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As part of an ongoing R&D partnership with Cranfield University, bigHead Bonding Fasteners has produced a demonstration mould tool that shows how its bigHeads can be embedded into sheet moulding compound (SMC) without any ingress of resin into the fixing.
PowderBondPP is under evaluation by bigHead Fasteners to extend bigHead’s Lean Bonding process capability to join metal fasteners to polypropylene (PP), the most widely used thermoplastic.
The perforated head design is said to be synonymous with bigHead fasteners. Whilst this makes a bigHead easily recognisable, the company can also provide bigHeads with plain surface heads to suit certain applications.
In a Q&A session, Dr Lawrence Cook who leads Cranfield University’s R&D work on matrix-polymers and adhesives, discusses the close-working Knowledge Transfer Partnership for composite materials joining technologies relationship with bigHead Bonding Fasteners.