EDITORIAL Into a New Year of…
…tumult, turbulence, achievement, challenge? Boring it certainly is unlikely to be. So a very Happy New Year, which I hope will prove exciting and rewarding in the most positive of ways, and welcome to our first issue for 2012.
gloom pumped out by our mainstream media counterparts of late I’m grateful for the many people who stuck their head above the parapet and shared their thoughts on the coming year. The result is ten thought provoking pages, from such varied perspectives, I guarantee no-one will find agreement with all they contain. There are also two associated interviews. One takes a
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rather more personal consideration, over several decades, of the development of one of Spain’s leading fastener and fixings manufacturer. The other provides an equally exclusive insight to one of South America’s largest fastener manufacturer. Again, to both interviewees I am grateful for their candour. For our extensive manufacturing readership, we have an
in-depth preview of the forthcoming wire 2012 fair, which will also be distributed to visitors to Düsseldorf from our stand (E14) in Hall 15. In fact it’s going to be a busy exhibition spring for the Fastener + Fixing team: members of which will also be reporting on the Totally Shows in the UK, the Cologne Eisenwarenmesse, the Taiwan Fastener Show in Kaohsiung, and, of course, Fastener
CONTENTS
INDUSTRY NEWS Europe and World ...................................................................10-22 North America.........................................................................24-26 Asia...........................................................................................28-30 Russia + CIS.............................................................................32-36 Brazil............................................................................................. 38
COVER STORY WAFIOS Umformtechnik - Seamless progression................. 40-41
EXHIBITIONS Events Calendar ........................................................................... 42 News............................................................................................. 44 Fastener Fair Hannover preview.................................................. 46 MIDEST shines a light.................................................................. 48 San Antonio success for STAFDA ................................................ 50 Talking Thailand with Michael Wilton .....................................52-54 Totally Shows 2012 preview.........................................................182
ANALYSIS A review and preview of the European fastener industry.......56-74
FACE2FACE Ramón Ceravalls - perspective from Barcelona....................76-78 Carlos Rodolfo Schneider on Brazil’s biggest fastener maker ...84-86
INSIGHT Fastening the future together.................................................80-82 Owlett-Jaton provides the Ulti-Mate for customers..................102 Marking genuine Phillips drive quality ...................................... 103
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CONSTRUCTION FIXINGS News........................................................................................88-96 Fastening wood to concrete soleplate anchors....................98-100 Europe and norms - Some thoughts as a New Year dawns......104
MANAGEMENT + SYSTEMS News....................................................................................106-108 Innovative technology for innnovative companies..................... 110
FOCUS ON Taiwan International Fastener Show ............................................29 Stainless steel + non-ferrous..............................................112-113
CATALOGUE RACK International Hardware Fair Cologne.................................174-176
MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY wire 2012 news....................................................................130-142 Manufacturing Technology news................................................144 Big is more than just beautful ............................................ 146-147 Sacma Group - The innovative company ............................148-149 Setting inspection standards ......................................................149 New developments in heat treating equipment.........................152 Focus on crack detection....................................................154-156 Manufacturing Technology Directory..................................159-170
PRODUCT NEWS Application Technology news..............................................114-126 Tools news............................................................................176-180 Products news.....................................................................184-192
INDEX...........................................................................................194 Fastener + Fixing Magazine • Issue 73 January 2012
his is a big one, packed tight with some fascinating material. One of the main features is the Fastener Industry Review for which we asked European fastener industry leaders to review 2011 and provide their predictions for 2012. Given the
Fair Hannover, which already has more than 300 exhibitors and for which we will have a full preview in March. From all of which you can see that Fastener + Fixing Magazine’s
commitment to “being there” and getting to grips with what is really happening in the industry is as strong in 2012 as it has been for the last ten years.
A sorrowful note Throughout the ten years of my editorship of this magazine,
I have greatly valued the relationship developed with John Wolz, publisher and editor of GlobalFastenerNews in Portland, Oregon. I also had the privilege to meet and enjoy the company of John’s co-publisher and spouse, Ann Bisgyer Wolz. It was, therefore, with great sorrow that the first news from
the US we should receive this January was that Ann had died, succumbing finally after an eleven-year battle with cancer, in which her tenacity and courage confounded medical predictions by many years. Rightly, John and Ann’s family are intent on celebrating an
extraordinary life as much as mourning its passing. The thoughts of everyone at this magazine, present and past, are with them at this time.
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