Next Level in Speed Fastening from Avdel
 

NeoSpeed™ - Green Assembly at its Best
 

WELWYN GARDEN CITY (UK) – 24 June 2011 - Avdel has introduced a new fastener generation that takes the Speed Fastening® technology to the next level. NeoSpeed™ - developed and optimised using the latest Finite Element methods - delivers a manufacturing throughput up to four times greater than traditional threaded or breakstem fasteners.

The NeoSpeed™ blind riveting system uses pull-through technology with reusable mandrels for installation. That means, installed NeoSpeed™ fasteners save about 50% weight versus an equivalent breakstem rivet and completely eliminate the waste portion of the stem. Elimination of rivet stems also lowers the material and processing costs, reduces the weight of goods for transportation purposes and increases the number of pieces per carton. All significant environmental benefits over traditional breakstem rivets by reducing carbon emissions to produce parts and transport them to assembly lines, minimizing the amount of packaging and diminishing line-side waste to be disposed of by the user.

The longest NeoSpeed™ multi-grip rivet in 4.8 mm diameter covers an enormous grip range from 0.6 mm to 9.2 mm and replaces several standard grip fasteners. Due to the wide grip range of the rivets, the new NeoSpeed™ ranges could be reduced to just three rivet lengths per diameter.

Since NeoSpeed™ rivets offer a 3 time greater hole size tolerance than standard breakstem rivets, they are far less sensitive to application variations. The unique, patent pending hole-filling external splines fill rear sheet and oversize front sheet holes and accommodate and fill misaligned holes with the result of improved assembly quality.

Available in steel and aluminium, the NeoSpeed™ range offers higher tensile strength than other multi-grip breakstem rivets and better than average shear strength which is independent of the grip.

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