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TAPPEX® Thread Inserts Ltd.
Company overview.
May 2009www.tappex.co.uk
TAPPEX® Company Introduction:
• 50+ years of manufacturing & service excellence.• UK-based manufacturer; privately owned; with both direct sales (UK) and
via experienced / independent network of technical distributors across Europe & ROW.
• Serving OEMS, moulding & assembly operations & 3rd-party distributors alike.
• In-house Application Engineers, Materials Testing Laboratory, Prototyping Capability.
• Tappex ® Threaded Inserts for Plastics, Composites & Metals – machined fasteners from Brasses/Steel & Stainless Steels.
• Subsidiary companies : Pressavon Ltd & AB C Edgren (Sweden).
TAPPEX® Product Range:
• Threaded Inserts for Plastics (Thermoplastics, Thermosets & Composites).
• Threaded Inserts for Metal Alloys.
• Tappex ® , bespoke Installation Tooling.
• Compression Limiters.
• Grooved Pins.
• Thread forming screws (PT style) & Rivet Nuts for plastics.
TAPPEX® Products:• Threaded Inserts for Plastics – female & male, M1.6 to M12
• All machined from Brass; bespoke variants available.
HiMould - In-mould threaded insert in x3 std geometries.
Multisert / Microbarb - Multi purpose for post-mould, HOT/COLD & Ultrasonic installation.
Trisert - Brass, Self-tapping insert, double-ended, unheaded & flanged.
TAPPEX® Products:
• Threaded Inserts for Metals – female & male, M2.5 to M10 (larger sizes available to order up to 30mm dia).
• All machined from Case-hardening steels, Stainless Steels (303 & 316 grades); bespoke variants available.
Trisert3 – Self-tapping, patented design.
• Unheaded & blind ; reduced external diameter• Free Running Internal Thread• Compatible with Trisert Hole Size in Plastic• Accurate Installation
Grooved Pins• Single & 2-piece versions
• Headed & Blind-end versions
• Steel, Stainless Steel, Aluminium & Brass materials
Other Inserts
• Anticreep Spacers for plastics• Compression Limiters• Rivet Nuts for plastic sheet &
composites
TAPPEX® -
• Males i.e. other Brass, Male-versions with Multisert,Trisert & HiMould forms,• Specials eg. Vandalguard,• PT Screws – Thread forming, male for direct installation into plastics
New Inserts (M3-10)
• Suresert
- Double ended- Heat installation only
TAPPEX® -
• Setsert
- Press fit cold - Double and Single Ended - Limited Availability
TAPPEX® - INSTALLATION EQUIPMENT
• FlexiArm
- Self Tapping Inserts - Flexibility - Squareness - Single & Double-arm versions
Working Area
TAPPEX® - Installation Tooling
• Heat Inserter (Multisert/Microbarbs)
– Speed Control– Install light– Adjustable
• Arbour Press (Multiserts)– Controlled Press Fit
TAPPEX® - Installation Tooling
• Production Driver– Use in conjunction with pneumatic
drivers / FlexiArm for batch production
– Nose Length– Spigot– Lost Motion
• Hand Tool– Ideal for manual installation of
Tappex inserts and in-service work– Alignment Bush– Hex drive– Spigot– Ideal for
• ISO 14001 Environmental• BS2001-2008 Management• Vision sort equipment / trained staff• Raw materials control
TAPPEX® - Quality
May 2009
TAPPEX® - Manufacturing.
• 50yrs + of manufacturing excellence• In-house m/c shops with both Davenport (x22) & CNC
machining centres (x2)• Capacity up to 18mm dia / 0.75”• x2 shifts x5 days normally• Off-line, x2 bespoke solvent-based cleaning m/c’s
May 2009
TAPPEX® - APPLICATION ENGINEERING
TAPPEX® - Available Technical Assistance
• Identification Drawings• Hole Designs• Advice• Testing• Performance Data• Samples
QUESTIONS?
TAPPEX® - Your fastening solutions provider.
www.tappex.co.uk