOXY 21 is confirmed as one of the most advanced pure epoxy resins in the market – offering the highest performance.” www.bossong.com

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New External MORTORQ® Super bolt design Phillips Screw Company has introduce the newest addition to the MORTORQ® family of high performance fastener designs – the External MORTORQ® Super bolt design.

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hillips Screw states that this new wrenching system is quickly gaining acceptance as a high performance light weight replacement for hex head, bi-hex, and six lobed bolt head designs in both aerospace and automotive applications. First introduced as a weight saving option for high performance special alloy aerospace bolts the new design reduces head height by 20% compared to the 12-point bolt it replaced. In addition, the new design provides 1.4 times the drive surface contact area and 2.5 times the removal surface contact for improved torque transmission and assured serviceability and maintenance. Weight savings were 30 pounds (13.6kg) per 1,000 pieces compared to the original ¾ inch (19mm) diameter bi-hex head multiphase alloy bolt.

The new design is also easier to forge with fewer secondary operations required to achieve the final product. The innovative design creates the lightening hole during the initial forging operation eliminating an entire secondary operation while filling the head form completely. When used to replace a standard hex flange bolt the new design has a 30% lower head height and provides 2.1

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times the contact surface area on the removal faces of the drive-due to the unique spiral engagement of the socket and bolt head. The new design is available in a size range from #10 (M5) up to 2 inch (M50) from a global network of licensed manufacturers.

All manufacturers are subject to initial qualification and regular quality monitoring to assure the global compatibility and performance of bolts and sockets in all applications.

Available in materials ranging from Grade 5.8 to ultra-high strength multiphase aerospace alloys such as MP159, these bolts are the latest addition to the MORTORQ® family of fasteners that have proven themselves in applications from the front seat bolts of cars to the window bolts of the space shuttle.

New Keramo extreme Austrian based ALPEN-MAYKESTAG GmbH says that its new Keramo extreme drill bit is the perfect problem solver for the toughest tiles.

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eramo extreme’s patented tungsten carbide tip with centre cutting geometry allows precise placement and accurate holes without chipping. ALPEN-MAYKESTAG says that it can be used on the hardest porcelain/gres tiles up to Mohs/Ritz hardness grade 9, as well as glass and porcelain. No cooling is required making the drill bit easier to handle and it can be used in all standard drills.

The Keramo extreme offers high stability due to a reinforced shank diameter and also includes a special ground tip that enables low-wear drilling and very long service life of the bit. Keramo extreme also includes a white ring mark, which signifies to the operator the ideal drilling depth. www.alpen-drills.com

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Pitzl Metallbau GmbH & Co KG, a supplier of innovative connection systems for timber construction, says its aim is to introduce systems of increasing efficiency and competitiveness for its customers.

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itzl’s latest innovation is the Pitzl Power Clamp, which will be presented officially at Fastener Fair Stuttgart. Power Clamp is an innovative system that allows a gentle and smooth lifting of solid wood panels and boards such as glued laminated and cross-laminated timber.

Power Clamp is easy to fix in a (40mm) pre-drilled hole by just ‘clicking’ it into place and ensures load capacities up to 1,000kg per clamp. In addition, an innovative closure technique allows for a quick release, when the element is seated in the right position.

“The Power Clamp enables users to save an enormous amount of time in comparison to existing methods. There is no need for further butts or hooks and no damage to solid timber elements. The Power Clamp can be used multiple times – up to 20,000 lifts.”

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Hot forging for long and large bolts Videx Machine Engineering Ltd has added hot forging lines that it says are the first fully automatic lines in the world for long and large bolts.

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avid Wiesenfeld, who is the founder and owner of Videx Machine Engineering Ltd, started in the fastener industry 50 years ago as a plant engineer in an Israeli fastener plant. David gained his experience in hot forging at that time and has always dreamt of returning to this business.

Now with the addition of the hot forging lines to the Videx portfolio he has been able to do so. The forging machines are available in 300, 400 and 500 metric tonnes, covering the thread range of ¾ inch to 2 inch (M48) in the smallest machine and up to 3 inch in the largest machine. The length range is 8 inches – 32 inches (200mm – 800mm) under the head.

The line comprises the following machines: • Impact cutter – cutting long bars to length.

• Chamfer machine – accepting cut-to-length bars from the impact cutter or from a one-row magazine.

• Extrusion machine – extruding the chamfered side.

• Induction heating machine – (not made by Videx).

• Forging machine – with solid die, double blow, with 300/400/500 metric tonnes capacity.

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Then, the dial indexes the parts to the first forging station, which upsets the parts and breaks the scale. In the next station, the hex is formed in a slide closed die. After heading the parts are indexed to the ejection position, where they are ejected to a conveyor that takes them out of the machine area.

The production rate is 4 – 6 parts per minute.

The hot forging machines can be supplied with a spray system for cooling and lubricating the die and punch and also as self-standing independent machines and not connected as a line.

The forging machine has five stations – one feed station, two forging stations and two ejecting stations. The chamfered and extruded bars are fed into the die by a pneumatic piston.

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ARaymond Industrial ARaymond Network is a fastening specialist since 1865.

Our core expertise are fastening systems, fluid connection and bonding solutions for the automotive/industrial sector.

Today, acting in 18 countries worldwide, we offer all standard fasteners to assemble, protect, and connect your equipment. We also design specific customized products to your needs.

Fastener Fair Stuttgart Fastener + Fixing Magazine provides a unique reference guide that offers the industry a fast and easy way to source both current and upcoming product Catalogues.

Use this convenient service to call, fax or email the companies to request a copy of their latest Catalogue and up to date product information.

email: contact@araymond-industrial.com www.araymond-industrial.com

Acton

adunox

Distributors first choice in Europe for stainless steel fasteners.

Besides its huge range of products in A2 and A4, Acton also carries a complete line of zinc-plated selfdrilling screws, nylon fasteners, clamps & worm drive clips, marine assortment. A same day dispatch service worldwide can be provided thanks to our important stock capacity and up-to-date organization. email: acton@acton.fr www.acton.fr

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adunox means production of traditional collating systems and latest innovations in the field of collated screws.

Screws with all kinds of threads and head designs can be collated on customers’ request from 3mm300mm in length. with the new collating system adunox-ONE. A customer subcontract service with an option for private labels complete the adunox area of activity.

email: info@adunox.com www.adunox.com

Albert Pasvahl GmbH & CO

Tel: +49 40 532 852 0 www.pasvahl.de

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Ambrovit

Albert Pasvahl offers you its experience and expertise in special connection elements and accessories resulting from 80 years in business. In the course of this time, we have become a leading stockist of special standard screws.

For example: Direct from stock DIN 609/610, DIN 561/564, DIN 478/479/480, DIN 464/653/466/467, DIN 906/908/910

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The widest range of certified screws, available for the National and International market:

RESEARCH+QUALITY+TECHNOLOGY Behind a great Product there is always a great Company and a great Job

www.catalog.ambrovit.it email: sales@ambrovit.it www.ambrovit.it

Hex lag screws, Chipboard screws, Carpentry screws, Drywall screws, Dome screws and Euro screws, Machine screws, Nuts, Washers, Bolts, Threaded rods, Self Tapping screws, Concrete screws, Self Drilling screws, PVC screws, S.S. A2 screws READY TO SHIP

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Anzi Sinolink Europe B.V.

Apex Stainless Fasteners Ltd

Anzi Sinolink, the European establishment from Anzi Industrial Company in Shanghai, presents a complete selection of blind fasteners and blind fastening tools. Together with Anzi Industrial and some other specialized manufacturers from the Far East, we offer direct import from the Far East and from our own European warehouse.

As the UK’s leading Stainless Steel Wholesaler to the distribution Trade, Apex provides a comprehensive stock range, with in excess of €12 million of both globally sourced and own manufactured Quality Assured metric, unified and imperial fasteners in A2 & A4. A reliable and competitively priced service, including UK next day delivery on all stock items, is provided.

Same day shipment to Ireland is available by arrangement.

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email: sales@apexstainless.com www.apexstainless.com

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C ATA LO G U E R A C K Apolo MEA Befestigungssysteme GmbH

Bäcker GmbH & Co. KG

Apolo MEA Befestigungssysteme GmbH offers technical know-how, innovative developments and design competence as a producer of fixing systems. Our state of the art products guarantee a maximum of application safety for your projects. Our customers benefit from an extensive assortment of light duty fixings, heavy duty fixings and chemical fastening systems as well as screws, electrical and sanitary fixings – One stop shop for quality. email: info@apolofixing.com www.apolofixing.com

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email: info@baecker.eu www.baecker.eu

Bossong

BAER is your contact for all thread inserts, taps and dies and custom-made items. You benefit from the huge product range and the flexibility in production. BaerCoil® and BaerFix® thread inserts create and reinforce internal threads in metal and plastics. Highest precision and quality standards help to provide solutions for future construction possibilities.

Manufacturer of fixing systems since 1951. Full range of chemical anchors: Polyester styrene-free ETA-approved, Vinylester styrenefree ETA-approved in the standard, Winter and Tropical versions, Pure Epoxy ETA-approved including C2 seismic qualification.

Full range of mechanical anchors and powder actuated fastening systems, also for competitors’ tools.

Top level homologations, excellent technical service.

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email: info@bossong.com www.bossong.com

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Dörken MKS-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG

Clamp Srl Clamp Srl is an Italian company specialized in clamps, clips, cabling & fastening solutions. We are both manufacturers and resellers.

Our sales cover a good number of industries, from automotive to marine and agriculture. Our manufacturing capability let us develop customized products according to clients drawings and needs, including a personalized packaging and labelling.

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Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG We are one of the leading European stockists of all types of industrial fasteners. 60,000 pallet locations of stock, along with over 850 employees make Dresselhaus your perfect partner for sourcing standard and specialised parts.

Tel: +49 52 21 9 32 0 www.dresselhaus.de

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BAER Vertriebs GmbH

email: info@baercoil.com www.baercoil.com

email: info@clamp.it www.clamp.it

For more than 35 years, BÄCKER has stood and still stands for solutions in plastics at the highest level. The comprehensive standard range of the plastics specialist comprises more than 5,000 different articles: PlacoGrip® control elements, including clamping levers, indexing bolts and star grips; PlacoTec® – standard elements such as screws, nuts and washers; PlacoCap® – protective elements such as cover caps and protective caps and PlacoEngineering project solutions to customers specifications.

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email: mks@doerken.de www.doerken-mks.com

Dörken has been developing micro layer corrosion protection systems for 30 years and is European market leader for zinc flake systems free of chrome(VI).

Under the brand name DELTA-MKS®, Dörken produces and configures extremely effective surface protection mainly for fastening elements used in the automotive and wind industry.

Our worldwide approved products like DELTA-PROTEKT®, DELTA-eLACK® and DELTA-PROZINC® are specified at many global OEMs.

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Dynaplus Nordic Concept The Dynaplus Nordic concept of Hoenderdaal Fasteners is a shopconcept with a wide range of highquality screws especially developed for the Scandinavianmarket. The products are packed in high-quality transparent storage packagings. The boxes are totally filled up with products, this ensures the shop to put more products per shelve in their screws-section.

This provides a wider assortiment and/or a higher turnover per section. email: info@hoenderdaal-fasteners.nl www.dynaplus.nl

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email: info@e-u-r-o-tec.de www.e-u-r-o-tec.de

E.U.R.O Tec GmbH

Fastbolt GmbH

E.u.r.o.Tec – The specialist for fastening technology – offers professional fasteners made of hardened steel, coated steel, stainless A2/A4, hardened stainless for wood constructions, hardwood and composite deckings, glue wood, roofings, façades, carpenter/framers accessories – all in German quality. All approved and in certified quality. The main goal is to create fasteners offering the professional enduser a most possible benefit. For detailed information of the most recent developments, please refer to the EuroTec homepage.

Fastbolt is a leading wholesaler of industrial fasteners to European distributors only. Apart from a highly specialised product range ex stock Fastbolt offers individual supply solutions such as customised packing, direct container imports, pre-import quality inspections and a revolutionary online availability check and ordering system: FBonline.

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email: info@fastbolt.com www.fastbolt.com

FIXI

The experts in blind riveting

FIXI was founded in 1984.The core business is the production and the development of Blind Rivets, Threaded Inserts, Self Clinching Fasteners, Welding studs and their Tools. We distribute our products all over Europe and our Firm is certified according ISO 9001:2008.

With strategically filled stock we can promptly guarantee “just in time” deliveries of high quality items at very competitive prices. email: info@fixi.it www.fixi.it

Tel: +49 (0) 7932 9155 11 www.gueldner.com

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Programme and spare parts programme 2015/16 Blind rivets, Blind rivet nuts and riveting tools effective 1st May 2015

GESIPA Blindniettechnik GmbH GESIPA® Blindniettechnik GmbH operates on an international level. This means short delivery routes to all our customers around the world ensuring availability and service for all GESIPA® products. With its innovative overall system comprising fastener, setting tool and setting technique, GESIPA® offers one-source complete solutions for trade and industry.

Tel: +49 (0) 6105 9620 email: info@gesipa.com

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Güldner Sonderschrauben GmbH & CO KG

HEICO Befestigungstechnik GmbH

Güldner manufacturers special purpose screws, CNC-turned parts and fasteners according to customer’s requirments.

They provide certification according to DIN EN 10204 / 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, TÜV, GL, etc.

Güldner is certified according to TÜV, AD-2000 Merkblatt W0 / TRD 100, PED 97/23/EG, KTA 1401 / IAEA 50-C-Q and ISO 9001:2008.

Since 1900, the HEICO Group has been providing reliable and high-quality solutions in the field of fastening technology and can draw on over 100 years of expertise.

With more than 400 employees, the company manufactures a wide range of products which are distributed via our branches located throughout the world. Our global customer services and in-house laboratories offer a high level of technical advice as well as individual testing facilities.

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HJZ – Zandvoort draadIndustrie B.V.

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Inox Mare

Founded in 1936, was the first factory of hardened steel nails in Holland. Under our brand “HJZ” a complete range of hardened steel nails, stainless steel nails, brass nails, aluminium nails, redcopper nails and special carbon steel nails are manufactured.

Tel: +31 314 333441 www.hjz.nl

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The best stainless steel fastening systems.

Screws, nuts and bolts, marine accessories, fittings and fastening systems for photovoltaic installations.

Blister production for retail selling and from today also the best stainless steel dowels.

Inox Mare: The new style of a great tradition. email: info@inoxmare.it www.inoxmare.it

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C ATA LO G U E R A C K Lederer GmbH

Marer Srl – Italy

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 more than 40 years of experience.

Thanks to 30 years experience, Marer Srl is a very skilled European producer of cold-forming articles.

Quality, efficiency and credibility are the keys of our production, according to customers’ drawing.

We can satisfy various requests providing complete services, from cold forming to heat and galvanic treatments.

Fax: +49 2333 8309 18 www.lederer-online.com

email: sales@mavita.it www.mavita.it

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Mavita

Peter Schröder

For over 50 years, Mavita is specialized in the development and manufacture of Standard and Special cold pressed fasteners.

In sectors such as the automotive industry, the household appliances and the electrical industry it plays a leading role on the international market owing to the good relationship “Quality/Price” of its products and to its ISO 9001 and ISO/TS 16949 Quality Certifications.

Over 40 years experience in trading and supplying customers with inch sized fastening items.

• Inch sized screws available from stock.

• Availability of every current type of screw threads and materials.

• Special parts available as well.

• Large availability from stock of high quality as per ISO9001-2000 don’t hesitate to talk to us – we will be pleased to help you.

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Tel.: +49 (0) 71 32/99 60-0 • Fax.: +49 (0) 71 32/99 60-60

www.schroederschrauben.de

Tel: +49 71 32 99 600 www.schroederschrauben.de

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pgb-Europe nv

pgb-Polska z.o.o.

pgb-Europe holds over 25.000 SKU of fasteners, fixings and tools in stock. With focus on high product quality and optimal product presentation we are one of the leading suppliers of fasteners in the Benelux. Modern warehousing, uniform packaging and flexible order processing are just a few of the assets that makes our 100% family-owned company a trustful partner.

pgb-Polska produces high quality nylon fixings. We continuously improve our production to reach for the highest standards. We also have a complete range of metal and chemical fixings covered by ETA’s. The flexibility of our activities (production, packaging, transportation) let us satisfy every branch in the construction industry.

email: Frederik.pennoit@pgb-europe.com www.pgb-europe.com

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email: piotr.baczkowski@pgb-polska.com www.pgb-polska.com

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Ernst Reinhardt GmbH The Ernst Reinhardt GmbH, established in 1937, is known for building exceptional industrial furnaces, in many different variations. More than 25 years ago, we added coating systems into our product portfolio. Since then we have been successful in constructing and manufacturing coating systems for bulk materials in many different variations. Customized solutions can be offered as well, we have solutions especially for small batch sizes. “Quality made in Germany” – this is what we stand for! Short delivery times along with a good price-performance ratio are a given.

email: info@ernstreinhardt.de www.ernst-reinhardt.com

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REYHER

We are specialised in the manufacturing of fasteners since 1982. We have stock and production plants in Spain and China, able to provide all needs of the labour market in terms of quality, variety and price. We produce: rivets, blind rivet nuts, riveting tools, and products for custom designed.

With over 125 years’ experience, REYHER is one of Europe‘s leading distributors of fasteners and fixing technology supplying customers worldwide. REYHER is very wellestablished in the market thanks to its long tradition of high quality consciousness and strong technical competence. With over 130,000 different items, REYHER offers a broad and deep range of products that covers the manifold needs of all industries.

Tel: +34 948 827 121 email: ventas@remachestudela.com

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

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Sala Punzoni SRL

Talleres SASPI S.A

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.

SASPI has always been on the forward line of innovation and technology in the advancements of their equipment taking into account market needs saving time and money for the customers. With their well known experience of over 50 years SASPI has become one of the most reliable companies in the market.

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Schäfer + Peters GmbH

Sinard

Your specialist in stainless steel fasteners. An independent & reliable partner.

We are a manufacturer specialising in SPRING STEEL STAMPING WITH OWN HEAT TREATMENT for more than 60 years.

We carry a stock of over 30,000 different products from the DIN/ISO standard parts sector that are available to you immediately.

Our logistic partners guarantee shortest lead times worldwide.

We combine quality and service.

Take advantage of our excellent business connections.

Tel: +49 7941 6094-0 email: info@schaefer-peters.com

email: sipa@sipaitalia.it www.sipaitalia.it

email: export@reyher.de www.reyher.de

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Completing the production process from the design and manufacture of the matrix/tooling, to the production and the heat treatment.

