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Interesting to know: new brochure about Böllhoff KANBAN systems including RFID Technology now published

Find out everything about total cost optimization and the optimal procurement of –parts in our new Böllhoff ECOSIT® brochure. Furthermore you will find a detailed overview of all different ECOSIT® variations including RFID technology.

The German company BOGE Kompressoren from Bielefeld benefits from innovative RFID-technology

Markus Hahn, Purchaser at BOGE, approves: "The RFID-technology provided by Böllhoff is the contemporary alternative to barcode scanning of empty bins".

Automatic processing of RIVTAC® tacs!

The new RIVTAC® automation system with process monitoring, for stored feeding, consisting of setting tool, station, valve unit as well as power and control unit, enables fully automatic joining. It is designed for high volume applications and provides maximum flexibility in production planning.

New! Modular, flexible, efficient – the self-pierce riveting system RIVSET® Gen²!

Discover the new generation of semi-tubular self-pierce riveting technology RIVSET® Gen²!

This system enables the process time to be halved during the joining of mixed materials and high-strength steels. It is targeted towards applications in large-volume productions with a maximum flexibility in production planning.

100% Eletric – Assembly of
RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts and blind rivet studs

RIVLE® ESA is the new eletrical setting tool for blind rivet nuts and blind rivet studs

Guaranted availability of the core range of our RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts!

Order your favorite RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts made of steel and stainless steel of our standard programm and they will be ready for shipment within 24 hours maximum (after order acknowledgment).

Böllhoff looks back successful participations in the exhibitions

We look back the two successful exhibition months with 5 exhibition participations in the whole Germany and numerous visitors.

RFID Box – Quickly installed KANBAN system

Let your company profit from easy and quick order transmission by using innovative RFID technology. Raise your level of security of supply and save time and costs with RFID Box.

K’ in K’ – reliable screwing in plastic components

The K’ in K’ feature archieves a milestone of reliable fasteners in the field of plastics.

New installation tools for HELICOIL® thread inserts!

News of the HELICOIL® product group – the electrical installation tools E-PSG and ES-410 are now available.

Interesting to know: new brochure about Böllhoff KANBAN systems including RFID Technology now published

Find out everything about total cost optimization and the optimal procurement of –parts in our new Böllhoff ECOSIT® brochure. Furthermore you will find a detailed overview of all different ECOSIT® variations including RFID technology.

The German company BOGE Kompressoren from Bielefeld benefits from innovative RFID-technology

Markus Hahn, Purchaser at BOGE, approves: "The RFID-technology provided by Böllhoff is the contemporary alternative to barcode scanning of empty bins".

Automatic processing of RIVTAC® tacs!

The new RIVTAC® automation system with process monitoring, for stored feeding, consisting of setting tool, station, valve unit as well as power and control unit, enables fully automatic joining. It is designed for high volume applications and provides maximum flexibility in production planning.

New! Modular, flexible, efficient – the self-pierce riveting system RIVSET® Gen²!

Discover the new generation of semi-tubular self-pierce riveting technology RIVSET® Gen²!

This system enables the process time to be halved during the joining of mixed materials and high-strength steels. It is targeted towards applications in large-volume productions with a maximum flexibility in production planning.

100% Eletric – Assembly of
RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts and blind rivet studs

RIVLE® ESA is the new eletrical setting tool for blind rivet nuts and blind rivet studs

Guaranted availability of the core range of our RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts!

Order your favorite RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts made of steel and stainless steel of our standard programm and they will be ready for shipment within 24 hours maximum (after order acknowledgment).

Böllhoff looks back successful participations in the exhibitions

We look back the two successful exhibition months with 5 exhibition participations in the whole Germany and numerous visitors.

RFID Box – Quickly installed KANBAN system

Let your company profit from easy and quick order transmission by using innovative RFID technology. Raise your level of security of supply and save time and costs with RFID Box.

