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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…

We have been passionate about sustainability and renewable energy since early 2019 and have achieved carbon neutral status each year since then. Now we are going even further. bigHead is saving energy, money and CO2 and also generating electricity to export to the grid. Despite July and August not being the best summer months, these are our statistics from the…

Bossard Group has established a Global Electric Vehicle (EV) Group concentrating on the component fastening requirements of electric vehicle designers and manufacturers across Bossard’s worldwide marketplace. bigHead, with our years of experience in secure fastenings for composite materials, is a main contributor to this group. Composites are used widely in many aspects of EV manufacture.  The Global EV Group met…

JEC World 2023 lived up to expectations as a great experience with opportunities to learn, discuss and advise in the ever expanding world of composite materials. bigHead Bonding Fasteners were a key element of the Bossard Group stand. The electric vehicle (EV) industry was a major topic at the show and one in which fasteners are needed everywhere, from the…

Our Bossard Group colleagues in Germany have worked with us to create a series of short simple animations which can portray the key benefits of bigHead fasteners in less than 30 seconds. These illustrate the four points below. Why bigHead fasteners reduce the need for localised thickening How a bigHead fastener is invisible from the A-side Using bigHeads for co-process…

Our blog article ‘Merits of a long term investment strategy‘ has been published in the special ‘Show’ edition of JEC Magazine, ahead of JEC World 2023. The April/May 2023 issue is focused on turning challenges into new opportunities. Composite materials will play a major part in solutions for a more sustainable future across all industry sectors – automotive,  aerospace, marine,…

As part of the Bossard Group of companies we are really impressed by the ‘Blue Hearts Embassy’, established by our Bossard colleagues in Poland to support the people of Ukraine, disrupted and displaced by the ongoing war with Russia. The Blue Hearts Embassy is a safe haven and community hub in Cracow, for children, adolescents, mothers and elderly Ukranian refugees….

We are looking forward to discussing composite material fastening issues at JEC World 2023, the trials, challenges and successes. bigHead will be on the Bossard Group stand. We provide fastening solutions that encompass design, process and assembly. Our experience and insight is always enhanced through our talks with visitors at JEC World. Hall 5 Booth S 57.