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As you would expect there is plenty of coverage of Fastener Fair Stuttgart in this issue so no need for me to say a great deal, except that it was unquestionably the best fastener industry show I have ever attended. For that, Show Director Susanne Rauberger, Show Manager Liljana Goszdziewski and their Stuttgart exhibition team deserve massive credit.

y only complaint? Not managing to catch up with half the people I would have liked to – so if you were one of the many I missed, my apologies and I hope to see you during the rest of the year.

I spent quite a lot of the show working with the judges to evaluate the entries to the Fastener Technology Innovator competition, which was particularly enjoyable - although

announcing the winners in front of all the expectant participants was a mite nerve wracking, I will admit. Fittingly for such an excellent show, we had one of the best collections of entries we have ever received, which made for some tough decisions and three very worthy winners. My thanks particularly go to Mark Salmon and Bernd Stapf who both exhibited characteristic rigour and thoroughness in their role as judges.

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his is the last time you will see my face on this page.

Will Lowry has been with the magazine for over six years and has amply demonstrated his capabilities in the day-to-day editing of both our titles. Now supported

by Claire Edwards, who joined as an assistant editor last year, it is time that Will ‘fronted’ the magazine to which he contributes so much – and acquires the occasionally dubious privilege of writing this editorial.

To head off undue celebration, I will still very definitely be around. The executive editor’s role is very much about the strategy of our publications and looking not so much at the current issue as those we will present in months and years to come. Will and Claire’s development allows me the time to concentrate more on the future of the magazines and to get

around the global market to maintain a firm finger on the pulse of this ever changing industry – crucial if, as we are very much committed, we are to ensure the continue relevance of our magazines to a wide ranging and growing readership.

Inexplicably, Will is very happy for me to continue reporting personally on trade defence, as well as company and economic news. I shall also be contributing a regular opinion column on trending topics along, hopefully, with more interviews with some of the thought and opinion leaders in the industry.

CONTENTS INDUSTRY NEWS Europe and World...............................................................12-24 North America....................................................................26-28 Russia + CIS.......................................................................30-32 Asia.....................................................................................34-36 South America......................................................................... 38 COVER STORY Herbert Knoke - Flying the PROFIX® flag........................... 40-41 EXHIBITIONS Events Calendar...................................................................... 42 Fastener Fair Stuttgart report............................................44-52 Fastener Technology Innovator competition report...........54-56 Fastener Fair Turkey launched .............................................. 58 News...................................................................................60-64 Totally DIY:Totally Tools report.............................................. 122 INSIGHT Move in Earnest..................................................................66-68 Unifix - bigger and better than ever........................................ 70 CONSTRUCTION FIXINGS Rawlplug - 100 years of innovation......................................... 72 News...................................................................................74-80

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FOCUS ON Decking + wood screws......................................................81-83 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY Modern steelmaking - An introduction..............................84-90 News...................................................................................92-98 Sacma Group introduces new models for 2013..................... 100 Investment in technology the key to success........................ 102 New Carlo Salvi micro parts former...................................... 104 CATALOGUE RACK Italy.................................................................................106-108 MANAGEMENT + SYSTEMS News............................................................................... 110-114 PRODUCT NEWS Application Technology news.........................................116-120 Tools news......................................................................124-128 Products news................................................................ 130-144 INDEX.................................................................................... 146

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Stainless tariffs applied to Philippines but not Malaysia or Thailand On 12th March the EU published Regulation 205/2013, confirming the outcome of the circumvention investigation on stainless steel fasteners consigned from Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.

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he Regulation imposes the 27.4% anti-dumping duty already applicable to imports of specified stainless steel fasteners from the P.R. China to imports from the Philippines. Multi-Tek Fasteners Inc, and Rosario Fasteners Corporation are the only Filipino companies to obtain exemption from the tariffs, which are applied retrospectively to imports from 15th June 2012 when the investigation was initiated.

EU investigators found that exports of stainless steel fasteners from China to the Philippines increased sharply, reaching more than 15,000 metric tonnes in 2011 and the ‘reporting period’ (RP), which was 1st April 2011 to 31st March 2012. Data quoted in the regulation shows imports of 1,104MT in 2004 before antidumping duties were applied to P.R. China and a progressive ramping up of the pattern of trade in the following seven years.

At the same time exports to the EU from the Philippines also increased dramatically. Exports from the two cooperating companies accounted for only about 10% of the total volume shipped to the EU from the Philippines. Information from Filipino authorities showed that most of the imports from China went directly into special economic zones and did not enter the Filipino customs territories. This confirmed to investigators the existence of transhipment of Chinese origin products.

The investigation against Malaysia and Thailand, in contrast, was terminated without application of tariffs. Investigators

confirmed that increased EU imports from Malaysia were explained by a growth in genuine production over the 2004 to 2012 period. The investigation identified only one company that had been transhipping product but which ceased doing so in 2009. Exports from Thailand were found in absolute terms to be no higher than in 2004 before anti-dumping measures were applied to Thailand and to China. The investigation did not reveal any transhipping or assembling operations using Chinese-origin parts. The European Fastener Distributors’ Association has also told this magazine that eleven European stainless steel importers made a submission to a hearing with the investigation, which detailed evidence to demonstrate long term trading relationships with producers in both Malaysia and Thailand.

Concluding that increased imports from Thailand were to a large extent justified by domestic production, the Commission determined that the investigation concerning possible circumvention of anti-dumping measures via Thailand and Malaysia should be terminated without application of duties and registration of the products under investigation discontinued.

The regulation was published in the EU Official Journal on 12th March 2013 and came into force the day after that publication.

A full copy of Regulation 205/2013 can be downloaded from http://eur-lex.europa.eu. The Official Journal page is L068, 12.03.2013.

Kesko fastener origin investigated According to a media statement issued by the company at the beginning of February, Finnish Customs are investigating the import of screws and steel fasteners from the Far East by Rautakesko and related markings of origin.

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autakesko said it is cooperating with the customs authorities and sees it important that the matter is cleared. The customs authorities have conducted a tax audit at Rautakesko Ltd related to the import and markings of origin of steel fasteners in 2009 - 2011. The two persons suspected of tax fraud in the preliminary inquiry in the matter no longer work for Rautakesko.

Infastech acquisition complete Stanley Black & Decker confirmed successful completion of its acquisition of Infastech from CVC Capital Partners and Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited for US$850 million in cash.

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he transaction was originally announced in July 2012. Infastech is one of the largest Asia-based global players in the specialised mechanical fastener market; designing, manufacturing and distributing highly-engineered fastener technologies to a diverse blue-chip customer base in the industrial, automotive, construction and aerospace end markets. Infastech has revenues of approximately US$580 million and employs 2,000 people.

More than half of the revenues are generated in the Asia-Pacific region, contributing to a Stanley Black & Decker objective of obtaining more than 20% of overall group revenues from emerging markets by the middle of the decade.

Infastech, which includes Avdel®, ELCO® and iForm® brands, merges with Emhart Teknologies to form Stanley Engineered Fastening with 5,000 employees in 150 countries. Stanley Black & Decker says that following the acquisition its engineered fastening platform will have annual revenues of around US$1.5 billion, with approximately half that revenue deriving from the automotive sector, a third from industrial fastening applications and 20% from “high growth verticals such as electronics.”

Stanley Black & Decker expects the transaction to result in annual cost savings of approximately US$25 million by 2015.

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Obscure EU ruling means Chinese bolt blanks subject to ADD? In June 2012 the EU enacted an obscure regulation, which subsequent investigations by the British Association of Fastener Distributors suggest has serious implications for importers of bolt blanks from P.R. China.

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egulation EU 553/2012 stemmed from considerations by the EU Customs Code Committee, Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section, responsible for reconciling differences in national Customs interpretation of TARIC classifications for imports. The regulation rules that “an unthreaded article of steel, other than stainless steel, with a hexagon head, a tensile strength of 1,040 MPa and dimensions of 160mm (length), 32mm (head size) and 16mm (shank diameter)” should be classified using CN code 7318 15 89 when imported to the EU. Essentially the decision reflects an interpretation that this particular, by no means standard, blank can only be processed to become a bolt and should, therefore, be classified as a bolt when it enters the EU. Unhelpfully, the regulation was titled “concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature”, which is why it slipped under the radar of most of the fastener industry since its enactment in June 2012.

For the BAFD, which unearthed the regulation late in 2012, the question was “what does this mean for steel bolt blanks in general?” The question was posed directly to the TAXUD section of the European Commission. Simultaneously BAFD asked EFDA to make similar enquiries and subsequently it has become clear that at least one UK bolt manufacturer also asked the same question independently.

In view of its apparent significance the BAFD has provided this

magazine with a copy of the response from TAXUD and we have also seen the response to the UK manufacturer.

The responses make it clear Regulation 553/2012 applies specifically to the cited product. Critically, though, TAXUD also told the BAFD: “Customs administrations however are expected to use the reasoning of this classification regulation by analogy for classifying other similar blank screws or bolts with different dimensions or heads or with a lower tensile strength.”

The legal basis for this is General Rule 2 (a) for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature (EU Regulation 927/2012 is the latest version) which states: “any reference in a heading to an article shall be taken to include a reference to that article incomplete or unfinished, provided that, as presented, the incomplete or unfinished article has the essential character of the complete or finished article […].”

The seemingly unavoidable conclusion is that national customs authorities should require importers to code bolt blanks imported to the EU under CN code 7318 15 89. This CN code is one of those cited under the ‘product concerned’ section of Regulation 91/2009, which applied anti-dumping duties to imports of steel fasteners from the P.R. China. TAXUD makes it clear in its responses that the responsibility for providing advice to individual businesses on classification rests with customs authorities in the member states using the Binding Tariff Information system.

Two buyers interested in Philidas Duff & Phelps said in their first report having been appointed administrators to Philidas Limited that they were in discussions with two prospective buyers, from twenty-four original expressions of interest in the failed lock nut producer.

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n June 2012 the company faced a UK tax authority winding up petition for around GB£360,000 in unpaid taxes. Philidas used all of its working capital to part pay the tax liability leaving it unable to fund materials purchases. By the end of November it was unable to pay staff. A solvent restructure was not feasible and the directors appointed the administrators.

For the year ending November 2012 the company reported a GB£108,000 loss on sales of GB£4.7 million. Sixty percent of Philidas sales were to automotive end customers via Anixter Fasteners, with which the administrators entered an agency agreement to fund the company so product could continue to be produced.

The administrators’ report reveals that unsecured creditors totaled slightly more than GB£1 million, of which around a quarter was owed to a Spanish wire rod supplier.

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Bossard to buy electrical engineer Bossard Group has announced it intends to acquire Intrado AG (Hünenberg), which has served the Swiss industry with a wide range of electrical engineering products for over 25 years.

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ntrado AG is a fully owned subsidiary of Jacob GmbH in Kernen, Germany, and is a general importer for the Jacob GmbH cable glands programme. The acquisition will complement Bossard’s own range of fastening components for the electrical engineering industry, as well as strengthening its competence and expertise in a field that requires intensive consulting.

Jacob GmbH will also have the opportunity to distribute its products globally via Bossard. In 2012, Intrado AG turned over CHF 3.2 million (2.6 million euros) with ten employees.

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More changes to ISO 898-1!

The International Standards Organisation has published a new version of ISO 898-1, the fundamental mechanical property standard for carbon and alloy steel bolts, well before the normal five-year review schedule. Fastener consultant, Dr John Newnham considers the reasons for this early revision and its implications for the fastener industry.

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he fundamental mechanical property standard for carbon and alloy steel bolts, which identifies the strength grades, permissible material types, and required tests and methods, is ISO 898-1. This standard is not only used to define the properties of ISO standard bolts, screws and studs, but is called up in numerous proprietary drawings for non-standard fasteners.

ISO published the new 2013 version of this standard in January, well before the normal ISO five-year review schedule.

The 2009 issue of the same standard was quite controversial, and several aspects drew comments from various national standards bodies. As a result, ISO Technical Committee 2 sub-committee 11 drafted two amendments to the document to take account of the technical and editorial problems. However, the changes were so extensive that rather than issue the amendments separately,

ISO 898-1 was re-published with all of the amendments included. The ‘Foreword’ to the standard states that this is a minor revision, but there are some technical changes that could cause some products manufactured before the changes to be out of specification now.

There are numerous editorial revisions for clarification, and the usual updates where necessary, relating to reference standards. The newly agreed ISO practice of not dating the reference standards is continued, to ensure that the latest issue of any quoted standard applies immediately.

There are no changes to the material types or strength grades in this edition, so Table 2 is unchanged. However, there are increases to the maximum and minimum Brinell hardness values for property classes 8.8 and above, as given in ‘Table 3 - Mechanical and Physical Properties’.

Since the new ISO philosophy relating to

updated standards is that the latest issue applies, these changes could result in parts being in stock that do not comply with the new requirements.

Other technical changes relate to the definitions and assessment of carburisation and decarburisation. There is a newly defined surface condition, ferritic decarburisation, and there is a clarification of non-carburisation that applies to strength grades 8.8 and above.

There is also some revision to the way that these conditions must be assessed by microhardness tests and metallography so these need to be reviewed by test laboratories.

ISO classifies this edition as a minor revision, but the technical changes are significant, and both manufacturers and distributors need to be aware of them.

The new issue of EN ISO 898-1 is available from national standards organisations.

Low automotive activity hits Bulten Q4 FinnvedenBulten Group sales declined significantly in Quarter 4 2012 mainly because of very low activity in the European automotive sector at the end of the quarter.

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et Group sales for the year were down 3.9% but Q4 sales declined by 15.7% year on year.

EBIT for the quarter fell to SEK 10 million (SEK 43 miliion Q4 2011) and for the year halved to SEK 101 million.

Johan Westman, president and CEO, however noted it was: “Gratifying that the delivery and order bookings for the beginning of the year have recovered compared to December’s low levels.”

The Bulten fasteners division was strongly affected by customers’ reduced volumes but also by production standstill at one customer for a large part of the quarter. Net sales in the last quarter 2012

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fell by 15% compared with Q4 2011 to SEK 391.9 million. EBIT for the quarter was SEK 15.7 million (2011: SEK 29.8 million).

Bulten net sales for the full year were SEK 1,710.5 million down 3.3% on 2011. EBITDA reached SEK 121.2 million (SEK 155.2 million in 2011). The Group stated: “Extensive savings and efficiency measures to reduce costs and adapt the business to the existing market outlook are being implemented.” It added: “Bulten division’s core business is stable and the division is well positioned going forward thanks to new and existing contracts.”

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which is expected to see good volume development in coming years.

Both Bulten and Finnveden Metal Structure divisions reached agreement during Q4 for new establishments in Russia and China, offering “significant growth potential.” Bulten agreed to form a company with the automotive components division of the GAZ Group, one of Russia’s largest vehicle manufacturers.

In its outlook for 2013, the Group cautioned that the IHS forecasts light vehicle production in western Europe will decline by 5.6% in 2013 and heavy products by 5.2%.

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Record 2012 for Würth Group In 2012 the Würth Group achieved the highest sales volume in corporate history at 9.98 billion euros, however year on year growth was 2.9%.

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he Group said lower than previous growth is primarily explained by the sales decline in southern Europe. In 2012 Würth reduced its number of employees by 1.4% to 65,169 worldwide. It said its 2012 operating result will “increase disproportionately to the Group’s sales to 410 - 420 million euros.”

Robert Friedmann, chairman of the Würth Group’s central managing board, is ambivalent in his evaluation of the past business year: “It is true that most of the business units grew this year, and the sales figures reported by our companies in North America and Scandinavia are particularly pleasing, yet a number of companies were hit very hard by the poor economic situation in southern Europe. In 2013, we have to launch offensives at fast growing regions and industries at full force, which is why already in 2012 we made a few well-targeted acquisitions in the chemical industry. In stagnating markets, though, we will keep a low profile.”

The Group plans for 2013 growth to be in the “medium single-digit range owing to the fact that in the currently insecure development of the global economy no growth impulses are to be expected.”

U.D.I.B elects new president and executive board At its December meeting the Unione Distributori Italiani Bulloneria elected Gian Marco Dalpane (pictured left) of Bulloneria Emiliana as president for the next three years.

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.D.I.B, the Italian fastener distributors’ association, said: “All the members would sincerely like to thank retiring President Enea D’Incecco for his great job, and for the cohesion he was able to create between all the associated companies.”

The executive board has also been renewed and will continue to work to increase the number of members in the association.

Currently, U.D.I.B has 34 Italian distributors and importers as members, and 2012 saw a large increase of represented companies, which the association hopes will continue in 2013.

A new website has recently been launched that includes a reserved area for members.

The next U.D.I.B Italian meeting will be held in October 2013.

Trifast profitability on track In an interim statement, ahead of its 31st March 2013 year-end, Trifast plc said overall trading has been solid and encouraging with organic growth in its Q3 slightly ahead of the same period in the previous year.

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rifast said that, whilst some top line growth has been deliberately constrained, profitability for the Group is on track to meet market expectations to 31st March 2013, thus completing another year of consistent growth.

Trifast also noted that Power Steel and Electroplating Works (PSEP) Malaysia, acquired in December 2011, had integrated well and a final payment of just under GB£1.4 million had been made to the previous owners in December 2012.

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NORMA Group achieves solid growth NORMA Group AG says it achieved solid growth in financial year 2012. According to preliminary and unaudited figures, sales grew by 4% to 605 million euros (2011: 581 million euros).

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he Group ended 2012 with adjusted operating earnings (adjusted EBITA) of 105 million euros in spite of volatile European markets (2011: 103 million euros). Fourth quarter sales were 137 million euros, representing a 2% year on year decline.

“NORMA Group performed strongly in financial year 2012.

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2012 third best year in history of Bossard Bossard Group earned the third best result in its history in 2012 despite a generally difficult business environment.

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onsolidated net income decreased by CHF 1.9 million to CHF 42.9 million (approximately 34.8 million euros).

2012 total sales were CHF 487.1 million - up 2.9% year on year. Excluding the KVT acquisition organic growth was 2.1% in Swiss Francs, 0.8% in local currencies. Bossard says that in Europe its regional companies were affected by the sluggish demand but the acquisition of new customers kept the sales slump within bounds – sales fell 0.7% in local currency.

Asian sales were down 2.6% in local currency.

Bossard succeeded in maintaining a high level of profitability.

Operating profit (EBIT) margin was 10.1%, the third consecutive year it has been in double digits. Operating margin improved in Europe and Americas, but fell in Asia. Overall the Group return on sales fell from 9.8% in 2011 to 9.1% in 2012 - the difference attributable, says Bossard, to higher employment costs and tax expenditure, the later due to “growing tax burden in individual countries”.

“Although there was definitely a lack of momentum last year, the Bossard Group nevertheless earned a good result,” says CEO, David Dean. “I feel positive about the fact that we gained new customers in fiscal 2012 and were able to expand our product line.”

Bossard will ask its AGM to approve a rights issue generating approximately CHF 80 million, which is expected to return its equity ratio to 35% (it fell from 62.3% to 13.3% as result of the KVT acquisition). Bossard will pay approximately 40% of consolidated net profit to its shareholders.

Bossard invested around CHF 25 million in 2012, a “good half” dedicated to completing its new technology and logistics centre in Switzerland. The Group will expand office and logistics capacities in Malaysia and Korea during the current business year.

Expressing cautious optimism about the outlook, David Dean said: “After the difficult situation over the past eighteen months, 2013 may become a year in which we regain some momentum.”

Continuing the industrial adventure Carniere & Defossez has turned a corner in its history by leaving its site in Rousies, France, at which the company has manufactured fasteners since 1925, in order to re-establish itself in nearby Maubeuge.

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he family-owned company has ceaselessly invested and evolved in recent years and operates new generation machinery, including new cold headers with up to six stations, to manufacture technical and complex cold formed parts. That is why it was also necessary, the company says, to evolve into state-of-the art industrial facilities.

The integration of design and processing allows Carniere & Defossez to understand and respond to its customers’ issues and now to propose a top-end approach to them.

The new location provides the opportunity to welcome and support customers to a new workshop dedicated to stud welding and self-clinching, and to present its complete fastener technology range.

Editor’s note: This is a correction to a news article originally published in the January issue of Fastener + Fixing Magazine, in which we inadvertently stated Carniere & Defossez has cold headers with up to five stations. We are pleased to confirm that the company’s advanced manufacturing capability includes cold headers with six stations.

EFC International names vice president EFC International has announced the promotion of Matthew Dudenhoeffer to vice president.

This position will expand EFC’s capabilities to manage and cultivate the company further supporting customers and suppliers that are essential to EFC’s strategic growth initiatives.

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r Dudenhoeffer joined EFC International as an outside sales engineer in 1993. He was promoted to strategic business units manager and in this capacity has been integral in the success and growth of EFC International. Mr Dudenhoeffer has a BSIE and MPA from the University of Missouri and he is also lead guitarist for the worldrenowned rock band Gravity Kills.

Douglas Adams, CEO and president of EFC states: “Matt has

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the foresight, and initiative to lead the company as vice president as he has proven in his role as strategic business units manager.

He is a true asset to EFC, our suppliers and our customers.”

EFC International is a provider of specialty metal, plastic, electrical and assembled component parts to the OEM and distribution marketplaces. EFC has provided its customers with a solution for specialty components, technical support, and engineering assistance since 1983. www.efc-intl.com

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EFDA calls for intelligent solution The European Fastener Distributors Association has a new office and organisation but remains focused on its original intention and values. Here, EFDA explains why effective representation for fastener distributors is essential to free but fair trade.

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n 2000 EFDA was born as an association of associations to represent common interests at a European and global level; providing the focal point for the exchange of noncompetitive information and to act as the mechanism for networking between fastener distributors throughout Europe.

EFDA defined its core mission as the provision of a European platform that enabled national associations to meet with all parties linked to the industry.

Since January 1st 2013 EFDA has operated from a new business environment in Berlin but still focuses on its original intention and values – in particular “free but fair trade in an open marketplace”. EFDA strongly believes that competiveness on a global scale is a precondition for prosperity; this includes the requirement for rules and regulations to balance unfair behaviour.

On 13th June 2012 the European Commission initiated an investigation concerning the possible circumvention of anti-dumping measures imposed on imports of certain stainless steel fasteners and parts thereof.

EFDA arranged a hearing with the chief case-handler to act as a platform for European distributors. In preparation eleven leading European distributors signed and sent a position paper to the Commission. They expressed their commitment to fair trade and therefore against dumping and circumvention. Prior to and during the meeting they presented documents proving they had done their outmost to avoid circumvention.

Having finished its investigation the Commission prepared a final report in January 2013 for consideration by representatives of EU Member States.

By the middle of March the final decision should be published and EFDA is very optimistic that the Commission will have been convinced by its arguments.

Last autumn, EFDA member associations decided unanimously to actively participate in a “targetgroup”. The objective is to ensure timely involvement in all regulations EFDA considers as barriers for free trade.

EFDA member associations represent the full spectrum of specialised fasteners distributors, with importers one sub-

segment. That imports increase if an appropriate domestic offer is not available is obvious. To correct this trend by punitive tariffs is a unilateral distortion of market forces. Even in our industry there are segments where years of punitive tariffs have not contributed to the recovery of the industry concerned. EFDA’s responsibility is to organise a platform for the European Fastener Distribution Industry to ensure legislators are presented with correct information for the benefit of the distribution industry and its customers. Now, even more than before, the European export industry needs strong supply-chains to enhance its global competitiveness.

During the Fastener Fair Stuttgart, where EFDA had a busy stand, fastener distributors expressed great dissatisfaction with the current situation.

Abnormally high and incomprehensibly punitive tariffs have promoted circumvention, which has negatively impacted the markets. European Union authorities are unfortunately not in a position to enforce the decisions they have taken. It is time for an intelligent solution.

Elms Lightning Fasteners changes hands Two UK fastener and fixing manufacturers have set the seal on a deal transferring ownership of a Birmingham-based production facility.

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lms Lightning Fasteners has been acquired by Jubilee® Clips from SEAC for an undisclosed sum.

The cut-to-fit metal banding systems that Elms Lightning Fasteners manufactures sit perfectly within Jubilee Clips’ established range of worm drive hose clips and associated clips and clamps.

The highly automated Birmingham operation will continue to trade as Elms Lightning Fasteners while the Stranglehold Banding name under which its core product is sold will also be retained.

Particularly popular with the heating and ventilation, and sign-fixing industries, the Stranglehold system comprises a worm drive steel strip that can be cut to the length required, and screw housings which slide onto the band. The band can then be tightened onto pipes or ducts of almost any diameter, with a screw inserted into the housing.

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Ian Jennings, managing director at Gillingham based Jubilee Clips, recalled: “The possibility of our acquiring Elms Lightning Fasteners was first mooted at Fastener Fair Stuttgart a couple of years ago. However, it was not until last April that talks began in earnest. Since then they’ve been conducted in a spirit of friendliness and co-operation.”

He continued: “The Stranglehold system compliments our existing product line-up while Elms Lightning Fasteners is a thriving business, with some highly skilled staff. This acquisition gives us as an immediate 10 percent increase in revenues, as well as access to new customers. Also through exchanges of best practice, particularly in terms of materials and production techniques, we see definite opportunities to add further value and grow our business as a whole.”

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Packaging pioneer passes away Arthur F. Organ, founder of Packaging Machinery Limited, which created the renowned hardware packaging machinery brand ‘Organpak’, died on 20th December 2012 aged 89 years.

Mick Clifford provides an insight into Arthur Organ’s significance to the fastener industry.

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rganpak installations were supplied to more than seventy countries and many remain in reliable service after as much as thirty-five years. The company went on to become Vibro Weigh-Count Ltd. Arthur Organ’s vision for fastener packaging was revolutionary. In 1972 a pound of nails was weighed on a greengrocers scale in the corner hardware store and wrapped in used newspaper.

Manufacturers would tip a stillage of fasteners from the manufacturing process onto a table and teams of people, in some cases in their hundreds, would weigh them out manually. Longer fasteners would be tipped in tonnes on the floor and then

shovelled into sacks on coal scales.

Today’s integrated packaging systems can take product from the headers and threaders and transport it to sophisticated packaging machines so that a filled, sealed and labelled box is robotically loaded onto a pallet ready for the warehouse. This level of automation owes not a little to the vision of Arthur F. Organ.

Arthur is also remembered for his bow tie, his pipe or his trailer. The trailer and Arthur travelled the globe in search of new customers and products to pack.

