One message came across clearly! The worldwide energy transition determined the investment climate for the leading trade fairs for wire, cable, tubes and pipes in Düsseldorf, wire & Tube 2022. Sustainability turned out to be a much-debated topic with 1,822 exhibitors from over 50 countries during five intense show days. 93,000 square metres of exhibition space were dedicated to present technology highlights from the industries from 20 to 24 June 2022.
Take a look at our live coverage of wire & Tube 2022 if you are interested to experience some of the happenings. With just one click you get to see videos, interviews, exhibitor statements, photo galleries and more:
We are already looking forward to meeting you again soon: 2024 will see wire and Tube held concurrently from 15 to 19 April at Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre.
Bonotto Packaging Srl is excited to bring the fastener packaging solutions to the upcoming Wire Düsseldorf 2022, the most important exhibition for the fastener industry.
Come to visit us at stand Hall 13 / B77, discover our up-to-date technologies and solutions prepared for your fasteners packaging automation needs.
Key solutions you can’t miss:
* BP-309 A compact weigh and count scale
ideal for packaging applications of small metal/solid material parts like nails, screws, bolts, nuts, rivets, washers and other hardware products.
* BP-110 Poly bagger
Ultra-compact poly bagger using tubular film to create bags of preferred length.
Ideal for packaging screws, bolts, small metal parts, plastic products and other film material "Sleeve" type.
* BP-305/2 AUTOMATED WEIGH AND COUNTING PACKAGING LINE
Hopper - accurate weighing - magnet alignment - carton opening- carton closing - labeling – palletizing, specially designed for automated packaging line for nails.
“A perfect setting where you benefit every minute of your time in the fair”
“A truly high-efficient organization”
“The visitors were made up of people with the highest standards of business ethics and eager to transact immediate business”
6th International Istanbul Hardware Fair to be held in September 15-18, 2022
These are some of testimonials of the participating companies to the 5th edition of International Istanbul Hardware Fair, which was organized on October 2021 at the Istanbul Expo Center, Hall 9-10. The Istanbul Hardware Show once again prognosticated of being a milestone in the Turkish hardware industry and have achieved to entitle the internationality degree long time ago. International Istanbul Hardware Fair turned out to be a commercial arena participated by a total of 160 participants, and visited by 10,559 visitors as the only and unique event specialized in hardware and tools sector in Turkey. Thanks to extraordinary success of the exhibition despite the concerns regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, International Istanbul Hardware Fair organizer Voli Fuar decided to hold the exhibition in a larger space of about 25,000 sqm to be held in September 15-18, 2022 at Halls 5-6-7 at IFM. Having already reached 85% occupancy rate and 200 participants in its new area, Istanbul Hardware Fair aims to double its success that it achieved in the last fair. With the support of Voli Fair and Nalbur Teknik, it already launched international advertisements in all online platforms in 11 languages to assist increasing the number of international visitors. Voli Fair also started national marketing by advertising banner advertisements in the prime time of 12 national TV channels and 10 regional channels of Turkey as well. International Istanbul Hardware Fair will open the fair season of all international hardware fairs and become the first comprehensive exhibition of the year. The organizers recommend the visitors to arrange 4 days to visit the exhibition efficiently and to enjoy the beauty of Istanbul, where east meets west.
19.05.2022, EJOT SE & Co. KG – Market Unit Construction
A wide range of EJOT flat roof fasteners has been tested and approved for use by the American FM Approvals testing institute in combination with various types of roofing membranes. The necessary tests for this approval essentially correspond to the European approval ETA and confirm the safety, reliability and durability of the EJOT flat roof fasteners. The FM approval is a further step for the worldwide use of the products.
The background: In Europe, fasteners are usually tested on the basis of an EEAS and thus approved for use with all roofing membranes. However, the American FM Approvals testing institute, which is connected to the global insurance company FM Global, tests the entire system consisting of fastener, substructure, insulation material and roof sheet in an individual test. A comprehensive series of tests with various fastener/roofing membrane combinations has now been approved by FM Approvals.
