Engineering

In applications where the working loads are exerted in line with the length of the bolt (called tensile loads), both a fully threaded and a partially threaded fastener are going to be able to support the same load. If the working forces exceed the strength of the fastener, both of these fasteners will fail in the threads at the same load.

Many of our customers are receiving requests to supply fasteners with a Zinc Flake coating.

Zinc Flake coatings are becoming the coating of choice for fasteners used in the automotive, construction equipment, heavy truck and agriculture markets. Manufacturers like Caterpillar, John Deere, AGCO, CNH and Bobcat are requiring the fasteners used to build and maintain their equipment to be coated with zinc flake coatings and are moving away from the more traditional zinc platings that they have used in the past.

The simple answer is that JIS is an abbreviation for Japanese Industrial Standards. JIS specs are standards that are issued by the Japanese industrial standards committee for industrial applications in Japan.

In the fastener industry, there are three main regulations that we need to be aware of and need to determine if our products are compliant.

RoHS

REACH

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Steve Timura, a 20+ year veteran of the Fastener Industry, recently joined Earnest Machine Products, taking on the role of Fastener Sales & Sourcing Specialist.

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