Arthur retired from the packaging industry following a heart attack but continued to innovate, manufacturing bow thrusters for ships and developing a

system to convert diesel engine power to a stable AC electrical supply for onboard use.

Touched by the dreadful loss of life on the Antares, a fishing vessel sunk when it nets fouled a British submarine, he developed and manufactured an inexpensive Net Release solution adopted by many trawler men.

In his eulogy at the funeral in Lochgilphead, Arthur’s friend John Knox recalled their work together in both fastener packaging and seafaring equipment, quipping that the entrepreneur, on arrival at the Pearly Gates, would no doubt have discussed with St Peter how to automate them.

Arthur Organ leaves behind his second wife, Jean and two sons, Robin and Rupert.

His first wife, Doris, pre-deceased him.

Wire threaded insert manufacturer relocates UK based WTI Fasteners Ltd, a manufacturer of wire threaded inserts, recently moved to new premises, double the size of its old facility.

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he new site has enabled WTI Fasteners to re-structure its work flow process, resulting in greater efficiency from goods-in to final orders.

WTI Fasteners produces wire threaded inserts from M2 up to M36, but says that any size is possible. Products are manufactured from high quality chromium, nickel and austenitic stainless steel, with an in-house tooling room giving the company independency when it comes to re-fitting it’s bespoke automatic machines.

As well as offering a standard range of products, WTI Fasteners can also work with customers to produce specials, getting involved in the design stages of projects. The company also offers an own label service so that its customers can have their labelling attached to specific orders.

“At WTI Fasteners we pride ourselves on customer service and ensuring that each and every customer is fully satisfied.

We are BSEN ISO 9100 / ISO 9001 approved and export products to Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.”

New addition to ForgeFix team Member of Fastbolt As part of its commitment to providing excellent service and support to customers across the UK, ForgeFix has made a new addition to its sales team. Dean Topping joins the distributor of fixings, fastenings and associated products with immediate effect as area sales manager for the south of the UK.

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ean brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience of the industry, having previously worked for manufacturer of abrasive products, Dronco, as well as two other well-known fixings and fastening companies, APT and Unifix. This strong background in the trade sector will prove invaluable in his new role and will enable him to add significant value and insight to ForgeFix’s growing customer base.

Speaking of Dean’s appointment, Mike Smith, sales and marketing director at ForgeFix, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Dean to ForgeFix. His background, his understanding of the fixings and fastenings sector and his evident enthusiasm for the role made him the perfect choice for the position. We’re confident he will prove a valued asset to the team.”

Dean himself added: “I’m always keen to take on a new challenge and I’m really looking forward to building on ForgeFix’s presence in the south of the UK – which is an area I feel has real potential for growth. I was also attracted to ForgeFix as a business because of its great support network and its genuine commitment to innovation. With the added backing of Toolbank, I fully believe that the business will continue to go from strength to strength.”

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UK sales team dies unexpectedly

With great sadness and regret Fastbolt has announced the death of Kevin Harris, who passed away on 25th February following a heart attack.

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astbolt UK managing director, Graham Joyce said: “Kevin was a very popular member of our sales staff and will be sadly missed by his colleagues and customers alike. Kevin had more than 14 years of service and was always at the forefront of our sales team. His extensive knowledge and experience made a very large contribution to our success and his good humour and wit entertained us daily.

His will be a tough act to follow. Our sincere condolences are extended to his family.”

Kevin leaves behind his wife Kym and two sons Ryan and Lee.

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by John Wolz, editor GlobalFastenerNews.com

2012 a solid year for US fastener industry Most of the North American fastener industry reported solid results for the End of 2012 FIN Survey, with rising sales and profits and stable costs. The FIN Company Performance Index declined moderately, falling to 6.7 from 6.9 the previous year.

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ust over seven in ten businesses reported “moderate” to “strong” sales growth in 2012, down from the 78% that achieved revenue growth in 2011. About 43% reported “moderate” growth in sales, while 28% saw a “strong increase” in sales.

Just over 15% of survey participants said 2012 sales levels were unchanged from the year before, while 11% reported sales declines - more than twice the percentage of companies reporting dwindling revenues in 2011.

About 64% of fastener manufacturers, importers, distributors and platers reported increased profits. Just over 22% said profits were unchanged, and 11% reported declining profit.

The End of 2012 FIN Survey found costs moderated as well, with more than half of participants reporting flat or declining costs, while an additional 41% claimed “moderate” cost increases. 43% of businesses reported increased capital expenditures, with another 40% of participants keeping investment levels unchanged.

Market confidence moderate An increasing percentage of the fastener industry expressed “moderate” confidence in the North American economy at the start of 2013 – but that confidence appeared to be weakening.

A 53% majority pegged their confidence as “moderate” upon the start of 2013 vs 50% one year ago. The “high” confidence ratings slipped from 33% a year ago to 29% now. “Very high” is at 2% vs.

3% for 2011. In 2012 “low” North American economic confidence ratings were 12% vs 6% a year ago.

Majority raise fastener prices More than half of fastener businesses - 51% - successfully raised prices in 2012, according to the FIN Survey. Price increases ranged from 2% to 20%, with an average increase of 5.5%. Just under 12% of respondents achieved price hikes above 7%, while 37% reported flat pricing. However, 12% of FIN Survey participants reported price reductions, double the rate of the 6% of businesses cutting prices in 2011. Price cuts in 2012 ranged from 2% to 25% and averaged 7.9%.

Manufacturers stable in 2012 After two straight years of rising capacity, manufacturers reported operating capacity declined to a 69.3% average in 2012.

Just over 43% of manufacturers reported a mostly “moderate” rise in finished goods inventory, while 17% reported declines.

About 39% reported a “modest” raw material increase, while 19% experienced a “strong” increase. Nearly half of manufacturers paid higher steel prices, with 30% reporting price hikes of up to 10%.

Distributor margins down despite stable costs Distributor inventory edged up in 2012, with the inventory index growing to 4.5, up from 4.4 in 2011. Stable costs became more widespread, though 10% of distributors saw their costs increase and 3% reported “moderate” decrease in costs in 2012.

After two consecutive years of gross margin gains, margins slipped for distributors in 2012, declining to an average of 36% from 41% the previous year.

The FIN Survey found fasteners widely available in 2012, with a 68% majority claiming no problems obtaining fasteners.

About 32% reported mostly moderate difficulty obtaining certain fasteners in 2012.

Porteous relocating headquarters Porteous Fastener Co has consolidated its two Southern California locations into one new 204,000 square feet facility in Santa Fe Springs, CA.

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he sales office and warehouse located a few miles away moved into the new facility in December 2012, and after 35 years in Carson, CA, the corporate headquarters moved at the end of January 2013.

PFC described the new location as: “High cube with high pile racking and narrow guided aisles.”

The storage capacity is 40 million pounds (approximately 18,150 tonnes) of fasteners. “PFC operates a hub-spoke distribution model and this new facility will help ensure a smooth product flow from suppliers in Asia throughout the PFC branch network,” the company stated.

Founded in 1966, PFC is a privately held importer/master distributor of construction and industrial fasteners, selling only to distributors. The company operates 14 locations - 13 in the U.S. and one in Canada.

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ISO energy savings worth 8% of payroll Aztech Locknut Company is probably the first U.S. fastener manufacturer to achieve ISO 50001 energy standard certification, but it’s unlikely to be the last.

Aztech’s energy cost savings may lure other companies to start the process.

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ztech President Mark Kaindl calculates energy saving at his Aurora, IL, facility as 8% of payroll. Overall, his energy use compared to recent years is down 60%. In addition, he learned when refinancing the 60,000 square feet building last year that energy efficiency has increased his property value.

ISO 50001 requires continuous improvement in energy efficiency, security, use and consumption. What Aztech has done is just the beginning as ISO 50001 is a process, Kaindl told GlobalFastenerNews.com. There is more to come, he added.

ISO 50001 is different from other International Standards Organization programs, Kaindl explained. “This is looking for money savings,” Kaindl emphasized. “The requirements or goal is to save energy and thus money.” In contrast to energy savings, other ISO programs – such as quality standards – may improve a company’s operations and thus in the long run may save money, but savings may be difficult to calculate, he noted. For ISO 50001 certification, “you have to show energy savings.”

Founded in 1978, Aztech manufactures and supplies metal and nylon insert locknuts to distributors.

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Westby sells distributorship

Fastener Tech to include five conference sessions

Don Westby has sold his Wisconsin fastener distributorship to Dave Schmitting.

The Mid-West Fastener Association announced five conference sessions during the 10th - 12th June 2013, Fastener Tech events.

estby hired Schmitting as general manager of Westby Production Components Inc in 2008 and within six months, Westby retired from day-to-day operations.

Westby Inc provides inventory management programs, bin stocking and operates “with a key focus of customer service,” Westby told GlobalFastenerNews.com When he joined Westby, Schmitting had more than 30 years of fastener experience, including working for Endries International and Gateway Screw.

Westby said Schmitting shares his “philosophy of customer service and prompt attention to customer needs and concerns.”

With four years as general manager, customers and vendors are assured “they will continue their business relationships with the same pledge of service and support as they have had over the past 25 years.

he trade show at the Stephen Convention Center in Rosemont, IL, will be 9am to 5pm on Tuesday and 10am to 3pm Wednesday. There is an all-industry reception at 5pm Tuesday and gathering at the Park Rosemont at 8pm.

The conference program begins Monday with a one-day Fastener Training Institute workshop. Tuesday conference sessions include a MWFA purchasing safeguards seminar, 9am; Women in the Fastener Industry session, ‘The 7 things you need to succeed right now,’ with Linda McCabe; ‘Making fasteners beginning to end,’ Fastener Technology International, 1pm; ‘Snapshot of industry trends,’ Holden Lewis, Fastener Distributor Index, 4pm. The Fastener Industry Coalition will be at 8:30am Wednesday.

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Duncan Bolt acquires Disco Industrial Duncan Bolt, headed by Andy Cohn, has acquired the assets of Disco Industrial from Al Amado.

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mado was once executive vice president and treasurer of Lewis Screw in Chicago. He was the 14th president of the Chicago Bolt, Nut & Screw Association. Amado headed west to acquire Disco in 1984.

He was recruited into the fastener industry by one of the founders of Lewis Screw – Sam Hochwert. Amado described his experience at that point as “a night school CPA,” but soon felt comfortable as “an accountant not afraid to go out in to the factory and pull parts out of a machine to show a visitor.”

Reviewing his fastener career, Amado, 82, cited three major changes in the industry: Importing, computers and women.

“When I came in, there were only Heads and Allied,” Amado said.

Since then “we’ve lost a lot of domestic manufacturers.” When he started all fastener inventory was kept on cards and “you made phone calls and phone calls to update.” Soon after acquiring Disco, Amado observed a typist retyping a list of 30 items for backorder. The original order had been for 35 items and before

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computers the 30 had to be retyped.

Heads & Threads International started an early computer driven “sheet of inventory” for salesmen, but that occasionally got oversold and no one knew what had been sold that day until the update the following day, Amado recalled.

Forty-eight years ago “there were very few women selling screws. It’s was a man’s job,” Amado recalled. “Today women may be in a majority.” Indeed, the majority of Disco salespeople today are women, he pointed out.

Founded in 1952 as Dumont Industrial Supply, Disco Industrial distributes fasteners with VMI, bin stocking and JIT programs.

After assisting in the transition in the coming months, Amado plans to retire.

Duncan Bolt was founded in 1953 by David Duncan. Andy Cohn and Virginia Cohn acquired the distributorship in 1988. Southern California-based Duncan opened a branch in Phoenix in 2003 and Shanghai, China in 2006.

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Twentieth anniversary of Hilti Russia

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In 1993 Hilti Group decided to open a 100% affiliated company in Russia to start direct sales.

ow there are thirty Hilti centres located in 27 Russian cities, employing approximately 700 people.

From the first day on the Russian construction market the company has pursued a policy of an absolute intolerance towards bribery and corruption. Hilti has supplied the largest construction projects in Russia: the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour; the towers of the Moscow International Business Center; the Bolshoy theatre in Moscow; the Opera theatre in Novosibirsk; the Hyatt hotel in Yekaterinburg, and the Russky bridge in Vladivostok.

On the 1st February 2013 Mr Michael Hilti, member of the Hilti AF board of directors, visited St. Petersburg in order to personally congratulate the company on this anniversary.

Titan-2 supplies threaded couplings to LNPP-2 For the moment TITAN-2 marked sockets are the only domestic sockets for threaded fitting joints used in the construction of nuclear plants in Russia.

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upplies of TITAN-2 mechanical fasteners for fittings to the Leningradskaya NPP-2 nuclear power plant commenced in October 2012. For the past few months approximately five thousand sockets for threaded joints were supplied to the construction site. They are used for building the first and second power-generating units and in the reactor building, turbine and auxiliary facilities.

TITAN-2 Holding also began supplying threaded couplings for the construction of the Baltic nuclear power plant in 2013.

Previously mechanical couplings for nuclear applications had been purchased overseas but the manufacturing process established in production facilities owned by TITAN-2 Holding, fully satisfy the construction requirements of both nuclear power plant developments. The couplings conform to GOST Regulation ROSS RU.SL 86.N00040.

TITAN-2 has just announced its plans to expand its

manufacturing capacity of threaded couplings, which was started two years ago using an Austrian EMCOTURN E65 Big Bore lathe. TITAN-2 Holding plans to purchase additional units of high-precision, superfast metal processing equipment to provide the basis for a dedicated mini-factory for producing the manufacturing couplings. Representatives of the company recently visited EMCO Maier GmbH to progress development of specific manufacturing technology for TITAN-2. Manufacturing control will be via a Siemens software platform. The new minifactory is scheduled to come on line in the summer of 2013 and is expected to eventually increase production capacity five fold.

Currently production on a single shift basis is around 4,000 units per month.

TITAN-2 is the largest group of companies in north west Russia, and specialises in the construction of nuclear power plants and other large scale industrial complexes.

Over-heating indicators for threaded joints developed Krylovsky State Scientific Center (St. Petersburg) has completed a design and experimental project - ‘Development of over-heating indicators for threaded contact joints’.

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he project was realised together with Krizo Plant JSC. Together they developed test samples of indicators, which are immovably fixed on threaded contact joints of ship’s electrical equipment and are intended for the diagnosis of torque-retention loss. The development improves fire safety of ship electrical equipment by revealing during scheduled maintenance the unacceptable over-heating of contact studs during operation.

Turning point in Russian e-commerce market The volume of the Russian e-commerce market will grow from US$12 billion in 2012 to US$36 billion by 2015, reaching 4.5% of all retail sales, Morgan Stanley predicts.

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ccording to Morgan Stanley forecasts, 2013 will be a turning point for the Russian market of internet-sales.

The behaviour of Russian consumers online copies to a large extent the actions of consumers in Western markets, but with a considerable delay, analysts said. Thus, 48% of users in Russia made their first purchases online only during the last two years. The volume of sales on the Russian market in 2012 grew up to US$12 billion and amounted to 1.9% of US$670 billion total retail sales.

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ones Lang LaSalle has analysed the number of Russian shopping centres under construction and concluded the commissioning volume of high-quality sales areas in 2013 could be at the highest in the history of the market and cross the psychological mark of two million square metres. This figure is 46% higher than last year (1.58 million square metres) and about 17% higher than the former record, documented in 2008, when 1.97 million square metres of sales area went into operation in Russia.

According to preliminary estimates, 366,000 square metres of sales area will appear in Moscow, three times more than in 2012.

At the same time, the figures for cities with populations higher than one million, but excluding Moscow and St. Petersburg, are expected to be amongst the lowest in history, at 379,000 square metres. This would be 3% higher than last year but considerably lower than 2007 (701,000 square metres). By contrast the most significant growth in 2013 is expected to be reached in cities with populations of less than one million, in which around one million square metres of new shopping centres (14% higher than last year) is expected.

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Severstal-Metiz successfully certifies railway fasteners An audit of railway fastener production at the Cherepovetz factory of Severstal-Metiz has been successfully concluded with positive results.

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he audit was carried out by the State Dnepropetrovsk Agency for Certification of Railway Fasteners, which analysed normative and technical specifications; the control systems for raw materials, materials and accessories; conformity of process equipment; conditions of production, storage and shipment.

The audit covered terminal and blind bolts and their nuts; screw track-spikes (fish bolts), and double coil washers.

Products were selected by the auditors and tested in the factory

laboratory under their supervision.

“During four years of co-operation with our company the auditors have educed no serious non-conformances in production and noted system improvements every time,” commented Oleg Veter, general director of Severstal-Metiz. “Nevertheless it does not mean that we have nothing to work on. We are constantly moving forward, updating technologies and processes, improving quality characteristics of our products and extending services for our customers.”

Rechitsky Plant starts nail production on new line The Rechitsky Hardware Plant in Belarus has commenced manufacturing on new equipment supplied by WAFIOS.

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roducts include nails with a D-shaped head, in diameters 2.8mm and 3.1mm, and lengths from 63mm to 98mm.

In its fastener plants the company is now manufacturing hot dipped galvanised bolts and nuts. It is also reported to be producing DIN 912 equivalent (GOST 11738-84) socket cap screws in Grade 8.8 and piloting production of other fasteners used for engineering and industrial applications.

Reporting on Fastener Fair Russia Fastener Fair Russia takes place 12th – 14th March 2013, alongside BLECH Russia and the St. Petersburg Technical Fair, at the Lenexpo Exhibition Centre.

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BLECH Russia is staged every two years and this is the inaugural Fastener Fair Russia, which will feature around 100 exhibitors from more than twenty countries.

Executive Editor, Phil Matten, will be reporting personally on the events in the May issue of Fastener + Fixing Magazine.

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China fastener industry contracts According to a report by Chinafastener.com the Chinese fastener industry recorded a 1.5% contraction in output during 2012, ascribed to a combination of depressed market demand and the effect of international anti-dumping measures on Chinese fasteners.

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xport volume declined 4.8% year on year to 2.46 million tonnes, with export value declining 2.4% to around US$4.5 billion. Imports also declined by 4.7% to 252,400 tonnes.

Feng Jinyao, president of the China Fastener Industry Association, speaking at a symposium in Hunan Province in December 2012, forecast that China’s output in fasteners could exceed 7.2 million tonnes in 2013. He said the industry had undergone tremendous changes in the last decade. More than 95% of fastener enterprises were now restructured as joint stock or private enterprises. More than 4,000 fastener manufacturers were “equipped to a national scale”, so that China had become the largest fastener manufacturing country in the world. He said that to promote the fundamental transformation of the industry’s model of economic growth, the pursuit of production output volume had to be changed to the pursuit of improving quality and brand; the pursuit of large scale must be changed to the pursuit of proficiency, feature and speciality; and the production-oriented approach must be changed for one that was both production and service oriented.

Separately Chinafastener.com reported that the China Machinery Industry Federation had submitted a proposal to the Chinese Ministry of Industry for an increase in the fastener export rebate. The submission, made at a symposium held by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, seeks a return to the 13% level from which the fastener export rebate was cut to 5% in July 2007. Fastener industry representatives argue that the reversion to the higher rate is essential to counteract the effects of reduce export volumes and prices eroding producers’ profits. There is no indication the Chinese government will respond by making a change.

Rail investment helps drive demand Approval by the National Development and Reform Commission of rail construction plans worth a forecasted CNY 800 billion (97 billion euros) is expected to drive Chinese fastener demand, Chinafastener.com reports.

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uangzhou’s rail investment project is the largest, expected to attract investment of more than CNY 124 billion.

Approvals cover nineteen other cities across China, two regions and one line.

Transit projects in Taiyuan, Lanzhou, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Xiamen, and Changzhou were all approved, as were intercity networks in Jiangsu Province, along the Yangtze River and in Inner Mongolia.

250 exhibitors for Tainan Fastener Show Organisers of the International Fastener Show, scheduled to be staged in Tainan from 11th to 13th April, report 250 domestic and foreign companies have now committed to 530 booth spaces.

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n 21st January the chairman of the Taiwan Fastener Trading Association, Jim C.N. Chen, announced the figures claiming the show would become number four in the league of global major fastener exhibitions and will be the largest fastener show staged in Taiwan. The show will be staged at the Commercial Exhibition Center in Tainan.

Eighty five percent of exhibitors will be fastener and machinery manufacturers with the balance comprising trading companies.

The organisers also plan to hold nineteen international seminars to which leaders from fastener trade associations from across

the world have been invited to deliver presentations.

The two most recent Taiwanese fastener shows, held in Kaohsiung in 2012 and 2010, were organised by another trade association, the Taiwan Industrial Fastener Institute in cooperation with Taiwan government export promotion organisation TAITRA. Staged at the Kaohsiung Arena, limited space at the venue constrained exhibitor numbers, with priority going to TIFI members. TIFI and TAITRA will stage a third show at a newly developed exhibition centre being built as part of the redevelopment of the Kaohsiung harbour area.

China plans environmental taxes The Xinhua state news agency reports that the Chinese government intends implementing new taxes on carbon emissions, coal and water.

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he Chinese Finance Ministry was reported as saying it would collect an environmental protection fee as well as a levy on carbon dioxide emissions. It also said taxes on coal would increase. During the winter high levels of atmospheric pollution have blighted Chinese cities, including the capital Beijing.

The report, however, did not give a specific timescale for the introduction of the new taxes.

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asian news China Steel increases wire rod prices Taiwan’s largest steel maker China Steel Corporation has confirmed increased wire rod prices to domestic customers for April and May deliveries.

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hina Steel Corporation has announced it will increase steel wire rod prices by TWD 700 per tonne (18 euros/tonne) as part of an across grades average 3.81% price increase for April and May deliveries. The increase follows the application of a TWD 818/tonne increase on March deliveries. CSC says the increases reflect pressure from increased raw material costs exacerbated by the fall in value of the New Taiwan Dollar to the US Dollar, higher domestic demand and rising international steel prices.

Analysts, however, suggest the increase may well be the last in the near term as both global steel prices and iron ore costs appear to be weakening in the face of sluggish demand.

New report focuses on demand drivers in India A new, extensively revised overview of the fastener market in India has been published by Brooks Reports.

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he report looks incisively at the economic and business factors most likely to influence fastener demand in India in the coming five years. India continues to offer extraordinary longer-term opportunities for fastener businesses while unquestionably presenting very real shorter-term challenges – this report explores both. It considers the major market sectors for fasteners, with particular emphasis on the critically important automotive sector, and their development and trends. It also reviews a selection of the major fastener players active in the Indian market.

Website addresses are included throughout the text and an extensive list of sources is appended to assist further research.

The report is available for download from www.brooksreports.com at 205 euros.

Deepak Bhopal factory comes on stream Deepak Fasteners Limited unveiled progress in the development of its new Bhopal factory during Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

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eepak Fasteners was established in Ludhiana in 1956 and lays claim to being the largest fastener manufacturer in India. The company owns Unbrako, which it acquired from SPS Technologies for an undisclosed figure in 2008. During Fastener Fair Stuttgart, Deepak Managing Director Sanjeev Kalra told this magazine the plant was already in production although heat treatment facilities had not yet been installed. Describing it as the largest fastener plant in Asia, Deepak says it will have cold forming capacity from M3 to M42 for bolts, sockets, nuts and washers. Sanjeev Kalra also confirmed plans for the plant to begin cold forging stainless steel fasteners in SS304 and SS316 by the end of 2013.

Chun Zu registers on emerging stocks market Taiwanese fastener machinery manufacturer, Chun Zu, has successfully registered in the electric machines category of the Taiwanese emerging stocks market.

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hun Zu was established in 1974 as part of the Chun Yu Group and has plants in Kanshang, Kaohsiung and Shanghai. Fastener production machinery accounts for 83% of its sales, tooling for nearly 9% and maintenance for the balance. The company exports to forty countries. For the first half 2012 Chun Zu achieved sales of TWD 472 million (12.1 million euros) on track to exceed 2011 full year sales of TWD 910 million.

Source: Fastener World Magazine

Sundram Fasteners Q3 profits fall The Hindu Business Line reports Sundram Fasteners experienced a 9.22% drop (against same period previous year) in third quarter net profit to INR 22.54 crore (3.11 million euros).

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undram said this fiscal year it has been under pressure due to higher cost of inputs, employee costs and higher power tariff. Power costs impacted April to December operating margins by 1.7%.

Operating expenses in the nine-month period rose to INR 1,393 crore (193 million euros).

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Brazilians PhDs win award for work on fatigue of structural materials The two PhDs, Meggiolaro and Castro, are the first Brazilians authors to win the award for their work at one of the most important international conferences in the field of mechanical engineering.

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tudying the life of parts used in the automotive, aviation and transport sectors is one of the specialties of mechanical engineering. One of the world’s foremost journals in the field – ‘The International Journal of Fatigue’ granted Marco Antônio Meggiolaro and Jaime Tupiassu Pinho de Castro - both of the department of mechanical engineering, at the Technical Center of Scientific of PUC-Rio - the prize for the best unpublished work presented at the 9th International Conference on ‘Fatigue damage of structural materials’, which took place last September in Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA. The paper entitled: ‘A unified framework for incremental plasticity calculations under non-proportional variable amplitude histories’ makes it possible to forecast how parts may deteriorate and cause complex problems, which may be avoided by early replacement to prevent compromise to the structural integrity.

Through this work, it was possible to unite the methodology that calculates the deformation of parts, studied by researchers in plasticity and the calculation of the lifetime of the part, studied by researchers in fatigue. With the union of the two areas, it already is possible to make a better prediction of deformation and life, thus ensuring greater security on structures.

“In eighteen of this conference, this was the first time that Brazilian work was recognised with an award. This confirms the progress of our research, and puts us on the world map,” said Meggiolaro. According to him, the paper will now be published in an upcoming issue of ‘International Journal of Fatigue.’

BST eyeing Brazilian business Diego Jezler is 34 years old, originally a native of Salvador City, Bahia State, Brazil, who has lived in England since 2007. Now he has the task of seeking new business in Brazil for a British industry, the BST Manufacturers of Special Nuts & Bolts.

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ccording to Jezler, the company has a strong presence in the production of forged and machined fasteners intended for critical applications, which demand high resistance in extreme conditions of pressure, temperature and corrosion - something common in offshore environments. In this scope, BST already cites among its customers, companies manufacturing equipment for nuclear reactors and defense. The company is also on the selected list of suppliers to the British Navy.

Now the oil and gas markets “are getting hot” in his home, Jezler says a team from BST will visit Brazil in June this year, mainly because of the ‘Brazil Offshore International Conference and Fair for Oil & Gas’ – a most important fair for technology and business, which will take place in Macaé City, Rio de Janeiro.

