Construction machinery

Whether for oil sand processing in the Canadian wilderness, for constructing mega-towers such as the Burj Dubai, for the Three Gorges Dam-project of the Yangtze river or for spacious mining plants in Latin America - construction machinery, equipment and mining machinery is employed in all great construction projects worldwide.

An ever changing division of labour, ever shorter product cycles as well as the employment of new materials and fastening technologies represent challenges and require innovative capacity and a high degree of flexibility.

Tar pavers and rollers are subject to particularly strong vibrations. RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts have proven to be the solution for fastening load-bearing threads to thin-walled sheets. The pre-coated sheet metal coverings remain intact.

+ RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts and studs
+ RIVKLE® setting tools

Böllhoff organised a customer fair on the factory premises of VOLVO. There, services, products and systems adapted to the specific customer needs were presented. Many of the VOLVO employees could acquire information about the current developments of the fastening technology and as well as new impulses and solutions for their work. Apart from that, the Böllhoff experts held a presentation on the optimisation potential of fasteners and assembly processes employed by VOLVO. The basis for these results was the analysis of processes carried out in a line walk on the day of the presentation in the company production facilities.

+ Application engineering - ECOTECH

At regular intervals, the numerous unloading points in the customer’s production are supplied with the most different DIN parts, parts as per drawing, fastening technologies of our own production as well as with other C-parts. Thanks to the ECOSIT® procurement system, logistic and administrative processes could be significantly reduced.

+ C-part management - ECOSIT®

In order to optimise assembly processes and at the same time reduce assembly and procurement costs, Böllhoff application engineering experts analysed the complete fastening technology of certain BOMAG model series. After a considerable number of tests at the certified Böllhoff laboratory, the experts recommended the use of tapping screw DIN 7500, for example. It is used without loss of performance and with constant assembly parameters (speed, torque, etc.) at different points, independently of the material thickness. Since thread cutting and post-processing as well as the screw-nut combination are no longer necessary, production as well as assembly were considerably optimised.

+ Application engineering - ECOTECH