The Fastener Factory

The Fastener Factory,offers a specialist supply and support service to diverse industries throughout the country, including automotive, engineering, agriculture, mining and construction. The company’s comprehensive range of quality branded fasteners and related products and accessories are carefully sourced from leading manufacturers and suppliers within South Africa, as well as from Europe and the Far East. This range is enhanced by a wide selection of tools, abrasives, bearings, power transmission components and engineering supplies. The Fastener Factory has been appointed exclusive distributors throughout Southern Africa for Heico-Lock washers, which are manufactured in Germany. Heico-Lock washers consist of a range of wedge locking washers and nuts, as well as ring lock washers and are used to prevent loosening caused by vibration and dynamic loads. An important feature of the Heico-Lock wedge lock system is the securing of the bolt fastening, using preload force rather than friction. Leading brands of tools include Bosch, Dewalt, Kraftwerk, King Tony, Microtec and Qualitools. The company also supplies Timken and DYZV branded bearing and power transmission items, as well as Somta drilling and cutting products. Klingspor, one of the top five abrasives manufacturers globally, supplies The Fastener Factory with an extensive range of coated made-to-order belts, bonded (cutting and grinding), burrs and diamond abrasives (cutting, grinding and polishing). The Fastener Factory is a level four contributor to broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) according to the DTI’s ‘qualifying small enterprises (QSE) scorecard.