We can produce standard and special parts under customer specifications. email: sinard@sinard.es www.sinard.es

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Sipa SRL

Tecfi S.p.A

SIPA S.R.L. is specialised in the production of washers of different norms (DIN 125/A, DIN 9021, DIN 440 etc). We can supply washers with holes and dimensions on client’s request, in raw material, zinc plated, HDG and in small or industrial boxes. We also produce plates, shelves, connector bands also on client’s drawing.

Tecfi®is an italian company specialized in designing, manufacturing and trading of fixing systems and general fasteners. From the very beginning Tecfi invested in a high tech laboratory, an advanced quality control system and a qualified team: those are the strongholds that allowed Tecfi to gain competitive advantages, represented by patents and very strict product certifications (ETA-CE, CE, SOCOTEC, UL).

Visit us at Fastener Fair Stuttgart to learn more.

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TECNOPRESS TECNOPRESS manufactures products of new generation: • Servo straightener and uncoliler feeders • Stainless steel wire heating systems TECNOPRESS is the reliable partner for: • Modifications and customizations of special components made by the internal technical office • Analysis and innovations to fulfil CE regulations • Refurbishing and full rebuilding of header and threadrolling email: info@tecnopressfilo.com www.tecnopressfilo.com

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Tillex – Range List

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Since 1954 we are specialised in high-quality plastic fasteners.

Our extensive programme of cable clips and plastic plugs provides comprehensive fixing and fastening solutions. We use only high-quality plastic materials as well as all nails and screws are made of best steel quality. All plastic products are manufactured in Denmark.

www.tillex.com

email: tillex@tillex.dk www.tillex.com

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Topmaker Fasteners Industrial Co., Ltd.

TR Fastenings

Topmaker, being a member of China Anchor Group, has more than 10 years experience in the Rivet Nuts industry.

We've been striving to provide the best quality and excellent service.

To experience the concept of onestop shop, start by sending your inquiries for Rivet nuts, Anchors, Autoparts and Hand Toolings. email: sales@topmaker.com.tw www.topmaker.com.tw

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V M A engineering GmbH

Tillex

TR Fastenings – Global manufacturer & distributor of fasteners including sheet metal fasteners, PCB hardware & cable management, inserts for plastic, self-locking fasteners, sets, bolts, studding, screws, nuts, security fasteners, blind rivets & nuts, micro diameter and more.

• Competitive prices • Next day delivery on all stocked items • Online technical support. email: sales@trfastenings.com www.trfastenings.com

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Analyses, bolt connection, friction coefficients, insertion torque, threadforming torque, stripping torque, breaking torque, loosening torque, breakaway torque, prevailing torque, preload, clamp load, teststands, sensors, fastening technology.

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Valenta ZT A threaded rod specialist. An extensive stock of raw material and finished products. Carbon, alloyed and stainless steel, fine and left thread, other hard to find items. Tie rods, double end studs, large sizes, special lengths.

Trapezoidal thread to DIN103, rods up to 6m, spindles, nuts.

A standard part importer.

email: info@vma-engineering.de www.vma-engineering.de

email: info@wasi.de www.wasi.de

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email: sales@valentazt.cz www.valentazt.cz

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Wagener & Simon WASI GmbH & Co. KG

Würth Industrie Service GmbH & Co. KG

WASI Product Catalogue NORM With about 26,000 listed products Wagener & Simon WASI GmbH & Co KG is a global player in the trading of stainless steel fasteners.

On www.wasi.de you will find further information about packaging, logistics and services, which simplify procurement management.

The product catalogue WASI Norm shows the entire product range of standardized products.

Within the Würth Group, Würth Industrie Service is responsible for supplying the industrial sector as a full service provider of C-Parts management. The product range of more than 1,000,000 items focuses on industrial requirements for production needs, small parts and assembly materials for industrial production, as well as maintenance and repair equipment.

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EXHIBITIONS

STAFDA convention races to the finish Members of the Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association (STAFDA) raced to a super charged finish to the association’s 38th annual convention and trade show in Charlotte, 9th – 11th November 2014.

Organisers reported that more than 4,500 members attended the convention, which included 790 booths.

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he Charlotte programme began with a day of education as morning workshops featured topics ranging from ‘Cloud and mobile computing’, to the battle between Jekyll & Hyde or rather credit and sales. In the afternoon sessions ‘Pricing strategies’, ‘The impact of mergers and acquisitions’, ‘Managers’ guide to the new workplace’, and ‘Effective goal setting’ were all on the agenda. Each programme was geared specifically for STAFDA members and provided thought-provoking forums with industry peers.

Sunday evening, the Opening Party at the NASCAR Hall of Fame was a race to see and experience all the history, memorabilia, and interactive events throughout the three story venue. STAFDA members had exclusive use of the hall and were free to run the course of food, beverages, and desserts.

Monday morning’s General Session took a look at STAFDA history – first with the annual year-in-review video montage and then with the Founders Forum. Six of the original eighteen founding distributor members, and the first executive director, were on stage to discuss the association’s beginnings.

STAFDA’s president, Eric Grabowski, Edge Construction Supply, Spokane, WA, provided insight into how the distributor market is performing. With the manufacturers’ viewpoint was Ben Battaglia, vice president of sales for the brand portfolio of Bosch, Skilsaw, Dremel, RotoZip, and CSTberger, Mount Prospect, IL. Former coach of the SuperBowl winning Washington Redskins and NASCAR team owner, Joe Gibbs, delivered a riveting keynote speech on what it takes to lead and have people follow you.

A sold out trade show then offered attendees aisles and aisles of new products, show only specials, and the opportunity to spend

time with industry veterans and newcomers. STAFDA Central, in the middle of the exhibit hall, also provided members a chance to talk to association staff, enter a raffle for NASCAR prizes, and even chat up NASCAR drivers. The ‘Tech & Consultants Row’ provided business improvement opportunities for those looking for services and technology upgrades.

Tuesday morning featured Alan Beaulieu’s annual ‘Economic Update’. He took a hard look at trends, the industrial and construction markets, and financial indicators to give attendees insight into the coming year. That afternoon, the trade show floor opened once again before the Closing Party wrapped things up neatly with a delicious meal and a band.

STAFDA’s 39th Annual Convention & Trade Show will take place on 8th – 10th November 2015, in Phoenix. Visitors must be a STAFDA member to attend.

New dates announced for Fastener Fair Russia 2015 Show organiser Mack Brooks Exhibitions has announced the dates for Fastener Fair Russia 2015 have changed. The dedicated event for the fastener and fixing industry is still taking place in the same week as planned, but the opening date is a day later.

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he three day show will now take place from 25th – 27th March 2015. The location for the event remains unchanged – the show will continue to take place at the recently completed ExpoForum in St. Petersburg, offering world class facilities for exhibitors and show visitors.

Taking place at the centre of Russia’s fastest growing industrial area, Fastener Fair Russia 2015 is an ideal marketplace to renew business partnerships and to embark on new business ventures. The confidence in long-term business opportunities in Russia’s industrial manufacturing sector remains positive as national and international companies continue to sign up for the show.

The specialised event for the fastener and fixing industry provides firms with a unique opportunity to present their products and services to professional trade visitors. The event attracts global distributors,

wholesalers, traders, importers, manufacturers, suppliers and engineers, with the addition of selected end-users from the construction, automotive, aerospace and other industry sectors.

Among the international exhibitors at the show will be Vilux Viterie from Italy, Nurmak Vida from Turkey and several companies from Taiwan, including Linkwell Industry Co and Wan Iuan Enterprise Co. Russian firms will have a strong presence too.

Well known names on the growing list of exhibitors include fastener retailer Samorezik, leading manufacturer Mashkrepezh and locking systems specialist HEICO – taking part via its local subsidiary.

Companies that are still looking to showcase their products and services and want to take advantage of this gateway to Russia’s extensive fasteners and fixings market by booking a stand, should contact the show organisers for more details. www.fastenerfair.com/russia

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EXHIBITIONS

MIDEST 2014: “An excellent show draws to a close” Organisers of MIDEST, the French industrial subcontracting show held from 4th – 7th November 2014 at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, reported a successful show despite the difficult economic situation.

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his year the show attracted 1,678 subcontractors from 45 countries, much the same as last year. French subcontracting continued to account for the lion’s share of the exhibitors, with 1,016 companies or 61% of the total. From outside France, MIDEST’s foreign partners brought a total of 662 companies, strengthening global representation at the event.

On the visitor front MIDEST displayed remarkable stability, with a slight 2.5% fall compared with last year and a 4% rise on 2012. The show was visited by 41,048 professionals from 78 countries, who came with their projects to meet the exhibitors.

17% of the visitors (2% up on 2013) were from outside France with the top five in descending order being Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany and Tunisia.

A host of highlights and events Besides its primary role as a catalyst for meetings and a business generator, MIDEST works to present the main developments in global industry to its exhibitors and visitors.

Consequently, this year it hosted various lectures and broadcasts from the TV Studio that shone the spotlight on what is the world’s most dynamic industrial sector – aerospace, and on a technique that

is really gaining ground – additive manufacturing or 3D printing.

Another first was the selection as country of the year of a North African nation, Tunisia, which had two large exhibition spaces devoted to it. A new event, the ‘Plastics and Composite Materials Federation’s Destination Plasturgie MAJOR lorry’, was a great success and staged a number of demonstrations of the leading technologies being used in the plastics industry. b2fair – Business to Fairs® staged a programme of business meetings for the fourth year in a row and set up 1,300 qualified meetings on an individual basis that brought together subcontractors and customers looking to forge real partnerships in a specific sector. This figure was a substantial 48% up on the previous year.

MIDEST also hosted a conference programme that presented its audience with an overview of the latest developments in the sector. A total of 917 people attended these talks and the flash conferences organised by CETIM – the mechanical engineering technical centre.

Next year’s MIDEST and MAINTENANCE EXPO will run from 17th – 20th November 2015 and will be held in conjunction with TOLEXPO, the international exhibition of production equipment for working metal in sheets, coils, tubes and sections.

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Included in the provisional list of participants are locksmith and iron fittings companies and those dealing in hand tools, industrial and construction (industry) supplies, fixings, hardware and home, and services. Foreign companies are also responding to FERROFORMA’s commercial proposition, with top class brands from Germany, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Turkey and China exhibiting at the show.

43% of registered exhibitors are new companies.

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Fastener Fair India returns to Mumbai Fastener Fair India, the premier exhibition for the fastener and fixing industry in India, will once again be returning to the Bombay Exhibition Centre from 23rd – 24th April 2015.

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he 3rd edition of Fastener Fair India will showcase the very latest fastener and fixing technologies and solutions to high profile decision makers. The show comprises of professional trade visitors such as distributors, wholesalers, suppliers, engineers, specifiers and other industry professionals. The last exhibition, in 2013, saw over 4,000 highly qualified visitors in attendance.

Three months before the show and 75% of the available exhibition space has already been booked. In addition to the Indian exhibitors, the show has also attracted companies from all over the world including China, Taiwan, Germany and Turkey.

Fastener Fair India covers a wide product range of industrial fasteners and fixings, assembly and installation systems, storage and logistics services, fastener manufacturing technology and construction fixings.

The show has proven to be a high-quality event for the

industry with over 90% of exhibitors at the 2013 edition finding the exhibition to be successful for their respective companies.

The show also received excellent marks for the quality and quantity of visitors.

Fastener Fair India 2015 will again be held at the same time as BLECH India – an exhibition dedicated entirely to the sheet metal working industry. The fourth edition of this highly successful trade fair takes place from 22nd – 25th April 2015 and presents a large variety of machines, tools and solutions for sheet metal forming and the fabrication process.

Fastener Fair India is organised by Inter Ads – Brooks Exhibitions, a joint venture of Mack Brooks Exhibitions Ltd in the UK and the Indian based Inter Ads – Brooks Exhibition Company. Additional information on Fastener Fair India 2015, including details of exhibition stand options, is available on the show website.

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Italian specialist Rivit Srl, based in Bologna, is known for the production and distribution of fastening systems and tools for sheet metal working.

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t Fastener Fair India, Rivit Srl’s subsidiary – Rivit India Fasteners Private Ltd – will be exhibiting and displaying Rivit’s wide range of products, such as blind rivets, threaded inserts, self-clinching fasteners, welding studs, cage nuts, as well as other fasteners and related tools for their installation.

Rivit India is able to offer commercial assistance and technical support to sheet metal working companies in the fields of automotive, transport (buses, trucks, trains, ships, etc), electrical appliances and electronics.

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Unbrako® – stronger and better C10 performing fasteners A specialist in Vendor The largest industrial fastener manufacturer in Managed Inventory India since 1956, Deepak Fasteners Ltd says it is committed to quality at the best possible prices.

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eepak manufactures a wide range of bolts, nuts, washers, ASTM studs, foundation bolts, threaded rods, clamps and other allied items that conform to international standards such as DIN, ASTM, BS, ANSI and ISO. Deepak is also the worldwide owner of the Unbrako® brand, which it says has become synonymous with stronger and better performing fasteners.

“The famous Unbrako socket head cap screws and Durlok® self-locking fasteners are the solutions of choice for engineering applications across the globe, and secure structures such as Melbourne AAMI Park, Heathrow T5 and Delhi Metro. To add to the already impressive range, Unbrako fasteners are now also available in stainless steel.”

Environmentally friendly anti-corrosive coatings EFFCO Finishes & Technologies Pvt Ltd is involved in the sourcing and development of environmentally friendly anti-corrosive coating technologies for surface finishing in the automotive, industrial and engineering construction industries.

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FFCO provides coating chemistry, know-how, training, consultation and technical support to customers involved in the automotive and engineering markets. The company can also provide a ‘one-stop-shop’ solution for customers by putting together the required items according to demand and availability for functional organic, fluoropolymer and plastic alloys, as well as zinc flake coating applications.

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ith distribution centres in the UK, Czech Republic, Poland, India and Asia, Heads & All Threads says that it is a specialist in the design and operation of Vendor Managed Inventory systems.

Other members of the Heads & All Threads Group include Construction Fixings – focused on construction fixings around the world; and Japanese screw – a specialist in micro screws, as well as JIS and JCIS standards.

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öllhoff Group, with an experience of over 135 years, has a worldwide business network, with seven manufacturing locations in Europe, America and Asia. It also has subsidiaries in 22 countries that provide it with access to all the major global markets.

Böllhoff Fastenings Pvt Ltd was set up in 2007 and the company has already established a manufacturing operation for Helicoil® and brass inserts at its Gurgaon facility, which is TS/ISO certified.

In addition to the Helicoil and brass inserts, Böllhoff Fastenings is also looking to establish a market for other niche products such as riveting technology and seal lock nuts – which it imports from Böllhoff Group.

“Böllhoff Group has gained valuable expertise in various fields of fastening technology and is a competent partner for the automotive, aerospace, rail transportation, telecommunications and IT, construction equipment and machine building, and white goods industries.”

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Marcopol – entering its 30th year One of Poland’s largest fastener companies, Marcopol, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year and a pioneering role in EFDA demonstrates how this company has developed a truly global outlook from its head office close to Poland’s Baltic Coast. Phil Matten took up a warm invitation, at a rather cold time of the year, to find out more.

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hat invitation came from Marcopol’s purchasing director, Piotr Pierowicz, and purchasing manager, Aleksandra Nadolska, in September. Schedules being what they are it took until December to land in Gdańsk, where the seaside humidity level makes even -5ºC distinctly chilly.

Nevertheless it proved an instructive trip, learning not just a great deal more about a leading Polish fastener company but also having one’s eyes opened to the rich and varied characters of Poland’s closely linked northern three cities.

The Trójmiasto, or Tricity, is an urban area on the Pomeranian coast, comprising the three cities of Gdańsk, Sopot, and Gdynia.

Outside of Poland, Gdańsk is probably best known for the emergence of the Solidarity movement from its shipyards and for eventual president, Lech Wałęsa. In fact it has a recorded history of more than 1,000 years as a Polish and German city of great significance – reflected in the buildings of its old city clustered on the bank of the Motława River. As a major port, which became part of the Hanseatic League, the city has long been one of Poland’s key maritime outlooks on the world.

Sopot, in contrast, is a seaside and spa resort that developed in the late 19th century and now lays claim to the longest wooden pier in Europe and the warmest beaches on the Baltic coast – as well as some of the most expensive real estate in Poland. Gdynia is also a major port but it was consciously developed as Poland’s national port in the 1920s.

It really, though, saw explosive growth as a modern, commercial city in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Together the three cities and surrounding urban area have a population of more than one million and integrate a quite extraordinary combination of history, heritage and style.

This, then, is the home to Marcopol, founded thirty years ago

as a small fastener producer in the township of Chwaszczyno, on the outskirts of Gdynia, by Mr Jerzy Brzeziński, both founder and current president, and his Swiss brother in law Anton Muff – which explains the unusual sight of Polish and Swiss flags flying together over the company offices. Today, the same site, hugely expanded, is head office and central warehouse to a branch network present in twelve Polish cities as well as Lithuania, Estonia and Russia. The development of that network began some ten years after the business was founded: The first branch in Kraków, followed soon after by another in Katowice and then in Wrocław. Ten years later, Marcopol started developing markets to its north, into Lithuania, Estonia and Kaliningrad – the main city in the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea. Marcopol originally produced bolts and screws, the latter for the furniture market, which continues to be a core element of Marcopol’s business. The company maintains a small production facility at Chwaszczyno, focused now on special fasteners and parts for Marcopol’s industrial customers. It also has a sister company, a larger plant called 4M, which produces confirmat and euro screws for the furniture sector in a special economic zone about 100 kilometres away. Fifteen years ago Marcopol began importing from Taiwan, and later elsewhere in Asia, and today it is a major importer and wholesale distributor with a constantly expanding catalogue range of more than 20,000 articles. The range is structured into some forty product groups, which, as the company’s large and impressively stocked head office ‘shop’ also attests, encompasses far more than just fasteners.

Marcopol segments its customers broadly into two categories, which it calls ‘Professional’ and ‘Simple’. The ‘Professional’ sector comprises of industrial customers serviced directly by the

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Marcopol branches, each of which has a sales office and small warehouse, supported by the main stockholding in the large and still growing central warehouse.

Marcopol is an appointed distributor for a number of major European brands: fischer, Nord-Lock®, Klingspor, BRALO and more. To service the steel construction sector with CE Marked structural bolting the company works in close partnership with Polish manufacturer, Śrubena Unia.

‘Simple’ is a resale pack programme for distributors and hardware retailers, in distinctive green window type boxes with the Marcopol brand, fully supported by merchandising systems and cataloguing. The customers are mainly independently owned, located throughout Marcopol’s markets, sometimes in small towns and villages otherwise not serviced with these product ranges.

