Manufacturers who assemble multi-component products in-house or ship them to customers for assembly can waste time, money, and effort constantly gathering and organizing the various fasteners needed to successfully complete product assembly. Kitting is the secret to...
It stands to reason that if you want stronger structures you need to build them with stronger components, such as high strength bolts. That means bolts manufactured with some grade of steel, chosen for the tensile strength generally required for the application and...
Fasteners come in all kinds of alloys, materials, and finishes. In fact, there are a number of ways you can customize your fasteners to create unique characteristics that fit your requirements. One of the most popular and versatile treatments used for fasteners is...
For over 60 years we’ve been supplying a growing list of loyal customers across the country with the standard, custom, and specialty fasteners and tools they needed for their specific and often unique commercial, industrial, and military applications. So what keeps...
Every industry strives to produce new products using the latest technological advancements to make them better, faster, stronger, smaller, lighter, and more reliable and the fastener industry is no different. What makes the fastener industry unique, though, is how...
Today the United States finds itself in a unique position regarding units of measure. A growing number of domestic companies and organizations have embraced the metric system – sort of. In fact, there are only three countries that do NOT use the metric system entirely...
Quality control is a key consideration for anyone specing and purchasing assembly components because any product or piece of equipment is only as good as the parts going into it. For most businesses this means looking for suppliers with ISO 9000 family of standards...
Before choosing a particular grade of stainless steel for your fasteners, you should first determine the conditions to which they’ll be exposed. For example, do you need a fastener that will stand up to the corrosive effects of salt air or water? In that case, 316...
Nuts and bolts, one of the most basic and foundational sets of fastening products that, quite literally, holds the world together, were the offspring of the original screw thread invented by the ancient Greeks. Historic research has revealed that screws and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0un9hOchDso Custom fastener applications are commonplace in a wide range of industries and manufacturing situations. Custom – or “made-to-print” – fasteners are often preferred by manufacturers to accommodate special conditions,...
