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NONOX World
Practical expertise — stainless and acid-resistant fastener articles, materials know-how and hands-on guides.
- Building hardware (8)
- Catalogues (2)
- Chains (3)
- Fasteners (25)
- Galling (4)
- Index of our articles (1)
- Magazine (8)
- Materials know-how (19)
- Next-generation wood screws (11)
- Pipe fittings, fittings (4)
- Technical chemicals (4)
- Tools (13)
- WEH quick couplings (7)
- Wire ropes (8)
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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.
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NONOX World – 28 years of checkmating rust
Read more →: NONOX World – 28 years of checkmating rustOur NONOX World magazine, to flip through page by page: 28 years of checkmating rust. Click the cover to view the 2023 issue.
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The TW17-19 quick coupling
Read more →: The TW17-19 quick couplingWEH's hand-operated TW17, TW18 and TW19 quick couplings make a leak-free connection to a thread without any screwing. How the clamping jaws work, what pressure the standard couplings take, and where they earn their keep in pressure and leak testing.
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NONOX World – 27 years of checkmating rust
Read more →: NONOX World – 27 years of checkmating rustOur NONOX World magazine, to flip through page by page: 27 years of checkmating rust.
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Useful advice on preserving stainlessness
Read more →: Useful advice on preserving stainlessnessHow can something be called stainless if it is prone to rusting? Practical advice on protecting the surface oxide layer, on why stainless steel must never meet carbon steel, and a table of 60 chemicals with their effect on A2 and A4 grades.
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Concrete adhesives
Read more →: Concrete adhesivesP-NEX is polyester-based, V-NEX is vinyl ester-based, and both bond into solid building materials with no wall plug at all. The six-step method, plus a comparison table covering cracked and wet concrete, hollow brick, underwater use and seismic compliance.
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A look inside wood, or screwing safely, quickly and rust-free
Read more →: A look inside wood, or screwing safely, quickly and rust-freeWood dries, warps, cracks and moves. Nine short chapters on screwing it safely: why wood splits and how self-tapping tips prevent it, self-countersinking heads, Torx versus cross recess, reinforced head-to-shank transitions, stainless versus galvanised, hardened C1 for hardwoods, driving-easing coatings and hole-widening ribs.
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Pipe clamp
Read more →: Pipe clampA pipe clamp is a pipe clamp – or is it? Galvanised clamps are fine for heating, gas and water pipes, but food, chemical and energy plants demand stainless. NONOX A2 clamps are made from 1,8-1,9 mm stainless steel with stiffening ribs and bear up to 150 kg – plain or rubber-lined, in many sizes.
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So much I have not yet fitted
Read more →: So much I have not yet fittedNONOX fasteners are weather-resistant, polishable and, yes, beautiful. Ideas for fitting signs with cap nuts, threaded rod and decorative washers, for discreet countersunk solutions, for security fasteners that cannot be undone, for solid rivets, and for wire ropes and chains as design elements.
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NONOX World – 28 years of checkmating rust
Read more →: NONOX World – 28 years of checkmating rustOur NONOX World magazine, to flip through page by page: 28 years of checkmating rust.
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What does the NONOX brand name stand for?
Read more →: What does the NONOX brand name stand for?NON: not; OX: oxidation. The acronym works like “inox”: non-oxidising, that is stainless or acid-resistant. What the NONOX range covers – screws, nuts, washers, rivets, wall plugs, wire ropes, chains, marine fittings – and what these austenitic alloys have in common, from food-industry use to non-magnetic properties.
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Interview with a cheerful master carpenter
Read more →: Interview with a cheerful master carpenterA carpenter from a 50-year dynasty ordered 1028 stainless Torx decking screws for a Buda carport whose roof doubles as a terrace. No pre-drilling, no splitting, no snapped heads – and a job that usually takes two days finished in one. Even the owner noticed the screws were not the usual yellow.