Diego Jezler say he also plans to arrange a technical workshop about fasteners for the oil and gas sectors.

Autopart sector sales fall According to a survey published on the website of Sindipeças, sales of auto parts sector from January to September 2012 fell by 15.4% over the same period in 2011.

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eptember sales compared to August declined by 10.9%. These are results of a monthly survey of 87 member companies, which represent 28.9% of total sales of the auto parts industry in Brazil. There was a decrease in all market segments: 19.2% for automakers; 11.3% in the aftermarket; 10.1% in exports; and 18.9% in intra-sectoral business.

The Brazilian auto parts international trade balance deficit grew by 22.9% during January to September 2012 to reach US$4.4 billion. Imports from 144 countries, totaling US$12.33 billion, three percent higher than those recorded in the same months of 2011. Exports to 180 countries, fell 5.5% to US$7.94 billion. Argentina was the main destination for these exports and Japan the first on the list exporting auto parts to Brazil.

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Herbert Knoke Flying the PROFIX® flag In 1964 Herbert Knoke GmbH & Co KG set sail on a voyage to import and distribute screws to the European market. Whilst that objective hasn’t significantly changed in the ensuing 49 years, the same cannot be said about the high level of delivery, quality and service that has become synonymous with the business.

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ieter Hopfeld joined Herbert Knoke in 1979 and took over as general manager in 2010.

During this time the family run business was acquired by Metall-Chemie Group - a holding company that in 2011 had an annual turnover of approximately 229.1 million euros.

“As a boy I always wanted to be the captain of a ship. The closest I ever came was a radio signaller in the German navy.

I never thought I would be involved in the fastener industry, but here I am 34 years after joining Knoke and it is great fun.”

Now captain of the Herbert Knoke ship, Dieter is very clear on what he sees as the company’s main focus. “At Knoke we always look to deliver a good high quality product and service to our customers.

This is what we have concentrated on for the last 49 years and will continue to focus on in the future.”

Knoke is proud to be innovative and flexible, with a total staff of 26 employees and 3 trainees. Originally established to supply the German market, which is still its main market, it can also now supply across all European countries.

“Today’s challenge is to be flexible

and creative to meet our customers’ requirements, which is very important,” says Dieter. “Customers do not want to be looking after too much stock. You need to be able to supply to them whatever they want whenever they want it. At Knoke we are like a speedboat, we are adaptable and able to alter our course depending on our customers’ requirements – ensuring that we supply the right product to the right standards.”

The company can supply 4,700 different product lines to its customers – all of whom are retailers. “We ONLY sell to retailers not to final users,” explains Dieter emphatically. “We like to have a close co-operation with our customers and it is vital that you build trust. Only with trust can you have a good working relationship.”

Knoke has two ranges of products that it offers customers - its DIN and standard parts range, as well as its PROFIX® RF screw family.

“At the moment we have two healthy legs that we are walking on,” laughs Dieter. “One leg is the DIN and standard parts range, the other leg is the PROFIX® RF range. It is vital that whilst we continue

“ Knoke has two ranges of products that it offers customers - its DIN and standard parts range, as well as its PROFIX® RF screw family.”

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to offer the DIN and standard parts to our customers, we also work on developing the PROFIX® RF range of products so that we do not have to rely on a specific market. We do not want to end up hopping on one leg.”

Knoke is continuously looking to expand its PROFIX® RF screw family range, including long items, full thread, hex head and several other unique offerings.

“The PROFIX® brand is reliable, top quality, and always available,” says Dieter.

“Ever since we launched it in 1979 we have been working on ensuring that the quality of these screws are of the highest standard to guarantee that our customers only receive the best.”

Knoke imports its products mainly from Asia with the company one of the first to establish contacts with specific manufacturers.

“Our original founder Herbert Knoke visited several Asian countries in the 1960s to personally build the relationships with manufacturers, and we started to import from Asia in the 1970s,” explains Dieter. “When customers hear that your products are from Asia they sometimes worry about the quality. However, we have always been 100% confident about the quality of our products. We only use certified suppliers who we have invested a lot of time into, by building up both the products and relationship. We discuss everything with our suppliers including the product, material, quality, and packaging – the whole solution. It is a big investment to build up a manufacturer and by cooperating with our suppliers we are able to ensure that all the standards required are fulfilled.”

Knoke’s confidence in its product quality is underlined by its PROFIX® RF chipboard screws receiving

Bauaufsichtliche Zulassung certifications – Z-91-723 and Z-91-724 – as well as its products being CE marked.

To add to its certifications Knoke also has its suppliers in Asia regularly audited by the Karlsruhe Institut Technologie (KIT) to ensure that all the product requirements are fulfilled to the highest standard. The importance of quality doesn’t stop there, once the products reach Knoke’s warehouse it uses an external test laboratory to support it in the continuous assessment and inspection of product quality, including regular factory visits and inspecting production samples on-site and during loading. Knoke also adheres to a quality management system according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008.

As well as offering its customers a range of high quality screws, the Knoke service also includes the training of its customers’ sales teams to understand the advantages of the PROFIX® RF range.

“We do not sell screws only, we offer a complete package,” explains Dieter. “If a customer has an open day where they invite their customers to their facilities to look at products, we will attend and highlight the benefits of the PROFIX® brand. We demonstrate the screws to the end-users at the open days and highlight the additional advantages of using our product. We also exhibit at end-user shows alongside our customers, under their name, so that we can give demonstrations on the benefits of using the PROFIX® RF range.”

Dieter continues: “By speaking to the end-user we can highlight the PROFIX® RF range’s quality and its ability to do the work. It is essential that the final user is assured about the quality of the product, and feels comfortable when using it. Some competitors seem to focus on the importance of how quick a screw can be drilled in or drilled out. Whilst we also work on this to ensure that our products are just as competitive, we think it is more important to get them into the hands of the users so that they can try it for themselves. The majority of users will not look at figures or graphs on how a product works. They like to have it in their hand and feel the weight of it and how it installs. Only then will you convince them that it is the right product for them. That is why we work closely with our customers in promoting the PROFIX® brand name.

We are invited to these open days and

exhibitions because our customers trust us and know that by working together we can both be successful.”

Knoke recently exhibited by itself at Fastener Fair Stuttgart and reported having a very successful show. “Fastener Fair Stuttgart was a great exhibition for us,” says Dieter. “We were constantly busy throughout the three days and we met a lot of new customers, as well as existing customers.”

At Fastener Fair Stuttgart the company promoted a selection of products including the PROFIX® drywall and chipboard screws, PROFIX® RF wood and wood construction screws with BIMATE® Technology - available with wafer-head in diameter 8mm and 10mm - as well as Knoke’s latest product the PROFIX® Typ TS Terrace screw with SKT coating.

“We are very proud of our PROFIX® RF range and the quality of our products,” states Dieter. “In the future we are looking

to continue to promote the PROFIX® brand especially the decking and chipboard screws, as well as new members of the PROFIX® RF family.”

Dieter adds: “As a business you have to constantly be looking forward at the next challenge. We will continue to highlight the advantages of our PROFIX® RF range and the benefits it can deliver to our customers. It is only by ensuring that our customers are happy with the product and its quality that we will be successful.”

The dedication to the customer and ensuring that they are happy with the product, and its quality, is ingrained throughout Herbert Knoke GmbH & Co KG. From speaking to Dieter Hopfeld you can sense his passion for delivering high quality products and his sheer level of energy and enthusiasm is infectious. He is clearly a captain who has set a course for success and will continue to do so under the PROFIX® flag. www.herbert-knoke.de

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Intersolar Europe Where: Munich, Germany Web: www.intersolar.de

When: 19 Jun - 21 Jun 2013 What: International exhibition for solar technology.

Global Automotive Components and Suppliers Expo 2013

Where: Stuttgart, Germany When: 4 Jun - 6 Jun 2013 Web: www.globalautomotivecomponentsandsuppliersexpo.com What: Automotive components exhibition.

Fastener Tech™ ‘13

Where: Illinois, USA When: 10 Jun - 12 Jun 2013 Web: www.fastenertech.com What: Fastener manufacturers, distributors and users.

Hardware + Tools Middle East

Where: Dubai, UAE When: 11 Jun - 13 Jun 2013 Web: www.hardwaretoolsme.com What: Tools, hardware, materials and machinery.

Industrial Components & Subcontracting 2013

Where: Bangkok, Thailand When: 20 Jun - 23 Jun 2013 Web: www.components-subcon.com What: Industrial parts, components, equipment and

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Where: Moscow, Russia When: 25 Jun - 28 Jun 2013 Web: www.wire-russia.com What: International wire and cable trade fair.

The 10th Fastener Trade Show Guangzhou Where: Guangzhou, China When: 3 Jul - 4 Jul 2013 Web: www. fastenertradeshow.info What: International fastener exhibition in China.

The 14th China (Guangzhou) International Vietnam Manufacturing Expo 2013 Metal and Metallurgy Exhibition Where: Hanoi, Vietnam When: 4 Sep - 6 Sep 2013 Web: www.vietnammanufacturingexpo.com What: Industrial parts manufacturing.

Where: Guangzhou, China When: 16 Jun - 18 Jun 2013 Web: www.julang.com.cn What: Metal industries and materials including fasteners.

17th Mechanical Components & Materials Technology Expo

Where: Tokyo, Japan When: 19 Jun - 21 Jun 2013 Web: www.mtech-tokyo.jp What: Mechanical components and materials technologies.

Fastener Expo Shanghai

Where: Shanghai, China When: 20 Jun - 22 Jun 2013 Web: www.fastenerexpo.cn What: Specialist industrial fastener exhibition.

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Record results for Fastener Fair Stuttgart Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2013, Europe’s leading trade fair for the fastener and fixing industry, ended with record results in visitor and exhibitor numbers as well as exhibition space.

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total of 10,600 visitors from 97 countries visited Stuttgart from 26th - 28th February to discover the latest trends and products, to make new business contacts and build international trade networks. Covering a net exhibition area of more than 16,000m2 in three fully booked exhibition halls, a total of 811 exhibitors from 36 countries showcased a comprehensive range of products and services for the fastener and fixing industry.

“An increase of 28% in visitor numbers, 21% in exhibitor numbers and 30% in exhibition space in comparison to the previous exhibition are without a doubt leading results,” explains Susanne Rauberger, exhibition director Fastener Fair Stuttgart, on behalf of the organisers, Mack Brooks Exhibitions.

“We are particularly delighted to be able to say that there was lively trading activity taking place throughout the three exhibition halls and the atmosphere was buoyant. A large number of exhibitors were able to report excellent sales figures and valuable business contacts. We want to congratulate our exhibitors and visitors for this great success.”

Visitors from all over the world made their way to Stuttgart to discover the latest industry trends and to source new products and systems. The most important visitor countries after Germany were Italy, Great Britain, France and Poland.

The range of exhibits included industrial fasteners and fixings, construction fixings, assembly and installation systems, fastener manufacturing technology, as well as storage and logistics services.

Exhibiting companies and visitors alike praised the outstanding quality and international flavour of the exhibition.

Results of a first exhibitor survey reveal that an absolute majority of exhibitors were highly satisfied with the results of the trade show and most of this year’s exhibitors are already planning their participation at the next Fastener Fair Stuttgart which will be held from 10th – 12th March 2015.

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Record breaking…

Once again Fastener Fair Stuttgart set a clutch of records and created a remarkable environment for three days of sustained and productive business making.

“ In general, visitor numbers throughout the show appeared higher than in previous years, and, crucially, the ‘word on the street’ was that although market conditions are challenging, this year’s Fastener Fair had a very positive and optimistic feeling to it.”

Adam John, European distributor sales manager, TR Fastenings

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“ The traffic at the 2013 Fastener Fair Stuttgart was better than in 2011, with good quality visitors.

Being a machine manufacturer, we take advantage of this show to acquire new customers and meet existing ones.”

Yair Wiesenfeld, Videx Machine Engineering

“ The fair was truly international, with representations from all continents.

It is particularly important for global companies like Nord-Lock to be able to meet international customers in one place. This exhibition was perfect for exchanging updates and sharing expertise.”

Andreas Weiss, managing director, Nord-Lock GmbH

“ We got a lot of new contacts and think Fastener Fair Stuttgart is one of the most important Fairs in this sector.”

Thorben Wassmuth, Böhl Gruppe

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Iain Boyd, commercial director, Clyde Fasteners

“ We found the first two days of the show to be extremely busy - with the last day quiet on the non-exhibiting front, which allowed exhibitors, including ourselves, the chance to walk the halls meeting with current and potential customers.”

Stuart Southall, Earnest Machine Products

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A time for celebration As well as three busy days at Fastener Fair Stuttgart, there was also lots more to do at night, including the 40th celebrations of renowned Turkish manufacturer - Norm Civata Sanayl ve Ticaret A.S.

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orm Civata celebrated its 40th anniversary by inviting a selection of guests to the MASH nightclub in downtown Stuttgart for an evening of entertainment, food and frivolity.

Upon arrival each guest received a Norm Civata bolt with their name engraved onto the side as a memento of an unforgettable night.

Once everybody had been seated Mr Nedim Uysal, chairman, and Mr Fatih Uysal, deputy chairman, thanked all the guests for

attending and for the relationships Norm Civata has built with customers and suppliers over the last 40 years. A short video then highlighted the scale of Norm Civata’s facilities across Europe, as well as its wide range of production capabilities.

After enjoying a selection of food and drink from the three course buffet, guests were treated to entertainment including a singer and cocktail tricks from the in-house bar mixologist; before being able to dance the night away to the disco. www.norm-fasteners.com.tr

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Fastener innovation success at Stuttgart Nineteen exhibitors at Fastener Fair Stuttgart, presenting extremely varied examples of innovative technologies for the fastener industry, vied for the accolade of ‘Fastener Technology Innovator 2013’ winner.

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nnouncing the winner and runners up at a presentation on the final day of the Fastener Fair, Phil Matten, executive editor of Fastener + Fixing Magazines and competition co-judge noted that: “The decisions have not been easy. Although there was a high degree of unanimity for the final shortlist, we thought not just about their technical merits but also about the benefits they could deliver to fastener users.” He went on to add: “All of the entrants should genuinely consider themselves winners for their understanding that innovation plays a crucial role in the success of the fastener industry, as well as their individual businesses.”

Joining Phil Matten on the judging panel were recently retired secretary of the EFDA, Bernd Stapf, and Mark Salmon, a highly regarded independent fixings consultant and regular contributor to the pages of Fastener + Fixing Magazine. During the presentation Matten highlighted the extensive experience of his co-judges and expressed his appreciation for their extremely thorough approach in assessing each entrant.

Whilst there was a very varied set of entrants for the 2013 Fastener Technology Innovator competition, the judges were unanimous in their opinion that the first place award should be given to Heinz Soyer Bolzenschweisstechnik GmbH for its SRM patented stud welding in a rotating magnetic field system. The judges commented that the system was “a remarkable technical advance, delivering an outstanding range of productivity and economic benefits to users.”

The SRM patented stud welding in a rotating magnetic field system enables welding of a sheet thickness to stud diameter ratio of 1:10 instead of 1:4 as previously. Also, when combined with the SOYER HZ-1 weld stud the system offers a reduction in welding time (approximately 60%), less energy consumption (approximately 70%), less stud burn-off (approximately 75%), as well as a range of other benefits including no unwanted welding bead around the stud and no weld spatter.

In second place, with a product that the judges said: “skillfully combines two well established technologies to present a significant advance in bolted joint security” was the X-series washer from Nord-Lock.

The Nord-Lock X-series washer combines Nord-Lock’s wedge-locking technology to secure bolts against spontaneous loosening due to vibration/dynamic loads with an exclusive spring effect to protect against slackening due to settlement/relaxation.

Third prize went to the ISS Clamping Screw from Böhl Gruppe, which the judges described as: “a very smart designed, quality clamping screw”.

The ISS Clamping Screw enables users to fasten to cylindrical components such as rod material, sensors, and threaded rod and tubes within seconds. The ISS standard size resists a tensile and compression load of at least 150kg and has a torque transmission capacity of 15Nm at minimum.

2nd Place - Nord-Lock GmbH

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…strength in depth Although there could only be three award winners, the array of new products entered into this year’s Fastener Technology Innovator competition clearly underlined the continued commitment to product innovation across the global fastener industry.

Below is a selection of those entrants who while not quite making it to the final three successfully showcased their dedication to innovation.

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Turkey has demonstrated stable economic growth over the last decade, achieving better than 5% average real GDP growth. For the coming five years the OECD projects Turkey to be the fastest emerging economy amongst its members. Europe’s largest bus and third largest light commercial vehicle manufacturer, Turkey also has a strongly developing car production industry, with fifteen domestic and foreign automotive manufacturers. Turkey is also one of Europe’s leading home appliance manufacturers and the largest television producer in Europe. Factor in its role as furniture production hub for the Middle East, involving some 30,000 companies, and strongly developed machinery, marine and petrochemical sectors and it is easy to see why Turkey supports an extensive fastener manufacturing and distribution community. In the decade to come preparations for the centenary

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of the Republic of Turkey, involving major programmes of public investment and incentives for infrastructure, construction and energy efficiency projects, will further drive growth in an already Tel: +44 (0)1727 814 vibrant fastener and fixings sector.

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THIS FAIR IS ORGANISED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE UNION OF CHAMBERS AND C EXCHANGES OF TURKEY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW NUMBER 5174 Organised by Mack Brooks Fuarcilik A.S., part of Mack Brooks Exhibitions Ltd that has been responsible for successfully developing the Fastener Fair concept into strategic growth markets across the globe, Fastener Fair Turkey will attract key professional visitors, including engineers and buyers sourcing and specifying fastener technologies, from across Turkish and surrounding market industrial sectors.

Fastener Fair Turkey will be staged in Hall 11 of the IFM Istanbul Expo Centre, located opposite the Istanbul International Airport and easily accessible by metro, bus or car. IFM has become one of the leading international trade fair centres with world-class facilities and modern, sophisticated infrastructure. www.fastenerfairturkey.com

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Exhibition for Fastener and Fixing Technology 21 – 22 November 2013 IFM – Istanbul Expo Centre • Istanbul • Turkey

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New products at UK FAST show FAST exhibitors are expected to unveil a large number of new products, including some not previously seen in the UK, at its next edition on 18th April at the RAF Museum, Cosford.

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he show organisers say each of these new products brings new opportunities to design and production engineers alike, allowing better, stronger, faster installations, as well as improved design integrity.

The one day fastener user oriented event returns to the RAF Museum - “an exciting and appropriate venue for the engineering and manufacturing professionals visiting the FAST exhibition, showcasing so many historic high-points achieved by a UK manufacturing industry that enjoys a deserved reputation for high tech and high quality.”

Products on display will again cover fastening and assembly solutions from threaded fasteners to structural adhesives, thread locking adhesives, fabric fasteners, springs and cabinet hardware. Free parking will be available and pre-registered visitors can enjoy a “free bacon roll and cup of tea.”

Booking boom The 10th Fastener Trade Show Guangzhou is experiencing a booking boom and is expected to attract 600 exhibiting companies to display fasteners, tools, equipment, moulds, surface treatment and raw materials to 12,000 professional visitors.

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he 10th Fastener Trade Show Guangzhou will take place on 3rd – 4th July 2013 at the Guangzhou Poly World Trade Expo Centre, Guangzhou, China.

As a large international fastener specialised exhibition Fastener Trade Show, organised by China Fastener Info, has attracted a myriad of fastener companies and is a place for Chinese fastener companies to explore domestic and overseas markets and get business opportunities, and a platform to get the industry information and developmental trend.

Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong province, the richest province in mainland China. In 2011, Guangdong’s GDP reached

CNY 5.3 trillion, the highest in China’s provinces. Guangzhou is the centre of Southern China’s economy, culture, technology and education. It is the biggest international and famous trading port with the longest history in Southern China. Guangzhou is one of the biggest fastener consuming cities in China, with its demand for fastener forecast to expand 15% per year.

The 6th Fastener Trade Show Guangzhou attracted 302 exhibitors to over 400 booths, displaying the latest products and technologies in around 13,000 square metres of exhibition space with 7,726 professional visitors from throughout China and 36 countries and regions.

Invitation for entrants to Intersolar awards Intersolar Europe is inviting companies to send in innovative solutions for the Intersolar awards in Photovoltaics, Solar Thermal Technologies and PV Production Technologies, to be presented at Intersolar Europe from 19th - 21st June at Messe München, Germany.

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he awards, which are running for the sixth year, will also be considering entrants in the Solar Projects category for the first time in Europe, which will honour projects such as photovoltaics and energy storage, industrial and commercial use of photovoltaics, and solar thermal applications that have a particularly inspiring example in driving forward the energy revolution. The innovation will not only present a particular benefit to society and the environment, but also offer economic advantages and a high level of technical innovation.

Projects from three different topics can be submitted. The topic photovoltaics and energy storage is aimed at projects that increase on-site energy consumption in single and multifamily dwellings through the use of new storage technologies.

The industrial and commercial use of photovoltaics category is for projects that lead the way in showing how photovoltaics

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can be used in industrial production and supplying commercial buildings. The third topic is industrial and commercial use of solar thermal applications, which involves projects that stand out due to highly innovative applications using solar thermal power plants in commerce and industry.

For applications to be valid, projects must be fully completed and no older than two years at the time the application for the award is submitted. To get short listed, applicants must demonstrate that the project centres on a ground-breaking and unique solution. The awards are open to all exhibitors of global Intersolar events in 2013, as well as exhibitors from Intersolar India 2012.

Companies wanting to apply for the Intersolar awards may submit documents until the 28th March. The winners will be announced on 19th June 2013.

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Mack Brooks Exhibitions takes Fastener Fair into Mexico Building on the success of the Fastener Fair brand in Germany, Brazil, India, Thailand and Russia, Mack Brooks Exhibitions has announced further global expansion with Fastener Fair Mexico taking place at Centro Banamex in Mexico City from 12th – 13th March 2014.

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exico is the second largest economy in Latin America and one of the fastest developing markets in the world offering many business opportunities for the fastener and fixings industry. Mexico’s strong domestic demand and exports are increasing at a fast rate. The country is also part of NAFTA and has 12 free trade agreements with 44 countries.

Major industries in Mexico include automotive, electronics, iron and steel, petroleum, energy and construction. These growing industry sectors, as well as the major infrastructure projects taking place across the country, offer companies in the fastener and fixing sector ample business opportunity.

“The rapid economic development in Mexico has resulted in increasing demands from companies in the fastenings and fixings sector to approach this important market. This led us to launch a new Fastener Fair in Mexico City, Mexico’s commercial centre known for its strong industrial and trade capacity, which

is the best place to approach this buoyant market,” says Candyce Costa, exhibition manager Fastener Fair Mexico on behalf of the organisers, Mack Brooks Exhibitions.

The exhibition profile of Fastener Fair Mexico covers industrial fasteners and fixings, construction fixings, assembly and installation systems, fastener manufacturing technology, as well as storage and logistics services. As the dedicated market place for the fastener and fixings industry in Mexico, the exhibition will provide buying and networking opportunities for distributors, suppliers, engineers and industry professionals. Furthermore, the event will offer a perfect business platform for trade professionals to establish both commercial partnerships and new contacts within Central America. For international exhibitors, it will offer an opportunity to approach this buoyant growth market and to establish business relations, both with customers and with potential local agents and partners. www.fastenerfair.com.mx

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International Fastener Show Tainan, TAIWAN • Scale of 2013 IFST ranks 4th in the world: A total of over 270 domestic and foreign companies covering 550 booths.

• On April 10th, International Fastener Association Chairmen Conference & Welcome party for exhibitors and international buyers.

• On April 11~12, 19 international seminars by International Association Chairmen & local/global well-known enterprises.

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parts2clean 2013 right on course More than 125 exhibitors have booked and 4,400m2 has been reserved for parts2clean 2013, the international trade fair for industrial parts and surface cleaning at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre, Germany, on 22nd - 24th October.

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wo-thirds of last year’s total exhibition space is already occupied for the show’s eleventh edition, which is organised by fairXperts and new joint organiser operator Deutsche Messe of Hannover. Last year’s show saw a total of 230 companies from 16 countries exhibiting and 4,400 visitors from 39 countries, with the share of project managers and decision-makers at around 90%. Visiting trade professionals in 2012 represented a broad mix of sectors, from the automobile and aerospace industries to mechanical engineering, forming technology, energy and solar technology, electrical and electronic systems and other industry sectors.

“We see the current registration levels and clearly visible trend towards larger stand areas as excellent signs, not only for parts2clean but for the sector as a whole,” says Oliver Frese, senior vice president at Deutsche Messe. “These trends also reflect exhibitors’ confidence that we will fulfil their expectations such as increasing international exposure.”

The fair will cover all activities with its broad spectrum of themes across the industrial parts and surface cleaning process chain, which will benefit suppliers and users equally.

“Our infrastructure and existing trade fairs in the various strong growth markets abroad are an excellent basis for expanding the global scope of parts2clean, and raising international awareness of the expertise of local parts and surface cleaning providers,” says Frese.

In Stuttgart parts2clean will be directed towards an international audience and presentations for the parts2clean forum are translated simultaneously into German and English.

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Move in Earnest Earnest Machine’s European distribution centre recently moved to new premises in Wolverhampton, UK, doubling both its storage and office space.

Will Lowry visited the new location to speak with Kirk Zehnder, president and CEO, who had taken the relocation as an opportunity to visit from Earnest’s headquarters in Rocky River, Ohio, USA.

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arnest Machine is a 3rd generation company, celebrating its 65th anniversary this year. The company originally started by selling OEM replacement parts, before taking on larger lines of items and focusing on heavy equipment parts.

The business grew by selling to distributors covering a wide market in the USA. In the early 1990s Earnest went into vendor managed inventory taking on full responsibility for a range of specific parts for OEM customers - ensuring that the parts are delivered where the OEM needs them, when they need them.

This again saw the company grow its footprint in the industry, and gave Earnest the opportunity to expand into Europe with the opening of a distribution centre in the UK in 2000.

“The European distribution centre was set up to supply the European counterparts of our OEM customers that we had been supplying in the USA,” explains Kirk Zehnder. “The UK was an ideal base for us to reach our customers across Europe, enabling us to easily ship orders to Italy and France, as well as other European countries.”

