In industries where equipment maintenance and inspection are routine, the use of removable service panels is essential. However, the risk of panel misplacement, damage, or injury during servicing remains a persistent challenge. To address this, manufacturers and engineers are increasingly adopting lightweight tethers and lanyards as a simple yet highly effective solution, as the experts at Able Components explain.

New from Bollhoff is the KAPTI Limiter, a threadless rivet sleeve. It has been specially developed to protect plastic components from cracking and creeping, when being screwed to a counterpart.

Light metals such as aluminium play an important role in reducing the weight of a car body. However, joining them to steel is a challenge due to the very different melting points and coefficients of thermal expansion of the two materials. The SWOPtec process offers a flexible solution here as the experts at ARNOLD UMFORMTECHNIK explain.

To help device manufacturers understand what defines a medical adhesive and how to specify one for their application, Intertronics has released a new white paper: 'What is a medical adhesive? Key properties, use cases, and regulatory considerations'.

Energy infrastructure is evolving fast, and Southco's previous experience in infrastructure improvement has emphasised the importance of reliability, resilience and high performance in new technologies - reinforcing the role of enclosure hardware, as business development manager Phil Taylor explains.

According to the experts at FDB Panel Fittings, there can be added value benefits from buying your hardware from a specialist stockist-distributor.

With the new Fortis series, Fronius presenting an extremely versatile solution for high-quality manual MIG/MAG welding, specially designed these welding machines to meet the diverse requirements of small and medium-sized businesses.

LOCTITE has launched a new range of flexible and rigid LED-curable adhesives - including LOCTITE AA 3951 / AA 3953 and LOCTITE AA 3961 / AA 3963 - developed to meet the stringent demands of modern medical device assembly.

Permabond has developed a two-part epoxy, Permabond ET5393, which contains CNSL as its resin component. This adhesive bonds well to a wide variety of substrates and is particularly effective on stainless steel. Not only this, the recently launched Permabond ET5164 EU and FDA food-grade epoxy, also contains CNSL, and the company is actively looking to include it in other new formulations.

WDS Components has expanded its range of hoist rings to meet the increasing demand for high-capacity, heavy-duty lifting solutions. The new additions include a variety of centre-pull, side-pull, and die-flipping hoist rings, alongside specialised Lift-Check and SP2000 models, and an expanded line of base and bolt kits.