Materials and Fastening

jbj Techniques now produces and markets an innovative range of pipe flanges for fluid systems. Designed for pressures up to 450 bar, flow rates up to 20,000 l.p.m. and pipe sizes between 20 and 220 mm outside diameter.

Dow Corning is using over 4,000 RotaBolt tension control fasteners on high integrity pipe work, vessels and large body flanges at its new plant currently under construction in Jiangsu province, China.

We are now stocking a complete range of Stainless Steel lead screws that are specifically produced for the food packaging or medical industry. Stocked in matching left and right handed threads, Abssac can supply screws cut to length or machined to drawing.

Have you seen the Thinky nano-level mixer from Intertronics? Seeing is certainly believing in this case, so delegates at the Nano Forum this year (3rd/4th November @ Hilton, Park Lane, London) will now be able to see demonstrations of non-invasive planetary mixing with a variety of materials. The planetary principle does not enfold air so air bubbles are simply not created and without mixing blades or similar the Thinky eliminates extreme stress peaks within the material that could otherwise damage fragile nano-particles.

Elesa have been expanding their new castor range quite enthusiastically of late and the RE.G1 is likely to be a very welcome addition to the middle ground of the industrial castor market. It is designed to suit all kinds of light load applications where its grey non-marking thermoplastic tread and static/swivel/total lock configurations will endear it to users at all levels, while its simple low cost design will win friends in the manufacturing environment.

Intertronics are persuading their customers to “see red” literally. The Ultra-Red fluorescing technology built into many DYMAX adhesives offers assemblers concrete advantages in plastics fabrication.

At the recent VISCOM sign show in Paris Hexis previewed 2 new cast vinyl series for car wrapping applications.

Downtime for maintenance in the food processing industry is devastating to productivity and costly, particularly when today’s manufacturing plants tend to operate 24 hours a day 7 days a week. United Biscuits of West Yorkshire, England has recently specified VICOTE Coatings to significantly reduce the downtime required for the re-coating of a compression roller and a doctor blade that are both deployed in its cake manufacturing facility.

The EMKA program of electronic access control locks continues to expand with these two new swinghandles which integrate with the proven EMKA ELM system so enabling remote unlocking and access logging. These are likely to find application in indoor electronic racks, data centres, server cabinets, co-location cabinets etc, as well as outdoor telecomms cabinets, e.g. in remote situations where lack of keys and remote unlocking are seen as signficant advantages.

FDB Panel Fittings certainly rose to the challenge for the new T45 warships recently. Like any very large single community the T45s face security issues for their personnel, in this case the requirement for a zone based wing lock system to cover personal lockers, wardrobes and other storage areas. With typically over 2000 locks on each ship a project based master key system was specified for crew cabins and furniture or lockers in communal areas.