While volume packed lines are imported in Marcopol boxes, the company has its own packaging operation in Chwaszczyno, combining automatic lines with manual packing to meet varying volume and complexity requirements. If the volumes are sufficient and the programme profitable this facility provides the opportunity to customise packaging for the customer, whether in different box counts or with own label livery. It is also a particularly important resource in being able to pack kits of mixed products, for example for inclusion with furniture for consumer or on-site assembly.

Possessing its own production clearly continues to be an important advantage for Marcopol, allowing customised production or special items. Marcopol’s purchasing operation is now also adept at developing products to meet customer requirements from its Asian supply base. Quality assurance includes optical inspection equipment capable of checking

a range of dimensional characteristics. Services for major volume professional customers also include dedicated solutions like consignment or call-off inventory. With an in-software development team, Marcopol is also increasingly looking at extending the communication capabilities of its SAP ERP system to increase integration with major customers.

What, though, makes Marcopol distinctive is its people and a deeply ingrained service ethos. It has a one hundred strong sales force, most of which have worked for the company for at least ten years and all of which are regularly trained and assessed. The Marcopol Academy comprises two skilled trainers, who spend their lives travelling around the branch network presenting specific educational programmes, whether on the technical aspects of furniture fasteners or new products, which Marcopol is planning to bring into its range. Each session is followed by a stringent assessment that, if failed, requires that person to undergo further training. The sales teams are based in the branch offices but are regularly face-to-face with both professional and ‘Simple’ customers, which demands an extensive technical and range knowledge from each salesperson.

What’s next? Certainly continued range development and the extension of central warehousing capacity to accommodate that growth. Production will also see investment in new equipment and the quality control department will also benefit from further investment in personal qualification as well as equipment. While there is no question that personal sales contact is a fundamental element of customer relationship, Marcopol is also keen to develop e-commerce capabilities to enhance the efficiency of the transactional relationship.

Pioneering MEFDA One other distinction Marcopol gained in 2014 was to become (alongside Heco Nordiska AB of Sweden) an inaugural member of MEFDA – the European Fastener Distributors’ Association membership ‘vehicle’ for fastener distributors from countries where there is no active national fastener distributor association. For Marcopol it was a very important development as Piotr Pierowicz explained:

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n recent years the fastener industry has faced many changes in many different areas of business activity. These include anti-dumping measures, market protection and product safety regulations amongst others. Such a dynamically changing environment makes it crucial that we have access to current, accurate information on these very important business areas.

Poland does not currently have a particular organisation dedicated to representing the interests of fastener distributors so there are no possibilities to exchange experiences and good practices within our country. For Marcopol to join MEFDA was, therefore the best possible solution.

As you have seen we are a growing, dedicated company committed to a high-level of professionalism and responsibility in our business. EFDA is the umbrella organisation for European importers and distributors and MEFDA membership, as well as being prestigious for us, provides a unique opportunity to network with leading distribution businesses in Europe. It has already put us in contact with experienced, knowledgeable professionals from other markets, who are not our competitors, which means we can exchange experiences and develop the knowledge to strengthen our own business decisions.

We have attended EFDA meetings, at which we have been made most welcome. Our ideas and thoughts are listened to, as are the thoughts from other participants whatever their country or size of business. Together, then, the EFDA assembly has formulated practical strategies to support its members and the interests of fastener distributors in Europe.

Importantly, we know that we can contact EFDA at any time to obtain accurate information, to confirm or to check what we may only otherwise hear as rumour. This means we can prepare our company – to make sure we stay within the law but also to be effective in business and competitive in our own markets.

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Tradition – confirmation and an incentive for the future

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Appropriately for the 150th anniversary of the company, the board of directors of Ferdinand Gross GmbH & Co KG, represented by Gerald Hering (managing partner) and Thomas Erb, take a look back to the company’s beginnings, talk about today’s market position, and provide a look at future developments.

Ferdinand Gross got big – in the truest sense of the word – with screws. Do you see the company as being traditional in terms of being a screw dealer?

Gerald Hering: “Our company really did start out as a hardware store for screws and other items for blacksmithing, cabinetry, and wagon building. These products were and still are the focus and pivot of our business activities. But there was continuous development along the way. So that today we’re among the most successful wholesalers in fastening technology. Our focus has moved very little, but our portfolio has expanded significantly.”

The company can look back at 150 years of ongoing history. How did it all begin?

Gerald Hering: “The starting point was the one-man business of Ferdinand Gross. On 17th November 1864 he opened his hardware store on Hauptstätter Straße in Stuttgart. He had selected the Bohnenviertel as the ideal location for his new business – right in the middle of the hectic back-and-forth of the street market, with outstanding infrastructure and especially close to his target market, at that time primarily craftsmen and carters. From here, he continuously built up his burgeoning business. Later, more customers came from the areas of machine and system construction, motor vehicle construction, precision mechanics, and electrical engineering. And that’s how things have stayed to this very day.”

Do you see him as a pioneer in the industry?

Gerald Hering: “Absolutely. Ferdinand Gross was part of a generation of hardnosed inventors and founders. The Swabian spirit of invention can absolutely be attributed to him – just as it can to Bosch, Daimler, and Benz. He was a first class entrepreneur, who always wanted to have direct access to the latest developments. An example was in 1885, when he was one of the first people in Stuttgart to obtain a telephone connection.

Aside from his pioneering spirit of entrepreneurship and his far-reaching vision, he was an incredibly clever businessman.

He had the ability to do the right things at the right time. In combination with the well known Swabian virtues – hard work, frugality, and stability – he moved his business forward. All his successors and descendants have lived by those basic values – I’m doing that now, in the fifth generation.”

So they’re big shoes for every new generation to fill?

Gerald Hering: “It’s a process that demands responsibility, toughness, and durability from each and every one of us. Today, we’re a prosperous midsized company with approximately 250

employees, with subsidiaries and offices throughout Europe, and a good 70 million euros in yearly sales. An irrepressible will and the belief in the capabilities of the company contributed to that.

That’s still with us today, and every one of us in management orients themselves towards it.”

Does it also show in the many ups and downs that such a traditional company has to weather over the decades?

Gerald Hering: “I could give each one of my predecessors their own title. Sometimes saviours in need, sometimes a steersman through difficult times, sometimes a guide through global economic crises and sometimes an engine for the digital age. Together, we look back on a continuous past – there are only a few companies who have gone through so many stages to resolve their crises and celebrate their successes. Our success factors are experience on the one hand, and technical expertise on the other.”

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INSIGHT Traditions and values, plus technical know-how – those are the pillars of Ferdinand Gross?

Thomas Erb: “Continuity, experience, and quality are still the watchwords for our company today. Honesty, reliability, stability, and openness are enormously important for us in daily cooperation with our customers. Our roots here in the region also contribute a great deal in this respect.”

Ferdinand Gross can provide a comprehensive range – from eye bolts to cylinder pins – where exactly do you think the company stands in the market today?

Thomas Erb: “Today, we’re among the largest suppliers of fastening technology in Germany. We supply our customers and partners in industry with services tailored to their needs.

We also provide custom parts, technical product lines, tools, and even chemical products. Our specialty is flexible Kanban solutions – with this comprehensive system now being used by over 1,000 customers.”

What does your flexible Kanban solution involve?

How does it work?

Thomas Erb: “It’s a C-part management system that works as part of the product process and can be used to reduce procurement costs within the value creation chain by up to 70%.

The focus of the system is on the actual consumption of materials and their provision on location. To optimise local inventory and thus purchase volumes as well, we handle all of the warehousing and organisation. High-tech modern logistics rounds out the system – we keep 100,000 standard parts, 24,000 customer-specific parts, and 11,000 tools in stock at all times. That saves our customers tedious ordering and booking processes, inspections, and internal transport. At our headquarters in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, we fill about 5,000 containers every day. We make just-in-time deliveries to our customers throughout Germany, so they always have the right part at the right time in the right place.”

What factors do you see as the basic building blocks of the company’s success? What role did modern developments and innovation play?

Thomas Erb: “Tradition is always both confirmation and an incentive for the future. In combination with a spirit of innovation is where things really start to get interesting. For example, we started as a simple hardware store and developed into a Kanban specialist. Today we deliver more than screws, and also offer significantly more than just fastening technology. We see ourselves as a specialised service partner for the industry. Our service makes its mark with perfect fit and tailoring to specific needs. But all that is only possible when great emphasis is placed on a variety of ideas and development potential. And with some success – our innovations and services have already received multiple awards.

FALCON is the name of our latest innovation, and it’s currently unique in the world. It’s a browser based application that can be used to visualise all Kanban storage locations at any time, anywhere. The customer can log into the system and control the use of their C-parts more effectively, more conveniently, and in a much more goal-oriented manner. All data is completely transparent – from consumption, to capacity, to prices and the

coordinates of the box. FALCON is also available as an App for smartphones and tablets. By scanning the barcode labels on the containers, the user can see all the associated data at a glance.”

On one side you are established in your local market, on the other you work in the global market.

How do you handle that balancing act?

Gerald Hering: “Our headquarters have been in Leinfelden-Echterdingen since 1971. Not only our offices, but also our modern logistics center is located here. As a midsized native, we want to create and preserve values here at home. But that doesn’t rule out international business activity at all. To survive on the market today you have to be brave enough to go beyond your own backyard. Thanks to our subsidiaries and international companies in eastern Europe, we can ensure cost optimised products and customer connections for tomorrow and beyond.”

Your company slogan is ‘The excellent s|crew’.

What’s behind that?

Thomas Erb: “We work in the knowledge that any company is only as good at its employees. This claim expresses this sense of value to our team. Behind every screw, after all, there’s a ‘Grossian’ – our customers experience that from our yearly calendar, for example, in which not only our products but also our people are shown. Identification with the company and highly motivated, competent employees are top priority for us – the proof of that is our many awards. Ferdinand Gross is regularly one of the 100 best employers among midsized companies in Germany.”

Where is the company heading?

What are your plans, your visions?

Gerald Hering: “To want to get things moving and create something new – those were the thoughts of Ferdinand Gross.

With his outstanding feel for the needs of his customers, he conquered his market. Five generations of family management have made us a respected company. We will continue to be just as independent in the future. We’re ready for the requirements to come because we look beyond the boundaries of our company to allow us to help set the tempo of the market. So the course is set. Our sixth generation is currently preparing to take up their tasks. Because one thing is certain – Ferdinand Gross will stay in the family.” www.schrauben-gross.com

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VIBO – investing in quality

Bontempi VIBO has sustained an unprecedented programme of investment over recent years, worth tens of millions of euros, that has enabled it to become one of Italy’s top ranking cold forged bolt producers in both stainless and carbon steel.

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n 1961 the first bolt head marked VIBO was hot forged by Mr Bruno Bontempi. Today, Bontempi VIBO, still guided by the Bontempi family, has two factories. A modern facility in Calabritto, an hour from Napoli, that produces smaller diameter products in carbon steel from M6 – M12, as well as a whole range of stainless steel, and its most recent site – and the focus for the majority of its recent investment – at Rodengo-Saiano, around 10km outside Brescia, where Bontempi manufactures large diameters, long length products and specials.

A visual, and audible, symbol of the scale and seriousness of that investment at Rodengo-Saiano is a 212 tonne, M36 x 300 capacity cold former, specially mounted to insulate the rest of the building from its massive forging power. The machine has enabled Bontempi VIBO to further expand its product range to now include several additions in diameter up to M36, as well as lengths up to 300mm.

This further strengthens the vast range of products the company is already able to supply from stock. In the future, the company plans to add even more high-quality products to its portfolio.

Bontempi VIBO is also able to produce special parts according to customers’ requests, with the whole team working together to ensure that Bontempi offers the best service and support to customers. “When we receive requests from customers for special parts, it is passed through to the technical and quality department,” explains Vittoriano Calomeni, sales manager at Bontempi VIBO. “We then create a report on what the customer is asking for, the costs, and the commitments we will have

to give if we are to accept the order. It is only once we have reviewed all this information that we decide on whether we will make the products. The reason is because we want to make sure we provide the customer with a high-quality product and a consistent service.”

A critical process in bolt and screw production is, of course, heat treatment and here Bontempi VIBO has spared no expense in ensuring the highest quality of both process and output.

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INSIGHT A new continuous mesh, atmosphere controlled, furnace at Rodengo-Saiano was sourced from a market leading Austrian supplier. As well as having a very high hourly capacity for hardening and tempering the plant includes a special system to protect against mixture of the parts and it meets the highest standards for environmental protection and energy saving.

Operation via a touch-panel PC control unit opens, says Vittoriano Calomeni, “totally new perspectives regarding plant visualisation, process optimisation and process documentation”.

Commitment to quality assurance is also highly visible in the form of a new, modern equipped, laboratory capable of carrying out “the most stringent tests required by the market”.

The investment also included integrating Bontempi VIBO’s capacity to conduct micro-hardness tests, so that it can now provide hardening and tempering documentation for each production batch. Inbound materials are tightly controlled and the company has also carried out strict audits on its surface finishing contractors. Bontempi VIBO also inspects systematically, using both visual and automatic systems, to minimise the risk of head cracking in Grade 12.9 hexagon socket products. The quality system is now able to issue, on customer request, several types of document: PPAP Level III, ISIR, IMDS, 3.1 with proof-load system and PPM certificate commitment.

Additional investment at Rodengo-Saiano includes new equipment to treat the raw material coils, such as a sand blasting machine and new polymer machines. Investment in cold headers and advanced threading rolling machines at Rodengo-Saiano has also strongly extended the range and grades of bolts Bontempi VIBO can offer.

Equally critical to the final customer is ensuring they receive the correct type and quantity of parts. To ensure a consistent service Bontempi VIBO invested in a new robot packaging line at Rodengo-Saiano (pictured below) that minimises the risk of incorrect box quantities and makes the packaging process a lot more efficient, as well as helping to reduce packaging time and ensuring correct handling.

At the heart of Bontempi VIBO’s Rodengo-Saiano facility, and a key part of the logistics system, is a fully automated

warehouse with a massive capacity for 15,000 pallet spaces – introducing levels of accuracy and productivity previously beyond the imagination of the business. The whole system is barcode controlled and fully integrated to Bontempi VIBO’s ERP system.

Product from the Calabritto factory, already subjected to intensive final quality inspection, is received at Rodengo-Saiano and is scanned onto the inventory system, giving the sales department immediate visibility of its availability.

Before and after picking, each pallet drawn from the storage area is weigh-checked to ensure accuracy. Once the customer order is assembled it is conveyed to an automatic wrapping machine, to ensure transit security, before it is labelled and stored ready for despatch.

For general manager, Raoul Bontempi, the most important aspects of the new logistics centre were those that successively eliminated errors, and more importantly, their negative effect on the customer relationship. “The technology shift that this warehouse system represents, compared to how we used to handle our logistics, is simply huge. It provides our customers with levels of accuracy and service, essential in today’s business environment.”

He recognises, though, that the ultimate measure of success is from the customer. “Customer satisfaction is an important goal. We want to improve the relationship with all our customers, by ensuring that we meet all of their quality expectations – for the product and for logistics and technical support. We encourage all our customers to audit our operations so we can be fully assessed for their quality systems and they can have first hand confidence in our capabilities. We also value their feedback in identifying possible areas of further potential improvement.”

Raoul Bontempi continues: “We have discovered over the years that the most important requirements of the market are of course always price – as we are selling a commodity product – but availability is also important. You have to be ready for customers’ requirements and be able to fulfil them. Our investment plan has given us the ability to produce more products at a better quality, more effectively and efficiently – enabling us to fulfil customers’ requirements now and in the future.” www.vibo.com

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Baker & Finnemore continues to invest Baker & Finnemore Ltd, based in Birmingham, UK, has had a busy 12 months that has involved the continuing investment in its machinery and infrastructure, as well as the appointment of three new directors.

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n November the company announced that it had appointed Paul Watkins-Burke as operations director, David Wilkinson as works director and Ian Styles as sales director. Joan Matthews the management accountant was also appointed as the company secretary.

Baker & Finnemore traces its roots back to the 1850s, when Mr Baker, Mr Finnemore and Mr Wagner (from Frankfurt, Germany) came together to produce pen nibs. History seemed to be repeating itself in 2012 when Gebr Titgemeyer of Osnabruck, Germany, bought the company as part of its continuing investment in UK manufacturing. In the 30 months of ownership over GB£700,000 has been invested in both new plant and training.

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One of the first departments to receive the investment was in the cleaning, scouring and finishing department, which was completely transformed and is now unrecognisable from how it looked before, thanks to new state of the art Vibro scouring and Vibro dryers (pictured bottom left) that have all been fitted with automatic loaders and unloaders.

Baker & Finnemore has also seen its capacity dramatically increase and the quality of finished parts further improved.

The tool room has also benefited from a new CNC lathe – increasing small hole drilling and long bed grinding capacity.

Most recently, over GB£100,000 of new state of the art wire eroding was installed, with Baker & Finnemore saying that the level of investment will continue for 2015.

Around the factory, Baker & Finnemore has also improved the working environment with better work handling, new lighting and the disposal of obsolete plant and tooling (over 40 tonnes). To support its ISO 14001 qualification the company has also improved sound proofing, changed many lights to LED, as well as working on plans for a heat exchange system from the compressors and furnaces, looking to reduce water consumption, and examining the viability of solar panels. The company also now generates all of its own endothermic gas and has put in over GB£30,000 of monitors on its furnaces. In addition, truly modern optical measuring equipment has been purchased for the quality department.

“At Baker & Finnemore we are looking forward to 2015 with enthusiasm,” states Paul Watkins-Burke, operations director.

“We export over 60% of what we make across the globe and meet ISO 9001:2008 Management, ISO 14001:2004 Environmental, ISO 18001 Health & Safety standards. We are also TS 16089 TS 16949:2009 and VDA approved suppliers to the automotive industry.” www.bakfin.com

“ At Baker & Finnemore we are looking forward to 2015 with enthusiasm… We export over 60% of what we make across the globe…”

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Baker & Finnemore Limited, 199 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 1SN, UK Tel: +44 (0) 121 236 2347 Fax: +44 (0) 121 236 7224 e-mail: sales@bakfin.com

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Succeeding in the UK market Simon Midwood, managing director at T.I. Midwood & Co Ltd (TIMco), gives an insight into what he believes are the main factors in being a successful wholesaler in the UK market and what opportunities and challenges lie ahead in 2015 and beyond.

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hen I joined TIMco 14 years ago we were a prosperous small family business that was looking to grow. In partnership with Peter Gill, who retired as managing director in 2013, we highlighted that a key step we needed to take was to offer a wider choice to our customers. At the time we had a select range, which mainly focused on fixings and fasteners – self-tapping screws, dry wall screws, chipboard screws and some nylon frame anchors.