An increasing number of investors and building owners in Europe are demanding the American quality certificate (FM Approvals Standard 4470). FM approval can be relevant for construction projects of internationally operating companies. These are already required in the tender in order to comply with FM Global's insurance standards.
A list of all approved products is available from the central Roofnav database (www.roofnav.com).
About EJOT®
With the Market Unit Construction, the fastening technology specialist EJOT caters to selected segments of the building industry. This includes professional applications on building facades and installation solutions for technical facilities inside the building. The main products are drilling and sealing screws, nylon anchors, assembly elements for attachments, profiles, chemical and mechanical anchors as well as fasteners for flat roofs and solar applications. Whether it is the construction of the highest tower, the most spectacular nuclear reactor protective cover or the southernmost polar station in the world – EJOT customers rely on many years of experience in the building industry. EJOT – with over 3,700 employees in 38 companies, more than 24,000 products and almost one hundred years of company history.
EJOT flat roof fixtures have been approved by the American FM Approval testing institute.
Somerset, NJ – Today, Rotor Clip and LISI Automotive NOMEL are excited to announce a new
partnership to serve the industrial market. With over 200 years of combined manufacturing
excellence serving industries from automotive to aerospace, medical and beyond, Rotor Clip and LISI
are the global leaders in providing Application Driven Solutions™.
“We’re bringing together two companies, with a long history of engineering and service excellence,”
says Simon Ellison, Rotor Clip’s Director of Business Development. “This collaboration has been put
together to initially serve the French industrial sector with a strategic range of precision engineered
components.”
As the global leader in the manufacture and design of Circlips, Retaining Rings and Wave Springs,
Rotor Clip now expands its reach of products, engineering, and award-winning service to the market
though LISI Automotive. Compiled with the added strength and reach of the LISI brands and product
family, we’re bringing together two companies with established manufacturing and distribution
facilities in the EU marketplace.
“This new supply collaboration provides the marketplace with added supply chain stability, localized
solutions and support, and market expertise,” says Ellison. “Today the French industrial sector now
has access to the largest selection of coiled rings, wave springs and precision pressings/stamped
components, all from one point of contact.”
EFC International is pleased to announce its expanded focus on the world-wide distribution of genuine parts made by Research Engineering & Manufacturing, Inc. (REMINC) Authorized Licensees. EFC’s team of application engineers support customers with advanced engineering assistance, direct factory relationships and rapid prototype solutions, as well as extensive value analysis and value engineering services. Matt Dudenhoeffer, President and CEO of EFC, states, “EFC, REMINC and REMINC’s Licensees look forward to this partnership knowing that end-users will benefit from our combined strengths.”
REMINC’s Licensed products include best-in-class fastener brands, including the TAPTITE® family of thread-forming screws. TAPTITE® screws, primarily for metal applications, deliver increased performance and cost savings. They remove the costly labor, solvents, and time required for the thread tapping process in manufacture, as well as any external hex nuts, lock washers and related hardware required for assembly. TAPTITE® fasteners optimize metal-to-metal contact in assemblies, significantly improving their electrical grounding performance vs conventional machine screws. This performance makes TAPTITE® fasteners the industry leading choice for electrical grounding applications in the global automotive and EV industries. TAPTITE® fasteners also partner exceptionally well with lightweight alloys, making them a perfect fastener selection for the energy efficient vehicles of the future.
Steve Kirkpatrick, President of REMINC, states, “Genuine quality parts with global availability are the backbone of REMINC’s business, and this mission dovetails perfectly with EFC’s commitment to the distribution of authentic, quality parts globally.” REMINC, together with its sister company CONTI Fasteners AG, has a global Licensee network with over 100 manufacturing locations worldwide.
Heat treatment is very important for automotive safety fasteners. It’s a delicate process which could be monitored by the modern Industry 4.0 technologies but still requires a final 100% analysis of each part before the shipment, in order to fulfill the automotive supply chain requirements.
