There are tapes which dissolve in water while others solve heat management problems in your car’s engine.

Spiralock Corporation has re-engineered the standard internal (female) thread form and added a unique 30° wedge ramp at the root of the thread.

Angle joints serve as linking and guiding elements for movable parts and create corner joints.

The Master L- and H-Series from Kabelschlepp GmbH are lightweight, silent cable and hose carriers with a variable carrier width.

Marketed under the Snap-Line brand, Dirak’s new handles require no screws for installation. Snap-Line handles hold securely in place, even in severe vibration environments.

FisherCast Global’s automated IMA joining technology combines multi-step assembly and manufacturing into a low-cost, single step solution.

Lead screws and nuts are commonly used to convert a rotary movement into a linear movement.

New to its its range of structural acrylic adhesives, 3M has added a version for applications requiring maximum versatility and productivity.

With its self-tapping insert ENSAT, Kerb-Konus provides a solution for highly stressed and wear-resistant screw couplings in materials featuring a low shearing strength, such as aluminium or plastic structures.

The Crypta reuseable electronic seals are suitable for coping with the severe winter conditions being predicted for the UK and Europe.

Multi-Seals Inc is offering an innovative alternative to liquid epoxy for high-volume, high-quality epoxy sealing applications.

Minitec is introducing a new frame fastener for its modular profile building system that extends the flexible building-block principle of the range.

Tim Webb looks at an example advanced simulation technology being used to test automotive crashworthiness.

The most popular method of simulating real world problems is the finite element method (FEM). It has been used extensively (and successfully) in all the major areas of engineering including mechanical, thermal, and electromagnetic problems.

Several new non-spill coupling products will be exhibited by Colder Products Company at Achema in Frankfurt, Germany

Engineous Software, a provider of award-winning integration, automation, and design optimisation software and related strategic services, is releasing its new Isight-FD Product.

Adobe Systems Incorporated is releasing Adobe Acrobat 3D, a new desktop software tool that helps extend document-based 3D design collaboration capabilities to virtually anyone across and beyond global organisations.

The Wilden Typhoon plastic mag-drive pumps benefit from additional fluid flow path that cools the impeller bushing to prevent premature wear

Alibre is releasing the newest version of its 3D parametric solid modelling software, Alibre Design 9.0.

Fluent has released its new FLUENT for CATIA V5, the first CFD software tool that resides completely inside the CATIA V5 CAD environment.