As well as offering support to the European counterparts, Earnest quickly realised that there was a good market in Europe for the products and service it could offer. “We decided to enter the Metric market with Inch products,” says Kirk. “A lot of what Earnest Machine does is Inch products and we knew there was an opportunity in Europe. It is a smaller market than Metric, nevertheless there is still a market that needs Inch products.”

Kirk admits that the different style of doing business in Europe, compared to that in the USA, was surprising. “Customers in Europe are definitely a lot more forthcoming and let you know what you need to do to win/retain orders. This gave us a chance to respond to their needs by creating a better strategy, change our service options, as well as change our product offering.”

Earnest Machine brings inventory direct from its manufacturers in Europe and Asia to the UK branch. It also transfers some of the more niche items from its US facilities to the UK on a weekly basis.

“Every week we are sending a shipment from the USA over to the UK, which is something fairly new for us,” states Kirk.

“Initially we were shipping products over once a month, which makes economical sense but we soon realised that customers were not going to wait six weeks for something to show up.

Therefore we started bringing stuff over on a weekly basis so that we could capture more opportunities, which then required us to bring even more inventory over to satisfy those opportunities.”

Kirk continues: “This is why it was essential that we expanded

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insight and moved to new premises. Our space was limited in the old facility, which made it difficult to ensure that we have the right inventory – which is key.”

David Townsend, warehouse manager, was responsible for the relocation, which took place over one weekend in December.

The slow moving products were moved on Thursday, with the main products starting to be moved in earnest on Saturday.

By Monday everything had its place and orders were starting to be processed.

“Dave and all the staff have done an amazing job in ensuring that everything has been moved over in time and has been stored in its correct locations,” mentions Kirk. “We have very high expectations when it comes to the organisation of our distribution centres. We place high importance on inventory accuracy rate, which makes what Dave and the team have achieved even more impressive.”

As well as increasing the storage area the new facility also enables Earnest to double its office area, giving its staff more space and also allowing for future growth.

“As a company we are very focused on having the right team in place. We have developed a solid organisation in the UK, with employees that are focused on delivering what Earnest is all about,” states Kirk. “Our tagline is ‘intentionally better’ but it is also one of our core vales – to be intentionally better. Our other core values include putting the customer first, doing what we say we will, treating the customers and suppliers with respect, and embracing change. Out of all the core values ‘embracing change’ is probably the hardest one. The other three are how we live, but embracing change is about taking a step outside your comfort zone. Over the last few years we have embraced a lot of change and have brought people into the organisation that are good at looking at how the company can develop and improve for the better. By adding additional office space, we can continue the trend of adding new employees when necessary to continue the company’s development.”

The importance of embracing change was vital during the recession of 2008, when the company had to make some tough decisions. “The recession was very tough and we did have to downsize the organisation,” says Kirk. “At the time we had four distribution centres in the US and we changed that to two - in Indianapolis and Atlanta. This enabled us to improve the service to our customers and also made it easier to manage inventory across only two distribution centres.”

Whilst the recession did have a negative impact on the company, it also enabled Earnest to review its strategy, as well as re-structure the company.

“We took a step back and looked at how we could improve Earnest and what we needed to do to ensure we were ready for when things turned around,” explains Kirk. “We decided that we should install a new IT system, which was a two year project, but it was something we knew we had to do if we wanted to continue to grow the company. The old system did not enable us to support the global relationship between the USA and the UK as much as we would like. It was a tough decision to make, but it has proved to be the right decision. Our new system is already giving us a lot of efficiency gains across the company.

Kirk adds: “I don’t think that is something that we would have done if there had not been a recession. It is quite easy to keep doing what you are doing when things are going well, but when

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things take a turn for the worse you can either hunker down and wait for things to get better or you can take a step back and look at how you can improve the company for the future. That is what we did and we are seeing the benefits of it now.”

As well as the addition of the new IT system, Kirk lays the success of the company coming out of the recession down to its employees, as well as its continued campaign of ‘less is more’. “We had the ‘less is more’ campaign in both the USA and in Europe. Most companies had a lot of inventory and nobody needed it. This led to companies offering discounts on large order, but customers didn’t need large amounts. Instead we reminded our customers that we are able to supply exactly what they needed, so that they weren’t saddled with extra inventory.

“ We have a solid organisation in the UK, with employees that are focused on delivering what Earnest is all about.”

Kirk continues: “This really resonated with the market because they saw that we were thinking about the position our customers were in, rather than our position. We had plenty of inventory but we decided to focus on what the distributors really needed. It goes back to one of our core value of putting the customer first in a decision making process.”

Looking to the future and Kirk has a clear vision for the company going forward. “The approach we have taken to recently is to look forward to the next three years and figuratively paint a picture of what we want the company to look like. We have a document that has a narrative of what the business will be like at the end of 2015. It focuses on every component of the business so that we can see what we need to change to be where we want to be in 2015.”

He continues: “By planning for the future we are looking to ensure that we continue to connect with customers and understand more about them and their business requirements.

Customers will always want a good service and good products – which is what we will continue to deliver.”

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Unifix Bigger and better than ever Unifix is set to enter a new era in 2013 following significant investment from Hexstone, the company behind some of the leading fastener and fixings experts in the UK, including Owlett-Jaton, Stainless Threaded Fasteners, Icon Fasteners, JCP Construction Products and Galaxy Fasteners. Here Andrew Lowrie, sales director, explains what Unifix customers can expect in the coming year.

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he Unifix brand, previously available from APT Fixings, has been celebrated in the fasteners and fixings industry for more than 50 years. Establishing its pedigree as a provider of superior plastic fittings to the trade, Unifix stand outs amongst competitors for championing market-leading products, such as Thunderbolt™, Vortex, and Kliplok, alongside hundreds of other quality, value for money items.

The Unifix brand has a rich history and is well known across various industries, and we wanted to build on that by investing in the business and the products, to bring the name to the fore, and continue its legacy into 2013 and beyond.

By unifying the product offering and adding key items from some of our other core ranges, the Unifix portfolio is bigger and better than before. The overriding message is that, even though there will be greater choice, there will still be a focus on the big name product favourites and, most importantly, unbeatable service to provide a solution that will never let people down.

Meanwhile, the innovative Vortex screw is technically-advanced, which quickly and easily powers through a wide range of materials, including woods, plastic and sheet metal, to get the job done.

Thunderbolt™ (pictured below), stated by many as a ‘must have’, is the original general-purpose, self-tapping anchor suitable for use on a multitude of construction materials, from concrete and stone to metal and wood. It is a versatile and straightforward solution and can be installed near to edges and closer together at varying embedment depths. It is also suitable for temporary jobs, as it is removable. Installation is quick and easy using standard sized drill bits, and the threaded anchor and self-tapping action allows for consistently safe anchorage.

Championing ‘hero’ products

Expanding the range

Unifix has many unique ‘hero’ products, and this focus is set to stay. Range favourites include the original Kliplok pipe clip and a uniquely designed collection of cable clips, as well as the Vortex multi-purpose power screw and the best-selling Thunderbolt™ self-tapping anchor.

“ Unifix has many unique ‘hero’ products, and this focus is set to stay.”

Kliplok, designed to withstand repeated opening and closing with 360 degrees retention, is a robust pipe clip that provides an extremely secure grip. High stand off also allows for lagging and heat circulation.

Unifix customers can look forward to an array of new products for 2013, including a comprehensive range of specialist and general-purpose fasteners and fixings, which are available as individual products and in handy packs and kits. For the first time, bathroom kits are also available, as well as a selection of construction accessories, such as Grime Boss Heavy Duty Hand Wipes, and Bond-It Rescue Tape for emergency repairs to leaks and breaks in pipes.

More than 40 abrasives and ancillaries products are another new feature for 2013, along with the full range of Draper hand tools, which includes pliers, screwdrivers, hand ratchet drivers, spanners, knife sets and drill sets.

We are keeping our focus on renowned Unifix products like Thunderbolt™, whilst strengthening the offering by adding the best of our wider portfolio of associated construction products.

By extending the Unifix range, we can offer a bigger and better product selection than ever before, enabling existing and new customers to fulfil more of their needs from one source. It is our hope that this ‘one stop shop’ approach will offer a convenient solution to save valuable time and money and, because Unifix will now benefit from the global buying power of Hexstone, customers can be assured they will be receiving high quality and competitively priced products at all times.

A brand new extended catalogue, featuring over 1,500 products, will be available from spring 2013, along with a new website. www.unifix.co.uk

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The Unifix range is bigger and better than ever before Unifix now offers an even wider range than ever before, featuring big name products and unbeatable service to provide a solution that will never let you down.

After 50 years in the business, we’ve built a reputation as being the best choice for fixings and fastenings. Now, with market-leading products such as Thunderbolt, Vortex and Kliplok alongside hundreds of other quality, value for money products, Unifix represents fixings, unified.

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Rawlplug - 100 years of innovation Here Rawlplug looks at the role innovation has played during the company’s 100 year history and the continued importance of research and development.

History of Rawlplug technology Prior to John Joseph Rawlings’ invention of the Rawlplug the method used to attach a fixture to brick or stone was rather unrefined. It involved chiselling out a large hole in the base material and hammering in a wedge of wood.

A screw was then driven into the wood to make the connection. J.J. Rawlings’ invention, patented by 1913, ultimately led to the formation of the Rawlplug company and demonstrated that there was an easier and safer way.

Rawlplug design in J.J. Rawlings original patent 100 years on, concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world and our understanding of anchoring into concrete has grown accordingly. By the late 1980s new guidance was being developed requiring anchors to function in cracked concrete. In its research and development facility in Glasgow, Rawlplug built a test rig that enabled the creation of cracks in concrete slabs. The company then commenced development of the R-HPT throughbolt, an anchor which subsequently achieved an Option 1

European Technical Approval for use in cracked and non-cracked concrete.

Research and development Rawlplug currently has four research and development centres for different product groups: plastic anchors in Wrocław, Poland; resin bonded anchors, also in Wrocław; fasteners in Łańcut, Poland and mechanical anchors in Glasgow, UK – the home of Rawlplug for the past 44 years.

Over recent years Rawlplug has furthered the development of the original high performance throughbolt (R-HPT) and in 2013 introduced the new R-HPTII range. The R-HPTII-ZF is a throughbolt designed to function in cracked concrete, with a special zinc/aluminium coating. This coating offers greater corrosion resistance than the traditional zinc electroplated finish and could replace the more traditional hot dip galvanised (HDG) finish.

Advantages over HDG include reduced coating depths (with comparable corrosion resistance) and improved coating consistency, minimising thread fit issues associated with HDG coatings. The zinc/aluminium coating is applied by dip/spin followed by a low temperature baking operation.

The R-HPTII-A4 is a stainless steel throughbolt for higher corrosion environments where up to 50 year service life is required and functioning in cracked concrete may be paramount. This highly

technical product benefits from the development of a special anti-seizure coating to control the expansion of the anchor. Read more about the development in Issue 68 of Fastener + Fixing Magazine (page 72).

Achieving European Technical Approvals is a key pillar in the group strategy, with product development tailored for functioning and performance

in challenging environments including cracked concrete. The company is committed to maintaining this drive towards innovation in high-performance anchor technology.

The mechanical expansion anchors from Rawlplug that have received a European Technical approval are listed below:

Product name

Description

Intended use

Approval

R-HPT

Zinc electroplated throughbolt

Option 1 cracked concrete

ETA-98/0003

R-HPTII-A4

Stainless steel throughbolt

Option 1 cracked concrete

ETA-12/0021

R-HPTII-ZF

Zinc flake throughbolt

Option 1 cracked concrete

ETA-12/0309

R-RBL

Rawlbolt shield anchor

Option 1 cracked concrete

ETA-11/0479

R-SPL

Safety plus heavy duty sleeve anchor

Option 7 non-cracked concrete

ETA-11/0126

R-XPT

Zinc electroplated throughbolt

Option 7 non-cracked concrete

ETA-08/0339

R-XPTII-A4

Stainless steel throughbolt

Option 7 non-cracked concrete

ETA-12/0384

R-DCA & R-DCL

Wedge anchor (drop-in anchor)

Option 7 non-cracked concrete

ETA-08/0198 www.rawlplug.com

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First mechanical aircrete anchor with ETA approval fischer says that it has produced the world’s first mechanical aircrete anchor with ETA approval. The internal thread anchor fischer FPX-I (ETA-12/0456) has unique quadruple expansion for fixing in aircrete.

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he fischer FPX-I can be used for heavy loads in aircrete and can be easily and quickly installed in cylindrical drill holes. As the first steel anchor with ETA approval for the tensile and pressure zone and fire protection (R120) for fixing in aircrete, the new, patented fischer FPX-I can be used for safety relevant fixtures in tensile zones generated from load stress (e.g. undersides of aircrete ceilings).

The FPX-I consists of three elements: the conical head with metric internal thread M6 – M12, the screwed cone bolt for fixing underground, and the square expansion sleeve. The larger metric internal thread of the head allows the use of standard screws and threaded rods for perfect adaptation to the attachment.

The counter bearing screwed into the lower, narrower part for fixing underground enables anchoring of the FPX-I without a predetermined torque. A torque wrench is thus not needed for installation. The unique square expansion sleeve which is attached to the lower part ensures safe installation without rotation in the drill hole. fischer points out that this guarantees the absorption of high tension and shear loads, so fewer

G&B Group is now in the UK G&B Fissaggi, a manufacturer of nylon and steel fasteners and chemical anchors, with over 30 years experience in the market, has opened new headquarters in Sheffield, UK.

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n line with G&B’s commercial policy over recent years to further penetrate the European market - the new UK headquarters helps the company to better meet the needs of the promising UK market. “Thanks to a direct relationship with the head office, and the short chain of distribution, we can offer now to the UK market a wide products catalogue with very competitive prices,” explained CEO, Mr Enrico Galeasso.

The new building hosts sales offices as well as a large storage area with a complete range of products belonging to the Italian headquarters. The G&B team of technical and commercial people is available for all customers’ needs related to sales and service. Managing the G&B UK headquarters will be Mr Derek Henchley, a manager of long experience and proven professionalism and knowledge of the UK market.

With the new offices G&B UK can now offer several competitive advantages to its customers: • The full range of G&B products from stock.

• High quality products and CE certified.

• Service delivery in 24 hours for UK and Northern Ireland.

• Store and training support. www.gebfissaggi.com

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fastening points are needed. fischer says its FPX-I is very suitable for push-through installation. After pre-drilling, the new anchor can also be easily driven into high strength aircrete. There is no need to clean the drill hole. When tightening the anchor with the Allen key, the counter bearing rotates in the upper internal thread sleeve, so that the cone of the counter bearing is drawn into the square expansion sleeve in a deformation-controlled manner.

The aircrete is compressed on the four sides and generates an undercut in the drill hole. Following optimum expansion of the square expansion sleeve of the FPX-I, the Allen key is automatically pushed out of the anchor. This release guarantees automatic setting control for each setting process.

The new aircrete anchor from fischer is ideally suited to numerous applications in the fields of heating, plumbing and air conditioning. The galvanised design is suitable for use in dry interior spaces. According to ETA, the FPX-I may also be used for fixings in panelled aircrete masonry (plastered, tiled, etc.). In this case, the anchor is to be fixed surface-flush to the aircrete.

Scell-it launches A4-BZ throughbolt Scell-it, an international company with headquarters in France, has recently launched its A4 stainless steel throughbolt.

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he A4-BZ will be available in diameters 8mm, 10mm, 12mm and 16mm and will add to the already very wide range of heavy duty anchors in the Scell-it range.

Scell-it’s current range of heavy duty anchors includes the steel version of BZ throughbolt with an ETA Option 7 (ETA-11/0124), throughbolts PTBPLUS (ETA-10/0272) and A4-PTBPLUS range with ETA Option 1 (ETA-10/0273), the concrete screw BT with ETA Option 1 (ETA-08/121), security anchor PHLPLUS (ETA-10/0274), and drop in anchor SAPLUS (ETA-10/0275).

For more information about these products as well as the whole Scell-it range -which includes chemical mortar, heavy, light and special fixings, rivets and blind nuts, self-drilling screws, and others visit the Scell-it website.

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TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION All the fixings you need Always ask for the best quality for your work.

Always ask for G&B quality.

www.gebfissaggi.com • info@gebfissaggi.com

G&B Fissaggi S.r.l. Italia Corso Savona 22 - 10029 Villastellone (TO) tel. +39 011 961 94 33 - fax +39 011 961 93 82 G&B Fissaggi UK G&B Fissaggi Vertretung Deutschland G&B Fissaggi Ibérica G&B Fissaggi Benelux

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

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

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

ETA NUMBER

TRADE NAME

COMPANY

ETAG 001 Metal Anchors for use in Concrete (all parts) ETA - 12/0257

Golden anchor expander Golden Anchor

Essve Produkter AB

ETA - 12/0402

greenteQ Verbundmörtel

VBH Holding AG

ETA - 12/0436

KWA Throughbolt

Anchor Fasteners Industrial Co Ltd

ETA - 12/0541

Powers Injection system PURE150-PRO for rebar connections

Powers fasteners Europe BV

ETA - 12/0542

Friulsider Injection system KEM-UP 394 for rebar connections

Friulsider S.p.A.

ETA - 12/0546

Mungo Injection system MIT 600RE for rebar connection

Mungo Befestigungstechnik AG

ETA - 12/0552

Smart S-IRV

pgb - Polska Sp. z o.o.

ETA - 12/0594

SITA ACCIAIO CE7 GBK, GBK-A4

G&B Fissaggi S.R.L.

ETA - 12/0602

Friulsider Injection system KEM-UP for concrete

Friulsider S.p.A.

ETA - 12/0604

ARVEX GROBELNY Injection system CV for concrete

ARVEX GROBELNY Sp. z o.o

ETA - 13/0031

ISOMAT EPOMAX ANCHOR

ISOMAT S.A

ETA - 13/0033

Mungo MIT-SP

Mungo Befestigungstechnik AG

ETA - 13/0041

Chemical anchoring system BIT-VESF

BIT United Ltd

ETA - 13/0052

Tox TVM-PSF

TOX-Dübel Gmbh

ETA - 13/0058

DeWalt Throughbolt PTB-SS-ETA1-PRO

DeWalt

ETA - 13/0059

DeWalt PB-SS-PRO

DeWalt

ETA - 13/0060

DeWalt PB-PRO

DeWalt

ETA - 13/0062

DeWalt PV 50-PRO

DeWalt

ETA - 13/0063

DeWalt PV 45-PRO

DeWalt

ETA - 13/0110

729 LANKOSCELFAST Stainless steel

PAREXGROUP

ETA - 13/0111

Henkel CF 890

Henkel KGaA

ETA - 13/0112

TOX TVM-PA

TOX-DÜBEL-Technik GmbH

ETA - 13/0114

729 LANKOSCELFAST Galvanised steel

PAREXGROUP

ETAG 014 Plastic Anchors for ETICS ETA - 12/0437

Taco ISO, Taco Super Inco and Taco Super Inco M

Tecnicas de Anclaja S.A.U. (DESA), Parque de Negocios de Viladecans, Editicio Australia

ETA - 12/0571

Dakota Insulation Anchors D.10

Dakota Italia S.p.a.

ETA - 12/0614

T-10

NIP Spasicd.o.o

ETAG 020 Plastic Anchors (all parts) ETA - 13/0030

Multiexpansion Nylon Frame Anchor

TRUTEK Fasteners Polska Sp z o.o.

TOX extends mortar product range TOX-Dübel-Technik, a German dowel manufacturer, has expanded its comprehensive range, which already includes hollow wall anchors, plumbing and frame plugs, and insulation fixings, by adding TOX LIQUIX TVM PSF to its selection of mortars.

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he new mortar is based on a polyester compound and is 100% styrene free, thus excluding health risks if properly used and minimising the risks that occur due to intolerable odour pollution, especially in the interior of buildings.

The new product has achieved a European Technical Approval (ETA - 13/0052) and is therefore suitable for all professional applications requiring a general building approval. The TOX LIQUIX TVM PSF is proposed in practice with particularly relevant packaging sizes, and can be used with the TOX standard application gun to ensure fast and easy processing.

The TOX LIQUIX TVM PSF completes the TOX mortar product range and, TOX says, offers in the budget field a high-quality alternative to the TOX LIQUIX TVM STV premium product line.

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HECO-UNIX – The unique fully threaded screw with contraction effect ®

Patented HECO-UNIX full thread ®

Contraction effect thanks to the full thread with variable pitch The HECO-UNIX combines the characteristics of a part threaded screw with the advantages of a full threaded screw ®

Patented combi screw head for mounting in fittings and on wood Precise fit in fittings Milled effect in wood thanks to milling grooves

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

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Revised approval for HECO soleplate anchor In the near future, the national technical approval will be revised for the MULTI-MONTI-TimberConnect (MMS-TC) soleplate anchor from HECO. The amendment will state that, when using the anchor in future, the bend verification can be dispensed with and a significantly higher tensile load can be achieved.

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he MMS-TC soleplate anchor combines a concrete thread at the tip of the screw with a wood thread at the rear and serves to secure wooden elements, in particular joists, to concrete. The wooden element is thus secured with the wood thread. HECO explains that in contrast to conventional fastenings, the approval of the MMS-TC combines calculations as per ETAG (for concrete) and Eurocode 5 (wood).

This unique combination of different calculation concepts allows for considerably higher shear and tension loads, irrespective of the attachment thickness, and with fewer fastening points too. Now, thanks to the extended approval, the bend verification is no longer required as part of the anchor design. Heco states that this results in load advantages of up to 300% in comparison with conventional anchors.

“Until now, our approach to the verification procedure has been unprecedented,” explains Andreas Hettich, head of product management at HECO. “Therefore, people in the industry have consistently been somewhat sceptical about the information provided by

the manufacturer regarding the tensile load of the MMS-TC due to the threefold advantage it was said to hold. In order to remove these doubts, further comprehensive tests were carried out on the soleplate anchor with the result that the approval could be upgraded. The extension of the approval has now officially confirmed that our previous statements regarding the significantly higher, transmissible shear and tension loads are justified.”

Simple application, safety and material savings The MULTI-MONTI-TimberConnect soleplate anchor is particularly user-friendly and quick to install. It is sufficient to drive the anchor in using an electric rotary screwdriver in installation with through-drilling, a positive locking connection with an immediate load-bearing strength has already been created – close to the edge, without a specified torque or cure times.

HECO points out that since no additional construction processes are necessary, many potential sources of error cease to apply, thus giving production engineers and users a great sense of security. Moreover, up to two-thirds of the fastening points that would otherwise be required can be saved with the MMS-TC. The three variants (7.5 x 100mm / 10 x 130mm / 12 x 160mm) and the small countersunk head of the MMS-TC also provide advantages in terms of costs. The screw head enables the anchor to be countersunk in wood, whilst the dimensions allow attachment thicknesses from 40mm to 300mm.

This means that just one type of anchor is sufficient for many applications and thicknesses of wood. www.heco-schrauben.de

Offering high security for heavy loads INDEX Fixing System says that its range of heavy duty anchors offers the highest level of security for heavy loads.

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he SL family, which consists of the SL-RT and the SL-VT and its variations, is recommended for a technical and professional market, and is aimed primarily at large installations and high-load structural applications, such as public works and civil engineering projects and at heavy-duty machinery fixing. Its nylon anti-spin bearing prevents the anchor from rotating when applying the torque. It has been designed to bear high loads with minimum distances both between anchors and from anchor to edge. INDEX says that the whole range offers top installation comfort and the possibility to uninstall if necessary.

The SL-RT anchor is a torque controlled expansion anchor, ETA-approved in Option 1 (ETA 11/0323), the highest possible category. It is a heavy duty anchor made of high-performance, Grade 8.8 zinc-plated steel, which provides high resistance both by traction and shear. It is suitable for both cracked and non-cracked C20/25 and C50/60 concrete, and gives a fire resistance rating of R120.

The SL-VT anchor is a high-performance, torque controlled anchor, ETA approved in Option 7 (ETA 04/0100).

It is a heavy duty anchor made of Grade 8.8, yellow zinc-plated steel, which confers a high resistance both by traction and shear in non-cracked concrete C20/25. The SL-VT yellow zinc-plated loose bolt version has two variations: the projecting bolt version (SL-VE), and loose bolt stainless-steel version (SL-VI).

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FILETTI RIPORTATI WIRE INSERTS GEWINDEEINSÄTZE

LIEBIG is now Sormat LIEBIG® heavy duty The Finnish premium fixing manufacturer Sormat has acquired the business of LIEBIG mechanical heavy duty anchors from Simpson Strong-Tie International Inc as part of Sormat’s consistent development of its ETA approved anchor range.

LIEBIG is a worldwide known brand of the undercut anchors for exceptionally high loads in cracked and non-cracked concrete.

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SISTEMI DI FISSAGGIO FASTENING SYSTEMS VERBINDUNGSSYSTEME MAIN OFFICE Via Bellardi, 40/A - 10146 Torino - (Italy) Tel. +39 (0) 11 70.72.398 +39 (0) 11 70.70.877 - Fax +39 (0) 11 70.72.521

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M A I N A C L O U S E T P O U D R E À F I X A T I O N

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www.fixi.it - info@fixi.it

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BOSSONG S.p.A. fastening systems Italy

Tel +39 035 3846 011 - Fax +39 035 3846 012 - info@bossong.com

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aving already achieved success with its ETA approved S-KA throughbolts (ETA-08/0173), PFG expansion anchors (ETA-01/0012), S-UF façade anchors (ETA-12/0003) and LYT nail plugs (ETA-11/0487), Sormat has now taken the next step in its anchoring strategy through the takeover of the LIEBIG brand and assets. For Ismo Laitakari, managing director of the Sormat Group, the LIEBIG range is a perfect complement to Sormat’s current offering: “The strong LIEBIG brand not only gives us the opportunity to use and expand our knowledge as a manufacturer of ETA Option 1 fixings, but also offers a great deal of potential for us in the global heavy duty anchor markets.”

Laitakari is especially proud of the ‘self-undercut anchor’ technology used in the Superplus anchor. With the anchor guaranteeing a quick, simple, and safe installation without additional tools or process steps, even in areas difficult to access. Exclusively by applying of the torque, mechanical interlocking occurs and provides high loads and secure anchorage at small edge and centre spacings.

The development and manufacturing of the Sormat Liebig® heavy duty range (Superplus, Safetybolt, Liebig Anchor and Ultraplus) will be consolidated to Sormat’s state of the art manufacturing facilities in Finland.