The first step was to look at the suppliers we were using.

At TIMco we have always prided ourselves on providing quality products to our customers. However, whilst we were getting consistent quality products, the prices we were paying were relatively high compared to the rest of the market. At the time we bought 80% of our products from Taiwan, and the remaining percentage from China. The reason we were predominately buying from Taiwan was that the quality difference between China and Europe was enormous. Even though there was no anti-dumping on China, it was very difficult to find suppliers that could reliably provide products to the necessary quality that we demand at TIMco. Taiwan on the other hand had come along way, and the quality reached our requirements, as well as being a lot closer to what you would find in Europe.

Once we had decided to look at our suppliers the only option was to go over to Taiwan and visit the factories. Going to visit the factories was vital in understanding which suppliers could produce the necessary quality and quantity we required at TIMco. Whilst it is easy to find suppliers online, you can never be sure exactly where your products are coming from. The suppliers might have a newly designed website that says they can provide all the products necessary from a new factory, but it is only by going out and visiting the companies that you can be certain what type of businesses you are working with and where and how the products are being made.

By spending the time visiting the factories we were able to establish a group of suppliers that could produce the high-quality

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products we required on a consistent basis. It made us more competitive in the market and started to open further doors to grow our product ranges.

When talking about importing products you cannot help but talk about anti-dumping. As mentioned before we never really bought that much from China pre anti-dumping so when it was introduced we weren’t affected as much as some companies. However, a downside of anti-dumping on China is that it reduced the amount of suppliers available in the market. I am not sure Taiwan would cope with Europe’s full demand if we were to ever get back to the type of demand we saw in the early 2000s. The fastener industry is very dependent on Taiwan and we have already seen how production problems in the country can result in lead times increasing significantly. An example was the recent closure of plating factories in Taiwan, which affected the supply to Europe.

Thankfully we have an office in Taiwan, which was opened in 2010, that was able to predict these problems a couple of months before it became apparent to the rest of the market. We therefore had more of our products plated ahead of schedule, which meant that we were not affected and we were able to provide customers with the products that they needed, when they needed them.

It underlines how quickly a problem in production in Taiwan can have a major impact on Europe. That is why we have our Taiwanese office – to make sure that we are always aware of factors affecting the Taiwanese market. We now also have some suppliers in Vietnam and Thailand. A few years ago these countries didn’t have the plating or heat treating facilities necessary to produce large quantities of fasteners, but now they do and more importantly the quality reaches our high standards. This means that we are not totally reliant on our Taiwanese suppliers.

When it came to developing new products, we adopted a simple approach of adding items that complimented our existing products, as well as talking to customers about what they would like us to add. We found that this not only helped us increase order quantities from existing companies, but also helped increase our customer base – as new customers could buy more of their products from TIMco. Developing new lines is an ongoing process for us and we have now extended our product range to more than 4,500 lines. As a company we are always looking at new opportunities and innovations and already have 3 or 4 planned for 2015.

This underlines our commitment to our customers to become a ‘one stop shop’ for all their needs and requirements.

A key factor in range development is ensuring open and regular communication with customers – letting them know what you can provide. Existing customers may only know you for certain products and might not realise you have introduced some new lines. New customers might only know you for products that have been recently launched and may be unaware of standard products within your portfolio. That is why TIMco always produces and distributes the necessary marketing

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material so that our customers know what products we can supply. When I first started our catalogue was three pieces of paper, now we have three full-time graphic designers working on the catalogue – which is more than 140 pages. The catalogue not only lists the products we can provide, it also includes the necessary technical information as well – making it a reference guide for the industry.

Once you have quality products and the necessary marketing material, it is essential that you have enough stock to answer the demand once the new range is launched. As a wholesaler we have always guaranteed that we have stock available at our UK headquarters in Nantwich. We recently built a new 21,000 square foot warehouse to further expand our storage capabilities.

We normally hold an average seven months of stock, which gives our customers the assurance we will have their products when they need them. It also means we can cushion the potential effects of extended lead times or supply delays. During the recession we put even more stock into the company and we shouted louder to let customers know that we had the products.

This enabled our customers to hold less stock and have more ‘free cash’ within their businesses.

Providing stock and working with customers is a key part of what we do at TIMco. A lot of our customers are family owned SMEs that do not necessarily have the resources to carry lots of stock or promote new lines. We are always looking to help customers grow their businesses, because we are only as good as our customers. In the future we are looking to invite

customers to our offices so that we can have a discussion on how we can help them grow – whether it be marketing (putting a flier together or sending out an email campaign for the customer) or working with our customers’ staff to help them further understand our products. We are also speaking to end users to understand the products they currently use and will need for the future. This enables us to make our products better and hopefully will mean that our customers will be able to sell more products to these end users.

In today’s market it is always important to look to the future and how the market is going to develop. You need to make sure that you have a close working relationship with your customers and suppliers. Nothing ever stays the same and as a business you need to be prepared for what the future may bring.

Looking forward I think that a threat to the market is the larger corporations. They have endless budgets and it is the Par t o f t he T IM c gro up family owned businesses that will be most under threat. At the moment I think there is a complacency in regards to the large corporations. They are able to bring in new ranges and set up new branches across the country very quickly – due to t o fthey t hehave T IM c gro up As independent the financialPar capital behind them. companies we need to use our experience, local knowledge, and personal service to make sure that we are giving customers the products and service they need. At TIMco we have been able to grow as an independent company thanks to our experience, global knowledge, and personal service. Most importantly we are able to work with our customers and provide the products and service they need so that they are also successful. www.TIMco.co.uk

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HECO to present product innovations at Fastener Fair Stuttgart

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HECO-Schrauben GmbH & Co KG, a manufacturer of screws and fixing systems, will present at Fastener Fair Stuttgart its latest developments for interior fitting, wood construction and metal applications.

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ECO will be focusing particularly on its new MMS-plus range – a new generation of screw anchors from its MULTI-MONTI® range. In addition, presentations at the show will also include the company’s latest developments for fastening MDF and laying decking.

The new MMS-plus range offers revisions concerning the thread as well as the head of the anchor. The standard version for example consists now of a hexagon head with combined washer. The types with countersunk head have been completed with further dimensions and are now available with a diameter of up to 12mm.

For the specific requirements of boards with a very high material density HECO has developed the new HECO-UFIX® MDF screw with predrilling effect. HECO says that the new technology used in these screws helps to reduce the workload in interior fitting considerably.

“Finally, fastening decking boards on timber substructures is done easily with the new HECO decking glider set, which is packed in handy, small scaled boxes. Each set consists of one new HECO-TOPIX decking screw and two plastic gliders for quick and easy fastening of decking boards.”

DIN LING Europe provides extensive service DIN LING Europe is the European branch of the Taiwanese company DIN LING Corp – which was founded in 1987 in Taipei and has production facilities in Taiwan and Vietnam.

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he European branch was founded at the beginning of 2012 in Austria and offers a wide range of high-quality fasteners and fixings, supported by highly qualified employees.

DIN LING’s products include the certified WBS® (Wood-Building-Screws) for timber building construction, chipboard screws, drywall screws, self-drilling screws, as well as special screws according to customer requirements. WBS are available with lengths up to 600mm and with various recesses. WBS are equipped with a type-17 slot for a reduced splitting effect, as well as a U-thread and lubricant coating for reduced drill-in torques. The WBS thread provides high ‘pull-out’ forces.

Moreover DIN LING says that these screws fulfill demands of the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (DIBT).

“A few years ago it was usual that customers looked around in Asia when they were searching for low priced products. We want to turn around this process, as we bring the manufacturer from Asia to the customer in Europe,” explains CEO Gerhard Hubmann.

“Our goal is to connect professional products with professionals,” states Christian Neumeister, key account sales manager for DIN LING Europe. “We are a competent problem solver for all questions concerning fasteners and fixings and can work with importers and wholesalers to provide an extensive service.” www.din-ling.com

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Standards evolution and innovative solutions Recently the European Organisation for Technical Assessment (EOTA) issued Annex E of ETAG 001 for the assessment of metal anchors for use in concrete under seismic action and a Technical Report (TR045) for the design of the anchorages on concrete in seismic hazard zones.

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nchors to be used in seismic hazard zones can be divided into three groups according to the “peak ground acceleration” expected at the site: Category C2 – for high seismic hazard zones, category C1 – for seismic hazard zones, and Option 1 for low seismic hazard zones.

Tecfi SpA has been one of the first companies to achieve the European Technical Assessment on the dual component epoxy resin SWE01 (ETA – 12/0253) for the post-installed connections in C2 category or in the highest seismic hazard zones. The sensitivity and the commitment that Tecfi invests in the research and development of fixing systems, which increases the structural safety in order to preserve human life, is demonstrated by the fact that it has achieved the assessment in C2 category for the torque controlled expansion anchor AJE. For the applications in seismic hazard zones, AJE01 (ETA – 11/0319)

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shall be installed with the ‘seismic protector’ SPS01 – an electro zinc plated steel cylinder. The SPS01 reduces the gap between the anchor and the lateral surface of the hole in the fixture, in order to avoid the hammering effect that the fixture could cause on the anchor in case of an earthquake.

Tecfi points out that all its ranges with Option 1 (AJE, HVE-RoCK®, HXE Concreto®) according to the ETAG 001 are classified R120 for fire resistance and, for this reason, they are very useful for designing against fire in civil constructions.

“We are able to offer a lot of fixing solutions with European Technical Assessment (ETA) and CE marking, based on chemical or mechanical function mechanisms, in order to give to the designer the chance to choose the best anchor in each situation – in conformity with what is prescribed by the European standards.” www.tecfi.it

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Setting anchors without the need to clean out the drill hole

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Anchoring extreme loads safely in cracked and uncracked concrete – that’s the world of the fischer Highbond system FHB II. fischer says that the resin anchor is now even more effective, as when combined with the resin cartridges FHB II-P and FHB II-PF HIGH SPEED it turns into the world’s fastest resin anchor. Why? There is no need to clean out the drill hole.

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ischer points out that the advantages of this innovation have a direct and practical affect on users, as 40% less time is needed from setting the drill hole to setting the anchor. There is no need for deeper drilling, no compacting the drill dust, no vacuuming, no need for special drills, no spoil dust in the air. What’s more – there is no need for extensive cleaning or special equipment such as reamers or vacuum cleaners.

The extremely fast processing is matched by an extremely short curing time. When combined with the rapidly setting cartridge FHB II-PF HIGH SPEED, the anchor can be fully loaded at 20°C after just two minutes. Another strength of this heavy-duty anchor is its adaptability. Depending on the anchoring task and the number of fixing points, the user is free to choose between the resin cartridges FHB II-P and FHB II-PF HIGH SPEED and the injection resin FIS HB. Matching these cartridges are the two anchor stud types FHB II-A L and FHB II-A S. This results in four different embedment depths per diameter, which can be used in variable combinations delivering the best possible solutions at any time.

“Unlike some rival products, the fischer Highbond FHB II can also be used in water filled drill holes.

Also, the sizes ranging from M8 to M24 guarantee that the user always has the right anchor at hand.”

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SWG Schraubenwerk Gaisbach GmbH has announced that it has received ESR-3178 and ESR-3179 approval from the US market for its SWG ASSY® screws.

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WG Schraubenwerk says that thanks to its decades of experience and cooperation with clients worldwide, it has become a specialist for the development and production of top quality wood construction screws for a multitude of widely varying applications.

The US approval for SWG ASSY® is addition to the Canadian CCMC 13677-R approval the company received in 2013 – meaning that SWG ASSY screws can be used for wood construction in the entire North American region with immediate effect.

Around 78,000 screws of various types, with diameters of 8mm and 10mm, were recently used in a construction project in Canada. The SWG ASSY® SK and ASSY® Kombi screws of 60mm to 480mm lengths gave the Wood Innovation and Design Centre (WIDC) in British Columbia the necessary stability.

The WIDC shows, with its height of 29.5m, six floors and an impressive floor area of 4,800m², the possibilities that exist for modern buildings made from a variety of wood products.

“With the CCMC 13677-R, ESR-3178 and ESR-3179 approvals, SWG Production can now demonstrate the required safety of ASSY screws for such buildings in North America. Thanks to various design guides, it is now possible for engineers, structural engineers and architects to convince themselves, on the basis of easily understood calculation tables, of the capabilities of the approved SWG ASSY screws and use these as a basis for their product calculations.”

SWG Schraubenwerk invites all visitors to Fastener Fair Stuttgart to its joint stand with BB Stanz- and Umformtechnik GmbH in Hall C2, Stand 2/340 to find out more about its capabilities.” www.swg-produktion.de

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The philosophy of P.M.T is to pursue the aims of its customers, by constantly improving its production and ensuring that it offers a great service that enables its customers to achieve excellent production outcomes.

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

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ETAG 001 Metal Anchors for use in Concrete (all parts) ETA – 08/0169

APPROVED THROUGHBOLT AWA approved throughbolt AWA SS-A4

JCP OWLETT-JATON

ETA – 08/0381

Henkel Injectionsystem CF 920 or TQ 900 for concrete

Henkel KGaA

ETA – 08/0388

ANCHOR W-F, W-F A4

WÜRTH Espana S.A

ETA – 09/0175

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ETA – 10/0055

R-KER / RV200 and R-KER-W / RAWL RV200-W and R-KER-S/RV200-S

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Forte presa premium vinilestere forte presa premium vinilestere winter and forte presa premium vinilestere summer

SARATOGA INT. SFORZA SpA

ETA – 10/0111

Injection system forte presa premium vinilestere forte presa premium vinilestere winter and forte presa premium vinilestere summer for rebar connections

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Nobex heavy-duty anchor SXP

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ETA – 10/0255

Würth heavy-duty anchor W-TM

Adolf Würth GmbH & Co KG

ETA – 10/0263

Mungo heavy-duty anchor MSB

MUNGO Srl

ETA – 11/0103

Anchor CLOVERFIX MTH, MTH-A4

Técnicas Expansivas S.L

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Anchor NWS-CE anchor, anchor NWS-CEX4 anchor

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Anchor MaxxFast THRUMAXX, anchor MaxxFast THRUMAXX A4

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Anchor SMART SMK anchor, anchor SMART SMKI anchor

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Anchor TP MTH , anchor TP MTH A4

ETA – 11/0535

RESINFIP EPOBOND C 100 for rebar connections

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RESINFIP EPOBOND C 100 bonded anchor

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ETA – 12/0286

Anchor KRAFTOOL MTH, anchor MTH-A4

KRAFTOOL I/E GmbH

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Unifix heavy duty anchor FPA

Unifix SWG Srl

ETA – 13/0148

SpECFix MTH, SpECFix MTH-A4

Speciality Engineering Chemicals FZE

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Sormat drop in anchor LA+ and LAL+

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ETA – 13/0553

Injection System CHIMIFISS VINIL CE, CHIMIFISS VINIL CE Winter and CHIMIFISS VINIL CE TROPICAL for rebar connections

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ETA – 13/0554

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PROCHIMICA NEW TECHNOLOGY Srl Tecfi SpA

ETA – 13/1012

Anchor TECFI ZJE01 Anchor TECFI ZJE71

ETA – 13/1013

Anchor KEW BN, Anchor KEW BN A4

KEW Kunststofferzeugnisse GmbH

ETA – 14/0064

Scell-It Injection System X-MAX for concrete

Scell-It

ETA – 14/0234

Mason wedge anchor MWA

Fasten Enterprises Pte Ltd

ETA – 14/0330

ESI+, ESI-T for rebar connection

Expanded Screw Anchors A/S

ETA – 14/0345

SAFETY PLUS II

RAWLPLUG LIMITED

ETA – 14/0347

R-KEX steel bonded anchor

Rawlplug S.A

ETA – 14/0356

EMBRAFIX EDS

Desarrollos Especiales de Sistemas de Anclaje S.A

ETA – 14/0368

Sika AnchorFix®-3001 for rebar connection

Sika Services AG

ETA – 14/0369

FRE-P bonded anchor

RECA ITALIA Srl

ETA – 14/0370

FRE-P for rebar connections

RECA ITALIA Srl

Anchor PSRe-HP Anchor PSRe-HPCR

Dromet Spolka ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia Sp.K

ETA – 14/0377

2KPS EX2 steel bonded anchor

2K Polymer Systems Ltd

ETA – 14/0383

AT-HP

SIMPSON STRONG-TIE

ETA – 14/0412

INJECTION RESIN BK150 galvanized or stainless steel bonded anchor

Blinker Espana S.A.U

ETA – 14/0414

INJECTION RESIN BK160 galvanized or stainless steel bonded anchor

Blinker Espana S.A.U

ETA – 14/0376

ETA – 14/0424

Anchor TP MTP anchor TP MTP-G

TEAM PRO INTERNATIONAL FZCO

ETA – 14/0431

Anchor TM-C-7. anchor TM-C-7-A4

NOBEX Srl

ETAG 014 Plastic Anchors for ETICS ETA – 14/0306

Insulation anchor ISOPLUS and ISOGRIP

Friulsider S.p.A.

ETA – 14/0340

T-Save HTS

Hilti Aktiengesellschaft

ETA – 14/0398

SD-5

Hilti Aktiengesellschaft

ETA – 14/0399

SDX 8

Hilti Aktiengesellschaft

ETA – 14/0400

T-Save HTS-P

Hilti Aktiengesellschaft

ETAG 020 Plastic Anchors (all parts) N/A

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SMART® investment from pgb

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pgb-Polska, the polish production plant of pgb-Europe, says that it is constantly investing in its SMART® range to ensure that it is able to offer customers the best chemical anchors – supported by ETAs. Chemical anchors included within the SMART® range that have an ETA include:

• SMART S-IRP: A polyester chemical anchor that has an extended ETA (ETA – 13/0750) for use in dry and wet uncracked concrete, as well as in flooded drill holes, without loss of performance. pgb-Polska says that the S-IRP is the best and most economic choice for general use with (standard) threaded rods in masonry and concrete.

• SMART S-IRV: A high performance vinylester resin that has an ETA (ETA – 13/0749) for use in uncracked concrete and for use in cracked concrete (ETA – 14/0141). The ETAs cover a full range of diameters with different embedment depths going from M8 to M30, for use in dry, wet and flooded drill holes. In addition to the use with (standard) threaded rods, it is also approved for rebar as an anchor.

