Hide and Seac – new fastners match British Steel colourcoat colours

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(2000), "Hide and Seac – new fastners match British Steel colourcoat colours", Assembly Automation, Vol. 20 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2000.03320dad.006

Hide and Seac – new fastners match British Steel colourcoat colours

Hide and Seac – new fastners match British Steel colourcoat colours

Keywords: Colour, British Steel

Fabricators using British Steel's Colourcoat prefinished steel can now specify polymer-headed screw and rivet fasteners from the Seac Polytop range in matched colours (see Plate 7). These fasteners provide a single-step fix and finish for assembly and fabrication applications where visual appearance is important.

Polytop fasteners are self-finished, self-coloured and blend unobtrusively with Colourcoat prefinished steels. As a result, they can be used in visible positions where ordinary fasteners would be unacceptable without painting, masking or capping. Because they fix and finish in a single step, they can cut production time and labour costs.

The Polytop fastener range includes polymer-headed rivets, screws and socket-drive screws to suit most industrial assembly needs.

Plate 7 Fabricators using British Steel's Colourcoat prefinished steel can now specify polymer-headed screw and rivet fasteners from the Seac polytop range in matched colours

The Polytop rivet was developed specifically for joining prefinished and plastic-coated sheet metals. This fastener is available as both standard and multi-grip 4.8mm diameter aluminium rivets in lengths from 10 to 25mm. Standard manual or automated rivet setting tools can be used and the raw material grip range is from 1.5 to 20.3mm.

Compatible with pneumatic wrench fixing, socket-drive Polytop screws combine a colourful appearance with high mechanical strength. This fastener is fixed with a 12-point bi-hexagon socket that provides a degree of tamper resistance. Standard Polytop screws have a tough acetal polymer head moulded onto steel or stainless steel pozidrive screws. Both types of Polytop screw are supplied in all common screw formats in sizes from 6 to 12 gauge (M4 to M6).

For further information contact: Philip Hill, Seac Ltd, 46 Chesterfield Road, Leicester LE5 5LP. Tel: +44 (0) 116 2739501; Fax: +44 (0) 116 2738373.