Quality, reliability, and global leadership
Formed with the combined strengths of Huck and Fairchild Fasteners, Alcoa Fastening Systems serves the global aerospace, automotive, and commercial transportation markets with the most specialized engineering, highest quality, and the greatest breadth and depth of fastening system solutions in our industry.
These strengths combined with Alcoa's long-standing leadership and commitment to excellence make Alcoa Fastening Systems the best choice to answer your Aerospace or Industrial fastening system needs.
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What's New
Alcoa Acquires Two Aerospace Fastener Businesses to Bolster its Growing Aerospace Portfolio
March 12, 2008
Republic and Van Petty Fasteners to Join Company's Fast-Growing Alcoa Fastening Systems Business
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Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) Announces Development of “Smart” Installation Tool
September 17, 2007
Improving upon its development of the Ergo-Tech® one-side fastening system that provides easy access and quicker assembly of modern aerospace structures, AFS is releasing a “Smart Installation Tool” that monitors the installation process and validates proper installation of each fastener.
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Alcoa Fastening Systems Donates $25,000 in support of University of Michigan's Solar Car Project
July 23, 2007
TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) is continuing its gold-level sponsorship and support of the award-winning University of Michigan Solar Car Team that has won 4 national championships in the last 10 years. In addition to continued financial support with a gift of another $25,000 this year, AFS provides technical support, installation tools, and a great number of highly engineered fasteners usually reserved for high tech aerospace applications including the recently developed Ergo-Tech® and Spin-Lok™ fastening systems.
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Alcoa Designs New Fastener Insert; No Tapping Needed
May 23, 2007
Manufacturers traditionally used bolts inserted into a tapped hole to fasten items together. If the thread on the bolt or in the hole gets damaged — or “stripped”— the connection becomes weak and the product is ruined. The solution was to place a metal insert with a thread formation into the hole, restoring both the connection and the product. Over time, thread forming inserts became standard practice when a bolt connection needed to be strong, such as on aircraft.
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Alcoa Fasteners and the A380
For the A380, Alcoa has developed a special fastener that bolts composite panels to aluminum crossmembers. A million Alcoa fasteners fly on every A380. Read about it in this special-distribution Fortune cover story.
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