• SMART S-IRW: This vinylester resin is also approved for uncracked (ETA – 13/0749) and cracked concrete (ETA – 14/0141) and has the same performances as the vinylester S-IRV. However, thanks to its specific composition it has a faster curing time allowing faster curing in cold circumstances. It is even tested for use up to -26°C. • SMART S-SCV: This glass capsule anchor is approved for uncracked concrete (option 7) from M8 to M30. www.pgb-polska.com

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New MTP-G sherardised through bolt anchor

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The MTP-G, ETA approved in Option 1 (ETA – 12/0397) is the most recent addition to the wide range of ETA certified products from INDEX Fixing Systems.

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he MTP-G sherardised anchor is another addition to INDEX’s flagship family – MT through bolt anchors for heavy loads. INDEX points out that the MTP-G is a stronger and more resilient version of the former hot dip galvanised version of the MT. The anchor is made out of sherardised steel (immersed in a 450ºC melted zinc bath) and shows higher resistance to corrosion than normal zinc. The sherardised steel has also got a smoother surface than hot dip galvanised steel, which allows for a better expansion of the anchor and reduces mechanical interference issues with threads.

The MTP-G has an ETA in Option 1 for its use in cracked and uncracked concrete, and is length-marked in the upper part for easy identification, even after it has been installed. It is especially suitable for outdoor or humid installations.

Other recent products incorporated to the approved range are the HE-HO and HE-CL drop in anchors with internal thread – ETA approved in Option 7; the T-NUX universal frame anchor; the whole range of chemical cartridges – MOPOLY, MOPOSE, MOEPOX, MOEPSE, MOVISE and MOPURE – all of them ETA approved for various uses; and the nylon cable tie – which is CE certified for electrical installations. www.indexfix.com

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OPTISORT® – two decades of innovations in the name of quality control

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Since 1995 GEFRA’s OPTISORT® systems have been synonymous with ultra-fast high-end measuring and sorting of the highest precision. Through continuous enhancements and the preservation of proven fundamentals GEFRA says it plans to continue the success it has seen over recent decades.

The duty of quality control GEFRA GmbH is vastly experienced in developing and manufacturing inspection systems for fasteners and other production parts based on both, optical imaging and image processing.

Using up to date camera technology, modern and fast LED illuminations, and the best available image processing power (both hardware and software), high-speed and precise measuring and controls of geometrical features and surface properties can be offered for all kind of fasteners and other production parts.

The OPTISORT® systems are completed by a wide spectrum of accessories and services for storage, packaging, logistic, and online network operations. GEFRA says that its OPTISORT systems ensure an efficient 100% automatic quality control wherever a cost efficient process and a zero ppm error quote is needed.

More than 250 systems have been installed at national and international fastener manufacturers and sorting companies around the globe – underlining the company’s success.

Designed for more flexibility To fulfil the constantly growing demands on automatic sorting systems concerning accuracy, variety and flexibility of measurements and controls, a completely new design, camera and drive concept was recently developed by the engineers of GEFRA. Twenty years ago the very first OPTISORT system was equipped with one top camera and a laser system for diameter and simple height measurement. Now, within the latest design step, up to 14 cameras in up to 7 acquisition positions can be used to apply different magnifications and illuminations for more precise and flexible measurements and controls.

For this expansion of the camera system the size of the

“ …a completely new design, camera and drive concept was recently developed…”

rotating glass or steel slot table was extended to 800mm diameter. For this table size, a new self-centering and levelling mount and drive system for the table was integrated.

The ergonomics and reproducibility for measuring and controls using reflected light technologies was also improved by a new motorised positioning systems for the illuminations.

Adjustable by the use of sliders inside the program window of GEFRA’s in-house software AUTOCONTROL, the optimal light position can be directly evaluated on screen. The position is automatically stored and can be restored during loading the program.

The image above shows the latest machine design with extended space for the measuring and control stations on nearly the same footprint as before. The use of a roll-up door also helps to save space and facilitates easier handling.

In-line eddy current control One of the latest innovations inside the OPTISORT systems is an in-line eddy current based check for hardness presence (yes/no). With this, a main problem of transport and packaging processes, as well as the mixing of parts with different hardness grades, is solved quickly and efficiently.

A special designed probe can be mounted directly under a glass table, under a plastic table with a groove for lying studs or, on steel table machines (such as OPTISORT ST) for hanging screws

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A special groove table for lying studs – with the eddy current probe below the table (on the left)

and studs, along the shank or over the head.

The separate signal eddy current processing controller – a screenshot is shown on the lower image on the left – allows for part specific parameter tuning and program storage. For adjusting some of the parameters, sample parts for the two hardness grades are needed.

The result is generated as fast as usual for image processing tool applications and is introduced directly into the overall result and statistics.

With this integration into the system neither an external coil system nor an extra flap for sorting is needed. This option can be added to most of the Microsoft Windows based OPTISORT systems, as well as via an upgrade.

Ready for the next decade

The signal peak for good parts points into the yellow box on the right side of screen

“With our highly qualified and experienced staff members and partners in the field of mechatronics, engineering, and informatics, we are working continuously at the further optimisation and development of our products and technologies.

The main focus lies on the further increase of the control performance, on the integration of new concepts for illumination and image acquisition, and also on the development of multiple sensor systems. We will continue to offer our national and international customers reliable, flexible, and robust state of the art solutions for their quality control applications.

We will show our latest innovations at Fastener Fair Stuttgart, from 10th – 12th March 2015.” www.gefragmbh.de

New standards in tapping technology

Top-Cut Automatic nut tapping machine with bent shank tap.

Suitable for all kinds of standard, flange and round nuts as well as special parts.

Visit us at Fastener Fair Stuttgart

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Machine

Top-Cut 10 D

Top-Cut 16 D

Top-Cut 33 D

Thread dimension

M5 - M10

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M16 - M33

Number of spindles

2

2

2

Max. outside diameter of parts

25 mm

32 mm

60 mm

Max. width across flats (hexagon nuts)

22 mm

27 mm

50 mm

Power of spindle motor

4 kW

9,7 kW

13,2 kW

Speed range

400 - 5000 rpm

400 - 5000 rpm

200 - 1600 rpm

Max. output (square/hex nuts)

19.700 pcs/h

19.700 pcs/h

5.950 pcs/h

Max. output (flange nuts)

11.090 pcs/h

11.090 pcs/h

3.530 pcs/h

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Our products provide solutions for locking, sealing, assembly and disassembly. Especially designed with our unique microencapsulation technology for the pre-coating of threads our products offer many advantages compared to field applied adhesives. Constant product development due to extreme motorsport conditions guarantees the highest possible performance. Successfully tested on the race track our products show the same benefits in many other industries.

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Cost efficient and high performing: Zinc-alloy corrosion protection for threaded fasteners Dr Björn Dingwerth – global product line manager, corrosion resistant coatings, Enthone GmbH Rene van Schaik, industry manager, functional coatings Europe, Enthone GmbH Keeping it all together is what fasteners are all about. At first, some may consider this a simple objective to achieve given what appears to be a relatively basic component. However, the ever increasing demands for higher durability, enhanced decorative appearance, extended warranty life, as well as meeting OEM design requirements and consumer preferences, have made ‘keeping it all together’, more than mechanical. Defined friction properties that are of paramount importance for reliable automatic assembly in manufacturing and safe re-assembly in maintenance procedures, OEMs and their tier suppliers have established comprehensive specifications to ensure exacting performance requirements are consistently achieved and maintained.

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o address these challenges, a new generation of zinc-nickel corrosion protection coating systems have been introduced that reliably deliver durable, highly functional and appealing coatings for safely fixing components together. Currently being used by major plating facilities worldwide, the OEM approved coatings withstand exposure to a diverse range of global environmental conditions.

Over the last few years, new car warranties have evolved to go well beyond the standard five year anti-corrosion guarantee. Such extended warranty times call for improved corrosion protection on numerous automotive components. Within those components that contribute to the structural stability and functionality of a car, fasteners play a dominant role. Sufficient fastener quality throughout the service life is a crucial pre-requisite to be met in order to achieve the required high overall stringent OEM quality standards of today’s automotive production.

This need for higher quality throughout the in-service life finds itself expressed in an ongoing change in the surface finishing industry from pure zinc layers towards zinc-alloy based sacrificial coatings. This transition is due to the ability of zinc-alloy coatings to generate higher corrosion protection. More specifically the zinc-nickel alloy provides the maximum protection to corrosion as the so called zinc-nickel gamma-phase (γ-phase) alloy can be achieved with a 12% – 16%-wt nickel alloy content from qualified plating solutions. The γ-phase describes a specific crystal structure of this intermetallic phase, which has proven to be highly beneficial for the highest performance cathodic corrosion protection coatings.

A major advantage of zinc-nickel alloys over pure zinc coatings or other alloy coatings like zinc-iron is the high corrosion resistance from the plated alloy material without taking an additional post-treatment into account. Figure 1 shows the dependency of the neutral spray corrosion protection (ISO 9227 NSS) from the nickel alloy concentration without any post-treatment. An alloy composition of approximately 14% by weight nickel yields 700 – 800 hours to red corrosion as demonstrated in the testing. Industrial experience proves that >720 hours to red corrosion is safely met by this type of coating. This high corrosion protection together with less voluminous white corrosion products is a unique feature of the 12% – 16% γ-phase zinc-nickel alloy (Figure 2).

Zn with passivate. No sealant

ZnNi with passivate. No sealant Figure 2: The difference between pure zinc and γ-phase zinc-nickel alloy without a sealant (only passivation applied), hours given are time in ISO 9227 NSS test. The zinc plated fastener shows voluminous white corrosion at 480h, whereas only a thin layer of white haze forms on the zinc-nickel coated fasteners (all 8µm – 12µm Zn resp. ZnNi, thick film passivate)

Figure 1: A diagram showing the basis material corrosion resistance to red rust in the neutral salt spray test versus the nickel incorporation rate in the plated zinc-nickel alloy layer (8µm) without any post-treatment (no passivation, no sealant) applied. The protection peaks with a maximum at 14% w/w Ni, best performance in the range of 12% – 16%-wt Ni.

Through the additional application of high performance sealants on top of the passivated surface, the corrosion resistance is significantly reinforced as well as other functional properties such as adjusted coefficient of friction, improved decorative appearance, etc. Reinforced by such sealants, zinc-iron (0.5% – 1% Fe) alloy or even pure zinc coatings show excellent corrosion protection results (Figure 3 – see next page).

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M A N U FA CT U R I N G T E C H N O LO G Y Figure 4: Plating rates obtained from an acidic zinc-nickel electrolyte (red) and from an standard alkaline zinc-nickel electrolyte (blue) as well as from a new generation alkaline ZnNi electrolyte (green) plotted vs current density

Figure 3: 720h ISO 9227 NSS exposure to zinc (top), zinc-iron (middle) and zinc-nickel (bottom) plated, passivated and sealed (ENSEAL 26) fasteners. Application of a sealant significantly increases the fasteners corrosion protection

The major advantage of the zinc-nickel coating is that it provides superior corrosion protection from the bare zinc-nickel layer, independent of the chosen post-treatment.

The protection of zinc or zinc-iron coatings strongly depends on the post-treatment, most importantly the sealant applied. Once this post-treatment layer is damaged, corrosion will proceed at an accelerated pace and also create more voluminous white corrosion products. Harm to these layers can be due to any mechanical impact in assembly (tools) or service life (stone chipping, etc). In addition to the low corrosion rate of the zinc-nickel alloy in comparison to zinc and zinc-iron layers, the γ-phase zinc-nickel alloy features increased wear resistance, due to its high hardness of 500HV – 550HV (14% Ni) compared to lower hardness of zinc (approximately 100HV) and zinc-iron (0.5% – 1% Fe) layers (150HV – 250HV).

High strength fasteners of >1,000N/mm² tensile strength (property class 10.9 and higher) suffer a risk of hydrogen embrittlement. With increasing tensile strengths being used in fastener technology, this is a critical factor.

Very long experience in industrial zinc-nickel fastener finishing and scientific investigations have shown that the zinc-nickel alloy is unique in terms of its dramatically reduced risk for hydrogen embrittlement1. Pure zinc coatings or other zinc alloy coatings bear a significantly higher risk to cause hydrogen embrittlement.

This very advantageous property of the zinc-nickel alloy has made it a prime selection for cadmium substitution in the aviation industry, even on very high strength steel materials of >1,400N/mm² and therefore should always be taken into consideration for finishing of even very high strength fasteners.

Last but not least, zinc-nickel coatings are the preferred choice where thermal resistance of the layer is needed, due to the coating’s ability to maintain the corrosion protection, even after being subjected to elevated temperature. This makes zinc-nickel coatings the preferred choice, for example for automotive applications – such as brake components or engine compartment parts.

The application of zinc-nickel alloys is widely conducted using alkaline electrolytes for the finishing of fasteners and many other steel based automotive components. Alkaline ZnNi plating solutions offer an excellent thickness distribution even on 1

complex formed parts and are a well suited process for example on rack plating of complex formed stamped steel parts.

Alkaline plating solutions are also widely employed for barrel application of bulk parts. Here, the advantage of an excellent thickness distribution over the part is less relevant than in rack plating operations. Due to the nature of the barrel plating application, the different thickness distribution of the electrolytic process has only a minor impact on fastener plating.

Technically, a good thickness distribution translates into a lower cathodic current efficiency at higher current densities (Figure 4). Therefore, to enjoy a good thickness distribution one trades off some plating efficiency on certain areas of a workpiece for a more even plated layer thickness.

An attractive alternative to the well known alkaline zinc-nickel electrolytes is the acidic zinc-nickel electrolytes of the latest generation. An outstanding feature of the latest generation of acidic zinc-nickel electrolytes such as the newly developed ZINCROLYTE® KCl-Ni IV is the very high efficiency of >90% which is consistently maintained over the entire bath life.

With approximately 30% higher current efficiency than conventional alkaline zinc-nickel electrolytes have, the latest generation of alkaline ZnNi plating solutions provides an additional alternative where highest performance from alkaline plating solution is needed.

The nickel incorporation is of paramount importance to achieve the desired high corrosion protection. Strict control of 12% -16% of Ni in the alloy is crucial to obtain the optimum corrosion protection of zinc-nickel alloy coatings.

With the latest generation of acidic zinc-nickel electrolytes a constant and narrow ranged nickel incorporation rate is achieved in rack and barrel application on the same level as obtained from alkaline electrolytes. This makes acidic zinc-nickel an application alternative for the same purpose: Yielding exactly the same kind of layer is of paramount importance to ensure the same performance of the finished component.

The crystal structure and orientation of the zinc-nickel layer are both highly important to achieve the desired physical and chemical properties of the coating and can be taken as a critical indicator to characterise the layers.

The structure and the orientation of the electroplated layer from either electrolyte can best be assessed by X-ray diffractometry (XRD). The diagrams obtained for layers from conventional alkaline zinc-nickel ZINCROLYTE NCZ 315 Plus, from the acidic ZnNi ZINCROLYTE KCl-Ni and from the new alkaline ZnNi electrolyte ZINCROLYTE Sprint™ do not show significant differences (Figure 5 – see next page). Thus the resulting zinc-nickel layer is the same zinc-nickel material showing the same crystallographic structure and texture, independent from choosing an acidic or alkaline electrolyte.

W. Paatsch, R. Landgrebe, M. M. Lohrengel, Mat. Sci & Eng. Tech., 2008, Vol 39, Issue 1, 75-78

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Intensity in CPS

Intensity in CPS

Another important advantage in the new alkaline process is that the high plating performance is achieved consistently without the use of any auxiliary equipment.

Figure 6: M8 x 40 bolt plated to the same thickness on the head (11.6µm – 11.9µm) in the three different zinc-nickel electrolytes: A conventional alkaline plating solution (left, ZINCROLYTE NCZ 315 Plus, 75 min plating time), newest development alkaline plating electrolyte ZINCROLYTE Sprint™ (middle, 50 min plating time) and the new generation acidic electrolyte ZINCROLYTE KCl-Ni IV (right, plating time 42 min). Minor differences in thickness distribution The clear advantage from choosing an acidic electrolyte for barrel application is the higher plating speed resulting in shorter plating times and higher throughput making the process economically well suited for a bulk application Additionally, the excellent initiation behaviour of the electrolyte allows for very fast coverage even on materials with a low hydrogen over potential such as particular case-hardened, carburised fasteners.

Figure 5: XRD diagrams (Cu Kα-radiation) of ZnNi on mild steel from conventional alkaline ZINCROLYTE NCZ 315 Plus (top), acidic ZINCROLYTE KCl-Ni electrolyte (middle) and new generation alkaline ZINCROLYTE Sprint (bottom) all plated at 15% Ni. All layers bear the same texture, preferred (330), (600) orientation indicating same columnar γ-Ni2Zn11 phases Therefore, the choice for the best suited electrolyte for the application in question can technically be met based on performance preference. Significantly reduced plating time does not only contribute to cost savings, but also reduces the mechanical stress to the fastener during the plating sequence and supports perfect thread appearance with low mechanical damage.

Comparing M8 x 40 fastener plating in barrel application using an acidic versus the alkaline electrolyte set up to yield the same thickness in the head area results in the situation as shown in Figure 6. With virtually the same thickness being achieved on the fasteners head, the difference in thickness in the middle of the fastener is minor.

The differences in plating times are major as shown in the example given. Application of a conventional alkaline zinc-nickel electrolyte requires plating for 75 minutes until the desired thickness is achieved. Using the latest generation of alkaline ZnNi electrolytes (ZINCROLYTE Sprint), the same result is achieved in approximately 50 minutes. The highest plating rate is provided by the acidic ZnNi electrolyte, which needs only 42 minutes to achieve the demanded thickness.

Figure 7: Bottom section of screw threads showing a fine grained deposit on the top image from the acidic ZnNi electrolyte and a more coarse grained morphology with more nodules on the bottom image (conventional alkaline electrolyte) Acidic ZnNi, as well as the new alkaline ZINCROLYTE Sprint electrolyte, already provide smoother surfaces (Figure 7): An excellent pre-condition for good control of friction properties.

Combined with well matched post-treatment processes such as PERMA PASS® trivalent chromium passivations and ENSEAL® lubricated sealants, such smoother surfaces are the perfect pre-requisite for consistently meeting narrow ranged coefficients of friction, resulting in constant clamping forces achieved in torque controlled automatic assembly applications (Table 1 – see next page).

