Building hardware

Two customers waiting at the counter, snow outside, and a box of stainless wheels that had not yet been closed. What followed was a conversation that sold four braked and four unbraked wheels on the spot. NONOX wheels: 100 mm diameter, 160 kg each, swivel, braked or unbraked, from 5990 Ft.

What can a pulley have to do with rowing? More than we would think at first. Beneath an international rowing course, specially designed stainless pulleys guide the wire ropes that hold the buoy rows in place. A long-standing customer's account of building and maintaining them — corrosion, silt, mussels and wasps included.

Hinges connect two parts so that they can turn relative to one another, and the range runs from tiny instrument covers to industrial gates. NONOX stainless hinges and barrel hinges by material, surface finish, mountability, range of movement and handedness — with the difference between the two explained and nine examples pictured.

In the mild early-summer night, creaking and banging breaks the silence of the tenement house into blade-sharp splinters. A dark figure, a weapon-like object, a few drops of blood on the walkway. This story is so real that it could even be true.

We are modern people. We like solutions that are quick, simple and splendid. Who wants to thread and screw things together nowadays if they don't have to? We like hearing that little metallic snap – the “click-clack and click”.