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Shun Otsuki, President & Editor in Chief
Kinsan Fastener News
Shirakawa 3-23-6
Nishishimbashi Minato-ku
Tokyo 105-0003 Japan
www.neji-bane.jp

Belgium’s Anemo Engineering
Opens a Japanese Website for“Turnlock”, an Easy-to-Remove Fastener

Anemo Engineering of Alveringem, Belgium,
has launched a Japanese website for its “Turnlock” fastener, which facilitates the fastening andremoval of two panels.
Turnlock allows safe and easy fastening and removal bysimply pinching the head ofturning it by a quarter turn.
These fasteners are ideal forpanels and other assemblies
that need to be opened andclosed quickly. It consists ofa spring, retaining washer
and receptacle (female part).
It is durable and resistant tovibration. In addition to products that can be removed
that require the use of standard tools such as crosshead
screwdrivers, spanners, andhexagonal wrenches.
Turnlock products are used by NASA for equipment suchas the shredder that astronauts bring to the International
Space Station (ISS), 3D printers that use the resin cut by
the shredder as material and experimental equipment called“ice-cubes”. It is now used in machinery, transportation vehicles such as trains, construction equipment and militaryequipment.
Although 30% of its sales are generated
from the USA market, the company hasbeen preparing for the development ofinternational markets. This time, theygual website in Japanese. The website
features a wide variety of turn-lock products and videos.
Moreover, high-strength aluminum products have been added as a new productline-up of Turnlock. The line-up includes
MTH slots with slotted head recesses
that can be installed with a screwdriver,
MTH crosses with cross recesses andMTH folding rings with ring handles thatcan be installed by hand. These products contribute to weight reduction thatcan be achieved only with high-strength
aluminum. The cross pin and spring are
made of stainless steel for strength.
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ceptacle (female part) with an adjustable function that can(male parts) of the same length can be used for mounting
receptacle inward or outward, the receptacles can be adjustin place. They are applicable to MTH series and HGR series.
and origin according to user requirements. The company isplanning to expand its business in Japan by recruiting distributors to handle Turnlock.
version of the website: https://www.turnlock.jp/“Motion Tight” is Breaking a New Ground

The high-performance anti-loosening bolt “Motion Tight” developed by ART SCREW Co., Ltd. (Nagoya) is breaking anew ground. The company is developing abutment screws
as a new product and also developing multiple productsin parallel such as new shaped bolts that increase fatigue
strength to 1.5 times that of standard products.
Motion Tight is an anti-loosening bolt featuring a special
asymmetric thread shape. It is designed to gradually contact
with internal screw occurs from thread top of external screw.
The axis is raised toward the seat surface side (upward) as
tightening torque is applied. After that, external screw and insive forces act on seat surface and thread surfaces, thereby
generating high anti-loosening force.

Motion Tight is a strong anti-loosening force that is exerted
simply through normal tightening. That capability realizes
down sizing with high axial force and improvement in fatigue
with down sizing and unnecessary loosening prevention.
-Japanese News ...continueding motorcycles and automobiles, logistics, railways andelectric appliances. And it has been recently used in ﬁelds
where contamination is not allowed such as semiconductor
and medical-related ﬁelds.
Also, ART SCREW is focusing on overseas expansion. The
company signed a manufacturing and sales contract with
Taiwan FKE and Anchor Fasteners Vietnam Co., Ltd., twoyears ago.
President Matsubayashi said, “Loosening and breaking is
the most common complaint about screws, and I propose tosolve this problem and reduce the weight and cost. Motion
Tight has high loosening prevention power just by tightening
normally. Next year, we plan to launch the new shape boltwith increased fatigue strength up to 1.5 times. I expect a bigresponse to new product.”
ART SCREW is looking for manufacturing and sales contracts outside of Japan to spread Motion Tight. There is no
initial contract fee or volume-based payment required, only
US$1000 per month as a license fee. Plus rolling tools andthread gauges for motion tights need to be purchased fromART SCREW.
For more information, you can contact President Matsubayashi at: kou@artscrew.co.jp

prepare for V-shaped recovery.”

Nitto Seiko Certiﬁed Universal
Robot “UR ” by Screw Tightening System

Nitto Seiko (Kyoto) will release the “PD400UR” series ofscrew tightening units that have acquired the “UR +” productcertiﬁcation of Universal Robots in Denmark, from August30, 2021.
With the spread of collaborative robots that do not requiresafety fences and are easy to introduce, there is an increasing demand for high-performance screw tightening machinesthat can be mounted on collaborative robots also in the screwtightening. The PD400UR series released by the company iscertiﬁed as UR+, a universal robot manufacturer of collaborative robots. UR+ certiﬁes third-party products that are compatible with the system such as being able to be set from theFuji Buhin Industry Aims forGroup Sales of 20.6 Billion YenFuji Buhin Industries Inc. (Gunma) aims for a total groupsales of 20.6 billion yen in 2021. The company, which is in
the ﬁrst stage (2020-2022) of the medium-term management
plan aiming for sales of 20 billion yen at the domestic base(FBK) and 100 million yen at the USA base (FCP), is involved
in “innovation” and “reform”. The ﬁrm is promoting its business with these keywords.
In FY2008, FBK decreased 21% year-on-year to 11,360 million yen, FCP decreased 26% year-on-year to 4710 million
yen, and the group total decreased 22% year-on-year to
16,070 million yen.
Due to the global supply chain turmoil such as the shortageof semiconductors and resin materials including the new corona in the automobile industry, the range of sales decline
at domestic bases has reached a record high. At an on-line
debrieﬁng session for suppliers, President Matsuzaki lookedback on the previous term as a severe year.
The target for FY2021 is domestic sales of 14.5 billion yen
and a total of 20.6 billion yen for the group. Although the endof COVID-19 is uncertain and the timing to solve the semiconductor shortage is uncertain, the plan is to achieve thetarget by accumulating new orders in anticipation of a recovery in production by major users.
Fuji Buhin Industries’ President Matsuzaki pointed out that
there will be a full model change and a big minor changeof the automobile manufacturer, which is a major user, as apositive factor within the year. Furthermore, it aims to expand
sales by accumulating orders from customers other than major users.
Regarding this term, President Matsuzaki said, “We are reviewing the plan and reorganizing the system in order to put
it on a rising trend again, but until the economic situation returns, we will ﬁrst overcome this diﬃcult situation. I want to52

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interface of a collaborative robot made by Universal Robots.
In the ﬁeld of screw tightening robots, Nitto Seiko was theﬁrst Japanese company to obtain certiﬁcation.
The newly developed plug-in software, URCap NS SD600T
that can be introduced into the universal robot dedicatedteach pendant, can easily arrange the tightening torque and