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µtot vs aluminium

Conventional alkaline ZnNi

0.12

0.21

New ZnNi electrolyte (acidic)

0.12

0.18

Table 1: Coefficient of friction measured according to ISO 16047 of M10 fasteners plated in alkaline zinc-nickel from conventional alkaline ZnNi and acidic zinc-nickel. Post-treatment in both cases trivalent passivate (PERMA PASS® Ultra III) and a sealant with integrated lubricants (ENSEAL 21) Choosing the right lubricated sealant process, depending on OEM demands, allows for excellent control of the coefficient of friction of the fastener in different ranges as required by the OEMs (Table 2). µtot ENSEAL 21

0.09 – 0.14

ENSEAL 1303

0.10 – 0.16

ENSEAL® 26

0.12 – 0.18

® ®

Table 2: Coefficient of friction ranges matching different automotive OEM requirements. Measurement according to ISO 16047

Conclusion Applications of zinc-nickel for cathodically protecting sacrificial coatings are increasing over the recent years, particularly in the automotive industry, and this process is gaining more and more pace. This is clearly as a result of the many benefits of this coating:

• Highest corrosion protection already from the plated zinc-nickel layer.

• Increased wear resistance.

• Dramatically lower risk for hydrogen embrittlement compared to pure zinc or zinc-iron.

• Excellent thermal stability of the coating.

• Improved friction properties with appropriate post-treatment processes.

Resulting from this list of important benefits, the increased efficiency and productivity of the zinc-nickel plating process for high-throughput applications is a strong argument to best utilise existing production lines. The latest generations of acidic plating solutions (ZINCROLYTE KCl-Ni IV) and the alkaline process (ZINCROLYTE Sprint) open up the possibility to choose the best suited ZnNi plating electrolyte technically based just on the type of application and delivery specification demands. Excellent control of the nickel incorporation in the zinc-nickel gamma-phase region is crucial and is achieved with all discussed electrolytes.

Improved morphological features of the new generation electrolytes ZINCROLYTE Sprint and ZINCROLYTE KCl Ni IV provide excellent pre-conditions for fastener finishing with highest performance, in terms of surface properties as well as optimised productivity.

ZINCROLYTE, PERMA PASS, and ENSEAL are registrated trademarks of Enthone Inc. Sprint™ is a trademark of Enthone Inc ®

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Rohmann – ultra fast sorting

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The demand on automatic inspection equipment for the 100% inspection of screws, nuts, stamped parts and fastening components is constantly increasing. Beside the capability of cross-checking material properties (such as hardness, tensile strength or other important material characteristics) or geometric deviations, inspection speed is a very important factor.

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aking this into account, Rohmann GmbH with its head office in Frankenthal, Germany, has developed a special user mode for its Elotest PL500 and Elotest IS500 instrument series.

FastSort – ultra-fast single frequency sorting with inversion point determination The FastSort operating mode is used for structural or material verification testing on a fast moving test piece, with encircling absolute coils or absolute touch probes. In contrast to multifrequency sorting it is not necessary to stop the test piece at the sensor. In FastSort mode the inversion point of the XY signal is determined, corresponding to the optimal placement of the test piece in the test coil or near the touch probe. Only this inversion point is evaluated and compared with the evaluation thresholds.

In this way, each test piece is tested in a reproducible position.

If set up correctly, the test is, as far as possible, independent of the speed of an individual part (number of parts per time interval).

To trigger the determination, the instrument itself creates a detection threshold, which is also taken to count the number of pieces. The only requirement is that the pieces are fed with a significant separation. Inspection speeds of up to 200 parts/second can be achieved, depending on the handling mechanics used. Finally the FastSort mode is not dependant on a certain frequency range, so the test frequency can be freely chosen to optimise the required inspection result.

Additional to the FastSort mode, Rohmann GmbH provides a selection of suitable coils and touch probes. One is the HDS (High Distance Sensor) PLA-61. This sensor was designed for ‘glass plate’ applications, where the test pieces are placed on a fast rotating glass plate. The sensor is placed under the glass plate, and works even with a distance of up to 10mm to the test piece. If required the sensor can also be installed beside or above the test parts. www.rohmann.de

Rohmann GmbH

Wirbelstrom-Prüfgeräte und -Systeme • Eddy Current Instruments and Systems

Digital eddy current testing system for industrial applications

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• For crack detection and/or material sorting • Direct integration into production lines • Multi batch sorting capability • Distance compensation • Supporting Multiplexing and array sensors You find us:

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• Retro Teach functionality for sorting • Testspeed of more than 100 pieces per second

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Weighpack International (WPI Services BV) is a specialist in fastener inspection and packaging equipment, providing a full range of single and multiple inspection/packaging machines.

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nspecting the product during the packaging process has become an accepted and important part of the fastener manufacturing process – especially fastener products for the automotive industry, where the requirements for zero-defect products have become more popular.

Through the high-speed inspection/counting process within the Weighpack machines, outputs between 80,000 and 100,000 fasteners per hour are possible. Straightforward high-speed packing/weighing equipment is also available for products that are less sensitive to quality demands.

Weighpack machines can pack products into box, blister, poly bag or KLT returnable plastic container handling systems. They can also incorporate carton erecting, filling, closing, labelling and palletising.

Weighpack says its range of machines for packing into poly bags are particularly popular where low volumes of high-weight steel products are involved. www.weighpackinternational.com

IN-LINE WIRE DRAWING MACHINES For calibrating wire from 2,0 to 35,0 m, in-line with cold headers and machines for chains.

HORIZONTAL WIRE DRAWING BULLBLOCKS For coil-to-coil wire drawing of cold heading wire from 5,0 to 32,0 mm.

Our lines are supplied complete with uncoilers, wire pointers, take-up units, coil compactors.

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UTA Auto Industrial Co Ltd, based in Taichung City, Taiwan, is able to supply advanced solutions for automatic production, sealing applications and wiring accessories.

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TA’s automatic production machines include a variety of product areas, such as blind rivet assembly, washer assembly, anchor assembly, collated screw assembly, and nail assembly.

The company’s assembly machines integrate with CCD sorting, counting, packing facilities, and feeding systems.

The company can also produce a selection of sealing washers including EPDM bonded washers, BAZ bowl washers, conductive EPDM washers for coating process, and lock washers with rubber. Finally, UTA is able to provide wiring accessories for butt splice, quick splice connector, push-in connector, cord end and splice tools. www.uta.com.tw

FOR YOUR IN-LINE AND OFF-LINE WIRE DRAWING NEEDS Tel. +39 0341.604801 • Fax +39 0341.604289 www.tecnoimpianti-italy.com • info@tecnoimpianti-italy.com

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The essential role of technology in driving sales growth... But what is the best option for a business?

Jayne Hill, business development manager at VECTA Sales Solutions Relatively speaking the use of analytics and intelligence within the overall sales function is still in its infancy.

Consequently selecting the right technology to analyse, and critically make valuable use of the data your transactions contain, could make a significant difference to the holistic growth of your company.

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ew customer acquisition is of course essential however research has proven that protecting and growing spend from existing customers is definitely the most profitable sale. Experts tell us that sales people regularly leave potential spend on the table, isn’t that an interesting thought? So it makes good sense to take the scientific approach to exploit the opportunities that arise to sell more to your current customer base. It’s the most cost-effective way to grow sales and it becomes easier to highlight and prompt the whole sales team of where spend potential exists.

The popular choices of business technology are Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Inteligence (SI) – Which best suits your business?

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However, CRM doesn’t routinely provide details of key sales data, customer spend patterns, link-sell opportunities, profitability or information relating to attrition.

Within the distribution sector it’s vital that every member of the customer facing sales team is able to tap into the full customer picture if they are to maximise every opportunity – using traditional CRM often means that sales people still have to look elsewhere to achieve a meaningful overview of a customer’s account and activity. Unfortunately businesses sometimes experience uphill struggles with user adoption as a result of sales or marketing teams not reaping immediate rewards from time and effort invested in recording information within a stand-alone CRM. Encouraging a sales team to comply and use any system can be challenging especially when they don’t see those immediate results. Ultimately, the stand-alone CRM solution cannot highlight opportunities to help retain and grow an existing customer base – a vital factor for many merchant or distribution businesses.

The ability to combine CRM functionality with sales analytics has a direct bearing on improved sales performance.

BI tools are valuable and definitely best used when providing a broad spectrum overview of various elements within an organisation, particularly within financial and complex management reporting environments.

However, BI can also be very resource heavy and it’s often found to be too complex or static to be effective in the fast moving sales environment. Producing masses of information and reports that require a detailed understanding of data manipulation is, in most cases within the merchant or distribution sectors, not helpful.

Typically by default sales reporting, data extraction and manipulation fall to IT or finance teams. Not an ideal scenario particularly when the IT and finance teams are a more valuable asset to the business when focusing on their own areas of expertise.

It’s far more advantageous for an effective and efficient sales team to have independent, continuous and mobile access to a consistent flow of accurate information and customer intelligence – presented in an easy to use and easy to manipulate format. The visualisation of actionable sales information is the key to sales growth.

A combination of BI, analytics and CRM, tailored to suit sales professionals, Sales Intelligence is the scientific management, analysis and presentation of a company’s sales transactional data in a format that is ready to use. Created for businesses that typically have a large number of customers and an extensive product catalogue to manage, it is predominantly (but not exclusively) used in the B2B environment, where repeat selling and customer retention (and therefore a knowledgeable sales team) is vital. SI utilises the valuable information hidden within any in-house sales processing system to produce powerful intelligence relating to your customers buying habits, preferences and trends.

For successful distribution selling, it’s essential for every member of the team to be equipped with fast and easy access to sales and customer information.

Customer Relationship Management

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When in situ and fully operational, Customer Relationship Management is a useful tool for supporting central contact management and tracking communication and new opportunities with customers or prospects across almost any business sector.

The question to ask is, could you instantly pinpoint precisely how many regular customers have not bought from you at any given point every month – and how many have been contacted to find out why? www.vecta.net

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K3 Syspro goes mobile Global software provider K3 Syspro says manufacturing and distribution companies can access business critical data from any location at any time with its new mobile platform – SYSPRO Espresso.

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YSPRO Espresso is a new mobile platform that enables users of SYSPRO ERP to access vital business data in any location at any time for device agnostic data collection and transaction processing.

K3 Syspro says it is one of the first platforms of its kind to use a single source codebase to create native applications for any mobile device, with built-in powerful customisation capabilities for both the end user and developers to engage.

Darren Edwards, production adoption manager at K3 Syspro, said: “We are noticing a shift in the way that our customers work. The business world is going digital and it is important that manufacturing and distribution companies keep up. SYSPRO Espresso allows businesses to provide transparent business information from a remote device, taking the management of their business to a whole new level.”

He adds: “By delivering SYSPRO Espresso to our customers and showcasing its unique features, we are able to demonstrate ways that mobile devices can help to enhance user adoption of ERP and reveal new ways for them to streamline their supply chains on the move.”

SYSPRO Espresso is available as part of SYSPRO 7, the latest version of SYSPRO ERP, which comes with greater scalability, mobility and performance to effectively streamline business processes.

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Merlin develops new offline service Merlin Business Software has developed a new offline solution that enables customers to continue trading when their internet connection is down.

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sed simply as a reference, the offline solution gives a user visibility of their customers and their special pricing, stock information, and availability up to the last update of data. Users are also able to perform standard Merlin operations, giving businesses continuity whilst the offending issue with a user’s internet service provider is resolved.

The new solution was produced by Merlin’s engineering team of specialists who recognised that businesses were leaving their fate in the hands of their internet service providers. Martin Williams, Merlin’s head of engineering, said: “A particular customer’s branch had no access to Merlin at the head office as their internet service provider had decided to do maintenance work on the local exchange on a Saturday morning. The users asked if there was any way they could have a separate copy of recent trading data available so they could at least avoid turning customers away while their data service was being restored.”

Martin spoke to John Barber, Merlin’s senior technical consultant, about the problem and John reacted quickly by putting together a specification and prototype application, which ultimately resulted in the Merlin offline solution.

Martin continues: “The beauty of the offline solution is that a full backup is automatically copied to a master station on a daily basis, with the ability to have as many offline ‘slave’ clients as you require. This could be a single client for customers with a single site and server or in the case of companies with multiple branches, each branch can have its own ‘master’ client that can feed other ‘slave’ clients within the branch. This solution is ideal where a large branch has more than one trade counter or office. The offline solution also offers an additional safeguard for customers using our hosted cloud services who may lose connection to their hosting centre for whatever reason.” www.merlinbusinesssoftware.co.uk

Stock Control Easily track, trace and update stock movements between suppliers, depots, locations, customers and consignment stock. www.merlinbusinesssoftware.co.uk

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A P P L I C AT I O N T E C H N O LO G Y

New generation of thread forming screws for light alloy

EJOT ALtracs® Plus

In modern assembly lines cost saving and component optimisation are decisive competitive factors. EJOT® states that by omitting production steps such as drilling, thread cutting, cleaning – as well as optimisation in the field of tooling, warehousing and shorter cycle times – the total costs of a screw joint can be reduced by up to 30% with the use of a thread forming screw. For that reason thread forming in light metal will become more and more important for the market, especially with challenging designs.

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n order to fulfil these increased technical demands for joints of high strength and dynamically loaded light metal components, EJOT® has optimised the ALtracs® screw. The objective of this improvement was to obtain a self-tapping fastener, with assembly parameters similar to a conventional metric 10.9 machine screw. The metric compatibility of the new EJOT ALtracs® Plus is still guaranteed.

The metric pitch and the specific 33° thread flank of the ALtracs® Plus leaves a larger thread root in the ‘weaker’ female thread of the light alloy. This geometry allows a higher loading of every single turn of thread and the new design of the fastener reaches the failure criterion screw fracture at clearly shorter insertion depths.

Lower installation and higher stripping torques offer a larger margin for the safe assembly with common pneumatic and electric screwdrivers. The circular cross section, in combination with various installation depths (1mm to 2.5mm x d), enables a high amount of flexibility in the choice of the appropriate fastening system. The use of other, for example torque/rotation angle controlled fastening methods, is also unproblematic. The even load distribution on the circular screw cross section of the new ALtracs® Plus promotes a high retention of the clamp load – even under thermal and dynamic stress.

Compared to self-tapping screws with a 60° flank angle, the ALtracs Plus screw’s low damage displacement of the light metal enables a low installation torque. This is realised with an optimised screw point design. The thread flanks in the screw point are smaller in diameter just like the previous ALtracs geometry, but the ‘Plus’ is also tapered to the front. EJOT® explains that this way the first threads can enter the female material much easier. This produces an improved ‘start’ to thread forming and a centred alignment, even in cast holes with handheld assembly tools.

Comparison of the thread The new ALtracs Plus also offers additional safety in the assembly process because of multiple repeat assemblies. In case of repair, a metric screw is design of a metric screw completely interchangeable and can be fastened into the tapped hole. and the EJOT ALtracs® Plus

Repairing pinholes in sheet metal Techsil Ltd says that it has found great success with its UV repair system for repairing pinholes in laser welds and brazes for automotive applications on doors, bonnets, and trunk joints, in both aluminium and steel.

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he system combines Vitralit® 4282 Mod II UV-curing adhesive and the Bluepoint LED light curing equipment. Cell integrators have installed seven Techsil repair stations at three UK car manufacturing plants in 2014, with another one to be added in the UK soon. Techsil has also sold its first system to a Chinese assembly plant.

Techsil explains that the process only takes a few seconds. The robot on the inspection line carries out an in-process inspection and if it identifies a pinhole it rejects the panel out of the line. The operator either repairs it locally or takes the panel to a re-work station.

The whole repair takes less than 30 seconds, with the

adhesive cured in place by a dual system of UV light to fix it and then an anaerobic cure as the adhesive is starved of oxygen. The repair creates a seal and eliminates a leak path before the panel goes to the paint shop. This system also eliminates porosity in the visual surface of the brazed seam and repairs cracks that could propagate further across the panel.

The maximum quantity of pinholes repaired in one panel is four and the scope of pinhole that can be filled is from 0.3mm to 3mm diameter. Deep holes can be filled in sandwich fashion by building up two layers of adhesive.

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Locking system IstLock® extended to trucks According to Ferodom s.r.o, nearly 60% of the 30 – 70 year old drivers surveyed confirmed that wheel nuts on a car or lorry had loosened at some stage in their driving career. 28% of respondents stated they had discovered one or more nuts missing at the end of a drive. The worst recorded cases resulted in tragic consequences.

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free rolling wheel on the road cannot only inflict damage it can kill. Such cases are not as rare as might be thought. The greatest period of risk is in the first 50km – 100km after wheels have been fitted.

Ferodom has therefore extended the application of the well established and certified locking system IstLock® to wheel nuts for trucks and lorries. This system provides effective protection against vibration as well as dynamic stress in the axial and radial direction.

One example is the use of M22 x 1.5, Class 10, phosphate IstLocks on the Renault Magnum truck. This vehicle has been test driven over difficult terrain without loss of preload of the bolted joints on the wheels. IstLock nuts are also suitable for other marks of trucks, including MAN, DAF, Scania, IVECO and Volvo – with the only condition being that the wheel rims are flat.

The main advantages of the IstLock system include: • Safety during the drive.

• Almost unlimited lifetime as the locking plastic ring on the IstLock can easily be replaced by hand with a new one with the same original characteristics, which means IstLock nuts have a high repeatability of usage.

• Low dependence on the friction coefficient.

• Independence from the material or type of nut thread (metric or inch).

• No damage or marking of the contact surface.

• Free turn during assembly/disassembly so no heat is generated from friction.

The IstLock system already has wider utilisation in the automotive industry and is generally suitable in applications of dynamic loads or vibration.

Ferodom s.r.o is based in Žilina, Slovakia. Established in 2000 the company prides itself on delivering “just the best” solutions for which customers pay in the hardest currency in the world – Trust.

New microPEM® TackScrew™ fasteners PennEngineering® says that its new microPEM® TackScrew™ fasteners integrate proven self-clinching technology for permanent sheet-to-sheet attachment, while also incorporating a unique thread-like feature to allow fastener removal when necessary.

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his combination adds functionality to the original microPEM® TackPin™ fastener product line for thin sheet attachment applications, especially compact electronics. TackScrew™ fasteners can even be reinstalled one time if desired.

These hardened stainless steel Type TackScrew fasteners ultimately can serve as highly practical solutions to attach a top sheet or panel to a base material in applications ranging from laptops, notebooks, and tablet computers to smartphones, gaming and handheld devices, as well as wearable electronics.

As suitable replacements for micro screws, TackScrew fasteners will not require the added costs of locking patches, threaded inserts, tapped holes or driver bits for initial installation or potential rework due to cross threading and driver bit ‘cam out’.

The clinch technology resists vibrational loosening in service and the fastener’s low-profile head can add cosmetic value.

The fasteners install in thin sheets by preparing properly sized mounting holes in the sheet to be attached and the base panel. After inserting the fastener into these holes, the fastener is pressed into place. The fastener then clinches into the base panel and its head subsequently holds the top sheet (as thin as 0.2mm/0.008 inches) firmly and permanently in place.

The base panel can be as hard as HRB 89/HB 187 or less on the Rockwell ‘B’ and Brinell scales, respectively, and as thin as 0.91mm/0.036 inches.