“I am proud to integrate LIEBIG’s pioneering undercut anchor technologies to Sormat’s manufacturing excellence, and to reinforce Sormat’s position as one of the most advanced anchoring technology providers in Europe. Our inspiration is to serve all LIEBIG customers through Sormat’s new central european service centre in Trier, Germany, with a Sormat super service attitude,” stated Laitakari.

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March 2013

Decking + Wood Screws This issue’s Focus On is dedicated to Decking + Wood Screws. Suppliers of products within this market sector have provided details of their capabilities along with up to date contact and product information.

Coming up in the next issue…

Socket + Hexagon Bolts Contact Claire Lake Tel: +44 (0) 1727 814 508 email: claire.lake@fastenerandfixing.com

Concept Distribution KTX Bronze - The woodscrew for all your outdoor needs KTX Bronze professional woodscrews have a life twice as long as similar screws and are C4 rated guaranteeing at least 15 years in timber. The screw is precision manufactured from hardened steel and has a finish which blends in well with all timber. Available in boxes, tubs and cases the screws are ideal for fencing, decking, sheds, gazebos, wood cladding and a variety of external applications into wood.

Qualities of KTX Bronze: • 2,000+ hours salt spray tested, C4 rated • Suitable for Pozi, square, Phillips and KTX drive bits • STICK FIT HEAD with KTX, square and some Pozi bits meaning no wobbling or slippage • FREE 50mm KTX bit(s) in every box and tub • Manufactured from hardened steel and wax coated • NO PILOT HOLE OR PRE DRILLING REQUIRED • Double countersunk head with ribs and tips for a smooth surface finish • Sharp start point with precision cutting flute • Bronze finish is ideal for all timber • Deep recessed head, perfect for impact drivers, and requires less than 50% of the energy of other screws to fit

www.conceptdistribution.co.uk Tel: +XX

Tel: email: 0845 6026 XX@230 XX

E.U.R.O. Tec GmbH

Verbindungselemente Engel GmbH

E.u.r.o.Tec - Hardwood Decking - and Wood Screws are created to offer the professionals most possible benefits which are guaranteed by the main characteristics as: Cut point cutting fibre immediately for easy grip without pilot-drilling. Thread geometry to reduce the screwing time by approx. 40%. A milling thread between thread and shank to reduce screwing torque for stressless and fatigue-proof working. Ribs under the head to avoid splitting and guarantee flush countersinking. Special case hardening to offer a bending angle of more than 40° to follow movement of the wood. Tec-waxing for easy drilling.

Available also in outdoor coating resisting more than 1.000 h saltspray. Dimensions: 3.5-10 mmØ, 6, 8 and 10 mmØ also with flanged head (also in hardened stainless).

We are a successful wholesale business of connectors and have been present as a supplier to European industry and commerce for many years.

Hardwood Decking Screws with the same characteristics and available in hardened inox, A4 (acid resistant) or A5 (chlorine resistant) “Terrassotec” screw types with cylindrical head design to pull the hardwood fibre into the drill hole to have a clean surface without supplementary operation.

Hidden fastening systems for hardwood deckings in weatherproof composite material for easy fastening without special tooling.

• Wood/hardwood decks • Designing stone patios • Screens Tel: + 49 (0) 2331 6245 140

• Garden fences • Play areas • Garden house, sheds www.e-u-r-o-tec.de

We handle over a thousand million connectors of all kinds every year, holding a full assortment of standard items to customized parts. Over 8,000 pallets in our high rack warehouse in Weingarten accommodate everything our customers need for their daily business.

To make sure that our customers are satisfied we maintain a high quality standard and use our wide experience and sophisticated ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems to their benefit.

Competence in woodscrews. Chipboard screws are a main focus of our range. Available from stock, whether countersunk, raised countersunk, pan head, zinced yellow or blue, stainless steel, Pozidriv or Tx, with or without ribs, drill point, etc.

Special screws like Jetting, Rapid, Dual, Komprex are also available at short notice.

Please contact us: Tel: +49 (0) 751 407 0

www.schrauben-engel.de

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FO C U S O N D e ck i n g & W ood S c r e ws Herbert Knoke GmbH & CO.KG PROFIX® - RF - Chipboard Screws

Die neue

Innovation vom Kopf bis in die Spitze!

In order to meet increasing market demands for the performance of chipboard screws, we developed our innovative PROFIX® - RF chipboard screws with the patented Bimate® technology. An innovation from head to toe and with building-authority approval (Allgemeine bauaufsichtliche Zulassung Z 9.1-723 + Z 9.1-724).

The PROFIX® Chipboard-Screws with FLATHEAD are manufactured from special case hardened steel in order to offer 45° bending angle. Customers praise the amenities the special applications of these screws:

Ein Antrieb für 3 Durchmesser

22 Unterkopf Fräsrippen

Schaftfräser ab 40 mm Länge

Hoch-TiefGewinde

Schneidkerbe Typ 17

Die Gleitbeschichtung der Profix®RF® verringert zusätzlich den Einschraubwiderstand. Die Verzinkung ist Chrome 6 frei.

Auch in SKT®-Beschichtung.

Die SKT®-Beschichtung absobiert die Hitzeentwicklung und verhindert so das Festbrennen in Hartholz und mindert den Einschraubwiderstand (2.000 Std. Salzsprühtest). Bauaufsichtliche Zulassung ist beantragt.

• TX-recess # 25 for ø 4,0, 4,5 and 5,0 • 22 ribs under the head for the fast countersinking into MDF-, solid and hardwood surfaces • Shank-cutter from 40mm length to reduce the screw-in-resistance • BIMATE® Technology in the thread, for more screw joints with the same battery life • Cutter pout Type 17 for a optimal screwing without any pre-drilling

MaxxFast MaxxFast introduces the newest generation of screws, these screws have the latest revolutionary properties which makes them applicable for all purposes in soft and hard wood, MDF, Plywood, Laminated wood and even in hard exotic or tropical wood. The sharp point in combination with the special mooncut enables that the screw starts quickly and eliminate the splitting of the wood.

The longer sizes of screws have milling ribs in the shafts, combined with the wax coating gives a reduction of the torque up to 40% and have a positive effect in energy saving of the battery machine. The self-countersinking head in combination with the cutting ribs gives a perfect and smooth finishing.

An innovative ttap® drive makes this screw together with the other features unique. This new drive makes that the bit sticks fit in the recess, the wobbling effect is history and there is no need to push anymore. Even the use of a magnetic bit holder is not necessary and the recess is 100% Torx® compatible. More details… visit our website. MaxxFast is distributed by Fabory.

Available dimensions from stock with FLAT-HEAD 3,0x10 – 6,0x300 in blue-, yellow-zinc plated and with the famous SKT®-coating (staying at least 2000hours salt-spray test).

Tel: +49 4102 4783 0

www.herbert-knoke.de

email: info@maxxfast.com

NE Fasteners Ltd

pgb-Europe

We have over 27 years experience distributing, packing and importing Woodscrews and related products.

pgb-Europe professional wood and decking screws:

We also have many Packaging/Kitting options to our customer’s requirements and can source many other components or use your free issue items.

Our Steel Twinthread and Chipboard screws are Hardened and come in all sizes and head formations. Brass screws also come with either a Cross or Slot, Countersunk, Raised or Round head.

Other items include Mirror screws with various caps, Green Decking screws, Wall plugs, Brackets, Surface and Brass Turned Socket screw cups. Furniture connecting bolts and nuts and other related furniture items are available. We can finish products in Zinc, Black, Electro Brass, Chrome, Nickel and more. We are also in the market to buy surplus screws.

www.maxxfast.com

pfs+ chipboard screws are high end wood screws, offering professional users efficient solutions. Thanks to the special cut point, the screws are very easy to set without pilot drilling. The wax improves the drilling and the ribs under the head guarantee a flush countersinking without material splitting. Available in full thread and partial thread, PZ or TX recess and white or yellow zinc plating as well as in A2. Dimensions Ø 3.0 - 6.0mm and length 25-200mm. According to CE/EN 14566. pfs+ hardwood screws are specially developed for outdoor decking installations. Specific characteristics are a small head, coarse thread for swift fastening and a milling segment on the shank to reduce the driving torque. Available in hardened stainless steel and A4. pfs+ wood construction screws for timber frame constructions, with flange head and countersunk head in Ø 6, 8 and 10mm and length up to 400mm. According to CE/EN 14592. pfs+ special screws, such as MDF panel screws with a patented green lubricant, reducing the friction and saving energy. Now available: MDF screw with Tx recess! According to CE/EN 14566.

For a full scope of our products, please visit our website or call us!

Tel: +44 (0) 121 559 8866

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FO C U S O N D e ck i n g & W ood S c r e ws Shin Chun Enterprise Co., Ltd.

Stafa Group

Winer Screw® - With special design on thread - Diamond type with jag, the drilling torque is easily reduced but no obvious change to fastening function like pull-out strength etc. Compared with normal chipboard screw, the reduction of drilling torque can be around 30% (Test by Asia Technical Services by using Schatz VE Germany.

Samples specification: 5X80/50mm, double flat head.)

Stafa Group is THE importing specialist for zinc plated and hot dip galvanized fasteners, direct import, private label packaging and high speed bagging and kitting. patented

– feel the difference

STAFA presents you; professional Multi+ screws

Winer Screw® can be applied on the usage for various kinds of wood construction. Especially for long screws and hard wood, the longer the screw is or the harder the wood is, the better you can feel the difference. With lower drilling-torque, screw-drilling work becomes easier, quicker, and less power.

A screw suitable for all kinds of wood, including hardwood, no need to pre-drill! With the special Torx®-Ttap recess for superior grip there won’t be the ‘wobbling’ effect! The specially designed head shape prevents damage to furniture hardware and the cutting point reduces splitting of the wood. U-threads reduce driving torque and serrated threads provide easier drive and a rapid installation.

ColorGuard® - A perfect solution for surface treatment, applicable widely for fasteners. With non-Chrome Zinc coating, high-grade Polymer Organic binder and top coat, ColorGuard® offers strong surface protection against corrosion (S.S.T., Kesternich test, etc.) but no harm to environment. Furthermore, we offer you many colors, with which you can easily make sure you drilled right-sized screws, and also makes the work more beautiful and interesting.

The Multi+ screw is lubricated to enhance screws insertion time.

Available in diameter 3x12 up to 6x200mm in steel zinc plated incl.

Torx®-Ttap bit in each box. Multi+ screws are SHR and CE-approved.

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Modern steelmaking Few involved in the supply of fasteners these days get to see them manufactured. Even fewer have the privilege to witness the complex and sophisticated industrial processes that lay behind the provision of high-grade cold heading steel wire, the essential raw material of the fastener industry. With the assistance of Europe’s second largest steel producer, Tata Steel and its wire rod division, we’re aiming in this series of articles to provide at least a glimpse of this highly technical manufacturing process operating on a massive scale.

World steel production

Starting with raw materials

According to the World Steel Association global production of crude steel reached 1.548 billion tonnes in 2012, increasing by 1.2% from 2011. More than 1 billion tonnes was produced in Asia, of which China alone accounted for 716.5 million tonnes (Mt).

In the EU 169.4 Mt of crude steel was produced during the year, with Germany the biggest producer at 47 million tonnes, followed

by Italy at 27.2 Mt, and France at 15.6 Mt. The United Kingdom produced a little less than 10 Mt.

The first step in steelmaking is the production of iron, usually produced from iron ore, coal and limestone. In 2012, as part of the process of producing 1.548 billion tonnes of steel the world consumed some two billion tonnes of iron ore. Chemically the ore is impure iron oxide with on average around 60-65% iron content.

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The global consumption of steel has accelerated over the last decade. In 2002 World Steel estimated production at 902,859 tonnes, reflecting 24% growth over the previous decade. 2012’s total represented an increase of more than 70% compared with 2002 with only the 2008/2009 recessionary period showing any reduction in growth.

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Iron is one of the most abundant elements on Earth with iron ore resources estimated to exceed 800 billion tonnes. Extracted primarily by the open cast process iron ore is mined in some fifty countries but more than 85% of it is extracted in just five, with China the largest producer – and consumer. Three companies, Brazil’s Vale, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, dominate the extraction of iron ore outside of China.

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M A N U FA CT U RI N G T E C H N O LO G Y As iron occurs only as iron oxide the ores must be ‘reduced’ or converted using carbon and the main source of this carbon is coal. Very little raw coal is used directly in a blast furnace to make iron. Generally it is carburised, the process of heating without oxygen in sealed ovens until it decomposes into coke, a much purer form of carbon. The coke burns to give the very high temperatures required for blast furnace reactions. It also produces carbon monoxide gas, essential in reducing the ore to iron, and supports the column of raw materials to allow the reactive gases to pass through the blast furnace. Around 800 million tonnes of coke was used in the global production of steel during 2012.

Iron ore is generally delivered to steel works in a finely ground state. This has historically presented handling challenges and risked the creation of pollution and waste.

Heating a mixture of the coal with fine coke produces sinter, a coarser material, which is fed into the top of the blast furnace together with lumps of coke, limestone and iron ore.

Coal consumption can also be improved by injecting it as fine particles into the blast furnace, known as pulverised coal injection.

Recoverable reserves of coal are to be found in around 70 countries, with reserves based on current consumption levels estimated to last in excess of 100 years.

Producing iron in a blast furnace Blast furnaces are massive steel structures, generally thirty metres high, lined with refractory bricks that can withstand temperatures approaching 2,000ºC. They gained their name because air, preheated to around 1,000ºC, is blasted into the furnace from nozzles at its base. This burns the coke and maintains the high temperatures required to reduce the ore to iron. The reaction between air and fuel generates the carbon monoxide, which reduces the iron oxide in the ore to iron. The resultant metal is molten in a furnace temperature of around 1,500ºC and runs down to the base of the furnace.

The high temperature also decomposes the limestone (calcium carbonate) into calcium oxide, which helps to remove acidic impurities – particular silica – from the ore. The result is a liquid slag that floats on top of the molten iron, which is collected once the denser molten iron is tapped from the bottom of the furnace.

The blast furnace process is continuous: it is constantly heated and recharged with raw materials from the top as the molten iron is tapped from below. The iron leaving the blast furnace contains around 4% to 5% carbon, which in a cooled state means a very hard but brittle metal.

Prior to steelmaking other high volume processes are normally applied to remove or reduce other impurities. Hot metal desulphurisation uses a lime or calcium carbide plus magnesium to remove sulphur from the hot metal to slag, which is skimmed off.

Steelmaking is the refining process that reduces this carbon level and in combination with alloying (addition of other metals) produces steel with the required processing and performance characteristics demanded in its extraordinarily diverse range of applications. In broad terms mild steels will contain less than 0.25% carbon, medium carbon steels between 0.25% and 0.45% and high carbon steels from 0.45% to 1.5%.

Steelmaking – the two routes There are two routes to making steel. Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) produces steel from blast furnace iron and a small proportion of scrap and is an integrated process, taking molten iron direct from the blast furnace. Since iron ore and coal are generally most economically sea freighted to their destinations, integrated steel making complexes tend to be located close to the coast or to major freight carrying waterways.

Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking (EAF) produces steel almost exclusively from scrap and is generally used to produce more specialist steels in smaller volumes. Its primary advantages lay in lower energy consumption and the capability to produce steel closer to its consumer market, limiting the requirement to transport bulk raw materials like iron ore and coke and offering the potential to utilise locally acquired scrap.

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M A N U FA CT U RI N G T E C H N O LO G Y Basic Oxygen Steelmaking A modern BOS furnace receives a charge of up to 350 tonnes of scrap and molten iron and converts it to steel in around 30 - 40 minutes in a batch, as opposed to continuous, process.

The furnace or convertor is first charged with a small amount of scrap, generally less than 30% of its capacity, which acts as a coolant to control the very high temperatures produced by the violently exothermic (giving off heat) reactions during the steelmaking process. After the scrap around a four times greater volume of molten iron is poured into the furnace from a ladle.

Oxygen is blown into the BOS vessel through a water-cooled lance lowered into the molten metal. The oxygen oxidises impurity elements including carbon, silicon, manganese and phosphorous. Carbon is oxidised to carbon monoxide gas which passes to a cleaning plant, after which it can be re-used as fuel gas. Other elements are converted to acidic oxides through the addition of calcium oxide (lime) and other fluxes added during the blow. This produces a slag that floats on the surface of the metal.

According to information published by the World Steel Association, this integrated steelmaking route, based on a blast furnace and BOS furnace, on average uses 1,400kg of iron ore, 770kg of coal, 150kg of limestone and 120kg of scrap to produce one tonne of crude steel.

Electric Arc Furnace steelmaking The concept of using an electric arc to melt iron dates to the 19th Century, and the first Electric Arc Furnaces were developed in France in the early 20th Century. The EAF process really began to provide a significant alternative method of manufacturing steel in bulk using scrap metals in 1968 when German steelmaker Willy Korf built a minimill on an island in the Rhine near Strasbourg. In addition to fulfilling a crucial recycling role it is more energy efficient, consuming around half the energy required for the BOS process. Its other key advantages rest in it being a smaller, although still substantial, scale industrial process, which can be located closer to specific steel consumption markets.

The EAF is a kettle shaped structure with a removable lid, which is swung to one side while the furnace is charged with a mixture of scrap and lime. Three graphite electrodes pass through the lid to heat the furnace, the hearth of which is lime with chemically basic and refractory material. Passing an electric arc between the electrodes and the scrap material achieves temperatures around 1,750ÂşC, melting a typical 100 tonne charge in around one hour.

EAF Steelmaking Route e.g. Speciality Steels

BOS Steelmaking Converter

Once the charge is molten, additional lime is added to assist in the blowing phase. Oxygen is blown into the melt to oxidise carbon, silicon and manganese. As with the BOS process carbon monoxide escapes as gas. Other oxides are acidic and when combined with the basic lime form a neutral slag, which is poured off the surface.

The molten steel is tapped from the ladle via a spout and is then ready for secondary steel making processes and casting.

The World Steel Association says the EAF steelmaking route uses on average 880kg of recycled steel, 150kg of coal and 43kg of limestone to produce one tonne of crude steel.

At the correct temperature and composition the steel is tapped from the furnace by tilting it so the molten metal runs out of a tap hole into a ladle. Once the steel has been removed the furnace is inverted and the remaining slag removed. Once solidified this can be used in the production of cement and road aggregate.

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Distribution of the two methods In 2010 more than 70% of global steel was produced using the integrated BOS system. 28% was produced by the EAF system, with the balance produced by the generally obsolete open hearth method.

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M A N U FA CT U RI N G T E C H N O LO G Y In Germany around 80% of steel is produced by basic oxygen steelmaking. Production in the world’s biggest steelmaking country - China currently produces around 47% of world steel – is dominated by the BOS method.

Minimills using the EAF process account for around 25% of steel produced in the USA, where local scrap can be converted, obviating the need to ship it away from the region or bring ore and coke overland from sea ports. With a significantly lower set up cost compared with traditional integrated iron and steel works, some minimills can also take advantage of locally obtainable natural gas or crude oil products instead of the coke used to generate the gas that reduces the ore.

Secondary steel making In a process known as secondary steel making the composition of the crude steel from the BOS furnace is adjusted by adding specific alloys of carbon, silicon, manganese and boron.

Residual oxygen that has dissolved into the steel during the blowing process is eliminated by the addition of small amounts of

aluminium to form aluminium oxide, which floats out of the steel into the slag layer on the surface of the steel.

To ensure lower levels of impurity gases a more advanced process, known as vacuum degassing, is used, which involves the agitation of the molten metal at very low pressures allowing dissolved impurity gases to be extracted. RH degassing is specifically aimed at removing hydrogen – a potential dangerous contaminant in steel in many applications – and nitrogen.

Finally the metal is stirred by blowing inert argon gas through it to ensure the steel has a uniform composition. It also evens the temperature throughout the batch of liquid metal, which is critical when the metal is cast.

Casting Continuous Casting Machine Overview

Ladle Arc Furnace Alloy Additions Fume Extraction

Electro-magnetic Stirrer

Modern steelmaking uses a continuous casting process allowing the molten metal from the ladle to be formed into the basic shape in which the steel will go on to further processing.

The three basic shapes are: • Slabs up to 3 metres wide and 320mm thick.

• Blooms of around 0.5 metre either square or rectangular cross sections.

• Billets up to 180mm square.

Next time…

How wire rod is produced

“Thank you to Tata Steel for providing the images and graphics for this article and for reviewing it for accuracy”

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RCF planning for growth RCF Bolt & Nut states that a change in technology has seen the company go from strength to strength following two fantastic years of increased sales.

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CF Bolt & Nut prides itself on changing with the times and using the latest technology, which is why the company moved away from conventional gas furnaces to induction heating. One of the many advantages of changing to the new induction heating was faster heating times resulting in increased production and a consistent level of heating for overall improved quality.

RCF’s continued growth has also led to the company deciding to refurbish one of the machines it has in storage, namely an Etchells 1½ inch press. This will enable the business to further increase production and help it cope with the increase in demand.

Following installation of the refurbished Etchells press, RCF aims to install a Covmac forging machine to manufacture much larger diameters in longer lengths - as acquiring these on a quick lead time can sometimes pose a problem when sourcing outside of the UK. “We are sensing a change in the trade – whereas importing was once the only option, UK manufacturing is regaining its strength and it is vital that we continue to be able to offer our customers quality goods in a time effective manner whether they are manufactured here, or imported from abroad. As our market grows we feel RCF must grow with it and we hope our investment sends a message to our customers and our competition alike. With increased production we hope to secure further business from existing and new customers and welcome all to our site here in Tipton to see our manufacturing process at work.”

Quikcalc ePlus goes online National Machinery’s engineering division Met-MAX Innovations recently released the latest upgrade to its cold forming calculation software Quikcalc.

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he program has been renamed Quikcalc ePlus to emphasise its new website platform, which can be found at www.quikcalceplus.com. The upgrade moves the calculation program from dated technologies such as disk installations, USB downloads, and serial port keys to hosting the entire program online.

Traditionally Quikcalc has been and still is calculation software that simplifies cold forming calculations by saving time and reducing guesswork for difficult design analysis. The new Quikcalc ePlus does not require downloading or software, only an internet connection for accessing the website. It was designed to run on major web browsers from devices with larger screens. Registered users can now log into the program from various machines to access their personal account, but can only be logged into the program from one device at a time.

The new platform allows for multiple languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese), seamless upgrades, unit preferences, email job functions, online host saving, and a modern easy-to-use design. Seamless upgrades will take place throughout the year as a way to constantly improve and add to the program. The initial upgrade comes with a new load & energy calculation (combined forward & backward extrusions on the same end of the blank), and round, hex, & square shape options have been added to several of the load & energy calculators. Email job functions enable the user a one-click method for emailing calculation results instantly to their registered email addresses.

Online saving allows the user to save all jobs online directly to their account so that they can access them again from any machine they use to log in.

“Quikcalceplus.com will now be offered in year-long subscriptions and can be registered and paid for entirely online from the website. Also available on the website is a demo of the program so users can see it in action, or have the option to sign up for a 15 day trial.” www.nationalmachinery.com

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HEROSLAM receives award HEROSLAM SAL, a manufacturer of thread rolling tools for the production of fasteners, was recently awarded with the 2012 International Prize of Social Economy ‘Txemi Cantera’.

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ith this prestigious international award, ASLE the Basque Association of Employee Owned Companies, recognises those people, companies or organisations that contribute to the defence of the principles of the Social Economy: participation, democracy and solidarity.

In its 22nd edition, the jury awarded HEROSLAM a prize “because of the values that HEROSLAM represents: effort, team work, cooperation and social responsibility with the local community, based on strong social principles in which the person is the centre of every aspect of the business. As a result of this HEROSLAM is one of the oldest active employee owned companies in Spain, with nearly 40 years of successful history.”

“HEROSLAM is a good example of how an employee owned company can be successful by doing business in a different way, becoming a leading international industry player with solid fundamentals such as product know-how, excellent management, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and at the same time, take good care of its people by giving them the chance to grow with the company,” the jury stated.

Precision parts forming machinery At the In-house Exhibition you can see the following machines in full production, producing parts:

Hot performance with precision: Part with ballistic point produced with HILGELAND Thread Roller FN12 with Induction Heating – before and after rolling.

Hot performance in structure: Photomicrograph of ballistic point, excellent homogenous microstructure produced with FN12 equipped with Induction Heating.

A Hot Performance Thread Roller FN12: Innovation and Highlights at the exhibition.

The Highlight of this year`s WAFIOS In-house Exhibition is the new Thread Roller FN12 from WAFIOS Umformtechnik.

New Innovations: Induction Heating System Motion Plus Matching-Point Adjustment

Welcome to WAFIOS In-house Exhibition This year`s event promises discussions with experts, innovations and highlights.

We are looking forward to your visit from 24th – 27th of April 2013 at the In-house Exhibition in Wuppertal, Germany.

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HC4 Cold Former (1-die-2-blow) Fastest in its category with new space-saving design.

CF2N Former (2-die-3-blow) World market leader for the production of fasteners made from high-tensile and Titanium alloys for applications in the aerospace and automobile industry.

SKM08 Automatic Pointer The economical solution for machining shaft ends.

MAS06F Nut Tapper Universal and efficient with round nut clamping system.

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Innovative possibilities using zero-P™ FR. & H. LÜLING GmbH & Co KG, located in Altena and Iserlohn, Germany, presents a newly developed method for surface treatment for the manufacture of wire used in the process of cold massive forming.

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ith its zero-P™, LÜLING has developed a wire with a phosphate-free surface, which enables multi-station forging processes.

In the past, wire that had a phosphate-coated surface was used almost exclusively in the production of complex cold extrusion parts. However, alongside the advantages in the manufacturing process, there are also disadvantages in the subsequent course of the process, resulting from the phosphate-coated surface.

One of these disadvantages is the unavoidable fact that the phosphate residue slowly contaminates the pressing lubricant.

A further disadvantage is that during the manufacturing chain, the dephosphorising process of the forged parts is not only very expensive but also extremely environmentally unfriendly.

In the case where, depending on the geometry and the tensile strength of the forged part, heat treatment is necessary, there is a danger, if the preceding dephosphorising process is carried out inadequately, of a delta-ferrite microstructure ensuing.

These are only some of the reasons, says LÜLING, why the cold forging industries need to use wire with a phosphate-free surface.

In cooperation with customers and universities, LÜLING has developed zero-P™ which has proved to be able to meet the high standards needed in the cold forging industry.

