2/20/2014 2:41:00 PM
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Bossard Group Invests in UK’s bigHead
The Bossard Group took a 19% stake in UK-based bigHead, provider of fastening solutions for lightweight composite materials, for an undisclosed sum.
Bossard called bigHead, with current sales of $4.5 million, “a well-established brand within the composites industry (that is) positioned to grow in a high-tech niche that is seeing unprecedented levels of expansion.”
Outside of Great Britain, Bossard is bigHead’s global distribution partner.
“As companies in many industries focus on the reduction of both polluting emissions and product costs, the move away from conventional materials and the investment in lightweight modern composite materials continues to gather pace,” Bossard stated. “bigHead®’s technology and products facilitate this development and have become a standard trusted by illustrious clientele in several key industries.”
Car manufacturers such as Rolls Royce Motors, BMW, Aston Martin, and Lamborghini use bigHead fasteners, as do shipbuilders Sunseeker Yachts and the RNLI. Companies in the construction, petro-chemical and wind-power industries also rely on bigHead products.
bigHead offers a standard product range of 400 designs, alongside a customer-specific design service very popular with engineers.
bigHead bigHead fasteners were invented in 1966 to achieve a strong and efficient fastening in a composite material. bigHead’s design is “a flat perforated head which locks the product securely into position and spreads the load, is welded to a wide choice of studs, nuts, collars, pins and other fixings.” Web: bighead.co.uk ©2014 GlobalFastenerNews.com
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