These RoHS compliant fasteners can be installed automatically for high volume applications and can be reinstalled once by screwing them back into the sheet and using a threadlocking adhesive.

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TR Fastenings invests in 3D printing

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TR Fastenings Ltd has invested in a highly sophisticated 3D printer for the purpose of creating testing and prototyping parts, predominantly for the automotive industry.

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ased at the company’s headquarters in East Sussex, UK, the 3D printer will use molten plastic to produce the prototypes, which will enable customers to see what a particular part might look like before they commit to ordering a large quantity. The investment underpins the company’s commitment to the latest technology processes – particularly those that support continuous improvement and innovation in customer care.

TR Fastenings’ core business is aimed at being the principle provider of assembly components to a fast growing range of high volume multinational OEMs, whereby global consistency of price, quality and delivery is a minimum requirement for being nominated as a preferred strategic supplier. With more

Lesjöfors invests in laser technology Lesjöfors AB has recently made a large machine investment, at its factory in Värnamo, Sweden, on an advanced fibre laser that it says meets many customers’ requirements for increased technical flexibility in production.

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esjöfors explains that its customers’ needs and requests are dynamic and constantly evolving and its stated strategy is to be at the absolute forefront in terms of technical know-how and machinery. This enables flexible and optimised solutions based on each individual need.

“We have a massive inflow of new business and in many cases it is the opportunities with creative product optimisation – linked to modern production techniques – that make the deal possible,” says Jakob Lindquist, managing director of Lesjöfors Banddetaljer in Värnamo.

In line with the strategy, the new fibre laser from LMI is initially intended for laser welding, but has a number of other uses, such as cutting, marking, polishing, soldering and local heat treatment.

“We have noticed an increasing demand in the market for products based on advanced technical solutions. Our job is often about finding technically rational production solutions including welding and bonding, but also product concepts in which materials saving is in focus. We are very pleased that we can offer a higher flexibility with the new fibre laser,” says Jakob Lindquist.

The investment in the fibre laser is only one in a number of technology investments Lesjöfors is implementing to further advance its market position and to meet customers’ needs.

than 90% of TR Fastenings’ revenue deriving from non-standard components to customer specification, engineering product development is a key group activity – often demanding design and pre-production component prototyping.

“In the past, not only did the manufacturing of component parts take an average of two weeks to complete but the costs exceeded thousands of dollars, thus prompting a reassessment of optimal prototyping for customer product development,” commented Malcolm Diamond, chairman of TR Fastenings. “Extensive research by my colleagues in our marketing and IT system teams into US and UK based 3D printing manufacturers has led to our first investment in a highly sophisticated industry standard printer and we are delighted by the response from our customers.”

bigHead supports advanced lightweight engineering bigHead Bonding Fasteners Ltd has a long track record of supporting young engineers pushing the technical boundaries in their chosen profession.

In recent months the company has supported a team in Canada developing a super efficient car, and a UK team creating a solar powered boat.

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or the Concordia University SAE Super-mileage team competition in Canada, bigHead provided free products to help the team realise their design and build a carbon fibre vehicle, which was driven to victory.

Alexandre Laroche, a Concordia University SAE Super-mileage team member, commented: “bigHead provided no questions asked free samples on really short delay. Its bolts were a reliable solution that made the vehicle completely modular.

The products had the versatility and ease of use to give us peace of mind when fastening things to the almost purely carbon fibre body, which gave us more freedom to think outside the box, without compromising on structural integrity.”

Meanwhile, on the water, engineers at the UK Solar Boat Club faced a number of technical challenges designing their boat for the Solar Cup competition. One key challenge was how to securely mount the motor cage to the floor panel without drilling into and damaging the lightweight carbon fibre material. The solution was to use 20 female bigHeads bonded to the floor with structural adhesive.

“Bolting and unbolting the cage and floor is incredibly smooth and easy thanks to these fasteners,” explained Nick Roy, Solar Boat Club team member. “The fasteners were also very easy to install and made things a lot simpler for us.”

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Accurate torque levels with RED ROOSTER

Rivco and Rivit celebrate 5th anniversary

Rami Yokota B.V says its new RED ROOSTER cordless impulse wrenches provide high tightening speed combined with good accuracy.

Rivco Ltd is the exclusive UK, Ireland and the Middle East distributor for Rivit tools and has just celebrated its 5th anniversary of its unique trading relationship.

ffering bolt tightenings up to torque levels of 45Nm, without reaction forces, the cordless impulse wrenches also offer high repeatability and increased productivity. Rami says the tools are best suited for applications where cables and hoses impede handling flexibility of tools, such as the interior of cars, coaches and trains.

Torque adjustable, with a run-down speed up to 4,500rpm, the tools feature a brushless motor and 18V lithium-ion battery – with a choice for 2Ah or 4Ah capacity.

Process safety is also improved as there is no tightening functionality when battery charge is low. An LED status also indicates reverse, OK, NG, and battery low.

he UK based distributor of rivets, rivet nuts and Huck® products has been running a marketing campaign to promote its tooling ranges and its special offers – including the latest offers on selected Rivit tools – which will end in March 2015. The recent promotion of Rivco’s tool services has also led to an increase in repairs, tool hire and sales.

Jessica Auld, marketing manager at Rivco, explains: “We have been focusing on bringing awareness to our professional, quality tooling product range over the past couple of months and are proud to present our latest promotion on Rivit branded tools. It is important that our customers know that we are the only UK authorised tool repair centre for Rivit and use original spares for repairs, as well as having a healthy stock level for purchase.”

Jessica continues: “Following the successful launch of the refreshed Rivco website, we have recently updated the Rivit product range offered for sale and we are also happy to announce that our brand new catalogue, featuring our entire product range, is due imminently.” www.rivco.co.uk

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Intelligent, lightweight screwdrivers With a lightweight and compact design, HS-Technik says its new intelligent cordless screwdriver series – TorqBee – features brushless, high performance motors and provides the right tool for any application.

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S-Technik explains that the TorqBee PRO-M tools give precision in the maximum range and have better than a 1% high sensor accuracy, which guarantees precise and repeatable screw connections for the process. The TorqBee PRO-M series is also equipped with a rotating torque and rotational angle sensor that has the same level of precision as externally rotating torque sensors – the rotational angle resolution is accurate to one degree.

The TorqBee series features high performance motors that do not require maintenance and will maximise battery life. The powerful lithium-ion rechargeable batteries with optimised cell structure also allow more screwing processes per charge than conventional Ni-CD or Ni-MH rechargeable batteries, and the premium lithium-ion rechargeable battery packs are also significantly lighter.

HS-Technik power tools are standard equipped with large, bright OLED displays that display the status of the tool at all times. The HST display shows the battery charging status, the process results, and clear text and symbol displays for worker guidance and worker information. The display was developed so the worker is intuitively guided through the process steps and can view the quality of the screw connection at any time.

TorqBee tools are also programmed via an integrated USB interface on the base of the tool using the HST-Tool-Manager software. This software ensures quick and easy programming of the tools and has already proven itself in the PROG 3 series. The software is delivered with a wide variety of HS-Technik tools, with new features constantly being added to the HST-Tool-Manager.

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Makita’s new combo tool kits Makita UK’s latest 2 and 6 piece combo tool kits offer a useful combination of tools, including the Makita DTD129 18V impact driver and the DHP481 two-speed combi drill, as well as the relevant chargers and carry systems.

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ne of the new kits, the Makita DLX2040 two-tool kit, features the new DHP481 two-speed combi drill that will run up to 2,100rpm and deliver 31,500 impacts per minute to punch a 16mm bit through masonry. The brushless motor will give extended run time and generates up to 115Nm of fastening torque. This new Makita combi drill has a 20mm shorter body than its predecessor making it even more compact for confined spaces.

Similarly the Makita DTD129 18V impact driver has both the brushless motor, giving increased run time, and compact design.

Generating up to 160Nm of torque and up to 3,200 impacts per minute, this ¼ inch hex drive tool is ideal for heavy-duty site installation operations.

The new Makita DLX2040 high torque brushless twin-pack kit is delivered complete with DC18RC fast charger in a robust MacPac case. The RMJ version of the kit includes two 4Ah batteries whilst the RTJ version comes with two 5Ah batteries for the longest possible operating run time.

The second combo kit, the DLX6017 Makita 6 piece combo kit, includes a jigsaw, rotary hammer drill, combi drill, circular saw, impact driver, torch, fast charger and three 3Ah lithium-ion batteries. This complete workshop set is supplied in a rugged carry case and Makita says offers a substantial saving over the individual tool purchase prices.

The two latest combo kits also offer a variety of battery options from the Makita 18V lithium-ion range including the 3Ah, 4Ah and the latest, long running 5Ah batteries.

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One of the GESIPA® highlights at this years` Fastener Fair will be the presentation of the new fully-automatic GESIPA® blind rivet nut setting device. Connected to a robot application, the modified GESIPA® FireFox® 2 is able to fit blind rivet nuts reliably, including hexagonal headed ones, at every imaginable angle in industrial production.

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Arpel celebrates 25 years Arpel Ltd is celebrating 25 years of trading, and also a 20 year partnership with the Italian manufacturer FAR Srl, by offering special promotions on riveters and rivet nut tools.

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he main tools on special promotion are the RAC 180 for fastening blind rivets from 2.4mm to 6mm diameter in aluminium; the RAC 171 for fastening blind rivets from 4.8mm to 7.8mm diameter in aluminium; the KJ45/S for fastening blind rivet nuts from M4 to M12 in steel; and the KJ60 for fastening blind rivet nuts from M3 to M8.

As well as the special promotions, Arpel also offers enhancements of the tooling service including a 1 year warranty guarantee on all new tools purchased and a 3 month warranty guarantee on tool repairs.

Arpel has over 25 years of experience in servicing and repairs and recently sent members of its staff to FAR headquarters in Italy to attend a tool training course – further extending the experience within the company. Arpel is able to carry out all repairs in-house for quick turnaround and all FAR tooling spares are held in stock. Arpel also has the complete range available to support all tool repair companies that require authentic FAR tool spare products.

Arpel is due to release its brand new catalogue featuring its entire product range soon. “To receive our special promotional prices on selected FAR tools please quote the code ‘ARP2015’ when enquiring/ ordering,” comments Jessica Auld, marketing manager. www.arpelchilterns.com

Remove wheel nuts with ease New wheel nut removers, which have been designed to make light work of damaged and rounded-off wheel nuts, are now available from Laser Tools.

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orn, damaged or rounded-off wheel nuts can be difficult to remove and resorting to a hammer and chisel or an angle grinder can harm the operator, as well as damaging the wheel stud. The special profile of the deep wheel nut sockets (part no 5965) from Laser Tools has been designed to securely grip and bite into the damaged nut resulting in speedy removal.

The set of three 17mm, 19mm and 21mm sockets are manufactured from high strength SCM440 grade alloy steel with a manganese phosphate surface finish and supplied in a handy case for neat storage in the tool box.

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The powerful RIV991 Rivit Srl, a manufacturer and supplier of fasteners and tools based in Bologna, Italy, has introduced its RIV991 hydro-pneumatic hexcutter tool for rivet nuts up to M12.

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ore powerful than the historical RIV990 for hexagonal seats up to M10, this model is equipped with a notching system that – due to the special punch positioned on the front of the head – enables users to transform a round hole into a hexagonal one and apply hexagonal Rivsert rivet nuts from M5 to M12.

Rivit points out that a round shaped hole prevents the perfect seal of the hex rivet nut, which is why it is necessary to transform the hole into a hexagonal shape fitting the rivet nut exactly. This device allows the use of hexagonal rivet nuts on already folded profiles and on metal boxes.

RIV991 is sold without punches and dies, which have to be ordered separately according to the fasteners to be placed.

Technical data and features: Supplying pressure: 6 bar Min/max air pressure: 5/7 bar Air consumption per cycle (6 bar): 2.5 litres Stroke: 12mm Tensile strength (6 bar): 21,000N Weight: 2.4kg Vibrations: < 2.5 m/s2 Noise level: < 80 dB (A)

www.rivit.it

Hitachi covers all the angles Hitachi Power Tools has launched a lightweight, compact DN18DSL/L4 angle drill, which it says performs powerfully in hard to reach areas.

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itachi’s DN18DSL/L4 angle drill weighs just 1.7kg and has a low centre height of 23mm, allowing a user to work easily in confined spaces. The angle drill also features a white LED work light to help users see the task at hand when using the tool in cramped, dark conditions. Other features include a torque of 12Nm, controlled by a variable speed paddle switch, and a battery life indicator so users are not caught out with an uncharged battery.

The power tool manufacturer says it has also increased user comfort with a soft grip body, and a detachable side handle that gives extra control. The tool also includes a 10mm keyless single sleeve chuck and a handy belt hook that can be fitted either left or right.

The DN18DSL/L4 angle drill accepts all Hitachi 18V lithium-ion slide batteries from 1.5Ah to 5Ah and when the tool is registered online within 28 days of purchase, subject to terms and conditions, is backed by a three year warranty.

Introducing Rivdom®TWO2 First displayed at EuroBLECH 2014, the Rivdom®TWO² from VVG Befestigungstechnik is equipped with modern motor technology, pioneering battery charging technology and can handle blind rivets from 4mm up to 6.4mm in diameter in all materials.

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ivdom®TWO² weighs 2kg and has a stroke of 30mm and a working power of 20,000N. Sturdy, approved and safe, RivdomTWO² features a clear mandrel collector, with a mandrel protection lock inside the tool. All standard nose pieces are included in a separate box, and special nose pieces are available for several applications on request.

VVG says the newly developed, brushless BLDC direct current motor guarantees an almost wearless, permanent life cycle.

Also, the tool’s efficiency and performance, as well as the battery run time, are increased by the lower power consumption and reduced heat development. The resulting reduction of weight combined with an optimised tool position and ergonomics guarantee very convenient operating.

Also introduced with RivdomTWO² is VVG’s pioneering battery charging technology – an electronic quick-charger that identifies

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the utilised batteries automatically. 16V, 18V and 20V batteries will also charge with the same charger in the future. Every battery is also equipped with an optical comfort capacity indicator, which is located on the outside for checking the charging conditions whilst operating.

RivdomTWO² is available in combination with the SORTIMO L-BOXX® system with one or two 20V lithium-ion batteries.

“Our family is growing and we will present our next big surprise at Fastener Fair Stuttgart. Come and visit our stand to find out more.” www.vvg.info

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FOCUS ON STAINLESS STEEL + NON FERROUS Apex Stainless Fasteners Ltd

RAAJRATNA VENTURES Ltd

Established in 1991, Apex Stainless Fasteners has grown from strength to strength and is now one of Europe’s leading specialist sources of Stainless Steel Fasteners, with a worldwide reputation for an extensive and comprehensive product range.

We are specialised in manufacturing of Fasteners in stainless steel Grade (A2 & A4) since 2005 from India.

With highly experienced stainless fastener sales, purchasing and manufacturing teams (and an in-house manufacturing division), Apex is totally focused on customer care, offering A2, A4 and A4-80 stainless steel fasteners in metric, unified and imperial thread form, including non-standard products and sizes.

As one of the few major European Stainless Fastener stockists with a manufacturing division (Aerotight Manufacturing) the company is capable of producing high quality special turned parts in addition to the well-established Stainless Steel Aerotight® self-locking nut.

We offer a wide range of products with various DIN/ISO/ASME standards. Our range includes: DIN 933, 934, 931, 912, 603, 571, 7991, 7380, 6921, 976, 7981/2/3, 7985, 965, 966, 660, 661, U-Bolts & Nails WE ALSO MANUFACTURE FASTENERS AS PER CUSTOMERS DRAWING AND SPECIFICATION.

The company is well placed to meet the needs of Fastener distributors worldwide, whether it be for full pallet loads or small box shipments, available on a same day despatch service.

Find out more information about the company including a full product range via the Apex website.

Catalogues are available to download in an easy PDF format.

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www.apexstainless.com

Rexlen Corporation

support@raajfasteneres.com

The Complete Corrosion Resistant Fastener Distributor STF is one of Europe’s largest distributors of stainless steel and brass fasteners, operating from 100,000 sq.ft premises in the heart of the West Midlands of England.

STF carries over 10,000 product lines in stock, all of which are available for same day despatch worldwide. Our extensive range of products and services includes:

Main Products: Besides standard fasteners, specials, such as PPAP items, screw machined parts and stampings in different materials and molded injection plastic parts, etc. are our common supplied items.

Special packages and plating, etc. are also available upon request.

Also, now we have newly developed special stainless steel SS550 on board. Not only with high strength but also high corrosion resistance, our SS550 products can withstand more than 2,000 hours of salt spray test. SS550 is absolutely a first choice for you to get rid of rusting issues.

To get more information about Rexlen, please visit our website or email us.

We’ll be more than happy to provide information you require.

Tel: +886 7 725 9858

email: sales@raajfasteners.com

Stainless Threaded Fasteners

Established in: 1977 Headquarters: Kaohsiung, Taiwan Manufacturing Subsidiaries: Taiwan & China Certified Labs: 1 in Taiwan & 1 in China

We will attend Fastener Fair Stuttgart on March 10th – 12th, 2015, hope to see you in our booth #X114 in Hall 8.

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Stainless Steel – A2, A4 and A4-80 – A full range of metric & imperial thread forms.

Security Fasteners – A2 – Vandal-Pruf™ range of screws complete with tooling.

Brass Fasteners – A full range of metric thread forms.

Philidas® All-metal Self-locking Nuts – A2-80 Class & A4-80 Class, the re-usable self-locking nut.

Special Fasteners – Can be supplied in all grades of stainless steel, brass and other non-ferrous alloys including titanium, aluminium, Hastelloy & Duplex materials.

STF Trade – The online ordering website for STF customers.

Quality – Registered to BS EN ISO 9001-2000.

We are committed to offering quality products and a first class customer service. We can also offer I.S.I.R., PPAP Level 3 and 3.1.b certification on request.

For a friendly, helpful service please contact STF for all your Corrosion Resistant Fastener requirements.

Tel: +44 (0) 1902 490 490

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KAPti-nut – problem solver Unifast Srl, headquartered in Turin, Italy, has an ever expanding product range, which includes a high strength, captive threaded fastening system for sheet metal – the KAPti-nut.

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esigned in the UK, the KAPti-nut is ideally suited to multiple and automated insertion into thin gauge steel, aluminium and pre-finished materials. Unifast says that the KAPti-nut is capable of delivering significantly better results in terms of cost-effectiveness, performances, and reduced environmental impact, over traditional weld nuts or blind rivet nuts.

