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  • Discover our new website navigation – designed to help you reach the outcome you need as quickly as possible

    22 Aug 2024

    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…

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  • 364 trees planted in the bigHead forest since January 2024!

    05 Jul 2024

    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…

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  • Solving Fastening Challenges

    07 Mar 2024

    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…

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  • JEC 2024 – We’ll be there. Find us on the Bossard Stand

    13 Feb 2024

    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…

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  • Pursuing Precision Engineering with a Passionate Drive

    29 Jan 2024

    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…

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  • Volunteering to be on hand and help out in 2024

    11 Jan 2024

    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…

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  • Integrating fasteners into closed mould production processes.

    05 Dec 2023

    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…

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  • Fastening composite materials in different configurations

    28 Nov 2023

    ‘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…

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  • bigHead focuses on renewable energy

    06 Sep 2023

    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…

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  • bigHead playing a key role as experts in composite material fastening for EV manufacture

    22 May 2023

    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…

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