NEWS New TFC Group ready for 2012
Updating the news last November that it had acquired Engineering Services Fasteners, TFC Europe says that the Keighley business has now been integrated into the TFC Group, to become its UK Northern centre for quality industrial threaded fasteners.
Integrating ESF means TFC can now offer its customers national fastener logistics coverage, including its full range of direct line feed and vendor managed services locally to customers in the North. Established in the mid-seventies ESF developed into a broad
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the production of electrical equipment: namely lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, PBB and PBDE. The new Directive extends the legislation to cover not just
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products with a primary electronic function, such as televisions, computers or washing machines, but any product using an electric current. For example, a manufacturer of reclining chairs would previously not have had to conform to the original RoHS Directive, since the primary function of its product was as a chair, and to work as a chair no electronic current is required. However, under RoHS 2, because one of the intended functions of the chair is for it to recline using an electronic motor, the motor will now need to be compliant in order for the chair to be approved for sale. The scope of RoHS 2 has therefore radically changed.
Distributors and wholesalers need to be aware that fasteners sold to what could previously be seen as non-electronic markets may now fall under the legislation. One of the measures included in RoHS 2 to ensure more
based fastener and associated product distributor focused on the engineering industries of the North. Tony Bull, who alongside John Wilson completed a 2002 MBO at ESF, is now general manager. John Wilson retired when TFC completed the acquisition. ESF will continue to service its customers in the North as
before but with the support of the TFC Group which will allow the ESF team to focus more on customer requirements than the back office demands of running an independent business.
FC Engineering Services (ESF) is based in Keighley, Yorkshire, just north of the M62 corridor connecting the North West and North East of England, and specialises in the supply of quality industrial threaded fasteners.
TFC’s managing director Morgan Burgoyne said: “This is a
great opportunity for our customers and for the TFC Group. ESF is a business that we would have been proud to establish but it would have taken years to develop. However we now have the benefit of a fully developed and mature business, which with the access to TFC technology, products and skills will create a world class fastener and associated product and service supplier for customers in the North. There is great scope for the newly combined TFC northern sales team from ESF and TFC to work together to generate significant growth and we’re already working on this.” The ESF integration into the TFC Group means that turnover
will approach £20 million over the coming year with seven customer service centres throughout Europe.
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RoHS 2: implementation date approaching On 3rd January 2013 Directive 2002/95/EC (the original Restriction of Hazardous Substances legislation)
will be repealed and so-called RoHS 2, Directive 2011/65/EU, comes into full force to replace it.
he revised legislation, formally adopted by the European Parliament and Council in July 2011, tightens up the original Directive, which identified six hazardous substances that were either banned or restricted within
effective policing is to include RoHS compliance as part of the CE marking requirement. As such a declaration of compliance has to be submitted by the OEM in accordance with Annex 2 of Directive 768/2008/EC – which details the requirements for CE marking. Where conformity risk assessment documentation is not
available or not considered adequate, batch testing may be required in order for the OEM to confidently apply the CE mark required to bring its product to the market. OEMs are required to and should inform the supply chain when a product needs to be RoHS compliant but, as the deadline for finished product to be CE marked, there is every probability some may turn to the supply chain seeking urgent evidence of component compliance. RoHS 2 is legislation that has industry-wide ramifications
along the whole supply chain. The time frame for participants to ensure processes comply with the Directive is now becoming tight when it is finished products entering the market that must be compliant by early 2013.
For further information please refer to the detailed article
from Jenni Morland published in Issue 72 November 2011 available in the Magazine Archive at
www.fastenerandfixing.com
New SPIROL distribution centre in Reims SPIROL Europe has established a new distribution centre and offices in Reims, France. S 18
PIROL says this strategic location, in the Champagne region close to the border with Belgium and Germany, will give highly effective coverage of the company’s European markets. It will also give logistics support to the other four locations of SPIROL in Europe in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic. The new facility in Reims includes 1,000 square metres of warehouse and 200 square metres of offices from which
the seventeen-person strong team serves customers from 56 countries. Following its ‘local design, global supply’ strategy, SPIROL’s European sales team in Reims includes professionals of seven nationalities and communicates in eight languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Polish and Romanian.
www.spirol.com Fastener + Fixing Magazine • Issue 75 May 2012
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