Clamp originally began in 1989 as a twelve-member d¨­jinshi circle, but by 1990, the circle had diminished from twelve to seven. Of the remaining seven, Tamayo Akiyama, Sei Nanao, and Leeza Sei left the group during the production of the RG Veda manga. Other former members of Clamp also included Soushi Hishika, O-Kyon, Kazue Nakamori, Yuzuru Inoue and Shi...

How do you fasten something when you do not have access to the back of the item you are fastening to? Sometimes you just cannot reach, or it is hidden under machinery and simply unaccessible. Blind Rivets are multi-piece rivet assemblies, capable of being installed from one side of the workpiece. Traditionally, blind rivets were used on aircraft leading e...

A wood screw is proposed for use with a material made mainly of plastic waste and wood chips. The wood screw includes a shank which has leading threads extending from the tip of the tapered portion to an intermediate point of the straight portion and have a first lead angle and a first thread angle. Trailing threads extend from the intermediate point towa...

A screw is a shaft with a helical groove or thread formed on its surface and provision at one end to turn the screw. Its main uses are as a threaded fastener used to hold objects together, and as a simple machine used to translate torque into linear force. It can also be defined as an inclined plane wrapped around a shaft. Screws can normally be removed a...

High tensile bolt is a bolt that is adjusted to a carefully controlled tension by means of a calibrated torsion wrench; used in place of a rivet. Also known as high-tension bolt. The HSE is making this information available to the construction industry as supplementary guidance to that contained in BS 7121 Part 2:2003 “Code of practice for safe use ...

In first half of 2007, China turned out 1.099 million tons as US$1.29 billion worth of fasteners export, up 30.82% from the year before and securing it one quarter of the global market, the highest among Chinese-made hardware parts. Despite the energy crunch and rising materials costs, China s fastener industry continued to barrel ahead in recent years. D...

2008 Fastener Trade Show is an international professional fastener show. The color ads of Fastener Trade Show can be seen in the latest issue of AFJ (American Fastener Journal) and FFE (Fastener + Fixing Europe) now, and will be included in the June issue of FATA. It is expected that more and more buyers from Europe, US and Russia will come to attend Fast...

    As the biggest fastener production base in the world, Haiyan is well located in the middle of Yangtze Delta, with Hangzhou Bay to the east and Hangzhou to the southwest. Along with the construction projects of Hangzhou Bay Across-Sea Bridge, Hangzhou-Pudong Expressway and Shaoxing-Jiashan Expressway, its area is 503 km2, population is...

For years, European makers of screws and steel fasteners watched as their sector struggled and factories closed, hit by fierce competition from China. Now, a group of manufacturers from the industrial zones of 12 European countries has joined a list of companies asking the European Union to stop what they say are unfair imports. Recently, the Europ...

As our industry knows, market conditions have changed seemingly overnight. Nowadays manufacturers and distributors are caught in the throes of an uphill battle, fighting price spikes and a serious raw material shortage. Keeping the wheels of business spinning has become a real challenge for us all. Today’s market conditions demand a new mindset&md...