Heat Treatment Control is surely a kind of NDT (Non Destructive Testing) inspection on which Dimac invested important R&D energies during the past 3 years, reaching nowadays outstanding performances in terms of sorting rate and inspection accuracy.
Partnering with the most important NDT device manufacturers for the HT detection, Dimac has renewed all the machines of the range with state of the art NDT Stations capable to perform this crucial control with the highest accuracy and productivity rate.
The eddy current station scans the part by mean of 24 different frequencies to detect any minimum variation of the material structure, as well as to detect plating and surface coating problems in order to prevent any premature fastener failures.
This type of control is mandatory for safety-critical parts belonging to the Power Train or to the brake system, or any application where fasteners are subject to constant vibration or exposed to corrosion.
The man-machine interface of the Dimac application for HT detection is really user-friendly. The setup is intuitive, thanks to the multi frequency testing process made simple by a wizard procedure which easily recognizes and sort out any fastener with deviations from the expected signal envelope.
A clear saving of time and costs
The brand new generation glass rotary table machine Dimac mcv6 is the model getting more benefits – together with the best seller model mcv5 – from the application of the HT NDT technology in terms of savings of time and costs. The innovative eddy current station allows to sort a wide range of complex parts by hardness classes with high output rates.
The HT station of the Dimac mcv5 and mcv6 uses two state of the art eddy current coil-probes: a reference probe at the operator’s workplace and a testing probe which is positioned above the glass table. The system provides instant results while running, allowing to process up to 300 parts/minute.
The setup procedure is based on a teach-in process and requires boundary OK and NOK samples available at the operator’s place.
The setup sequence could be summarized as follows:
the operator puts one OK sample into the reference coil-probe;
the eddy current device detects the magnetic permeability of that OK sample;
the operator enables the wizard procedure to record the reference data from the reference-coil probe;
the batch of parts to be sorted can be put in the feeding system;
the operator runs the sorting of a first quantity of 20÷30 pieces to teach-in the response of the testing-coil, then the machine is stopped;
the eddy current device compares the OK part reference data with the signal generated by the passage of the 30 pieces below the testing coil;
the wizard procedure and its algorithm calculate the envelope of the taught-in signals and sets automatically the sorting threshold values;
nothing else to do for the operator, he just has to press the START CYCLE button and run the sorting machine;
however, the system allows the operator to adjust the threshold and improve the accuracy of the setup in case of need.
The new concept cuts the time and costs of the 100% sorting process by making the operators’ tasks far more efficient, as well as by expediting the quality management job.
The power pack for roof and wall coverings on timber
The new EJOFAST® JF3-Plus adds a powerful product to the proven EJOFAST® self-drilling screw range from EJOT. The new, ETA-certified EJOFAST® JF3-Plus has significantly improved load-bearing capacity in timber and is available in diameters of 4.9 and 6.8 mm. The self-drilling screw is suitable for fastening profiled steel and aluminium sheets or sandwich panels to timber substructures.
The strongest, cleanest and safest self-drilling screw from EJOT
The single-start self-drilling screws of the EJOFAST® family have a unique tip geometry without a classic cutting edge. The optimised and concavely drawn-out tip of the new EJOFAST® Plus self-drilling screws enables considerably safer application to the surface. Displacement or slipping is almost impossible. The special shape of the thread allows for a high assembly speed, while at the same time the load-bearing capacity values of the EJOFAST® Plus in timber have been improved once again.
The slim, single-fluted drill tip means no sharp-edged swarf are produced that get stuck in the material and require time-consuming removal. This saves time during assembly.
About EJOT®
With the Market Unit Construction, the fastening technology specialist EJOT caters to selected segments of the building industry. This includes professional applications on building facades and installation solutions for technical facilities inside the building. The main products are drilling and sealing screws, nylon anchors, assembly elements for attachments, profiles, chemical and mechanical anchors as well as fasteners for flat roofs and solar applications. Whether it is the construction of the highest tower, the most spectacular nuclear reactor protective cover or the southernmost polar station in the world – EJOT customers rely on many years of experience in the building industry. EJOT – with over 3,700 employees in 38 companies, more than 24,000 products and almost one hundred years of company history.
