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DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER The Perforated Head design is synonymous with bigHead® fasteners. Whilst this makes a bigHead® easily recognisable, we can also provide bigHeads with Plain surface Heads to suit certain applications. When it comes to adhesive bonding of bigHeads with liquid and paste adhesives, there are long-standing questions about which is actually “better” – Perforated or Plain Head? Holes or…

DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER   Applying anti corrosion coatings, plating or other treatments to bigHead fasteners means that one is no longer working with a steel substrate for the purposes of adhesive bonding. Whilst a selected adhesive may be excellent for bonding steel, it may not be so compatible with different coatings or treatments. Sometimes the coating or treatment itself can also…

bigHead® Bonding Fasteners continues its investment in innovation with the appointment of Dr Lawrence Cook.  Dr Cook joins bigHead from Cranfield University Enhanced Composites and Structures Centre where he was a Research Fellow in Composites Manufacturing.  During his time at Cranfield Dr Cook worked on the design, manufacturing and mechanical testing of composites structures, in particular the joining of polymer…

bigHead® returns to JEC World 2018 this year with design engineers on hand to discuss composite fastening applications.  The emphasis will be on engineering solutions that avoid the typical compromises between form and function, and ways to improve process efficiency. Most recently bigHead has been developing a new way to fasten lightweight automotive panels in just seconds, called Lean Bonding®. …

Just as other major global industries, mass transit continuously strives to improve manufacturing efficiency and reduce running costs. For rail vehicle and passenger coach designers this has meant embracing new materials and production techniques, and one area that continues to thrive is the use of fibre-reinforced polymer composites (FRP) materials to produce structures and parts that are lightweight, have high…