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Taking action to contribute towards a sustainable future has been high on the bigHead agenda since early 2019 and we have achieved carbon neutral status each year since then. In July 2023, we took a significant step by installing 130 solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of our Verwood premises. These panels now generate clean electricity for our operations and…

What’s more, our team’s actions have led to a reduction of 6.15 metric tonnes of CO2 over the past year. To put that into context, this is roughly equivalent to the amount that would be emitted by 2.25 average UK homes per year, or by driving 15,223 miles in an average petrol-powdered car We are members of ‘On Hand’, the…

Alongside offering solutions to your composite fastening queries, we constantly monitor the type of questions you are asking, in terms of project stage and complexity. This provides the feedback we need in order to serve you better with timely and helpful advice. One outcome has been the reorganisation of our website menu, grouping related items together in a way more…

364 trees planted in the bigHead forest since January 2024! 688 good deeds done! Keen to make a difference in today’s world, beyond helping designers and engineers to fasten composite materials, we are members of the ‘Tech for Good’ volunteering organisation ‘OnHand’. Our employees can volunteer to be placed on the bigHead Bonding Fasteners OnHand register of helpers. They then…

At bigHead we continue our focus on designing and supplying solutions for composite material fastening. Colleagues from our development team discussed fastening challenges and solutions on the Bossard Group stand – our parent group – at JEC World 2024 in Paris. JEC World 2024 unites the entire spectrum of the composite materials industry. The show offers an unparalleled exhibition of…

JEC World 2024 is just around the corner, March 5th-7th, in Paris. We’ll be there to discuss the ins and outs of composite fastening and how bigHead can work with you to determine fastening solutions to optimise design, manufacturing and assembly for your project. Find us at the Bossard Group stand and come and chat with our designers. Back at…

Meet Henry Bower, the newest addition to the bigHead team, serving as the new Junior Maintenance Engineer. In his role, Henry supports the manufacturing lines by designing and manufacturing intricate parts for the production team. Components within the production machines often need replacing due to wear and tear and the maintenance engineers ensure that the tooling for the vast range…

Keen to make a difference in today’s world, beyond helping designers and engineers to fasten composite materials, bigHead has started 2024 with particular good intent by signing up to the ‘Tech for Good’ volunteering organisation ‘OnHand’. OnHand is a platform to which companies sign up, allowing their employees to volunteer to be placed on the OnHand register of helpers. Volunteers…

We’re delighted to announce that our 2023/24 student project is in full swing at Cranfield University’s Enhanced Composites and Structures Centre. Under the guidance of our development team, based at the Cranfield Innovation Centre, and Andrew Mills, principal research fellow in composites manufacturing at Cranfield University, this project builds on our continued research into integrating bigHead fasteners into closed mould…

‘bigHead configurations’ is our new website section where we address fastening composite materials from YOUR viewpoint. You have a design with composite materials and they need fastening. But what are your options? What are you trying to achieve? Are you focussed on speed and efficiency? Do you need to simplify component design and maximise your manufacturing throughput? Or is your focus…