For the manufacture of zero-P™, LÜLING has used a combination of three components:

• The phosphate layer has been replaced by a special coating, consisting of organic and inorganic chemicals.

• An optimised heat treatment and a special drawing die technology ensure a wire surface that allows an optimal forming of the material.

• zero-P™ is easily removed after the forming process as, in contrast to phosphate treatment, there is no chemical reaction with the basic material.

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New team leader Another successful for electroplating start-up for Can-Eng Dr Ingo André Klüppel recently became the new team leader for electroplating at Dörken MKS-Systeme GmbH & Co KG.

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ollowing studies in chemistry at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and a subsequent PhD at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf and the Dortmunder OberflächenCentrum (DOC®) of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, he was most recently involved with the coil coating development of DOC®, one of the world’s leading and most modern research establishments in the field of surface coating and finishing.

The principal task of the new team leader is the establishment of the new ‘green electroplating’ field and the further development of the Delta-Prozinc® electroplating system. To achieve this goal the electroplating technology centre, opened at the end of September 2011, was expanded further and allocated increased numbers of staff.

“Naturally these are ideal conditions for my new field of tasks,” says Dr Ingo André Klüppel. “I am also looking forward to working in a motivated team to develop and expand the new field of ‘green electroplating’.” www.doerken-mks-com

Can-Eng Furnaces International Limited has announced the successful start-up of a Roller Hearth Continuous Mesh Belt Normalising Furnace System. The furnace is designed to normalise a wide variety of steel forgings produced by Ohio Star Forge of Warren, Ohio, USA.

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his automated 3,500lb/hour system designed to normalise a wide variety of steel forgings includes a computerised loading system, mesh belt normalising furnace, a forced air cooling system, as well as a level 2 automation system. The furnace is indirectly heated using radiant ‘U’ tubes with recuperation to minimise the amount of oxidation. The integration of Can-Eng’s level 2 automation system tracks product status and collects detailed process data that is used for continuous process improvement, equipment diagnostics, processing costs analysis and inventory management.

Can-Eng is OSF’s supplier of choice because of extensive experience developing state-of-the-art cast link and roller hearth mesh belt atmosphere heat treatment systems designed to handle high volume automotive forgings with demanding mechanical and metallurgical properties.

“Our Continuous Mesh Belt Heat Treatment Systems are recognised worldwide and have proven to meet and exceed the stringent demands of the global automotive industry through successful Tier 1 automotive supplier audits.” www.can-eng.com

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Construction work underway at Keighley Labs Construction work is now underway on Keighley Laboratories’ new heat treatment processes building, at its West Yorkshire headquarters.

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epresenting a total capital investment in excess of GB£1 million, the purposebuilt unit will house furnaces, controls and ancillary equipment for new and complimentary processes, augmenting Keighley Labs’ existing array of heat treatment services.

“We are effectively in the first stage of moving forward again as a company, by making a sizeable investment in new facilities and positioning ourselves

with some of the best resources in the industry,” says Keighley Labs managing director, Debbie Mellor, who took time out from her busy schedule to be pictured at the controls of a site excavator. “In this new building we shall have modern furnace equipment and the most sophisticated process controls, enabling us to regulate precisely the parameters to suit clients’ exact specifications. We shall offer a service that is second-to-none, from a single site at the heart of the

engineering and aviation supply industry.”

Keighley Labs anticipates that the markets that will be served by these new processes will include products such as gears, crankshafts, valve parts, camshafts, cylinders, railway braking systems, pump components and pipeline fittings. Full-time positions will be created by the new heat treatment facility, together with several apprenticeship opportunities, adding to an existing headcount of 65 personnel.

The influence of feeding accuracy on tooling life San Shing Fastech Corp says that economy and efficiency are top priorities for manufacturing industries, and the fastener industry is no exception. In order to reduce costs and increase productivity, devoted San Shing engineers, together with technicians, spare no efforts to improve both machinery and tooling capabilities.

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n the cold forming process, accurate feeding not only keeps product dimensions consistent but also elongates tooling life span. Below San Shing gives an example of a nylon flange nut forming process, which provides explanations on how product appearance and tooling life are affected by feeding accuracy.

Precise feeding versus excessive feeding

Product appearances Product appearance is affected when an insufficient cutting length leads to under-sized flange diameter while excessive feeding creates a burr on the flange.

Tooling stress In terms of tooling stress, slugs of over-sized cutting length bring more stress to both forming dies and punches therefore shortening the tooling durability.

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San Shing explains that when Tooling stress compared with conventional ratchet wheel feeding, a linear feeding system always demonstrates superior ability in controlling cutting length. As a result, it is the perfect solution to maintain product conformity and facilitate tooling set stresses. According to San Shing compiled statistics, the die core shows 3-4 times and punch 2-3 times more durability on machines with linear feeding system compared with a ratchet wheel feeding system.

Currently the linear feeding system is a standard feature on San Shing’s precision series nut formers and is optional on basic series nut formers. It enables the cutting tolerance to be fine-tuned continually to within 1% (L=0.6D), saving material and tooling cost.

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Insufficient cutting length versus excessive feeding

WIRE GOODS SHEET METAL GOODS SUSPENSION TECHNOLOGY … made by one of the industry’s leading companies in Europe – steeped in tradition – for decades.

LÜSEBRINK today produce and supply wire goods with wood thread and ISO thread and of course pecial products in the CNC-bending technology.

Would you like to know more about it?

Please get in contact with us.

WILH. LÜSEBRINK GMBH · DAIMLERSTRASSE 16 · 58553 HALVER · GERMANY TEL. +49 (0)23 53-9092-0 · FAX +49 (0)23 53-13179 · WWW.LUESEBRINK.DE · MAIL@LUESEBRINK.DE

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THE 3RD DIMENSION IN THE 5TH GENERATION

CNC SPECIAL PRODUCTS … made by one of the industry’s leading companies in Europe – steeped in tradition – for decades.

LÜSEBRINK today also produce and supply wire goods with wood thread, ISO thread and much more.

Would you like to know more about it?

Please get in contact with us.

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M A N U FA CT U RI N G T E C H N O LO G Y

Sacma Group introduces new models for 2013 Ingramatic has shipped a new RP92 threader for large bolts destined for the automotive and truck industries.

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his machine is able to run bolts from M20 to M33 after heat treatment using W60 and W70 dies. The new frame with high pressure hydrostatic lubrication of the slide makes this threader, says Ingramatic, the most precise and reliable machine for high tensile parts.

The touch screen panel and electronic handwheel ensure the machine is very user friendly, making its adjustment simple and immediate. Ingramatic has designed and developed a patented system of finished parts discharge guides combined with a part rejection device. A fault detected by the load control system, for example an incorrect die match, activates the reject flap and separates the defective rolled parts from the conforming ones.

At the tool exit, a soft-landing system transfers the correct parts to the discharge guides, reducing the discharge speed and the impact damage between the conveyor belt and the correctly rolled parts. Various options are available to personalise the machine according to the needs of the final customer.

To complete its whole range, Ingramatic continues to invest in R&D with new models, especially in the ‘I-Thread’ line.

Ingramatic points out that the elimination of hand tools and making all machine adjustments and set ups through the remote electronic handwheel is a real revolution. This provides the operator a precise control of the height position and rails width; the die match with adjustable drive unit position; and the set-up of the double starter unit with its unique self-learning system.

Thanks to this solution, set-ups can be made in less than two minutes using the touchscreen panel.

As a standard feature, Ingramatic supplies the patented new introduction system of the double starter unit, which is activated by servo motors using high precision pinion-rack units to control the starter slides movement. The ‘M-Group’ provides the motorisation of the drive unit and the slide body position for a quick and accurate control of the die match. The new QTC washer assembly unit is now available for the most exigent users. Ingramatic can supply as an option a new system in order to save time during the production changeover. This QTC washer assembly unit allows the operator to set up the tools in the tool room and to save time when on the machine.

Sacma Limbiate Spa has shipped the first net shape parts large cold former of the year, another SP670-AS made according to state of the art technology.

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he SP670-AS’ technical characteristics are: maximum wire diameter 33mm; heading load 650 metric tonnes; 6 dies; blank feeding system and, of course, a quick change over system. Sacma is also supplying a soft landing system, eliminating the height of the parts chute from the transfer unit through a vertical conveyor, which separates every single part.

To complete its whole range, Sacma also continues to invest in R&D and in new header models for 2013 providing new equipment and functions.

The innovative servo wire “S-Feeder” is available with two or four rolls, CNC driven with one or two brushless motors according to the machine size. The main features are its user friendliness, low maintenance and extended feeding range from zero up to maximal length. The transfer desmodrive is improved with automatic engagement, hydraulic unclamping of timing

cams and double cam at variable phase.

Regarding quality control, Sacma 2013 headers can guarantee the quality of the produced parts using the new LoadMatic, which monitors the loads and controls the discharge of non-conforming parts by transfer fingers or by selecting gate. To facilitate the production changeover, tools cradles (number 2 cradles crane) are implemented for punches and dies, making tool handling easier as an alternative to die box and punch bolster replacement, according to the choice of the user.

For aerospace components or special fasteners, the WF line with its new complete line of warm formers by means of one or two induction units is especially appropriate for forming difficult materials.

To reduce noise levels and to provide safety and ergonomic improvements, Sacma has designed a new cabin. This provides extended dimension for the main motor enclosure and for maintenance access. For safe and friendly usage, Sacma continues to improve the new electronic handwheel with jog mode and has introduced a protection screen. To facilitate tool set up, the new touch screen panel SC-Matic takes control of the process through machine supervision.

Regarding quick tool change, the punch bolster, now removable with wedges, allows precise and ultimate set up outside the machine.

It is easy to see why Sacma Group lays claim to be the most advanced and dynamic company for designing and manufacturing headers and threaders. Sacma and Ingramatic teams invite all existing and future customers to visit their factories to see first hand all the solutions available to meet the challenges presented by their always demanding new markets. www.sacmagroup.com

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i-thread, innovative & intelligent threader CONCENTRATED OF BEST TECHNOLOGIES EXCLUSIVE FEATURES TO KEEP CONTROL OF YOUR PRODUCTION I-THREAD, THE MOST ADVANCED HIGH SPEED THREAD AND PROFILE ROLLING MACHINE FOR THE FASTENER INDUSTRY Sacma Group introduces its new thread rolling machine inspired by the I-thread concept. The Ingramatic R&D Department developed new solutions for an unique tool set up and for a higher final product accuracy, such as a new patented starter unit. Sensitive to the environment, the new drive unit, consisting of a planetary gearbox integrated inside the flywheel together with the clutch-brake, allows energy recycling and reduces consumes, making the machines Eco-Friendly.

Double Starter unit with Brusless motors Pneumatic separation; Transport and positioning through Brushless motor; Introduction through Brushless motor.

Rejection blade connected to the load monitor to reject the n.c. parts with integrated Die match control to improve the tool life.

Motorization and adjustment with electronic handwheel for feeding rails and vertical feeder.

Eco-friendly new drive unit consisting on a planetary gearbox integrated in the flywheel recycling continuously the energy.

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Electronic handwheel for all machine adjustments – die match – rails – starter unit; avoiding the use of hand tools.

Servomotor for the automatic die match with load monitor and hydraulic clamping of the drive unit.

SACMA LIMBIATE S.p.A.: Limbiate - Milano - ITALY - Tel. +39 02 99 45 21 - Fax +39 02 99 05 01 85 - com@sacmalimbiate.it - info@sacmalimbiate.it - www.sacmagroup.it INGRAMATIC S.p.A.: Castelnuovo Scrivia - Alessandria - ITALY - Tel. +39 0131 87 161 - Fax +39 0131 82 30 70 - com@ingramatic.com - www.ingramatic.com

M A N U FA CT U R I N G T E C H N O LO G Y

Investment in technology is the key to success National Machinery continues to plan for the future, with investment in technology the key to success. National Machinery sees this with customers that use FORMAX machines to make the worlds most complex part shapes.

It also employs this same technique in the company’s own production.

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tilising new technology and adapting for the future - is vital to business success.

Continuous improvement can be seen in various adaptions to National Machinery products along with investment in new machine tool technology.

Adaptation Just like in nature, the need to adapt is critical to success in business. The forming of metal is not always an easy process, especially when trying to create new ways to make net shape components.

National Machinery offers its Met-MAX (which stands for Moving Metal to the Maximum) innovations group to help customers ‘adapt’ to new methods in forming complex parts. These services include design, development and making part samples.

Segmented die forming has been around a long time, some of the issues with this technology included problems with enough space in the die for Belleville washers or nitrogen gas cylinders. Many times the spring pressure created was not enough for the application or left results that were less than desired.

National Machinery was able to adapt a new method where a gas-spring lever mechanism greatly increased that biasing force on a sliding segmented die assembly. The result? There is a dramatic increase in the size, quality and dimensional control that can be obtain on a machine today. That means running faster on a smaller machine, with better tolerances and quality for the finished part – which also translates into total costs savings.

As shown at the Düsseldorf WIRE show last year, FORMAX was demonstrated in a newer die configuration – now including 7 dies. However, not everyone knows how to

utilise that many stations, so the Met-MAX group has been able to help customers adapt and take advantage of the extra die.

The result is more net shape components and better tolerance parts.

Another adaption is that of temperature, in this case warm-forming. National Machinery has supplied warm forming equipment to the aerospace industry for decades. This now includes FORMAX machines available in options to best suit customers’ needs. One option is to prepare the machine for warm forming.

The second is a fully integrated warm former including: • High frequency converter.

• External circuit/transformer.

• Buss bar.

• Induction coil.

• Cooling system.

• Wire temperature sensor.

• Blank stop.

• Fire suppression system.

New manufacturing technology When FORMAX was first introduced it not only meant a change in cold former technology, but also in how component parts were made. No longer did machine assembly include hours of hand fitting, scrapping and individual workmanship.

From the very start of engineers putting tolerances on drawings, the key to FORMAX assembly was in the ability to make a tight tolerance part to print, so that parts would literally be assembled and bolted together. Not only did this improve assembly efficiency, but also made for a much more consistent machine, as found through National Machinery’s stringent test protocols. From the aftermarket part perspective, it also is much simpler to ‘bolt on’ a new part that will fit perfectly, compared to having to rework the part to make it fit.

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A full range of unique machine tools are found in the machining department in Tiffin, OH, USA. A recent addition to that group of machine tools is the second Makino A100, a horizontal machining centre that complements the existing A88 units and covers larger part sizes. The A100 is a 4-axis machining centre that is noted for its high spindle speeds with precisely controlled high-pressure coolant to remove chips and prevent heat buildup.

The unit also offers excellent accuracy and finishing so that follow-up work on parts is not needed.

The newest addition in machine tools installed this year is the Mazak Integrex i-series. National Machinery explains that the Integrex is really two machines in one, a CNC turning lathe and a CNC machining centre. This advanced centre brings together extreme versatility and accuracy for manufacturing mid-size to large complex components. The spindles utilise temperature controlled circulated oil to enhance thermal stability and are monitored for heat, vibration and displacement. The goal of the Integrex is its ‘Done-In-One’ concept, to start with raw material and completely finish a part with just one machine. This machine will be joined shortly by three additional units, resulting in streamlined production and efficiency.

Investing in the future allows National Machinery to produce parts in a more cost effect way, which benefits customers in both new machinery and aftermarket support parts. National Machinery points out that from adapting to new manufacturing methods, or a new machine tool, these opportunities will be taken to continue it’s leadership in the forming industry. www.nationalmachinery.com

M A N U FA CT U R I N G T E C H N O LO G Y

New CARLO SALVI micro parts former Here Carlo Salvi S.p.A introduces its newest header, the CS 001 machine, 1-die 2-blow model, particularly suitable for the heading of small and very small parts.

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arlo Salvi’s latest machine has been developed by employing the newest and the most advanced technologies. This new header is suitable for production of solid and semi-tubular parts with a very high productivity, with output of up to 660 pieces per minute, while ensuring very high quality.

Carlo Salvi, who has been among the leading manufacturers of equipment for the production of fasteners since 1939, is able, once more, to provide an advanced and new generation instrument, which guarantees high precision producing capability.

Thanks to its skilled engineers and years of experience in this field, Carlo Salvi is confident it is a reliable partner for all fastener producers.

having been researched and developed for the manufacture of micro components employed in many different fields, including for furniture, automotive, aerospace and mobile telephone applications.

Even though this header is equipped with all ‘CS line’ technical features its price is very competitive.

Research and innovation in 1-die 2-blow headers, as the well-known CS 002, CS 003 and CS 005 ranges, is progressing very quickly, and with significant results. It is also working strongly on 2-die 4-blow machines and progressive headers, particularly for warm and hot heading, using an induction heating system with temperatures up to 900°C, to form components with very complex shapes and from alloys which cannot be cold formed.

The main specifications of the CS 001 are:

Carlo Salvi customers are never alone

• Wire diameter range 0.6mm – 2.2mm (3mm with a special kit).

• Maximum shank length 22mm.

• Maximum head diameter 6.5mm.

• Maximum speed 660 pcs/min.

• Maximum heading tonnage 6,000daN. • PKO stroke 6.5mm.

Features on the CS 001 machine include: • Bushing cut-off.

• Linear wire feed: no wire feed rolls, no wire stops.

• Display of cut-off length on touch screen.

• Display of shank length on touch screen.

• Double set of wire straightening rolls, one horizontal and one vertical.

• P.K.O’s on coning punch and finishing punch.

• Transfer centring jig.

• Cutter centring jig.

Carlo Salvi is confident the CS 001 micro parts former is the most suitable machine to produce small and very small parts,

One of Carlo Salvi’s missions is to assure a high level of technical assistance throughout the life of its machines. To maintain high production capacity of the machines and to assure the highest performance of all components, excellent after-sale service is an absolute necessity, so Carlo Salvi technicians are ready to assist its customers at their premises, all over the world. Spare parts of all the machines are available on the shelves, to provide every component immediately upon request.

With its factory in Garlate, near Lecco, Italy, Carlo Salvi also has a US branch in Toledo (Ohio) and one in Guangzhou, China.

The company has now revealed plans to open new branches in order to support its customers directly in their countries. There is a new UK branch in the Birmingham area and in the following months a new branch will also open in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Carlo Salvi S.p.A. sales team and its several agents and resellers all over the world are, at customers’ complete disposal to supply detailed information about all of the company’s products. During 2013 the company is also committed to informing the market generally and its customer specifically with other relevant news concerning developments at Carlo Salvi. www.carlosalvi.it

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www.carlosalvi.it

Advanced Forming Technologies Italian Style

CARLO SALVI S.p.a.

Via Ponte Rotto, 67 23852 Garlate LC - Italy Tel. +39 0341 654 611 Fax +39 0341 682 869 E-mail carlosalvi@carlosalvi.it

CS 005 Cold and Warm Forming Technology

C ATA LO G U E R A C K

March 2013

Italy 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.

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Ambrovit

A.M.E.A. Srl

Ambrovit is one of Europe’s largest wholesale distributors of chipboard, self-tapping, self-drilling screws and bolts.

Thanks to its new automated warehouse, Ambrovit is now able to store around 20,000 ready-to-ship pallets as well as offer a Special Service to guarantee quick delivery.

A.M.E.A. is a manufacturer of steel tooling for cold and hot forming, providing tools for the international market since the 1950s. We are focused on quality and customer service, and carefully select materials, treatments and coatings to ensure the longest lifetime to our tools. All our products are made according to the technical specifications provided by our customers.

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

email: info@ameasrl.it www.ameasrl.it

BENBOLTS DI BENCINI s.r.l.

Baier & Michels Srl Founded in 1972 in Padua, Baier & Michels projects and develops special turned and cold formed parts made on drawing. b&m is a reliable partner, able to offer customised solutions in all stages of manufacturing: project, product development, production, packaging and logistics. b&m major customers are manufacturers of household appliances, electromechanics, email: italy@baier-michels.it automotive, heating systems, etc. www.baier-michels.it

Bontempi Vibo S.p.A.

email: info@vibo.com www.vibo.com

Bontempi VIBO likes to inform that our range has new products!

We extended our range of DIN 931, DIN 933 and DIN 912, from Diam.

20 to Diam. 27 up to 300mm.

Please remember we already manufacture same specs in Diam. 30 and 36 up to 300mm!

Material is available in carbon steel, classes 8.8 blank and zinc plated, 10.9 and 12.9.

We look forward to receiving your P.O.!

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4,500 tonnes of over 30,000 items.

Our extreme speed in meeting requests and deliveries gives our company the opportunity to offer a wide range of products to meet the needs of every type of customer with extreme speed, along with prices of absolute quality and competitiveness.

email: info@benbolts.it www.benbolts.it

Buora D.P.U. Srl Founded in 1969 Buora D.P.U. is a fastener European distributor ISO 9001:2008 certified.

Buora D.P.U. offers a full range of high tensile bolts and screw directly from stock.

• DIN 912 12.9 METRIC/INCH, COARSE/FINE • DIN 913/914/915/916 COARSE/FINE • DIN 7991 12.9 • ISO 7379 12.9 • ISO 7380 12.9 • NORD-LOCK WASHERS We consider SERVICE crucial so Buora D.P.U. has NO MINIMUM email: buoradpu@buoradpu.it ORDER, for further information do not hesitate to contact us! www.buoradpu.it

C ATA LO G U E R A C K CABER Impianti S.r.l.

Caber Impianti srl has been leading the industrial cleaning field for more than thirty years and since 1976 the company designs and manufactures industrial washing machines for metal surface treatment, drying ovens and special process lines (washing plants of different kind whatever the quantity to be treated may be: tunnel, booth, scroll, email: info@caberimpianti.it rotary basket, positioned washing machines). www.caberimpianti.com

Corbetta S.r.l.

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

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

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

FERRUCCIO GIRARDELLO Srl

HOLLEN S.r.l.

Our Company is a professional manufacturer founded in 1953, focusing on the special turned components, according to the Custom Drawings, in all kind of Stainless Steel raw material, with CNC lathe. We are equipped with the best devices and hight precision testing machines to produce high quality. email: info@girardellof.it www.girardellof.it.it

email: info@infa.it www.infa.it

Tel: +39 0542 670 560 www.mecavit.it

Hollen is an important Company in Italy in the fasteners market, with 25 years experience, and with international partners with whom Hollen provides its customers with the highest specialization.

Hollen established a strategic office in Singapore which closely follows the production processes of their partners. email: v.demaio@hollen.it info@hollen.it

Our main customers work in automotive, production of industrial automation and agriculture market.

INFA Srl

LPS Fastnecs

Since 1981 we are a successful wholesaler for standard and specials in a great variety of materials. In particular, our core business consists especially in plugs (Din 906, 908, 910, 7604, BSP, NPT, NPTF) in various materials (5.8, 8.8, 10.9, A2, A4, Brass) with ring-seal, auto-locking inserts or clients drawing.

We can provide in few days more than 50,000 products.

LPS FASTNECS, leading Italian manufacturer, ISO 9001:2008 and ISO/TS 16949:2009 accredited

by TĂœV, offers a vast range of Blind Rivets, Threaded Inserts and Special Products that satisfy customers’ demands, especially for the automotive industry thanks to its consolidated know-how, high technology, highly skilled personnel and large number of machinery available.

Tel: +39 0861 814 208 email: export@lpsfastnecs.it

Mecavit S.r.l.

Osra Industries Srl

MECAVIT, screw manufacturer with thirty years of activity and experience, is leader in the Italian market of special and standard screws in carbon and stainless steel. The range of production is highly specialized in both socket and 6 lobes small dimensioned screws in different kinds of high resistance carbon steel. Please contact us to find out more.

Osra Industries Srl, company certified ISO 9001 + ISO TS 16949, located in Castelmarte (Co) specialized in the production of special fasteners.

Such details are produced by hot forging and complete machining including heat treatments carried out completely inside.

Tel: +39 335 583 2091 email: d.pina@osraindustries.com

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C ATA LO G U E R A C K RM DISTRIBUZIONE INDUSTRIALE SRL

RIVIT Srl SINCE

MADE IN ITALY

Tools for Fasteners edition 11/4

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

email: rivit@rivit.it www.rivit.it

The main product lines distribute by RM:

email: rmsrl@rmsrl.co www.rmsrl.co

S.I.V.E.M. SNC

Tecno Impianti Srl

Sivem produces cold former screws various item diameter from 1.5 to 13 mm by former 2/4/5 stations in brass inox steel copper aluminum.

Tecno Impianti Srl is a European leader in the design and manufacturing of wire drawing machines for the fastener industry.

We supply both in-line wire drawing machines which can calibrate wire in-line with cold headers and off-line wire drawing bull-blocks for big productions of drawn wire for cold heading applications.

Brass screws Din 933 963 964 84 at stock. We supply brass item produced by Gildemeister 8mm to 42 mm and numerical control. email: cabis@tin.it www.sivem.it

since 1985

• feather keys, rod ends, clevises, axial joints, ball joints • ball bearings, rollers, couplings and transmission components, linear movements • disc spring DIN2093 • retaining rings and washers at DIN norms • cable drag chain • nuts, pins, ringed washers of LMKAS compensation

email: info@tecnoimpianti-italy.com www.tecnoimpianti-italy.com

UNIFAST S.r.l.

Vipa S.p.A.

Unifast provides cost saving manufacturing and quick acting fasteners which are essential where rapid assembly and disassembly are required, captive threaded fastening system for sheet metal, in addition to a wide range of special items bespoke produced in collaboration with the customers to satisfy every demand.

Vipa S.p.A. leader in the business of fasteners; a reference company for its services and product quality. At the moment the head office ground lays over 130,000 sqm. The warehouse is the major part of it; with modern technology systems, software and hardware, to maximize the efficiency in the production and distribution of all products.

New Branch in Spain, Barcelona and in France, Lyon and in Germany, Hessen.

Tel: +39 011 816 5511 www.unifast.com

Tel: + 39 0522 658 900 www.vipafasteners.com

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European Manufacturers Contact: Claire Lake email: claire.lake@fastenerandfixing.com • Tel: +44 ( 0 ) 1727 814 508 108 Fastener + Fixing Magazine • Issue 80 March 2013

management + systems

Integrating WMS and Voice solutions Voxware, a provider of Voice solutions, and LogFire, a multi-tenant cloud-based supply chain execution and warehouse management solution (WMS), have announced a strategic partnership aimed at streamlining organisations’ operational efficiencies.

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ompanies looking to rapidly deploy an integrated Voice solution into a distribution centre or in-store operation can leverage this new offering in a more accelerated, cost-effective manner.

