Industrial Technology

Adhesives spread innovation across Europe's railways

Laurent Pourcheron of Huntsman Advanced Materials takes a look at the adhesive technologies which are enabling sustainable developments, helping manufacturers in the sector achieve competitive edge and secure long-term growth.

19th February 2015

Moving into all three dimensions of product design

Glenn Jarrett, Global Head of Product Marketing at RS Components, discusses how the 'rapid concept and prototyping' approach is changing the development of electronic products, brought about by increasingly affordable availability of technologies such as 3D modelling software and 3D printing.

19th February 2015

Coiled spring pins provide optimum hinge design

Coiled Spring Pins are particularly well suited for use in both friction and free fit hinges. To achieve optimum long-term hinge performance designers should observe some simple design guidelines. Christie Jones and Michael Pasko of Spirol explain.

19th February 2015

IST launches spring design app

Compression Spring Calculator is the first mobile app to be launched in Apple's App Store from the Institute of Spring Technology (IST). The app is a powerful yet easy to use tool to help design and validate compression springs, and was launched to great interest at the 2014 Springworld show in Chicago.

19th February 2015

The product selector from Henkel that offers just a little bit more

With many product variants detailed with background and usage guidance, Issue three of Henkel's Product Selector for industrial adhesives, sealants and surface coating solutions is now available.

19th February 2015

Tesa sponsors Pentathlon GB athletes in their Olympics bid

Tesa UK is helping British athletes in their bid to compete in international competitions, inclu-ding the Olympics, by becoming official tape suppliers to the Pentathlon GB team. The company, renowned for its double-sided tape technology, is providing tesa 4651 double-sided tape to secure pistes for the fencing discipline as the athletes compete in events around the UK.

19th February 2015

Spirol Europe Announces ISO 9001:2008 Recertifications

Spirol Europe is pleased to announce that both Spirol United Kingdom and Spirol France have had their ISO 9001:2008 certifications reissued for three years by the British Standards Institution applicable to the manufacture and distribution of precision engineered fasteners, tubular products, shims, stampings and machined components.

4th February 2015

New to the product range: parallel pins

mbo Osswald, the linking technology specialist, has further extended its product range to include parallel pins. These parallel pins effect non-positive, position-securing linking of components and are particularly suitable for applications where the links are never or only very rarely released.

25th January 2015

Spirol receives 2014 General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award

For the third consecutive year, Spirol Industries has received the General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award. The award was received on behalf of the entire Spirol team by Daniel McLean, quality manager and Chris Stanton, operations manager. Spirol is one of only 80 GM suppliers to receive the award all three years.

14th January 2015

Heico make bolt security easier with new Wedge Lock Nut

Hot on the back of the successful Heico-Lock wedge locking washers, Heico-Fasteners will be launching their new Wedge-Locking Nut variant of this superior bolt securing product at Southern Manufacturing.

16th December 2014