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How Toggle Clamps Are Used Across Industries and Applications
How Toggle Clamps Are Used Across Industries and Applications From woodworking to automotive and electronics, get a better grip on what toggle clamps are used for and how they support multiple industries. Whether you’re tackling a home DIY project or running large-scale industrial manufacturing, toggle clamps have one singular function that drives a $428 million...
A Complete Guide to the Different Types of Toggle Clamps
Discover the various types of toggle clamps, each with unique designs and operational features, to help you choose the best one for your requirements. In 2025, anything with the power to enhance productivity while ensuring safety is a sure bet for success. Toggle clamps meet this brief perfectly, offering precision, reliability, and efficiency across various...
Sandfield Engineering featured in ‘New Civil Engineer’
We’re delighted to say that our Technical Director, David Cole has contributed an article to New Civil Engineer. Discussing August’s sodium cyanide spillage from metal finishing company Anochrome into a local canal system, he explores how the issue of industrial water pollution has been thrust back into the headlines. Read the full article – 10...
What is a Stainless Steel Toggle Clamp?
It’s a question that often comes up so as leading UK Stainless Steel Toggle Clamp suppliers we thought we would have a crack at answering it for you. You may remember from our What is a Toggle Clamp post at the beginning of December that a Toggle Clamp is a tool used to securely locate...
Manufacturing and engineering, and COVID-19.
Our current stance on the Coronavirus Situation Just a week ago our world looked very different. This week we’re in the midst of one of the biggest health crises the world has ever seen. We have been thinking long and hard about how we respond to this awful situation. One of the serious concerns right...
What is a Linear Rail?
Discover what linear rails are, how they work and where they’re used. The UK automation sector is growing rapidly, with it valued at around $8.42 billion in 2021 and projected to reach $14.64 billion by 2028. As automation and precision engineering continue to expand, so does the need for reliable linear rails and linear guide...
£17M uni investment, blue economy, engineering marvels and EV/AVs
Engineering facilities expand at Lancaster University Business Desk are reporting that Lancaster University is going all-out to expand their engineering department. There’s a fantastic new three storey £17m building on the cards, packed with cutting-edge labs and a 3D lecture theatre specially designed to deliver newly-developed teaching concepts via complex virtual imaging. The new facility will...
What is a Bowl Feeder?
A bowl feeder, or a bowl feeding system, is an accurate and efficient tool for sorting, ordering and orienting components and delivering them into a manufacturing or packing process at a specific feed rate. Bowl Feeders are typically positioned at the start of a manufacturing process, an operator places a number of parts into a...
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