Choosing what fastener to use in your pleasure craft manufacturing can seem intimidating or pointless, but how your end product is held together can be the difference between a successful project or not, as the experts at Zygology explain.

Stationary jaw chucks are an essential tool in manufacturing, particularly in drilling and milling environments. Enabling workpieces to be stably fastened, norelem’s range includes 3-jaw and 4-jaw chucks made of steel for optimum performance.

Staytite’s Stayplas 30° screws for plastic are high-performance fasteners that have been engineered with precision and innovation. These screws offer a number of advantages that make them the ideal choice in plastic applications.

Southco has expanded its successful line of E6 Constant Torque Hinges with a compact, nylon version designed for small applications. The newest addition to the E6 50 Constant Torque Position Control Hinge series measures 45mm with a torque range of 4-16 in/lbs and is 65% lighter in weight compared to the standard E6 50 Hinge.

FDB Panel Fittings reports that its Online store now offers ex-stock mid and high-range enclosure lock programs which include quarter turn latches, locks, wing-knobs, spanner locks, all with excellent IP ratings, typically to IP65 degrees of sealing.

norelem has announced the launch of a new flexible clamping bolt. Made from aluminium the clamping bolts offer a flexible clamping system to provide secure and powerful clamping for workpieces with regular and irregular outer contours.

Fast and easy to turn, a new rectangle front quarter turn lock design has been introduced by WDS Components.

New from Atlas Copco Tools and Industrial Assembly Solutions is a digital smart wrench that promises to take quality assurance for safety-critical joints to the next level.

Cees Fasteners, a privately owned company based in Berkshire, will be displaying a range of neodymium magnets (sintered and bonded forms) at Food Manufacturing Live after entering into a new partnership with Newland Magnetics.

When looking at your end product, it’s not likely your customers will think “I wonder what it’s held together with.” But since the dawn of manufacturing, what designers and manufacturers use to keep the parts of their product together has made a huge difference to cost, quality, and longevity, as the experts at Zygology explain.