Swedish premium fastener manufacturer BUMAX AB has completed a major investment to enhance the level of quality it delivers to customers and its product development capabilities.
BUMAX fasteners are well-known for their high level of quality and consistency across batches. This investment gives BUMAX the advanced tools to even better verify the quality of its products and more transparently respond to the highest customer demands.
“Our customers are increasingly demanding even greater quality and verification to meet their demanding applications and the latest standards,” explains Jonas Forslund, Production Engineer at BUMAX. “In response, we have invested in our in-house capabilities in the form of new equipment and competence.”
“At BUMAX, we sell high-quality products and it’s essential that we remain relevant in the market by continuing to be able to meet the highest demands of our customers,” explains Jonas Nilsson-Öst, Quality Manager at BUMAX. “This goes beyond our products to offer services and testing capabilities that enable the customer to fine-tune and further improve their fastener applications.”
Some of the new equipment has already improved quality for all BUMAX batches, such as 120-ton and 25-ton tensile testing machines, which are used to determine the strength and deformation behavior of fasteners from every batch before it leaves the BUMAX factory. A new optical measuring machine accurately measures the dimensions of fasteners, including anomalies up to 0.0001 mm, which is about a thousandth of what is visible with the naked eye. Additionally, the new microsamples lab line is a key addition enhance the quality testing capabilities of the BUMAX R&D lab.
An important part of the investment is data consolidation software that combines datapoints from multiple machines and sources, which provides deep insight into material and manufacturing quality. The investment also includes a microsamples lab line, a micro hardness machine and a magnetic permeability measuring tool.
“Our new capabilities can support future product development, such as by verifying a new stainless steel material or production capabilities,” concludes Forslund. “In addition to our new equipment, we’ve employed an additional person to work with testing and have trained our existing technicians on the latest techniques and standards. These investments in our personnel are just as important as our equipment investments.”
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Nimeka de Silva
Head of Marketing, BUMAX AB
Tel: +44 (0) 7904 980037 | +44 (0) 1527 593780
Email: nimeka.desilva@bumax.se
About BUMAX
BUMAX is the world-leading specialist manufacturer of premium stainless steel fasteners in a variety of steel grades that provide optimal safety and reliability in the most demanding customer applications. Customers include CERN, ABB, Alfa Laval, Alstom, Vestas, Rolls Royce and many more in industries such as marine, automotive, oil and gas, chemical processing, energy, defense, pulp and paper, construction and general engineering. BUMAX is headquartered in Åshammar in Sweden’s steel district and has a global footprint with offices or distributors in more than 30 countries on four continents. BUMAX is fully owned by the listed Swedish Bufab Group. Find out more at https://www.bumax-fasteners.com/.