Special and custom fastener parts

This enables the company to optimise performance across a customer manufacturing operation with standard products from stock including many specialist fastener items. When standard stock fastenings are not suitable, it can offer a custom solution from its own manufacturing facility.

This capability is suitable for small quantities and extends to partnering arrangements with fabricators and finishers so that they can cover a wide range of components from specialist threaded fasteners to sheet metal or cast fixings. Challenge Europe couples in-house machining with a global sourcing and supply infrastructure and in-depth expertise of the manufacturing cycle gained from more than 30 years in the engineering arena.

This capability enables the company to produce components from alternative materials at short notice and to incorporate them into packaged sub-assemblies. In this way customers gain a complete service of high-quality and low-cost on standard mass-produced items and on small quantity specialist components.

Typically this includes: Instrument carrying handles, chrome handles, clamp screws and stud rivet nut assembly. In addition, the company offers cut-to-length studding, vented screws, spacers and general modification work to standard fasteners, e.g. shortening to non-standard lengths & cross drilling to take split cotter pins.

Custom specialist machine parts are produced in most metals and sometimes plastics – non-standard items are specials to customer drawings or non-standard sizes to international standards, e.g. an intermediate diameter or length.