Harrison Silverdale Ltd has been supplying sheet metal fasteners to major OEMs and fastener distributors across Europe since 1982. It has an extensive range of self-clinch fasteners, rivet nuts, cage nuts and spring steel U nuts. Harrison Silverdale points out that its range of cage nuts offers customers a cost effective captive fastener. The cage, which can be spring steel or stainless steel,...

Rivit Srl, based in Bologna, Italy, is confident that it is a leader in the production and distribution of fastening systems and tools for assembly and sheet metal working. Established in 1973, Rivit’s forty years of experience has enabled it to develop a wide range of products including: blind rivets, rivet nuts, self-clinching nuts, welding studs, blind bolts, latches, cage nuts, spring clips...

Here tesa, a global tape manufacturer with a range that includes over 800 adhesive tapes, looks at the benefits of using double-sided tape for sheet metal fastening. Metal has a high surface energy (HSE) that makes it easy for an adhesive to bond to. It is also smooth, which means double-sided tapes with any type of carrier can be used, increasing the choice of the most suitable tape for the i...

In early 2012 NORMA Group founded its business area – infrastructure – which specifically focuses on the desires and requirements of customers from the construction, sanitary, heating and air-conditioning, as well as from water and shipbuilding industries. A new catalogue was launched in March 2013 at the ISH trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, which shows NORMA’s complete offering for the constr...

Here EJOT® focuses on its EJOT® DELTA CALC prognosis programme and how it can be used for the pre-dimensioning of direct fastening into thermoplastics. The EJOT® DELTA CALC can offer valuable support for design engineers and developers as it can calculate, depending on the material and pilot hole dimension, the fastening parameters of the DELTA PT® screw. The EJOT DELTA PT® screw (pictured abov...

Bossard France recently worked on a project involving the modernisation of a 5km stretch of the Nanterre La Défense tunnel in Paris, France, using the latest in thread forming technology. The renovation work on the Nanterre La Défense tunnel was part of an extensive renovation programme involving 22 tunnels in Paris, which included a significant modernisation of the tunnels, as well as increasi...

It seemed like an impossible task. Build an offshore gas platform that was strong and stable enough to withstand the elements in the middle of the North Sea, yet flexible enough that it can still be dismantled and relocated. Using Superbolt assemblies almost six metres long, Heerema Fabrication Group achieved a world first. The F3-FA gas platform is located in the Dutch sector of the North Sea,...

Wrentham Tool Group (WTG) has been a supplier of cold heading tools since its founding in Wrentham, MA, USA in 1948. WTG has undergone many changes since then including ISO 9001:2008 certification and continues to re-invent itself to better serve the ever changing global market. In 2004, Wrentham Steel Products was purchased by Phillips Screw Company and was renamed Wrentham Tool Products. Phi...

As the requirements in terms of energy efficiency and living comfort are increasing, good heat insulation of windows and other glass surfaces is becoming increasingly important. Advances in the design of insulating glass and its bonding mean that extensively glazed buildings and energy saving construction are no longer mutually exclusive. At the forefront in this respect is Lohmann GmbH &...

Specialising in fastening applications for metal sheets and sections, solid parts and wood, as well as plastics and composite materials, Specialinsert has introduced the Keep-Nut insert. Specialinsert says that the Keep-Nut is a revolutionary press-in insert with mechanical anchoring to create threaded seats on thin panels made of marble, granite or other stones, and can also be used in composi...