December 2023 / January 2024
The December/January issue of FTI is now available online. Click here to read the latest issue.
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2023
Fastener Testing – Improve Safety in Materials Testing
by Alan Thomas, Zwick Roell Materials and component testing plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of the products
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Maximizing Efficiency and Performance: The Case for Upgrading
Since its inception in 1989, FORMAX® has not only stood the test of time but along the way has actively
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Rebuilding or Upgrading Your Thread Rolling Equipment
A worn-out thread rolling machine can affect your rolled part quality, die life and increase your scrap rate regardless of
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Transforming Performance Through Rebuilding and Retrofitting
With over 70 years of excellence, Nedschroef Machinery is the trusted name in high-speed horizontal presses for fastening technologies and
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Rebuilding Your Thread Rolling Machine
Reed Machinery, Inc. offers the complete rebuild option for your Reed, Hartford or Waterbury thread roller. This option can also
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Forging Ahead: The Benefits of Cold Forming Thread Roll Dies
In the world of manufacturing, the process of creating thread roll dies has seen a significant evolution over the past
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Inserts – Lowering Your “Installed Cost”
The application of plastics to engineering design remains high. To make full use of a wide range of plastic materials
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Case Study: A Time-Critical Solution
The world’s most instantly recognizable vehicle, the trusted London black cab, has been on an exciting journey, transforming into a
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Ultra High Strength Bainitic Fasteners – Opportunity and Challenges
Ultra high strength bainitic fasteners are gaining significant attention in recent years due to their exceptional combination of strength and
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Constructing Inexpensive Testing Chamber for In-House Testing of Corrosion Protection Products
Fastener corrosion is one of the most prevalent issues causing fastener failure. By itself, a corroded fastener isn’t a big
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Production of Single and Double Butted Spokes
The third generation of Amba’s All-in-One reducing machines further improves the straightness of single- and double-butted spokes—as used, for example,
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Special Lap-Free Dies for Aerospace, Automotive & Other Critical Applications
Kadimi has developed a special solution called LF dies (lap-free dies) with special controlled thread-rolling technology, which yields to producing
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Straight from the Show: International Fastener Expo 2023
The 2023 International Fastener Expo, the premier gathering for fastener professionals, recently concluded its annual event with resounding success. This year’s event, held from October 9 to 11, 2023, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV, USA, brought together over 4300 industry exhibitors and attendees from around the world. The event featured a wide range of activities including the annual Golf Tournament, Welcome Reception Party, bustling expo floor, diverse educational sessions and award ceremony, all designed to facilitate networking and knowledge sharing within the fastener industry.
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From Scandal to Solution: Existing Tools that Could Have Stopped a Counterfeit Spare Parts Fraud
Aramid Technologies, the creator of SmartCert and a leader in aerospace quality assurance, offers a summary and insight related to the recent counterfeit aircraft parts scandal involving London, UK-based AOG Technics. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have confirmed that UK-based AOG Technics distributed parts for one of the most widely used commercial aircraft engines, falsely certifying they were manufactured by Safran and General Electric (GE). In July a maintenance shop flagged suspicious parts that looked to have been previously used, but were accompanied by Author- ized Release Certificates (ARCs) indicating they were new.
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Patents for December 2023
USPTO Fastener Patents as compiled from: United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) by the editors of FTI Fastener Having
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Innovative Plasma Cleaning Technology for Nails, Screws, Bolts, Washers, Clips and Bushings
Cooperation between WMV, Windeck, Germany, and aixACCT, Aachen, Germany, has resulted in an ideal combination of pre-cleaning and ultra-fine cleaning,
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Dual-Spindle Thread & Form Rollers
by Yair Wiesenfeld Videx Machine Engineering Ltd. A technical breakthrough in feed control technology is now allowing fastener machine tool
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Torsional Stength Test Is Critical In Many Screw Specifications
Mechanical fasteners (screws, bolts, nuts, rivet, etc.) must be both dimensionally and physically compliant to their applicable specifications to perform properly for end-users. Unfortunately, many fastener suppliers only evaluate the dimensional size of the parts they supply and ignore the required physical tests that evaluate the strength and fastening performance of the parts.
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