The new, ETA-certified EJOFAST® JF3-Plus self-drilling screws have significantly improved load-bearing capacity in timber.
“You are new, eco -friendly, cool, alternative, sustainable
and green” – it was with these words that the fischer
Group of Companies was initially informed by email that it
was being presented with the Plus X Award for
sustainability. The award honours companies that stand
for a sustainable future with their sense of responsibility
and foresight. Christia n Ziegler, Head of Sustainability,
Environment and Energy at fischer, is pleased about the
award as it serves as confirmation of the company’s
outstanding commitment once again.
The Plus X Award is the world’s largest innovation award for
technology, sports and lifestyle. Having existed for 19 years,
the award honours companies such as the fischer Group of
Companies for their leading edge in innovation. “Your company
acts in a fut ure-oriented and sustainable manner with its
exemplary commitment, foresight and sense of responsibility”,
the statement said.
“Our colleagues prevent waste on a daily basis through the
continuous improvement process, also known as the fischer
ProcessSystem, making a significant contribution to the
sustainability of the fischer Group of Companies”, Christian
Ziegler explains. Together with fischer’s cross-departmental
sustainability team, he has been committed to showing all
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members of staff potential sus tainable actions for years. An
ideas campaign on the subjects of sustainability and the
environment was used to gather suggestions on how to be
even more resource-efficient across the company.
A mobile phone campaign gave members of staff the
opportunity to donate their old smartphones which are used to
collect rare earths before they are recycled. Another exchange
with representatives of important stakeholder groups was held
again this year with the stakeholder workshop, which allows
fischer to define fi elds of action. The stakeholders included
customers, suppliers, representatives from the communities
surrounding company headquarters and the Freudenstadt
district as well as NGOs, national associations, environmental
groups and scientists.
The Plus X Award is presented by a jury of international and
independent jurors from over 80 industries. With 23 strategic
partners and over 700 participating international brands, it is
the world‘s largest innovation prize for technology, sport and
lifestyle.
fischer has previously won multiple awards for its
comprehensive commitment to sustainability. The company
was presented with the 2020 German Sustainability Award in
the large businesses category, Europe’s biggest and most
important award in the field of sustainability. Various projects
at the Tumlingen site were furthermore honoured as part of the
100 Companies for Resource Efficiency projet.
Image caption:
fischer is being presented the Plus X Award for sustainability
for its exemplary commitment, foresight and sense of
responsibility.
Today the European Commission published a regulation imposing anti-dumping duties on certain iron or steel fasteners imported from China. Duties have been set between 22.1% and 86.5%. The measures follow an investigation which showed the presence of significant dumping on the market, with Chinese imports heavily undercutting European sales prices and therefore injuring the European fasteners industry.
Fasteners are essential elements for a vast variety of industries, from simple screws in “do-it-yourself” kits to high-end applications in the car, aviation and electrical industries. The EU fasteners industry is worth €3.2 billion, with one tenth imported from China. EU producers of fasteners, who are mostly SMEs, employ more than 20,000 people across Europe in countries such as Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Croatia, Sweden and Spain.
The anti-dumping measures imposed today will re-establish a level playing field by taking away the unfair competition caused by the price dumping, allowing EU producers of fasteners to compete in the EU market on an equal footing with the imported fasteners. This will ensure that there is continued and healthy production in the EU of fasteners of all ranges, including those used in high tech sectors like the automotive and car industries.
The anti-dumping measures imposed today will have a limited impact on EU users of fasteners. For the vast majority, fasteners represent only a minor part of the total cost of their final product. A shortage of fasteners is also not expected following the introduction of measures, since the EU industry has a large spare production capacity.
