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Practical expertise — stainless and acid-resistant fastener articles, materials know-how and hands-on guides.
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- Next-generation wood screws (11)
- Pipe fittings, fittings (4)
- Technical chemicals (4)
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- Wire ropes (8)
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Stainless gadgets for stainless professionals
Read more →: Stainless gadgets for stainless professionalsNONOX gadgets have been part of our range for decades, they simply never stood in the spotlight. Double-walled, lockable, solidly built stainless steel that holds its own in the office, in the workshop and out in the field alike — and with a laser-engraved logo it becomes a corporate gift that actually gets used.
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Assemble, don’t wage war
Read more →: Assemble, don’t wage warOur picture post for the World Peace Day of 21 September 2025. The Hungarian title is a play on words: szerelkezz means to get kitted out and start assembling things, set against háborúzz, to wage war. If you find it useful, read our companion piece on what human rights are.
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The self-drilling bi-metal screw that saves you time and money
Read more →: The self-drilling bi-metal screw that saves you time and moneyA hardened carbon steel tip welded to a stainless steel body: the bi-metal self-drilling screw drills and fastens in a single operation, with no pre-drilling, while keeping its corrosion resistance at the surface. Why a plain stainless self-drilling screw cannot do the job, and where the bi-metal version pays for itself.
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Human rights
Read more →: Human rightsThis time we commend to your attention not one of our products but something of far wider public interest: a series of short yet moving films about human rights. Not education, not politics — just a clear, down-to-earth summary of the rights due to every one of us, wherever we live and whatever we believe.
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Hinges
Read more →: HingesHinges 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.
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Pulleys on the racecourses
Read more →: Pulleys on the racecoursesWhat 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.
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As if we hadn’t got a single “pipe-farthing”?!
Read more →: As if we hadn’t got a single “pipe-farthing”?!NONOX stainless and acid-resistant pipe fittings hold together the systems that run across wide temperature ranges and in corrosive media. From the base grades 1.4301 to 1.4404, through ball valves, elbows, press bends, reducers, sockets, unions and flanges, to Kamlok quick couplings and the thread types that join them all.
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METABO inox programme 2025
Read more →: METABO inox programme 2025Stainless steel is imposing and unforgiving in equal measure — every mistake shows on the finished surface. A structural manufacturer that bought the complete Metabo INOX range explains why the corded machines won in-house, why the cordless ones proved indispensable on site, and why only INOX-marked accessories go near the workpiece.
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Lock your screw joints with LOCTITE threadlockers!
Read more →: Lock your screw joints with LOCTITE threadlockers!Two outstanding threadlockers that keep screw joints in place under the toughest conditions: LOCTITE 270 for high-strength, vibration-proof locking, and LOCTITE 243 as the versatile, medium-strength choice. Both cure on passive surfaces such as stainless steel and aluminium, and tolerate lightly contaminated surfaces. Suitable for NONOX screws too.
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How to choose the right drilling speed?
Read more →: How to choose the right drilling speed?If drilling stainless takes real effort, the speed is usually to blame. Use a suitable drill, choose the right bit, and above all get the speed right: the harder the material and the larger the diameter, the lower it must be. With a speed table and the formula for working it out.
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When should we choose a cordless and when rather a corded hand tool?
Read more →: When should we choose a cordless and when rather a corded hand tool?Home DIYers and even the professionals sometimes agonise over whether to reach for a cordless or a corded tool. Frequency of use, the length of the working day, accessibility, safety and the weather all pull the decision in different directions. A practical comparison, with a summary table of the considerations.
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The versatile world of chains
Read more →: The versatile world of chainsShort-link DIN766 and long-link DIN763 chains, link pitch and what it decides, plus twisted, knotted and ball chains. Where NONOX acid-resistant chains earn their place, from marine and chemical systems to interior architecture.