RUSSIAN + CIS NEWS

Alexander Ostashov, editor, Fastener, Adhesives, Tools and…Magazine www.fastinfo.ru

Fastener Fair panel discussion attracts interest

At Fastener Fair Russia in May a panel discussion took place on ‘Fasteners for industrial and civil construction, bridge building and metal constructions’.

focused on the special features of testing of fasteners used in construction of buildings and facilities. Savinov Roman Igorevich, specialist of the department of physical and mechanical testing of Melitek Company, introduced modern solutions for quality control of fasteners. Sotskov Nikolay Ivanovich, head of the laboratory at Melnikov Central Research and Design Institute of Steel Building Structures, shared experience in using high-tensile bolts with protective coverings in industrial and civil construction and bridge building. An analysis of grade 10.9 high-tensile bolts while being torqued using a tension indicating wrench was presented by Rostovykh Grigoriy Nikolayevich, senior technician of the Science and Research Institute of Bridges. Johan Scholz, the CEO of KÖCO-Rus, spoke about the use of fasteners in bridge building and high-level construction. Detailed reports of the panel discussions will be published in the next issue of ‘Fasteners, Adhesives, Tools and …’ Magazine.

T 3rd ‘Wire-fasteners’ set for September

The 3rd all-russia conference ‘Wire-Fasteners’ will be held in Magnitogorsk, 10th – 11th

Main conference topics will be: • Current state of the hardware industry across the world and in the CIS and Russia.

• Trends in the development of raw materials production for the hardware industry.

• Analysis of the consumption history of hardware products in various industrial sectors.

• Investment projects and development strategies of the main hardware producers.

• Hardware export and import in the Russian Federation Customs Union and the problems of the market protection.

• Hardware market distribution. • Forecasting development of the hardware market in general and in various segments. Organisers: Metal Supply and Sales Magazine, Prommetiz Association.

September 2014. FASTTEC in October F T 32 Fastener + Fixing Magazine • Issue 88 July 2014

ASTTEC, the international exhibition of fasteners, will be held at the Sokolniki Exhibition Centre, Moscow, 7th

– 9th October 2014. The last day of this exhibition will run simultaneously with another event for fastener producers.

International Scientific and Technical Conference

International Scientific and Technical Conference ‘Modern technologies and equipment for large scale cold forming on automatic machines’ will take place in Moscow on 9th

– 10th October.

his conference will be dedicated to the issues and technical development of production of fastening and net-shaped components using modern technologies and automatic cold forming machinery, as well as the

organisation of large scale cold forming production. Speakers will include representatives of foreign companies:

Nedschroef Herentals N.V, Ebner, Can-Eng, Hilker and others. Organisers: Moscow State Industrial University,

The Academy of Quality Problems, Machine Building Magazine.

he event was organised by RESTEC Exhibition Union, Bolt.ru Company and the editorial staff of ‘Fasteners, Adhesives, Tools and …’ Magazine. Boris Mikhaylovich, the general director of Prommetiz Association Yarantzev, reported on the present condition of the hardware industry in Russia. The director of the laboratory of Kompozit-Test Institute, Davydova Anna Vladislavovna,