The single stroke pressing operation of the KAPti-nut system, along with its manual or auto-feed capabilities, allows the installation of the fasteners at the same times as manufacturing components. This, Unifast says, accounts for the system’s inherent simplicity, eliminating the quality problems found in traditional weld nut processes. The KAPti-nut also eliminates other troubles associated with other fasteners, for example projection welding processes, high cost of tools and equipment, long installation times, welding problems on pre-finished materials and low torque resistance.

KAPti-nut is manufactured in accordance with ISO/TS 16949:2009 regulation and Unifast is also UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 certified.

OVVO – a new connection OVVO says its new clipping system is the future of connection – a simple, efficient, fast and rewarding assembly process for the end user that does not require the use of tools, glues or screws.

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VVO is a push fit solution that allows two pieces of material to join together easily without the use of traditional aids. The user simply presses the materials together and wait for the ‘click’, which indicates that the joint has been made.

It is an invisible solution with one element embedded into the material while the interlocking, self-clamping clip forms a tight bond between the two pieces of material being joined. No more screws, dowels, glues or anything else is needed.

The company says the clip material’s mechanical properties ensure a consistent pressure along the joint to always ensure a close fitting flush finish. The OVVO slide release system lets the user assemble and disassemble products efficiently and joining both parts can be done with either releasable or non-releasable clips.

Stainless steel expert at Fastener Fair Stuttgart Specialising in stainless steel fasteners for over 30 years, Italian distributor Inox Mare says it is continuing to offer new products and experiences to its clients, and will be introducing a new logo and products on its stand at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

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he new logo and products, Inox Mare says, symbolise its constant commitment to its customers and their businesses. The company says it also offers simple, rapid and convenient purchasing systems for its customers.

“Our call centre is at our customers’ disposal 365 days a year, for all their needs. We have also started to move online – meaning that we can welcome customers’ requests via our blog, social media, and website. We will continue to identify the best and most convenient stainless steel fixing systems to supply to our customers when and where they need it.”

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Sugru returns to Totally After winning the best new hardware product at last year’s Totally Tools:Totally DIY show, the hand mouldable rubbery glue, Sugru, will be exhibiting again at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK, in February this year.

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n order to provide a better understanding of the patented silicone technology’s applications, the brand now has a new packaging design to outline its versatility.

Changes to the packaging include a new description of the mouldable glue that is easy to understand, and an easy three step guide to how it works: Stick it, shape it, and it turns into rubber.

As well as its new packaging, Sugru will also be showcasing brand new pack configurations and new colours. Used by people in over 155 countries, Sugru is made to stick to as many materials as possible forming a strong bond to aluminium, steel, ceramics, glass, wood and other materials including some plastics and rubbers.

Brian Bott, UK sales manager at Sugru, comments: “Because Sugru is so versatile with literally hundreds of uses, communicating them all was never going to be easy. A dedicated design team, months of consumer testing, as well as testing in store, mean we’re ready to enjoy our biggest year to date both here in the UK and overseas, with the USA growing particularly strongly.”

Brian added: “Being a totally unique innovation, Sugru offers an excellent incremental profit opportunity in the adhesives category and our new and improved packaging will better support existing and new customers going forward. We’re thrilled to be able to showcase all of this at Totally Tools:Totally DIY.”

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Lederer expands DIN 580/582 assortment

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As a well known specialist of several decades’ in the field of stainless steel fasteners, screws and nuts, Lederer GmbH is expanding its range of eyebolts and ring nuts manufactured in accordance with DIN 580/582.

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ederer will now make more economically priced casted variants available, as a supplement to the variant forged in the die. The assortment covers the sizes M6 – M42 (forged), M5 – M16 (casted) in stainless steel A2 and A4.

The company explains that production using the lost wax procedure gives the eyebolts and ring nuts it is casting a typical, smooth and polished surface that is suitable in particular for tasks of a more decorative nature than those of the forged variety. In addition, casted eyebolts and ring nuts can be manufactured far more economically.

“All of the load values required in the Norm are virtually fulfilled; in this way, the casted variants can be deployed for light lifting and transporting activities and for eye fastening, too. However, the forged version must be used in safety relevant areas.”

Both varieties, the forged and the casted versions, are now available ex-warehouse from Lederer and both versions can also be obtained from the Lederer Online Shop. For registered shop users, they even come with a direct online price comparison. www.lederer-online.com

A summary of the most important differences:

Manufacturing Surface Dimensions

Load capacity

DIN 580 and 582 forged

DIN 580 and 582 casted

Forged cleanly in the die.

Casted using the lost wax procedure.

Rough surface due to the forging.

Typically smooth and polished surface.

In accordance with DIN 580 and DIN 582.

Similar to DIN 580 and DIN 582 (slight deviations due to the production process).

• Corresponds fully to the values required by DIN.

• Virtually corresponds to the values required

by DIN. Deployment in safety relevant areas is prohibited!

• Compacted structure due to the forging process.

• Lower elasticity because of the cast structure.

Applications

For lifting and carrying activities with high safety relevant demands (mechanical engineering, transport assistance, etc).

• For light lifting and carrying activities without any particular safety-relevant requirements.

• Eye fastening in order to fix other fastening elements (to build garden fence, etc).

• For decorative requirements.

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DIN 580, A2, forged 0580 2 080-----60.

Similar to DIN 580, A2, M8 casted 0580 2 080.

Standard Listed – you know who’s best!

But contact us for all the rest . . .

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Non-preferred Metrics – Intermediate Sizes Short and Long Lengths – Slotted Grub Screws A4/80 Bolts & Socket Caps – 6 Lobe (TX) Drive Screws All Metal Self-Locking Nuts – Studding Connectors And many more . . .

Online Product Guide: www.avonstainlessfasteners.co.uk

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Reusable fire retardant fastener system Binder Fastener Systems has introduced a new fire retardant self-adhesive version of its Duotec® fastener system, which it says is capable of passing the very stringent requirements of mass transport flammability certification.

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ollowing the success that Binder enjoyed with its original Duotec® – a very strong, interlocking mushroom, single component fastener system – it was challenged by companies in the aerospace and transportation sectors to develop a fully fire retardant version. The new self-adhesive Duotec is capable of passing FAR 25.853 (a) Appendix F, part 1, (a) (1) (ii) and DIN ISO 6941, as well as the toxicity requirements of ABD 0031.

Duotec can now be specified without restriction in areas such as aircraft interiors. Binder Fastener Systems points out that the new product helps remove the hesitation designers and engineers have when replacing unsightly nuts, bolts and screws – thanks to the Duotec being strong, lightweight, reusable and a re-closeable fastener system – without compromising safety legislation.

No special tools are needed to apply the product and along with its multi-directional engagement and uniform performance, panel fixing and alignment is a very fast and simple procedure.

“By utilising our fasteners you can speed up production, as well as reduce weight, stockholdings and costs.

This item adds to our great range of products specifically for the interiors market.”

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The primary source for American Made plastic fasteners WORLDWIDE

Keeping customer needs as priority #1...

Our larger facility now provides: • Improved product development • Future growth of product line • Double the amount of in-stock inventory to one billion parts • Increased inventory allowing for same-day shipping of catalog items • Expanded shipping & receiving

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Additional customer conveniences include: • 24/7 website availability • Manufacturing operates 24/7 • Reach a real person Mon-Fri 7am-5pm CST (USA)

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Steel to Steel Connection Solutions

Stafa offers more Stafa Group has added to its extensive product range with the Multi+® wood screw with patented TTAP®, designed for a lower cost, as well as easier, and faster assembly.

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Kee Safety Limited • Cradley Business Park • Cradley Heath West Midlands • B64 7DW • United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 1384 632 188 sales@keesafety.com www.beamclamp.com

ased in the Netherlands, Stafa’s extensive range also includes structural bolts according to new legislation EN 15048, distance screws, flange bolts, retaining rings, low nuts and 10.9 zinc plated bolts. All of which, the company says, offers customers total solutions for fasteners and fixings, competitive prices, good stock, punctual deliveries and a high-level of flexibility.

“With our high-speed modern packaging machines we can also deliver your fasteners in packaging labelled with your own company name or logo. Private labelling can start with only 25 packages and we can put together custom-made sets in fasteners, fixings and other components, exactly to your requirements – offering various packaging options. Last but not least, our fully automatic cutting machines are able to cut threaded rod of any quality and diameter to specific lengths, to meet customers’ requirements. We offer more at Stafa.”

Detailed information about Stafa’s structural bolts according to new legislation EN 15048 can be found online in its new catalogue. www.stafa.nl

Specialist in disc springs

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Spanish manufacturer S.A SINARD specialises in the production of DIN 2903 disc springs, series A, B, and C, and also specials according to customer specifications.

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riginally SINARD only produced the series A disc springs in diameter 8mm up to 250mm but after successfully growing the business, and with good quality orders, the company added series B and C disc springs with different thicknesses.

Series B are thinner than the disc spring in series A, however series C is the thinnest. Both ranges have now been expanded to cover the same diameters as the disc springs in series A – from 8mm up to 250mm.

In addition to expanding both ranges to cover a wide range of diameters, S.A SINARD also specialises in special parts according to customer drawings in order to meet the needs of a specialised and complicated market.

SINARD also manufactures various other products including standard pieces according to Norm, spring pins ISO 8752, aranlocks, rings and washers.

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he disruptive nosepiece claimed in the patent was originally published and described in the article “New nosepiece and setting method aims to lower blind rivet installed cost,” in the March 2008 issue of this magazine (Issue 50).

A US patent is currently pending on the setting method referenced in the article, and a European patent, which can be validated in multiple European countries is being prosecuted for the blind rivet, nosepiece, and setting method. Chinese, Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Singapore patents have also been issued.

Interested users of blind rivets or manufacturers wishing a copy of US Patent Nos. 8,449,234 or 8,893,363, a copy of the March 2008 article or information pertaining to granted patents in the Peoples Republic of China, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia or Singapore, may contact Harry Taylor at htaylor@mba1974.hbs.edu

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Plastica Panaro Srl, an industrial producer of plastic case solutions, says its MAX cases are tough, durable and reliable and can be used in a variety of applications.

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ased in Modena, Italy, Plastica Panaro says its MAX cases are waterproof and offer superior protection from the elements, water, dust and impacts. This makes the cases suitable for use in a wide array of sectors and applications including marine, photography, scuba diving, hunting, fishing, special corps and the manufacturing industry.

The company will be showcasing its range of waterproof cases on its stand at this year’s Fastener Fair Stuttgart in March.

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Blind riveting solutions from RIVE-LIT® Exhibiting for the first time at last year’s EuroBLECH show in Hannover, RIVE-LIT® displayed its range of blind assembly solutions and its full range of automated setting units for blind rivets and nuts.

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art of the Titanox group – a French group with over 50 years of experience in technical fasteners and assembly solutions – RIVE-LIT® showcased its wide range of products including speed rivets in steel, stainless steel, and aluminium, from 1.7mm diameter to 6.4mm diameter – suitable for sheet metal and composites materials.

These rivets can be used in a range of industries where technical support and quality is important including automotive, telecom, lighting, sheet metal, railway and the truck industry.

Also on display was its speed installation units – from handheld, suspended or under workstation units; automated setting units for rivets and blind riveting nuts, blind rivets, structural high strength rivets and bolting systems; as well as riveting control units with full traceability of the riveting process.

RIVE-LIT says it relies on the knowledge and expertise of its engineers to develop blind fasteners for specific applications and to support its customers with new cost-effective solutions.

The company is able to propose a broad range of automated setting units and blind fasteners, in a variety of types, materials, head shapes, lengths and coatings.

“The continued growth of the RIVE-LIT range and our intensive effort to find innovative solutions to meet specific customer requirements, make this range a serious alternative alongside the world’s top brands. In the past years RIVE-LIT has become a reliable trusted brand offering high added value blind fasteners to industrial customers.”

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Self-clinching nuts and studs offer benefits PennEngineering says that its new PEM® self-clinching nuts and studs for permanent installation into hard sheet materials offer design and assembly benefits for automotive applications.

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oth types, SH™ hard panel nuts and HFLH™ hard panel studs, are manufactured from hardened alloy steel to provide stronger thread strength. They also further enable close-to-edge mounting without risking panel buckling; allow for cost-effective component standardisation; and resolve environmental and recycling concerns typically associated with alternative thin sheet fastening devices.

Type SH hard panel nuts feature a small outer diameter and lightweight design. They can install reliably into high strength steel sheets up to 975MPa and in panels as hard as HRC 30 / HB 277 or less on the Rockwell C and Brinell scales, respectively. Host panels can be as thin as 1.4mm/0.056 inches and, upon fastener installation, the reverse side of the panel remains flush to enhance cosmetics. Nut thread sizes range from M6 through M10 1/4-20 through 3/8-16.

Type HFLH hard panel studs can install into high strength steel sheets up to 700MPa and in panels as hard as HRB 96 / HB 216 or less on the Rockwell B and Brinell scales, respectively. Host panels can be as thin as 1mm/0.04 inches.

Stud thread sizes range from M5 though M8 /#10-32 through 5/16-18.

In addition, these fasteners can promote lower installed cost a they can be installed automatically using a standard press or in-die technology, they eliminate any need for embossing operations, and they reduce the amount of required hardware in an assembly.

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INDEX Abbey Clamps....................................... 15

Duroc N.V.............................................. 75

Lee Spring............................................. 65

Schäfer + Peters GmbH........................ 59

ACT Fasteners & Components Ltd..... 183

E.U.R.O Tec GmbH.............................. 139

Lichthart Betriebsgesellschaft mbH..... 91

Schatz AG.............................................. 86

Achilles Seibert GmbH.......................... 19

EDP..................................................... 158

HERMANN LOHMANN GmbH & Co KG....130

Schnorr GmbH...................................... 43

Acton..................................................... 71

Verbindungslemente Engel GmbH....... 63

London Screw Company..................... 182

Schotte Automotive GmbH & Co KG..... 67

Adolf Pühl GmbH & Co KG...................... 1

EW Menn GmbH & Co KG..................... 60

Lueg-Stanztechnik e.K......................... 89

Schraubenfabrik Schmidt GmbH.......... 81

Albert Pasvahl GmbH & Co............. 19, 61

FarEast Metal International Co Ltd.... 181

Walter Lumberg GmbH & Co KG.......... 94

Peter Schröder GmbH.....................19-21

Alca Fasteners...................................... 35

Fastbolt................................................... 2

Wilh. Lüsebrink GmbH.................153, 154

Shanghai Fast-Fix Rivet Corp............. 167

Alloy & Stainless................................. 181

Fastener + Fixing Search...................... 95

Mecavit Srl............................................ 27

Shin Chun Enterprise Co Ltd.............. 175

ALPEN-MAYKESTAG GmbH.................. 97

Fastener Fair Russia............................. 35

Mectron............................................... 156

Sipa....................................................... 90

Ambrovit................................................ 13

Fastener Taiwan 2016........................... 53

MEKR’S, s.r.o (Ltd) ............................. 123

Smith-Bullough Ltd............................ 181

Arpel.................................................... 169

Ferdinand Gross GmbH & Co KG........ 117

Merlin Business Software.................. 159

Sormat Oy........................................... 129

Atlantic man Srl.................................... 72

Ferroforma.......................................... 109

MFI Metall + Fastening Industrie GmbH.... 91

Stafa Group........................................... 87

Avon Stainless Fasteners Ltd............. 176

Fischer GmbH & Co KG........................ 93

Mitsutoyo Kiko Co Ltd......................... 149

Streicher Maschinenbau GmbH......... 142

Bäcker GmbH & Co KG......................... 71

Fixi Srl................................................. 107

MKT..................................................... 137

SWG-Schraubenwerk Gaisbach GmbH... 133

Baker & Finnemore Ltd...................... 125

Friulsider SpA................................. 55, 56

Mohindra Fasteners Ltd..................... 111 T.I.Midwood & Co Ltd.......................... 127

Raimund Beck KG Wire-Staples-Company.. 83

G & B Fissaggi Srl............................... 125

Mubea Tellerfedern GmbH................. 107 Tecfi SpA.............................................. 131

Bendfast Ltd........................................ 185

Gawel Zakład Produkcji Śrub SA........ 111

Mustad Spa........................................... 25

Hugo Benzing GmbH & Co KG............ 109

GebuVolco............................................. 62

Nakashimada Engineering Works Ltd... 39 Test GmbH............................................. 74

Tecno Impianti..................................... 155

Berardi Bullonerie................................ 37

GEFRA GmbH...................................... 141

National Machinery............................... 31 Tillex...................................................... 41

Berdan Bolt & Nut Co Ltd.................... 49

Gesi Gewindesicherungs GmbH........... 70

ND Industries........................................ 33

Titibi....................................................... 43

Birlik Baglanti ...................................... 35

GESIPA Blindniettechnik GmbH......... 168

Ningbo Londex Industrials Co Ltd........ 23

TOBSTEEL GmbH.................................. 73

Bodegraven Metaal NV......................... 75

Goebel GmbH........................................ 82

Norm Civata AS....................................... 5

Totally Tools: Totally DIY...................... 108

Bontempi Vibo..................................... 121

Graewe GmbH & Co KG........................ 37

NORMA Group..................................... 163

Triofast BV............................................. 81

Bossong.............................................. 135

Growermetal........................................... 9

omniTechnik Mikroverkapselungs GmbH... 143

Trojan................................................... 174

Bralo...................................................... 11

Hafren Fasteners Ltd.......................... 183

OTTO ROTH GmbH & Co KG................. 89

UBK..................................................... 173

Brighton-Best International............... 188

Harrison & Clough Ltd......................... 29

PGB....................................................... 99

UDIB...................................................... 19

Bülte Plastiques SA............................ 107

HEICO Befestigungstechnik GmbH...... 51

Pinstructure Ltd.................................... 17

UTA Auto Industrial Co Ltd................. 150

Can-Eng Furnaces.............................. 147

Heinz Soyer......................................... 174

PMT..................................................... 134

Vipa SPA.............................................. 179

Carlo Salvi............................................. 85

Heng Chang Fasteners....................... 185

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Chaves Bilbao......................................... 7

Hexstone Group.................................... 77

Ratnaveer Stainless Products.............. 37

Volt Industrial Plastics Inc.................. 179

China Fastener Expo............................. 47

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Rexlen Corp........................................ 183

VVG – Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co.... 98

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DIV d.o.o.............................................. 165

KOHLHAGE Fasteners GmbH............. 113

Rotor Clip Ltd...................................... 119

Don Quichotte B.V............................... 129

Kwantex Research Inc.......................... 69

Sacma................................................... 79

DS Fasteners Ltd................................ 111

Lederer............................................ 26, 28

SAIMA Corporation............................. 182

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