K’ in K’ – reliable screwing in plastic components

The K’ in K’ feature archieves a milestone of reliable fasteners in the field of plastics.

New installation tools for HELICOIL® thread inserts!

News of the HELICOIL® product group – the electrical installation tools E-PSG and ES-410 are now available.

Apprenticeship workshop at Bielefeld site celebrates 20th anniversary

This month we can look back over 20 years of outstanding work at our apprenticeship workshop.
We celebrate the hundreds of young people it has trained, many of whom now hold important and responsible positions in the Böllhoff Group.

New CAD download for our customers

The CAD download is now available at www.boellhoff.de and provides several fasteners produced by Böllhoff.

ECO-Shop 2.0 – Benefits³

It never was that easy to order! Searching for articles is comfortable and quick, each article is available as an interactive 3D-picture and the stock information is always up-to-date.

Tool innovations for RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts!

The new pneumatic setting tools RIVKLE® P3007 and RIVKLE® P3007 PN enable the processing of large RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts diameters (M 8 to M 16) of different material and enlarge our current product range of RIVKLE® setting tools.

Expedition front and rear end

In the new module catalogue the large number of possible uses of our joint solutions and assembly systems are pointed out. Taking the example of the front and rear end module, we illustrate a selection of concrete applications from practice. Let’s start the expedition with the front and rear end module.

Hexalobular / TORX® – new range for efficient assembly

We have enhanced our range in the group of hexalobular / Torx® drive.

Cooperation with Daniel Schrey Racing will be continued

It is our pleasure to continue the cooperation with Daniel Schrey Racing in 2012.
We wish Daniel Schrey and his team an exciting season 2012.

NEW – RIPP LOCK® lock screws and nuts

The RIPP LOCK® lock washer belongs to the group of mechanical unscrewing prevention elements. It combines many individual advantages of existing locking screws and washers.

RIVKLE® M2007 Manual setting tool is ready for use

The new RIVKLE® M2007 expands our product range of setting tools for blind rivet nuts.
It is suitable for setting or repairing of small quantities.

Böllhoff Group with 15% growth in 2011

Last year the Boellhoff Group has generated a sales volume of 453 Mio. € in their 135th year of business. Sales increased by 15% compared to last year. This is an increase of 8% compared to previous record year 2008.

Innovative technology for innovative companies

The Bielefeld-based Böllhoff Group has developed a solution which optimises the value-added chain of industrial companies: ECOSIT® RFID Bin. The product focuses on the logistics of "C-parts", which have traditionally been relatively expensive to procure. The new system offers considerable cost benefits whilst improving the security of supply.

Automatic assembly of RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts and screws

The new product overview: up-to-date, compact, informative!

Get an overview of our fully and semi-automatic setting tools for RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts and screws!

Download now our new catalogue (only available in German) in order to receive all required information.

SEAL LOCK® Sealing nuts: one-piece element, high-strength, temperature resistant

SEAL LOCK® sealing nuts provide a reliable seal against gaseous and liquid media.

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IMTEC® Moulded inserts – highly wear-resistant thread inserts for in-moulding!

IMTEC® Moulded inserts – the new fastening talents from Böllhoff.
Your expert in fastening technology has developed a fastening solution for in-moulding.

The new regulation and control module RSM for the UNIQUICK® Feeder!

The Feeder from the UNIQUICK® product group are now equipped with the new regulation and control module RSM.

ONSERT® catalogue: new version

Facts and figures relating to quick and process-reliable bonding of fastening elements with light-curing adhesives are presented as a comprehensive summary.

HELICOIL® repair pack M 9 x 10 now available!

Wheel bearing housings are constantly exposed to a variety of different loads, with wear as the the logical consequence. For example, the internal thread, cut in the wheel bearing housing and used to screw in the brake guide bolts, is often damaged during the disassembly of those guide bolts.
A damaged thread usually requires replacement of the complete wheel bearing housing.
Böllhoff offers an alternative solution with the new HELICOIL® repair pack for wheel bearing housings.

