Michelle Froese

The 2020 LEAP (Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program) Awards will celebrate the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. This year’s program will open as scheduled on May 1st, 2020 and the standard deadline for nominations will be June 30th, 2020. The entry fee is $325 for submissions that are finalized by…

COVID-19 is forcing many businesses to shut down or work remotely under state and federal mandates. Certain manufacturers, however, are deemed essential services, including several materials, hardware, and fastener companies. This is to ensure critical industries — and particularly, the medical sector — continues to receive the devices or components necessary to maintain equipment and…

As manufacturers across industry sectors pitch in to accelerate production of life-saving ventilator equipment, ZAGO Manufacturing says it’s ready to meet heightened demand for its high-tech sealing fasteners. Ventilator manufacturers rely on ZAGO’s clean, sustainable sealing solutions to protect and optimize functionality of their state-of-the-art ventilator equipment. While applications vary, ventilator manufacturers often integrate ZAGO…

Advance Components, a distributor of specialty fastening products, released a letter to its customers this week in relation to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. According to the company, it is deemed an essential, critical, and life-sustaining business under all state and federal standards. “Please be advised, all our operations will remain open and we will continue…

Nord-Lock Group, a global provider in bolted solutions, received one of the world’s most prestigious design awards: the Red Dot Award. It won ”Best Product Design 2020” in the tools category for the Superbolt Tool. “I am extremely proud that the Superbolt Tool was judged not only good enough to be entered into the Red…

For some people, challenges are merely opportunities to solve problems. This was particularly true for Herman Koehl, an engineer who moved to the United States shortly after World War II and worked for the U.S. Air Force. For Koehl, engineering served as an opportunity to solve problems and invent new solutions. And he was good…

Written by Mary Gannon, Editor Design World As the United States continues to deal with COVID-19, the disease caused by the most recent Coronavirus pandemic, one theme has run through all media outlets — the looming shortage of face masks and other non-woven protective medical gear including gowns and boots that doctors and nurses need…

According to the Rheintaler fastening technology group, SFS, the North America market is becoming increasingly important. For this reason, SFS is expanding its expertise with a new U.S. company acquisition, Truelove & Maclean (T&M). T&M is a provider of deep-drawn components primarily for customers in the automotive industry. The company had sales of around $36 million…

Imagine you’re an engineer with the freedom to create any design you’d like with only one catch: you can only use two types of fasteners. Would this limit or simplify your design? For Marisa Mudge, marketing manager with Mudge Fasteners, Inc. (a supply company owned by her father), the answer is simple: “The idea of…

Wieland North America, a copper and copper alloy specialist, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the business of specialty metals reroller Scott Brass through an asset purchase transaction. Scott Brass, based in Cranston, Rhode Island offers a range of specialty metals products to its customers in the northeast and across…