Explore fastener applications: A guide to composite assembly using Veck bonding fasteners

This guide provides a comprehensive guide to composite assembly of fastener applications using Veck bonding fasteners, including the identification of end markets.

Veck bonding fasteners are now an integral part of many composite assemblies. The number of existing and potential composite manufacturers that use them is growing. Designers and manufacturers are finding more and more advantages to using composite materials, as they look for innovative alternatives to traditional methods. Practically any composite assembly or sub-assembly that is not permanently bonded into place could potentially employ Veck fasteners.

Users of Veck fasteners are not necessarily identified by market (e.g., automotive, rail, construction). Instead, they are more often identified by their manufacturing processes (e.g., plastic injection or rotational moulding, thermoforming, glass fibre hand lay-up or laminating, vacuum moulding, surface mounting). So while a user of Veck bonding fasteners may be a dedicated automotive supplier who manufactures using a variety of processes, they could equally be a dedicated injection moulder who serves the automotive industry alongside a variety of other markets.

Here are some specific applications for Veck bonding fasteners in different industries:

Automotive:

  • Cars – bumper/headlight/wing mirror mounts, assembly of body components (eg. wings, bonnet, boot), fixing of internal panelling (eg. trim, insulation, boot panelling), instrument mounts.
  • Coaches – removable body panels, bumpers, light mountings, heating or air con ducting, luggage rack mounts.
  • Trucks – similar to car, but also including cabin assembly, instrument mounts, arc panels and spoiler mounts.
  • Motorcycles – mounting of fairings, tanks and mudguards.
  • Tractors & diggers – as trucks, with additional fairings, bonnet.

Marine:

  • Yachts – mounts for internal & external equipment, assembly of internal trim, insulation and fixtures, including instrument and furniture mounts.
  • Ships – similar to yachts, plus mounting of radomes, masts, insulation, selected lightweight structures & instrument mounts.
  • Canoes, kayaks and catamarans – seat mounts, lashing points.
  • Windsurfers – mounts for mast and straps.
  • Jet ski’s – fairings, seat mounts, instrument mounts.

Leisure:

  • Swimming pools – (stainless steel fasteners) for securing ladders and access points for drainage, filtration, etc.
  • Slides – ladder mounts, support stays.
  • Go-karts – seat, bumpers and light mounts.
  • Climbing walls and planters.

Transportation:

  • Trains/trams – fairings, headlights, tertiary panelling.

Power Generation:

  • Wind power – turbine nacelles and fairings.

Civil Engineering:

  • Bridges – railing mounts, panelling.
  • Tanks – flange sealing, frame mounts.
  • Ducts – sectional assembly, mount attachment.
  • Insulation – wall insulation mounting & retention.

Building and Misc:

  • Solid surface interiors – fixing of solid surface, decorative kitchen assemblies.
  • Road signs/exhibition panels – sign mounts, panel mounts.
  • Kiosks – fixing of lightweight, temporary structures.
  • Wheelie bins – mounts for castors, lid hinges.

Air transportation:

  • Hot air balloon gondoliers – joining of shell assemblies, panel mounts, etc.

Real world examples of how our fasteners are used are as follows:

1. A bespoke fastener for use within a rotationally moulded assembly