Full house at Blechexpo 2011 in Stuttgart

Böllhoff exhibited from 6 to 9 June fasteners and assembly systems for profiles and sheet metals.
This years's focus for the company based in Ostwestfalen was the field lightweight design.

Böllhoff granted AEO certificate

Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) certification gives a company a special status: it is regarded as being particularly reliable and trustworthy and as such can claim certain benefits in connection with customs clearance.

Böllhoff reduces CO2 emissions through sustainable waste management

Böllhoff's strategy of sustainable waste management has resulted in annual savings of 734 t of CO2, the equivalent of driving 2,356,446 miles in a car.

Daniel Schrey starts together with Böllhoff into the new racing season 2011, because...

...motor racing creates connections!

EDAG InnoTech-Day

EDAG invited selected technology partners to attend its inhouse exhibition at the headquarter of EDAG in Fulda as part of a management workshop. We felt glad to accept the invitation to the EDAG InnoTech-Day on 23 March 2011.

Böllhoff opened the current fair season 2011 with the participation in the fair ISH

For the first time, the Böllhoff Group was there represented with a large booth.

TOP – Innovative companies extend invitation to business leaders

The TOP best practice event series is an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the F.A.Z Institute for Management, Marketing and Media Information.

RIVCLINCH® certified for air duct construction

As the first and only German manufacturer, Böllhoff received the TÜV-certificate for absolutly tight rectangular clinching points in the air duct construction.

Efficient combination of driving features – FLEXIDRIVE®

The Torx- or hexalobular internal driving feature has long taken as an efficient driving standard in the production.

But there are also applications, where it is not used so far. This is especially the case if the connection has to be released again because of maintenance or repairs reasons.

Successful participation in InnoTrans 2010 trade fair

For the third time in a row, Böllhoff has presented most up-to-date services and technologies of fastening technology at the world's largest trade fair of railway technology, the InnoTrans in Berlin, with great success.

MOTEK 2010 – a roaring success!

The international Trade Fair for Assembly, Handling Technology and Automation in Stuttgart, Germany, is considered as the world's No 1 event for production and assembly automation, feed technology and material flow, rationalisation through handling technology and industrial handling.

New: Böllhoff Repair Solutions – RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts

The setting of RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts is often the only fastener solution for hollow sections, housings or where access is limited to one side of a component for adding a thread to thin-walled workpiece.

HELICOIL® tangfree – What is new?

HELICOIL® tangfree is the up-to-date HELICOIL® coil thread insert technology for tangfree coil thread inserts.

RIVKLE® P1007 – It's all about the perfect combination!

Innovative fasteners combined with intelligent assembly solutions. That is what we offer as the specialist in the world of fastening technology.

Light Car was joined with 400 RIVTAC® elements

Böllhoff has acquired Armstrong Precision Components Ltd.

We are delighted to announce that on the 26th February 2010, Böllhoff Group acquired the entire shareholding of Armstrong Precision Components Ltd., (APC), from Caparo Engineering.

Böllhoff customer fair at Miele

Böllhoff employees of the Sales, Application Engineering and Marketing departments presented products and services of the company in the Miele forum.

New RIVCLINCH® catalogue

Upon clinching, double- or multi-layer joints of sheets and/or profiles are joined form-fittingly and non-positively in a push-button-like cold-forming process.

Böllhoff opened Technical Center in USA

Bollhoff Rivnut® Inc. placed in Kendallville, Indiana opened the Detroit Technical Center (DTC) in November 2009. The center includes a "house of the customer" with a product exhibition and a sales office.

Inaugration of the new Mexican office building

On 3rd December 2009 Bollhoff Mexico (BME) has officially opened its new building in the city of Querétaro which is located 200 km north of Mexico City.

Profit from the well-established FLEXITOL® systems

You already know these systems. They feature stepless tolerance compensation and thus save you real money.

