bigHead Bonding Fasteners returns this year to Advanced Engineering 2016 with a larger stand and unrivalled enthusiasm to help manufacturers and integrators of composite products turn their design ideas into reality. With a full complement of bigHead design engineers on hand to discuss new or existing applications, the emphasis will be firmly on providing engineering options where innovative form & function and associated production costs are not compromised or restricted by component fastening.
bigHead's sales and technical teams will demonstrate the UK manufacturer's passion for solving customer's challenges by close collaboration from the very first ideas through to prototyping, production and beyond - creating, optimising and refining composite component design as a partnership.
In the past year bighead has successfully secured a KTP-funded project with Cranfield University's Composites Centre for developing fastenings for high-volume manufacture of lightweight composite components for the automotive industry. The project is now well underway and visitors to Advanced Engineering 2016 can explore new assembly techniques to precision-fix bigHeads using specialist dry adhesives that can be scaled from small quantities to fully automated high-volume production. Of course bigHeads can be surface bonded using other agents or directly embedded in components and panels using injection or SMC moulding processes, and all these technologies will be covered at the exhibition.
As bigHead celebrates its 50th year and is probably the world's most recognised discrete bonding fastener, visitors to the show can also discover how bigHeads have evolved as an enabling component. From its beginnings as the original fastening product for discrete thin-panel and composite fixing, with its distinctive flat perforated head design with numerous fixing options, the design versatility of the bigHead has migrated beyond its original concept - tracking advances in materials technology and offering innovative fastenings that can be applied to countless manufacturing techniques.
bigHead Bonding Fasteners will be at Advanced Engineering UK 2016: Composites Engineering - Stand L160; for more information please go to www.bighead.co.uk.
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