“Our relationship with Voxware furthers our automation capabilities in the cloud and is consistent with our mission to help companies of all sizes realise the full potential of their supply chain operations,” stated Diego Pantoja-Navajas, LogFire founder and CEO. “The LogFire-Voxware partnership makes it easy for our customers to leverage Voice along with our leading cloud-based extended warehouse management solutions. Voice offers a robust, cost-effective alternative to traditional RF, user interface based system interaction, and paper-based options that can help take our customers to the next generation of operational excellence.”

Voxware points out that the integrated cloud based solution will allow manufacturers, wholesalers, logistics services

providers (3PLs) and retailers to cost effectively execute distribution centre and in-store operations including: receiving, quality control, putaway, replenishment, picking, packing, shipping, store receiving, shelf replenishment, and cycle/ physical inventory counting. It will also allow a company to more effectively receive, act on, and communicate information critical to their business without requiring significant internal IT costs.

The traditional up-front cost, time, and resource commitments associated with on-premise solutions for a more rapid, seamless deployment could also be bypassed.

The combination of LogFire’s WMS and Voxware’s Voice software in the cloud gives organisations the opportunity to leverage the latest, most advanced technologies for enhancing warehouse and in-store operations. Voxware says smaller and mid-size users who traditionally could not afford to deploy such Tier 1 solutions can now realise the benefits of Voice and omni-channel warehouse management capabilities.

VECTA shortlisted for award VECTA, the unique combined BI and CRM software provider for sales teams, was recently shortlisted as a finalist in two categories for its Sales Intelligence and CRM software solution at the European IT & Software Excellence Awards 2013.

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ECTA was shortlisted by the independent judging panel at IT Europa under the main category of ‘Independent Software Vendor (ISV)’, with the staff at parent company EDP Plc keeping their fingers crossed for success in the ‘Relationship Management Solution’ and ‘Business Intelligence Solution’ category awards. The VECTA submission was based on its on-going working projects and relationship with an international distributor.

The awards ceremony is designed to acknowledge the real world solutions delivered by IT and software providers.

Organised by IT Europa, the principal European publisher of strategic market intelligence and analysis, the awards attracted entries from 24 countries across Europe with 15 countries making it through to the 2013 finals, each selected for their focus on best practices within the field of customer IT solutions.

Jayne Hill, business development manager said: “We are delighted to be shortlisted as finalists for the European IT awards. The software industry is incredibly competitive so for VECTA to be recognised at European level is a great achievement for the company.”

Project management services from Rapid Racking Rapid Racking, a provider of industrial storage solutions, has announced a range of new services, designed specifically to make the process of upgrading a workplace into a streamlined space, as simple and easy as possible.

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he new service will include a design and quotation service, which involves the assignment of a storage design expert to each project, large or small. It will ensure that the individual requirements of each workplace are met and will create a racking or shelving solution which is tailor-made to suit the needs of each business. The service also includes site visits, expert advice, which is available at all times, in-depth drawings and a follow-up visit option.

A new installation service is also offered, which is suitable for any size of project and gives clients access to a team of Rapid Racking professionals, who will install the entire system, co-ordinate material deliveries where necessary, hire the

appropriate plant machinery to ensure successful assembly of each unit and cause minimum disruption to the business operating around them.

This dedicated business installation unit has been designed to streamline system construction, taking any bespoke storage or shelving solution from the drawing board to operational in just a few easy steps.

A dated and timed delivery option is essential; it can offer a dated and timed delivery service which will alert those accepting the delivery as to when it will arrive. Dates and times can be modified for each business’ convenience, and the service ensures that business can go on uninterrupted by an unexpected delivery.

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Reduce cost and increase warehouse efficiencies Dematic, a global supplier of logistics systems for the factory, warehouse and distribution centre, has introduced a set of warehouse solutions for high density pallet storage.

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here are three solution categories, designed to lower operating costs, reduce building/land costs, achieve precise load sequencing, FIFO/LIFO rotation or whatever business rules apply, improve order accuracy, achieve real time control of inventory, and require less labour to operate.

The appropriate solution depends on the throughput volume, storage capacity requirements, and building layout.

Deep lane pallet storage on floor, with AGVs is the first configuration, and is based on a fork style automatic guided vehicle (AGV) capable of automatically staging pallet loads on the warehouse floor, arranged in lanes, multiple pallets deep. The pallets can be stacked up to 24 feet high in each deep lane.

The second configuration, deep lane pallet storage in rack with AGVs, consists of deep lane pallet storage in a rack structure with Dematic’s satellite shuttle device to index each pallet in the rack. A fork style AGV transports pallets to the deep lane rack structure up to 40 foot clear height and deposits the load in the first rack position.

Deep lane pallet storage in rack, with SRM is the final configuration, utilising Dematic’s shuttle device and software management. This solution, with dedicated SRMs in each aisle, improves the density and throughput versus the AGV based solution. Aisle widths can be minimised and the height of the rack structure can be increased to 110 foot.

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management + systems

Apriso announces Windows 8 App Apriso, a provider of manufacturing software solutions, has announced the general availability of ‘Apriso for Manufacturing’, the first Windows 8 application designed specifically for manufacturers.

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vailable as a free download from the Microsoft App Store, this Windows 8 App provides convenient, real-time mobile access to Apriso’s global solution for manufacturing operations management.

The application extends Apriso’s manufacturing mobility and intelligence capabilities to Microsoft Windows 8 mobile devices,

delivering plant by plant metrics to make better informed decisions, anywhere anytime, from the convenience of a Windows 8 tablet or phone.

“Apriso for Manufacturing provides Windows 8 users with a sophisticated dashboard and drill down capabilities, enabling visibility and execution to gain and sustain operational excellence,” said John Fishell, vice president of product management at Apriso. “With this application we have leveraged unique capabilities of the Windows 8 operating system, such as charms and embedded social collaboration, resulting in a better, more intuitive user experience.”

Windows 8 based mobile devices now have access to Apriso’s complete suite of core FlexNet applications, including production, warehouse, quality, maintenance and time, and labour. Apriso says its users can gain greater flexibility to execute business processes from Windows 8 tablets and phones, expanded access to FlexNet to monitor system performance 24/7, simplified execution of maintenance or quality inspections, faster performance of exception handling or alert responses from an expanded variety of mobile devices, and easier monitoring, analysing and collaboration to improve operational performance.

application technology

TR Fastenings in the driving seat TR Fastenings recently supplied plastic fasteners to the UK car manufacturer Ariel Motors for its latest Atom sports car, to help take weight out of the structure to enhance its world-famous performance.

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lastic fasteners are often the optimal solution for when a fastener has to be versatile, light and yet strong. This is especially true in the automotive sector, where the latest trend is for light-weighting - a lighter car uses less fuel, is more economic and more environmentally friendly.

“The Atom is designed with an open structure based on frames,” explains Kevin Roger, TR Fastenings’ plastic products sales manager. “Therefore the use of plastic cable ties is a neat and subtle way of hiding the wiring harness throughout the body of the car. However, where a part was needed near the engine, a stainless steel tie was required, which we could also provide.”

Kevin adds: “The Atom is just one example of how we are currently approaching our clients and asking to see their processes to see if we can improve them and provide some production benefit. Also, plastic fasteners have the advantage of being multi-functional. Why use a nut, bolt and a washer, when you could use a two-piece plastic rivet that takes less time to apply? That is where the innovation is.”

Bossard, a supplier of intelligent solutions for industrial fastening technology, recently implemented a 3-level concept that enabled Epoke A/S to improve its production process.

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poke A/S is a manufacturer of winter road maintenance equipment in Denmark; its machines keep airport runways, roads and sidewalks around the world snow and ice-free.

Fasteners are essential in keeping Epoke’s machines running properly in harsh conditions. In the past, specialist workers at Epoke lubricated the fasteners manually before assembly to increase corrosion protection. Yet managing the inventory, locating the right fasteners and lubricating them by hand was not the fastest or the most cost-effective solution.

With its 3-level concept, Bossard provided an integrated

solution. The largest benefit resulted from the SmartBin logistic system; its automated ordering process ensures all C-parts remain stocked in the right amounts. As part of the SmartBin system, Bossard introduced special kit sets with pre-selected fasteners commonly used together, thus reducing the time needed to collect parts from different bins.

Bossard also suggested Epoke use Bossard’s stainless steel fasteners, which exhibit no thread galling and the ecosyn®-lubric coating protects against corrosion even in extreme conditions.

This eliminated the need for the extra lubrication step during assembly, thus also saving time and money.

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NORMA Group halves weight of push&seal quick connectors NORMA Group has developed a materialoptimised push&seal quick connector for cooling water systems in passenger cars.

The new design reduces the overall weight of the NORMAQUICK PS3 quick connector by more than 40 percent.

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ORMA Group has introduced the newly designed PS3 quick connector because more and more automobile manufacturers demand less weighty connectors that can be assembled rapidly. The wall thickness of the connector’s plastic housing has been reduced by up to 50 percent compared with the original thickness. As a result, the overall weight of the element has been reduced by more than 40 percent. The structural dimensions of the new design have become even more compact which makes the connector suitable for narrow spaces. The quick connector’s performance is maintained at the same high level of the old design.

Bernd Kleinhens, member of the NORMA Group management board and responsible for business development, commented: “The optimised design of the push&seal quick connector helps to reduce the overall weight of cooling water systems and at the same time to cut down on fuel consumption. We are proud that this development can support our customers in improving their end products and in saving precious resources.”

The NORMAQUICK PS3 quick connector is made from recyclable materials and is characterised by a rapid assembly without tools. An integrated retainer allows for mounting and dismounting the quick connector easily.

Assembly in fully automated processes is also possible.

An incorporated O-ring keeps the connection tight. The new plastic housing of the quick connector can be used with a VDA standard spigot. www.normagroup.com

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application technology

Coiled spring pins improve surgical devices A medical device manufacturer was using a Swiss style CNC machined knurled solid pin in a surgical device, used as a ‘grasper’ to allow a surgeon to operate through a laparoscopic port. The pin is used to drive the jaw movement at the distal end of the device. However, during pin installation, there was a high insertion force, bending the pins and causing damage to the sub-assembly and generating metallic debris.

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ince this device was designed to go inside the human body, the possibility of introducing metal debris was completely unacceptable. Spirol provided the solution with its stainless steel, light duty coiled spring pin.

One issue that Spirol identified immediately was that pins, made from 303 stainless steel with no subsequent heat treatment, were being installed into a hardened 416 stainless steel shaft. This was conducive to debris generation from the softer 303 stainless steel knurls. Spirol Industries performed a number of installation tests, which confirmed the incompatibility of hardnesses of pin and the host material, as well as the variation in the outer diameter dimensions of the pin. These were the root causes of the debris generation, as well as other problems.

Spirol recommended replacing the solid pin with a heat treated, 420 stainless steel light duty coiled spring pin. The

flexibility of the coiled pin facilitates a low insertion force while providing adequate retention without protruding knurls damaging the hole and generating debris. A light duty pin provides the appropriate balance of flexibility and strength for this application.

The fact that the pin is made from hardened 420 stainless steel provides the necessary corrosion resistance without risk of being damaged by the 416 stainless host during installation.

Subsequent testing of the coiled spring pins revealed a clean installation that required significantly less force - with no evidence of burrs or shavings and no damage to the sub-assembly. The Spirol solution has permanently resolved all of the issues previously experienced and the manufacturer has also benefited from the cost reduction associated with switching from a CNC machined pin to a roll-formed coiled pin. www.spirol.com

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exhibitions

Quality is the key With a new venue and a new show director, Totally DIY & Totally Tools exhibitors reported a quality show at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, UK.

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his year’s show drew in 84 exhibitors, 37 rebooking after last year including Abingdon King Dick, Draper Tools and Sealey Group - who all maintained a good presence. 28 new exhibitors were present and 19 returned to the show after a break including Everbuild Building Products.

Emma Whittaker, marketing product co-ordinator at Everbuild was pleased with the show: “Sunday morning was manic which was great. We didn’t come last year so we thought we’d give it another go and see what happens. The arena’s lovely and the organisers have done a really good job.”

Totally’s new Show Director Paul Grinsell was happy with the show’s quality: “This has been a great start for the shows in our new home at the Ricoh Arena and it’s because of a real team effort from exhibitors and us to target and invite quality buyers. Everyone has worked really hard to find the right people to invite. We wanted to put the emphasis on quality this year and that seems to have paid off. We are looking forward to building and improving on what appears to be a good formula. Simple touches included providing exhibitors and visiting buyers with a sit down hot lunch, helping to create a more relaxed and sociable atmosphere which everyone benefited from.”

To keep the emphasis on quality visitor numbers are not to be released by organisers, Brintex.

This year also saw the return of Totally’s ‘New Product Awards’ designed

to recognise innovation and highlight new and exciting products, all of which were displayed in the new product showcase area. Notable new innovations included Everbuild’s Rendagrip which won Best New DIY product and Polyseam’s IPT building trade adhesive and sealant which won silver in the decorative category.

Polyseam points out that the multifunctional IPT building trade adhesive combines the best attributes of high and low modulus silicone sealants to provide an all-purpose sealant.

Neil Smith, sales and business development manager at Polyseam, said:

from visitors after seeing the WINBAG in the showcase. We are pleased that the UK market is receiving the WINBAG just as positively as we expected.”

Other products on show included Hyltz Inc’s Scnutz, a new universal nut for screws. Scnutz is a chamfered-domed, hexagonal nut designed to fit multiple sizes of screw. Available in nut sizes M6, M8 and M10, Scnutz is designed to fit all common sizes of screws from 1 - 12.

Made from toughened UV balanced nylon it can be used outside or indoors and is capable of taking considerable pressure loads without vibrating loose.

“I’m pleased with how the show has gone as we’ve had a lot of good interest including one customer asking for an account form on Sunday. I’m looking forward to following up all of our new leads.”

Also on display was the WINBAG, a new product from Danish fastener company Red Horse. The WINBAG is a patented inflatable air cushion which can be used for numerous holding, pressing, installing, adjusting and lifting applications, but is especially suitable for window and door installations. The WINBAG offers flexible and precise adjusting by increasing and decreasing air pressure which replaces the use of plastic or wooden wedges.

It reduces installation time as the WINBAG will sustain pressure up to 100kg allowing heavy windows to be handled by one person.

Michael Myrup, key account manager at Red Horse, said: “We had a great response

Philip Martyn-Smith from Hyltz Inc came up with the idea just over a year ago and was testing the Scnutz during the show: “I’m testing the maximum load of 57.5kg and so far it has been there for about 29 hours and hasn’t failed yet. I am pleased with the interest and how the show has gone as I spoke to many buyers including Amazon and Homebase.”

On the tools side, Power Adhesives was showcasing its new cordless gas powered glue gun. With a weight of 390g the gas-tec600 is a totally portable and robust hotmelt glue gun which runs on butane gas and requires no mains electricity or batteries. It will reach operating temperatures in just five minutes and can be used for a number of applications.

Next year the 2014 Totally DIY & Totally Tools show will run from 16th – 18th February in the Jaguar Hall at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry.

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Failsafe riveting process GESIPA® has added process control technology to its Taurus® range, facilitating what it says is a failsafe riveting process.

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ESIPA® states that its pneumatic hydraulic riveting tools - TAURUS® series - is well known to the fastener industry due to their technical peculiarity of saving up to 68% of the compressed air by their dual use.

Explaining the process control mechanism, Dr Richard Gärtner, technical lead at GESIPA, said: “Contained within these special TAURUS® tools are sensing and processing capabilities that analyse each rivet set, via a real time analysis of traction and stroke during the riveting operation.

An immediate feedback is provided to the operator via green and red LED’s located on the tools to confirm good or bad rivet setting. Rivets that fail to set according to defined parameters are detected and reported.”

Multiple job profiles can also now be quickly downloaded into the tools’ memory via USB adapter cable to handle several applications. The tools’ internal memory stores data on up to 260,000 rivet sets. The output data can be transmitted via the GESIPA® interface in real-time to collection devices, audible/visual signal systems and electronic controllers and downloaded at intervals to provide analysis of the riveting process. The system also identifies failure patterns and memorises those for failure analysis and troubleshooting.

Apart from the rivet setting function itself, the tools also integrates all process monitoring sensors. Each analysis takes less than a microsecond. Moreover, all measurement parameters and riveting sequences can be adjusted with special software. www.gesipa.com

Senco’s new construction staplers Senco says its SHS50XP and SHS51XP-N offer greater durability and power for use in a variety of applications.

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oe Knueven, product manager for Senco’s pneumatic tools, explains: “The SHS50XP has been engineered for maximum efficiency and precision, and it’s well-balanced and ergonomically designed for all-day use. It weighs just 2.3kg, yet it’s 15% more powerful than other professional construction staplers in its class because of its high-speed motor design.”

The staplers can be used in applications such as furniture framing, roof decking, sub-flooring, crate and box assembly, pallets, metal tie-down straps, fascia and soffits, and ridge beam assembly.

Operating at 4.8 – 8.3 bar, the SHS50XP is equipped with a high-capacity, all metal magazine that holds 160 staples. The

magazine’s innovative removal mechanism provides a clean, narrow site line for precise staple placement into all substrates.

In addition, a precision-machined drive track prevents jamming.

A dual-action trigger allows continuous ‘bounce’ firing along a work surface at a rate of more than 10 staples per second for high-volume production. Other features include an open magazine design for monitoring fastener level, tool-free adjustable depth of drive, long, narrow nose for access to tight corners, rotatable belt hook, and a soft comfort grip to reduce vibration and fatigue.

The SHS50XP and SHS51XP-N have a limited five-year warranty.

Saving time and costs Rivit Srl previewed its completely renewed RIV610, an automatic tool for blind rivets endowed with a blind rivet automatic feeding system, at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

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n extremely fast working cycle is made possible by the feeding system operating through the nose, which allows the automatic loading of the blind rivets in the gun.

This feature eliminates the inconvenient manual external-loading-mechanism, increasing installation productivity, and saves about 50% in time and costs when compared to traditional riveting tools.

Rivit points out that due to its excellent integration with automated production lines, the RIV610 allows the user to further increase safety and speed of installation and to obtain optimal results in terms of time saving, with no need for skilled labour.

The hoses connecting the gun to the main unit offer a wide working area to the operator.

RIV610 has been designed for standard blind rivets with diameters 3.2mm, 4mm, 4.8mm.

Each unit comes equipped for a sole blind rivet diameter. www.rivit.it

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Milwaukee’s new compact impact wrenches Milwaukee Tool Corporation continues to expand its 18V platform with the introduction of its 18V compact impact wrenches with over 200ft - lbs of torque.

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s part of the new M18 FUEL™ line, the compact impact wrenches are available in two sizes and three anvil style options for various applications and user preferences. The tools feature the combination of Milwaukee’s POWERSTATE™ brushless motor, REDLINK PLUS™ electronic intelligence, a proprietary 3-mode DRIVE CONTROL™, and REDLITHIUM™ 2.0 / XC4.0 battery pack to deliver, Milwaukee says, up to 2 times more runtime and up to 50% more torque.

The POWERSTATE™ motor is completely designed, engineered and built by Milwaukee Tool to deliver years of maintenance-free performance with no wearable components, no losses due to vibration and less heat build-up.

REDLINK PLUS™ intelligence hardware and software allows the user to choose between three fastening modes with the DRIVE CONTROL™ feature. “Providing this versatility allows the user to switch between modes 1, 2 and 3 to match the power and speed to the application at hand,” says Tom Simeone, senior product manager for Milwaukee Tool. “For example, a mechanical contractor may use mode 1 for installing u-bolts, mode 2 for installing smaller couplings and mode 3 for installing larger couplings.”

Milwaukee points out that its REDLITHIUM™ 2.0 and XC4.0 also delivers best-in-class performance in extreme job-site conditions.

With Milwaukee® durability built into each pack, the REDLITHIUM™ 2.0 and XC4.0 battery operates cooler and performs in climates below 0°F/-18°C with fade free power. A battery fuel gauge also displays remaining charge for less down time on the job.

Bahco’s extensive range The Bahco brand has over 245 tools in its 1,000V range and over 125 years’ experience in designing and manufacturing hand tools for safe, efficient working.

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ahco bases the design of its ergonomic tools on a scientifically recognised, 11 point programme. This brings together facts and experiences gathered from users, ergonomists, industrial designers and research and development departments, coupled with extensive testing and end-user trials, and once approved they are marked with the ERGO™ symbol.

Its range of 18 different screwdrivers, all insulated for work on live equipment up to 1,000 volts, uses colour coded handles to help users to find the screwdriver they need. The range includes 18 different styles of pliers, four types of cable cutter and a bolt cutter. The 1,000V range also includes spanners, wrenches, ratchets, hacksaw frames, knives and electrician scissors.

All Bahco insulated tools are manufactured according to international IEC60900 standards for working with live systems up to 1,000V AC and 1,500V DC. They also comply with VDE0820 standards.

Connecting tool for metal sheet roofs The German manufacturer of pneumatic nailers, compressors and fasteners, PREBENA Wilfried Bornemann GmbH & Co KG, has expanded its professional range with the pneumatic nailer type 2X-CNH45.

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he tool is suitable for coilnails type CNH from 25mm – 45mm (1 inch – 1¾ inches), which are mainly used for the fixing of metal connectors for metal sheet roofs. The other main application for the 2X-CNH45 is slate cladding, where slates can be fixed quickly and securely. No holes are needed in the slates, as they can be shot directly to the material.

The pneumatic nailer 2X-CNH45 is delivered in a sturdy plastic case and has a special tooling plate for ideal nailing, tool free depth control, special nose with no-mar tip for accurate nailing, 360° adjustable exhaust, safety device, exhaust silencer and an ergonomic, rubbered handle grip. The plastic-sheet collated nails guarantee residue-free processing.

This tool can be used in combination with the PREBENA PNEUMATIC MOBILO for mobile and independent working on construction site. With one compressed air cylinder, up to 500 shots can be made easily.

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ITW Heller GmbH wins award ITW Heller GmbH from Dinklage, Germany, has won the iF product design award 2013 for its Trijet SDS-max and Trijet SDS-plus hammer drill bits.

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TW Heller points out that the Trijet design follows a highly innovative concept with 3 fluted carbide cutting edges and states that the Trijet hammer drill bit achieves extraordinary performance. It also says that both the lifetime it achieves in drilling concrete and its stability if the user hits reinforcements are unrivalled. “The successful design in combination with impressive application results make the Trijet hammer drill bit a unique problem solver for any craftsman.”

The iF award is one of the world’s most famous design award and every year the globally acclaimed quality seals for design excellence are awarded in three disciplines. Household names such as Apple, Samsung, Sony, Siemens, Philips, and BMW are just some of the regular award winners. The iF awards are judged by an independent jury of internationally acclaimed designers, entrepreneurs and lecturers in-line with strictly defined criteria.

Versatile angled driver Laser Tools’ versatile angled driver (part no: 5491) fits standard or quick-release chucks on cordless drills and offers a powerful and smooth solution for loosening and tightening fasteners when access is difficult.

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he versatile angled driver takes standard ¼ inch bits with bit storage in the side mounted folding handle. The mechanism has no slack and gives a positive fit onto the fastener that lets the full power of the cordless drill be transferred to the screw or fastener with no effort from the operator. An additional feature is that the 90º angle and shallow design mean that difficult fasteners can be reached with ease.

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Makita’s impact gold torsion bits Makita’s new technical range of Impact Gold torsion screwdriver bits have been designed for use where a high amount of turning power is generated.

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akita’s new 18V brushless lithium-ion powered BTW147 cordless impact driver generates 170Nm of torque, needing a special set of screwdriver bits and also premium quality hardware to operate efficiently.

The Makita 11-piece B-28597 set provides three Posidive bits, three Philips bits, four Torx® screw bits and a special torsion bit holder all presented in a cunning holder box that when opened presents the bits in an easy-to-grab pyramid fashion.

“It’s when you come to look at the wasted shank design that you realise that a lot of engineering research has gone into these rugged tool bits,” says Graham Aird, product manager at Makita. “The shaped shank is designed to carry the impact shock loads generated at the tip interface with the screw head further down the bit shank, thus reducing the risk of the bit faces shearing off under the impact forces of the interface with the screw.”

Makita explains that shifting the impact forces away from the tips means less chance of bit breakage and a longer bit life the Impact Gold Torsion bits can last 10 times longer than traditional bit designs.

“If the user uses the holder in the set rather than putting the screw bit directly into the impact driver chuck, they can achieve 15 times longer use as the holder itself also absorbs some further impact shock loads.”

Hilti launches cordless combihammer Hilti has launched a cordless combihammer operated by what it says is the most powerful battery available on the market.

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he TE 30-A36 is controlled by a 36V 6.0ah lithium-ion battery that is fully charged in only 42 minutes and carries energy for over fifty 16mm x 150mm holes into concrete.

Utilising a brushless motor, which also increases efficiency and the lifetime of the product, the tool delivers a single impact energy of 3.6 joules and a full hammering frequency of 4,500 impacts per minute.

Weighing only 5.3kg, Hilti’s Active Vibration Reduction (AVR) system cuts tri-axial vibration to 11m/s² and the company’s patented Active Torque Control (ATC) technology ensures maximum safety should the tool bit become snagged.

The TE 30-A36 has been designed for the building construction, civil and structural steel trades, which Hilti says have been demanding a cordless solution to allow for more mobility and an increase in productivity.

Rhys Harrington-Jones, northern Europe product manager for light duty tools at Hilti, says: “We wanted to design a cordless combihammer that outperformed corded alternatives and this has been achieved. Add to this increased productivity, the mobility for serial drilling and corrective chiselling, plus the health and safety aspects of operating with a cordless tool, and we can clearly state that we have delivered a world first in the power tool market.”

New SDS Plus drill bit range ITW Construction Products is expanding its power tool and accessories range with the launch of the new Ramset R3 SDS Plus drill bits, suitable for use in all SDS Plus hammer drills.

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TW points out that the Ramset R3 drill bits boast fast drilling, dust removal and last exceptionally well when used in masonry and concrete substrates. The high grade virgin carbide tips ensure a longer life span for the drill bits whilst improving efficiency when drilling, producing truer, rounder holes.

“The distinctive flute geometry applied to the R3 drill bits helps to produce accurately drilled holes with maximum spoil removal and a reduction in friction, which further enhances the life span of the bit.”

