Self-clinch fasteners play a key role

Self-clinch fasteners play a key role in enabling Northern Precision to assimilate users' manufacturing and budgetary needs.

Northern Precision's reputation as a specialist single-source fastener supplier has been gained as much on its technical engineering expertise and ability to provide exacting solutions as it has on the company's quick response via 5000 in-stock standard line items as well as the development and supply of special-purpose cold formed and turned parts.

Self-clinch fasteners play a key role in enabling the Doncaster-based company to assimilate users' manufacturing and budgetary needs, and it has a vast range of self-clinch products to choose from - including clinch, flush, blind, miniature, Nyloc, locking and floating nuts, flush head studs, pins and tapered pins, heavy duty studs, through-hole, blind, keylock and quick release standoffs, as well as panel and low profile panel fasteners.

Targeted at applications in thin steel and aluminium panels, clinch fasteners operate by using a clinch feature which, when embedded into the panel is filled with metal by a cold flow process, thus locking the fastener into the panel.

The nature of the clinch provides high torque- and push-out performance.

The fasteners are available in steel and aluminium with different finishes, and in varying diameters/lengths.

Importantly the self-clinch range is supplied after completing Northern Precision's stringent quality inspection procedures and provides total traceability, which is not always the case with cheap alternatives that often are unproven until in service - which is then too late.

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