| Features • Unlike spot welding, joints can be created in-die with clinch fasteners and automated equipment • Can be used where welding is impossible or undesirable, such as joining dissimilar materials, pre-coated sheets, and high strength thin sheet metals • Unlike welding, clinch fasteners do not create a heat zone in the materials during installation • Can be installed after the painting or coating process, with virtually no aesthetic damage to the application • Placing equipment ranging from manual working station to multiple, high rate setting machines Benefits • Lowers in-place costs, maximizes assembly flexibility • Corrosion resistance is maintained • Changes and damage to the application materials are minimized • Can eliminate welding operations and its environmental and safety hazards • Avoids cross-threading and other problems caused by coated or painted threads • joints do not require destructive testing to determine installed strength • Use of threaded fasteners ease servicing while providing high joint strength |