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NORMA’s robust clamp NORMA Group offers among other things a full range of heavy duty bolt clamps that are endorsed by customers from multiple industries.

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he universal NORMACLAMP GBS bolt clamps are designed primarily for use in applications where hose clamps must meet stringent requirements. In particular if suction and pressure hoses - complete with plastic or steel inserts and high shore hardness values - are to be connected and attached. They are therefore particularly suitable for use on commercial and special vehicles.

Unique design for tough requirements The robust clamp according to DIN 3017 is supplied in four different materials: aluminium-zinc, stainless steel, zinc plated mild steel and clear chromate, as well as four band widths. Its distinguishing feature is the extremely high band tensile force. The clamp has a unique design that includes safety features and is characterised by a twofold improved failure torque, and threefold improved band tensile forces. The specially designed bolt is fastened to the clamp and cannot get lost. It also has an integrated spacer which improves efficiency.

The reinforced loops are suitable for higher torques. A mechanical lock closure prevents corrosion because it has no welding points and thus no corrosion contacts. Above that, the lock is much stronger with regard to tension than a welded solution. The hollow trunnion has a double benefit as when extreme tensile forces are applied to the bolt, the deformation of the hollow trunnion reduces the tensile forces on the bolt and to the mechanical lock, drastically extending the time until destruction. Since neither the band nor the bolt is deformed, the clamp can be re-used which NORMA says is a unique characteristic on the market.

For optimal hose protection NORMACLAMP GBS is equipped with a bridge that keeps the hose away from the bolt. The band’s edges are rounded, which gives protection against injuries and damage to the hose surface. The heavy duty bolt clamp can also be delivered with a quick release closure which allows a rapid assembly and disassembly of the clamp. Other available versions include a solid trunnion, a quick lock, a spring, and a rubber bracket. All components are environmentally friendly as no chromium VI is used for the surface treatment.

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The NORMACLAMP GBS bolt clamp is manufactured at the company’s facility in Hustopeče in the Czech Republic and is made available to the clients via the NORMA distributions services network. The factory is equipped with the latest technology and processes and is certified according to ISO 9001, TS 16949, OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 – a factor that NORMA Group says its customers consider as important as the quality and reliability of the clamp. www.normagroup.com

Modified brand structure for Henkel Henkel will introduce a new branding approach for its industrial adhesive technologies business.

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he company’s brand portfolio has grown strongly over the past decades and to improve the navigation through the brand portfolio Henkel will now re-group its industrial business for adhesive technologies under five technology cluster brands.

Each brand, LOCTITE®, BONDERITE®, TECHNOMELT®, TEROSON®, and AQUENCE® will represent a cluster of Henkel’s specific technologies and applications.

Henkel says that its LOCTITE® brand is the trusted choice for engineered, high performance adhesive, sealant and coating solutions, and that its BONDERITE® products represent the surface technology solutions that create competitive advantage in the customers’ manufacturing processes.

The company also says that TECHNOMELT® is the leading choice for hot melt adhesives designed for best results in the customers’ applications and production processes and TEROSON® is the driving brand for bonding, sealing, coating and reinforcing in automotive body and vehicle repair and maintenance (VRM) applications. Henkel’s AQUENCE® is an innovative, sustainable water-based adhesive solution.

“As the global leader in adhesives, sealants and surface technologies, we are committed to delivering a portfolio that our customers can navigate more intuitively,” said Jan-Dirk Auris, head of Henkel’s adhesives business. “In addition, this aligned structure will enable Henkel to provide optimised customer service and technology solutions more quickly in the future.”

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A Shakeproof® solution EFC International says it is distributing the latest wave in thread locking technology - the Shakeproof® Thread - a part of ITW’s new WERCS® technology.

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TW’s WERCS® technology uses a curve in the helix of the thread at every 4th pitch to create mechanical interference at precise points along the trailing flanks of mating threads. EFC points out that this joint tension in the body of the screw represents a better value compared to custom placed nylon patches, prevailing torque nuts, or permanent locking alternatives.

The Shakeproof® Thread functions in any standard tapped hole and can be qualified using Go/No-Go thread gauges.

The Shakeproof® Thread is reusable to allow ease of service while preserving thread integrity and still providing consistent performance with increased cycle life.

EFC also offers professional engineering support and free samples in 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, and 1/2 inch diameters to validate the Shakeproof® Thread as a solution for customers. www.efc-intl.com

Burr and stress free flat springs Precision Micro, a European advanced chemical etching company, is reporting a significant upturn in demand for flat springs.

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recision Micro says it is as a result of the increasing popularity of specialist Martensitic stainless chrome steels, such as Sandvik 7c27mo2.

Conventionally, flat springs have been stamped or laser cut but both methods have limitations. Blanking creates deformation, stressing the material and compromising flatness. Laser cutting is a thermal process that causes heat stress and leaves rough edges that could be initiation points for fatigue fracture if not removed completely. Both of these manufacturing techniques generate burrs that need to be removed by tumbling, a process that can in itself mar the material surface finish and add additional process cost.

Precision Micro states that its standard chemical machining process produces perfectly flat springs and imposes no stress on the material. The burr-free parts have an exceptional edge finish with no lips, pits or surface imperfections that could become initiation points for fatigue fracture.

In addition, the company is also able to offer 100% automated optical inspection (AOI) that ensures components are within agreed dimensional limits and identifies any surface imperfections in the material. This investment has been made as a result of long established customer ‘partnerships’ with leading automotive manufacturers, where flat springs are prevalent in safety critical applications, such as ABS braking systems, suspensions systems and fuel injection.

Ultra-Bolt® finds new markets Self-Fix Metals, a European producer of structural rivets, has extended its products range to include the Ultra-Bolt®.

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ew to its range in 2013, Self-Fix Metals says the Ultra-Bolt® patented rivet offers extraordinary high strength together with versatile grip range.

It has shear strength of well above 15KN, and has the ability to fasten from 2mm up to 10mm with one rivet. Self-Fix Metals says that this product is quickly finding applications with manufacturers requiring super high strength together with ease of use on the factory floor.

Self-Fix Metals points out that its Ultra-Bolt has three components making it similar to some aerospace rivets, which it believes makes it the most sophisticated structural rivet on the market.

“It’s remarkable that in a traditional industry such as fasteners there is still room for innovation. Ultra-Bolt fills a vacuum, since it allows super high mechanical values, but also is extremely easy to use on the floor. We have automotive manufacturers who have been waiting for this new product for a long time,” says Danny Chesterman, Self-Fix marketing vice president.

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tesa® sets new standards Global tape manufacturer, tesa® has an innovative range of adhesive tapes for constructive, long-term bonding on both indoor and outdoor applications, including its ACXplus.

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ased on patented high capacity acrylates, tesa says its ACXplus offers many advantages over traditional bonding methods including clear full-surface bonding, extreme load capacity, stress dissipation, corrosion prevention and resistance to both weather and temperature.

The key benefits in stress dissipation are unique to ACXplus through its viscoelasticity. In combination, the tape’s elastic and viscous properties dissipate extreme physical stress, compensating for different rates of thermal expansion and contraction of different substrates.

When two materials, for example glass and aluminium, are bonded with tesa ACXplus an optimal high strength bond is achieved even under extreme temperature conditions or where uneven or irregular surfaces are encountered. tesa says the key performance benefits in stress dissipation are uniquely available to ACXplus up to three times its own thickness. For example, a 0.5mm tape can compensate for expansion in bonded materials up to 1.5mm.

Due to its acrylic system, the tape provides both optimal wetting and equal distribution of the stress areas of a bond, resulting in the absence of weak points and a powerful, longlasting bond on materials with different surface characteristics.

“This product has the ability to enable time and cost savings in application, while providing the advantages of enhanced quality and more freedom to assist manufacturers in producing the type of futureoriented designs which can help them to gain the competitive edge in their own field,” says tesa’s UK Marketing Manager, Jeremy Smith.

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Expanding FAR

Global adhesive tapes manufacturer Lohmann has developed a film that it says can be used in just about every sector of industry as an optimal alternative to liquid bonding.

FAR Srl specialises in the manufacture of blind rivets and produces a wide range of fastening systems, including its professional hand tool – model K25 for rivets.

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he semi-structural adhesive film from the DuploTEC range, is based on polyurethane (PU) and is characterised by its UV resistance. The resulting resistance to temperatures of up to 150°C opens up a range of potential applications including in the automobile industry.

At room temperature, the film has no bonding properties at all as these only develop when heat and pressure are applied. The adhesive strength is activated by melting the film through the application of heat. The temperature needs to be in the range 100°C - 140°C. This modest activation temperature protects the materials being bonded and also allows heat-sensitive or thin materials to be bonded without any problems. Lohmann points out that this allows manufacturers to freely combine any materials giving them greater design flexibility.

Once cured, the bond is irreversible and Lohmann says it is up to 1,000 times stronger than other adhesive tapes. Production processes can be optimised by pre-laminating the bond. This involves heating the adhesive film, causing it to start bonding lightly to the substrate. Materials can thus be pre-laminated up to a week before they are actually required on the production line, where the final bonding then takes place.

Films in the DuploTEC SBF range are available as die-cut parts or on rolls in thicknesses between 15µm and 100µm. The film exhibits a fine lined pattern and constant thickness without any sporadic variations.

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AR says its high quality, effective, ergonomic and space-saving model K25 for rivets replaces the model K20, with its model KJ29 for inserts replacing the model KJ28. FAR says that it has given an answer to a pressing market demand for versatile and lightweight products typical of construction applications.

FAR also offers its S-Trifar, which are aluminium rivets with high mechanical strength, featuring a neoprene washer under the head, and are particularly suitable for areas of buildings, and solar PV. FAR is expanding its commercial activities in the United Kingdom (Part-on Tools and Part-on Fasteners-Birmingham) and Poland (AB SYSTEM SP. z o.o.-Rydzyna) by having a more widespread presence in both markets and the creation of daily support with the full range of FAR products from stock. www.far.bo.it

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We design automatic and semiautomatic riveting systems, portable manual, hydropneumatic and battery riveting tools.

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Cold heading at Ornit Ornit Blind Rivets is focusing on structural fasteners and blind rivets.

Here Koby Golan, research and development manager, explains why cold forming or cold forging is the best system to achieve ideal results.

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rnit’s blind rivets are an assembly of a rivet body and a mandrel, not a nail. A mandrel has very precise consistency and uniformity as well as very good concentricity. The mandrel is made in closed die, multistation machines with 2 to 6 dies. These blanks then need to be thread rolled, hardened and, if steel, zinc coated afterwards.

A nail is a non-structural element that is produced on an open die machine that creates the nail’s head, break point, holding point (to hold the nail inside the rivet body after assembling) and a diamond point at the tip. The nail’s head is slightly elliptical because of the open die process.

A mandrel, which is usually made to fit a structural rivet, in contrast has a round head; very good concentricity in the shank; may have several diameters; a breaking groove and some thread rolled sections, some of which are made to hold the mandrel in the rivet body. For example the ‘Orlock’ rivet has two thread rolled sections in order to achieve the excellent results of the double locking system. There is another thread rolled section at the bottom of the mandrel, suitable for the riveter tool’s jaws.

The general steps to produce blind rivets by cold forming are: • Straightened wire enters the machine, firstly to a cutting knife.

The length of the cut piece is calculated to provide the correct volume of material for the finished part.

• Transfer fingers move the the part from the cutter to the first station for formation in the first die.

• The tool side (hummer) moves and presses the part, deforming it to create a ‘pre-head’.

• An extrusion pin, moves inside a sleeve from the die side.

Both move within the die achieving an extrusion process, by which the material flows onto the extrusion pin to the final rivet length.

• Another hummer presses the ‘pre-head’ into its final shape and size.

These steps may vary between one rivet type and another or between different materials.

After the cold heading process the rivet bodies need to be cleaned, annealed, go through stress relief and finally Cr6-free zinc coated (if steel). The mandrel, in several cases, needs to be hardened after thread rolling and before being zinc coated.

A very important issue with the cold forging process is to use a raw material with the correct coating; correct oil, good lubricant and coolant oil; and after the cold forging process it is very important to change the wire back to its normal characteristics. This is carried out by by heating, annealing and stress relieving the parts, to different temperatures depending on the rivet types, its size and the type of materials. This is very important for the best performance of the rivets after set-up and to avoid future problems.

IP65 quarter-turn locks FDB Panel Fittings says its Giussani NRM series of IP65 quarter-turn locks are not only super quick to fit because of their Box Rapid spring fixing, they are also comfortable and easy to operate with an integral finger pull design.

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he NRM may be equipped with any of a wide range of insert types. Construction is in polyamide with either zinc plated steel or polyamide cam and silicone gasket for IP65 sealing. This is complimented by the NR5M with KA or KD key cylinder – both use industry standard 20.1mm x 22.5mm hole cut outs.

Also in the NRM series are equivalents for 16.6mm x 19.1mm double D type hole cut outs. The NRSM supplied with standard inserts and the NS5M with KA or KD key cylinders.

All NRM series suit 1mm to 2mm sheet thickness and offer ultra quick fitting to save time in the assembly process.

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New permabond epoxy adhesives Permabond has expanded its epoxy adhesive line with a new range of two component epoxies formulated with FDA approved ingredients.

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hese toughened epoxies are manufactured in compliance with the FDA CFR 175.105 and 175.300.

Permabond says the excellent shock and impact resistance coupled with environmental and temperature resistance makes these epoxies ideal for food processing and food packaging equipment.

Typical food contact applications include bonding filter components, bonding and sealing appliances and food handling equipment. They cure at room temperature or can be heated for a faster cure. The range includes various viscosities, gap filling capabilities and working times to suit most applications, and Permabond custom formulates to suit individual manufacturing needs.

Master Bond’s epoxy gel Featuring softness and resilience, Master Bond says its Super Gel 9 is a urethane modified epoxy gel that can be employed in a variety of applications.

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ome of the most common include the encapsulation of sensitive electronic parts and sealing optical components. This multifunctional system is also widely used in the aerospace, electronic, optical, electro-optical and other specialty industries.

Master Bond explains that its Super Gel 9 has an exceptionally low Shore A hardness of approximately 5-10.

This softness allows it to be easily repairable making it ideal for retrieving components with a sharp knife or razor blade, and it will not shatter during this process. These properties also enable Super Gel 9 to withstand rigorous thermal cycling and thermal/mechanical shock.

The Super Gel 9 has a two to one mix ratio by weight or volume, along with a low viscosity and exotherm enabling it to be cast in larger sections up to 2-3 inches thick. Master Bond states that the Super Gel 9 bonds well to an array of substrates, such as metals, glass, ceramics and many rubbers and plastics and has a long working life of 7-9 hours depending on the mass that is mixed (the smaller the mass, the longer the working life).

The Super Gel 9 resists many chemicals including water, oils and fuels. The service temperature range is -100°F to +200°F. Super Gel 9 is available in ½ pints, pints, quarts, gallons, 5 gallon container kits and gun dispensers.

ISO-Chemie tape seals the deal ISO-Chemie’s high performance expanding foam sealing tape has been specified for an innovative low carbon technology college in Bath, UK.

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he ISO BLOCO One tape has been specified to provide a high performance airtight, acoustic and thermal interior and exterior seal used in the construction of the new two storey 1,200m2 Nucleus building teaching block at the Hayesfield Girls’ School.

ISO-BLOCO One offers a single product ‘fit and forget’ solution for fast and effective sealing based around the European RAL principles of three level sealing. The inside seal area is more airtight than the external one, allowing any trapped moisture inside the joint, or within the wall to escape outwards rather than into the building.

The external seal area provides weather resistance and breathability with a minimum resistance of 1,000 Pascals (hurricane forces), while the intermediate seal area provides extra thermal and acoustic properties, with a U-value between 0.55 and 0.8 subject to tape size, and the internal one air tightness and humidity regulation. The tape installation itself gives less than 0.01m³ air loss when tested at 1,000 Pascals air pressure difference. All three levels are designed to accommodate movement between the adjacent materials.

Once installed, ISO-Chemie says that the tape ensures a building is better protected from elemental factors like wind, dust and moisture ingress by accommodating the changes in structural movement caused by environmental, cyclical and settlement factors.

ISO-BLOCO One has CE marking and is able to accommodate extremes of temperature changes from -30°C to +80°C and is available with a 10 year performance warranty.

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New Nestinox glass fixings Stainless steel fastener supplier - Nestinox - presented the unique glass fixing systems Tensyon and Vetra, for both drilled and non-drilled glass panel fixings, at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

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he Vetra system is used for various general applications such as façades, awnings, stairways, glass floors, balconies and balustrades, while the Tensyon system has been specially developed to comply with European directives that buildings should be as energy efficient as possible, and can be used in various applications including façades and roofs.

Nestinox explains that the patented Tensyon system does not require holes to be drilled in the glass meaning no heat is lost and costs are saved when preparing the glass. Fixing through adjustable bolts, or joints, allows both axial and rotation movements, while eliminating the inconvenience of holes and tempering. The result is a significant cost reduction, making point-by-point façades affordable for lower budgets. Each support can tolerate weights

up to approximately 2,000N with minimum deformation and the highest safety.

With the Vetra system, fixings are attached by means of holes drilled into the glass, and is less expensive than the Tensyon system. Glass can be employed as a coating or covering material, as insulating or resistant material but also as structural material. There are no limits to its use so to improve the value of such a precious material, accessories are required. These accessories are made in Italy and consistently tested by internationally acknowledged certification institutes.

Nestinox also delivers all of the fasteners required for joints between the supports and the glass including spiders, rotules, articulated screws, cable fixings, fixed screws, clamps and all sorts of connections.

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artyn Price supplies high grade steel fasteners up to 12.9, big diameter products larger than M100, as well as long lengths - three meters and more and the equivalent in inch. Diameters up to 4 inches and lengths 3 feet and above are also available. The company supplies products to Metric, ISO and DIN, American ANSI and British BS specifications.

Martyn Price says its fully stocked 40,000 square foot warehouse and its 40 year’s experience in the fastener business proves its ability, allowing it to offer service second to none. The company is ISO 9001 certified and in addition to outside audits, completes regular reviews of its procedures, controls and its supply chain partners.

“If it’s an oddball, special fastener to drawing, has an unusual finish or needs cutting drilling or machining in any way, give us a call.”

The WEICONLOCK® range With the WEICONLOCK® range, WEICON GmbH & Co KG offers a line of anaerobic adhesives and sealants that can be used in many industrial sectors.

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EICON says that its products not only lock or secure screw connections but are also suitable for fixing cylindrical joints or for sealing flanges and threaded pipes and fittings. One example is its universal sealant for tubes and threads, WEICONLOCK® AN 305-77.

In industrial applications, metal adhesives are used for securing, locking and sealing many different kinds of joints.

WEICONLOCK® products are anaerobic adhesives and sealants that differ in strength, temperature resistance or viscosity. These adhesives are liquid plastics that harden in the absence of air. WEICON states that the products are easy and fast to apply and economical in use. At room temperature, WEICONLOCK® cures to handling strength within a few minutes and to final strength within a few hours. With the patented PEN system, these adhesives and sealants are easy to dispense and guarantee a clean processing. WEICON points out that all its products of the WEICONLOCK® line are resistant to changing temperatures, chemicals and solvents as well as to high vibration and impact.

New Metric Hoopster® retaining ring TFC, a European supplier of Smalley Spirolox retaining rings, snap rings and wave springs has announced the launch of its new Metric Hoopster® retaining ring series.

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FC says its new Metric range complements its existing imperial series but has been designed to suit specific standard Metric bore and shaft sizes. It points out that its Hoopster® retaining rings offer an innovative way to retain mechanical components when radial space is a particular problem. The Hoopster’s minimal radial projection and shallow groove depth allows it to fit where standard circlips and retaining rings cannot. The Hoopster’s low profile and precision circularity allows it to be an unobtrusive component in an assembly.

These rings are suitable for light and heavy loads and are especially ideal for thin wall tubes or cylinders where the groove depth associated with a conventional retaining ring is likely to be a problem. Despite their narrow radial section, they can absorb high thrust loads since their low profile will not twist or deform under load as with conventional retaining rings and circlips.

Over 150 new rings are available from 10mm - 76mm and are manufactured in carbon spring steel and 302 stainless steel as standard.

TFC says its Hoopster® retaining rings are easy to install and remove without special tools and, since they are made in the same way as all of its other innovative Smalley products, there are no tooling charges involved making special custom designs practical and economical. www.tfc.eu.com

Press-in inserts for stone

Solution for bonding polypropylene Techsil and Power Adhesives have developed a solution to the industry wide issue of bonding polypropylene to itself in a fast and efficient way.

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echsil and Power Adhesives have developed this new grade of hot melt to meet the changing demands for increased productivity in industries such as automotive seating, moulded parts and other industries looking to replace ABS for the more cost effective polypropylene parts.

The companies state that the new high performance polypropylene based hot melt adhesive bonds polypropylene quickly and efficiently. The hot melt adhesive does not require pre-treatment of the surfaces and is applied hot from a standard 195°C gun and has a medium / long open time. Once the heat has dissipated, the surfaces will be bonded and high tear, peel and lap shear values are achievable. These values increase over time as the polypropylene elements of the hot melt cross link further with the substrates.

“Polypropylene (PP) is a high tonnage polymer which is commonly used in many industrial sectors such as textiles, automotive, packaging and a wide range of consumer goods. The low cost processability and chemical inertness of PP are the main reasons why it is used in a variety of applications and manufacturing processes.

Specialising in fastening applications for metal sheets and sections, solid parts and wood, and plastics and composite materials, Specialinsert is now presenting a new innovation in fasteners for stone materials

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earching for innovative fastening solutions for the world of composites has become a crucial effort for Specialinsert in the last few years. It is with this purpose that its R&D department recently presented the press-in self-locking threaded insert IM series used to create structural fastening application in limestone, granites, glass and porcelain.

The new press-in self-locking threaded insert comes in different lengths with or without flange in order to fit to several different stone thicknesses. Specialinsert explains that it is easy to be installed since the user just needs to drill the stone with the correct hole diameter and press-in the insert.

Specialinsert has three branch offices and warehouses, a production plant in Maerne (Venice, Italy) and a R&D office with testing laboratory.

“Our technical department is available to study and test proper solutions in order to fulfil the most difficult fastening problems on any kind of material.”

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New epoxies suited to electronics manufacturing With the development of its latest Structalit® products, Panacol says it has succeeded in adapting the properties of the epoxies, making them more suited to the needs of electronics manufacturing.

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anacol points out that where other epoxies may experience a reduction in viscosity during final curing leading to the frame or glob-top melting and slipping, the new Structalit® adhesives are designed to withstand this. Panacol says Structalit® adhesives do not experience any reduction in viscosity, therefore completely preventing the

components from melting and slipping out of place. It is this that makes them perfectly suited to use in microelectronics, where the aim is to coat/encapsulate individual components selectively yet also precisely. Structalit® products will also enable several layers of frames to be coated, achieving what is known as frame stacking.

Alternatives to riveting or spot welding PEM® SpotFast® self-clinching fasteners enable two sheets to be joined permanently in a flush-attachment connection without protrusions on either side.

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ennEngineering explains that these fasteners offer practical alternatives to riveting or spot welding and provide ideal solutions to attach two metal sheets too thin to weld; fasten sheets of unequal thicknesses; join dissimilar metals; attach ultra-thin metal sections; or join metal sheets to PCB or plastic panels. Their rotational capability offers additional application advantages by allowing the fastener to act as a hardened pivot point.

SpotFast® fasteners install smooth with the top sheet and flush or sub-flush with the bottom sheet. PennEngineering points out that unlike rivets that ‘bulb’ during installation, the hardware allows for unobtrusive flush attachment requiring minimal space.

Unlike spot welding, a smooth surface is retained for finishing

and the fasteners subsequently can be concealed easily with paints or powder coatings.

The SpotFast product family includes Type SF steel fasteners for metal-to-metal attachment, Type SFP precipitation hardened stainless steel fasteners for installation into stainless sheets where corrosion resistance may be required, Type SFW steel fasteners with supplied wave washer for metal-to-metal single point hinging applications, and Type SFK steel fasteners featuring two separate joining profiles allowing attachment of metal sheets to PCB or plastic panels.

Standard parts in various head diameters and sizes can be installed in aluminium or steel sheets as thin as 0.03 inches / 0.8mm.

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Schotte Automotive GmbH & Co. KG... 117

E.U.R.O. Tec GmbH.......................... 43

SD Products..................................... 63

Everest Overseas........................... 123

Shanghai Fast-Fix Rivet Corporation...127

FAR................................................. 135

Shin Chun Enterprise Co Ltd..........137

Fastener Expo Shanghai.................. 35

Simmonds Marshall......................... 99

Fastener Fair.................................. 145

Sin Hong Hardware Pte Ltd............121

Fastener Fair Hannover................. 118

Smith-Bullough Ltd....................... 146

Fastener Fair Mexico....................... 39

SOCOM SAS..................................... 77

Fastener Fair Thailand......................61

Spirol Industries.......................67, 125

Fastener Fair Turkey........................ 59

Stafa Group...................................... 23

Fastbolt.............................................. 2

Staytite........................................... 113

Fixi.................................................... 80

TFC Ltd............................................. 33

FK Moore & Sons........................... 144

Tecfi S.p.A......................................... 79

G & B Fissaggi Srl............................ 75

Tecno Impianti...................................91

GBK UK Ltd.................................... 119

Test GmbH........................................ 96

GESIPA Blindniettechnik GmbH.... 125

Tillex - Fastex................................... 75

Global Engineered Products Ltd...... 64

Titibi................................................ 142

Graewe GmbH & Co.KG................... 33

Trojan.............................................. 145

Growermetal SRL.............................. 9

UBK spa......................................... 109

Hafren Fasteners Ltd..................... 119

Unifix.................................................71

Harald Böhl GmbH........................... 57

Victory Fasteners Limited................ 65

Harrison & Clough Ltd.................... 17

Vipa SPA........................................... 25

HECO-Schrauben GmbH & Co. KG... 77

Vit.al................................................. 6

HEICO Befestigungstechnik GmbH... 45

Vogelsang GmbH & Co. KG......67, 95, 143

Heinz Soyer GmbH.............................. 55

Volt Industrial Plastics, Inc.............. 29

Herbert Knoke GmbH & Co. KG........ 1

Wafios Umformtechnik GmbH......... 93

Hofsäß GmbH................................... 63

Wrentham........................................ 85

Hugo Benzing GmbH & Co KG..........31

Yi Tai Shen Co., Ltd.........................131

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