TOP – Innovative companies extend invitation to business leaders

The TOP best practice event series is an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the F.A.Z Institute for Management, Marketing and Media Information.

Indian production starts operation

The new Böllhoff production facility, located in Gurgaon near Delhi, was inaugurated on 5th October, 2009 by the Managing Director of Böllhoff India, Jagdish Keswani and our Managing Partner, Willhelm A. Böllhoff.
So Böllhoff is a manufacturer for its own products also in India.

Extension of our plastic injection molding manufacturing

By the extension of our injection molding and assembly production area we have doubled the place from approximately 1,200 sqm to 2,600 sqm.

Stretching the lead with RIVTAC®

As the result of a successful public private partnership, for the first time, RIVTAC® was realised in gerneral industry at our customer Clage, a solar collector manufacturer.

New product configurator for QUICKLOC® quick releases

Looking for your specific quick release?
Adapted to your individual requirements and wishes?
Nothing easier than that with QUICKMatch — the new product configurator for the series 60 QUICKLOC®.

RIVKLE® stainless steel – For the extra bit of corrosion resistance

Apart from steel and aluminium, our assortment comprises RIVKLE® blind rivet nuts of stainless steel which provide high corrosion and temperature resistance and are available in many different designs.

CAD database - download 3D models for fasteners

We have added to our Blue Pages online - the manual of fastening technology - a new service.
3-D models for more than 45,000 fasteners are now available for free.

The new HELICOIL® locknuts catalogue is now available!

It provides good overview and comprehensive information! - See for yourself!

Hexalobular / TORX® – new range for efficient assembly

We have enhanced our range in the group of hexalobular / Torx® drive.

RIVKLE® sealcote – An innovation from the world of blind rivet technology

With RIVKLE® sealcote, Böllhoff now also produces blind rivet nuts and studs with sealing function.

Satisfied customers at the first in-house exhibition in the logistics centre

Nearly 90 people from 6 nations followed on 18 June 2009 the invitation to the first in-house show to the logistics center of South-East Europe (Slovakia) in Senec near Bratislava.

New to the Böllhoff Test Laboratory: Fatigue testing

The technical test laboratory has invested in a state of the art dynamic test machine enabling it to conduct fatigue tests internally.

Inauguration "World of Joining Together"

The “World of Joining Together” passes its first big test with flying colors.

The “World of Joining Together” opened its doors for its first big event on the 4th and 5th of November 2008. There were 80 invited guests who took part in the 4th Professional Congress. We are happy to report that all went well and the premiere was a success!

Böllhoff continues to be EN 9100 certified

The audit carried out by TÜV Rheinland ended with a very positive outcome. In succession, we have reached a total score of over 90 points on a maximum scale of 100.

The entire world of fastening technology

At the beginning of November, we will inaugurate our new building in Bielefeld.

Böllhoff is honoured

On 22/08/2008, Böllhoff was awarded the Marketing Award OWL (Marketingpreis OWL) in a ceremony in the "World of Joints" (Welt der Verbindungen).

Böllhoff Group secures major order from Audi

Bielefeld. Böllhoff, a specialist in joining and screwdriving technology, has secured a major order from automotive manufacturer AUDI AG of a total volume of approx. 4 million euros.

Enhancement of production plants in China

Construction work for the production and office enlargement of Böllhoff in Wuxi, China, is proceeding according to plan. The inauguration ceremony and the start of the enlarged production plants is scheduled for 02 December 2008.

Education at Böllhoff

At the Böllhoff Group, 25 young people have started their training. Apart from 17 trainees in the technical and commercial field in Bielefeld, 3 commercial trainees have been hired in the branches in Dormagen, Munich and Nuremberg. In the Sonnewalde plant, we also greeted four technical trainess. In the Logistics Centre South (Logistikzentrum Süd) in Jettingen-Scheppach, one young person is trained.