10
New owners
Bossard executive
of Philidas
changes
In August 2008 Philidas Limited was acquired
Peter Erlangsen, a member of the group’s
by entrepreneurs Steve McHugh and Eric
executive, will leave Bossard on 31 December,
Sinclair. They specialise in providing finance 2008. Dr. Daniel Bossard, currently vice
and management strength to manufacturing president sales and marketing for the group,
companies.
will take over from Peter Erlangsen as of
Philidas Limited is a manufacturer of female
January 1, 2009.
fasteners, plugs and similar products, specialising
Born 1970, Daniel Bossard has a doctorate from
in locking nuts. It provides solutions to the rail,
the University of St. Gallen. After serving as head
automotive, industrial, construction and aerospace
of group sales and marketing for the past three
industries.
Originally founded in 1942, Philidas employs
years, he will now take over responsibility for
over 90 personnel at the company's site in
Bossard's Northern and Eastern Europe business
Pontefract, West Yorkshire, UK. Its manufacturing
units as well as for the export business in
capacity is in excess of 300 million parts per year.
Switzerland. With this appointment he will also
Steve McHugh has taken over the role of
become a member of the executive committee.
managing director and Roy Jones becomes the Daniel Bossard was managing director of Bossard
sales director.
Denmark from 2002 to 2004; prior to that he was
‘Philidas has a great reputation within the
in charge of building up the e-commerce sector for
industry for innovative and high quality fasteners.
the entire group.
With our investment and management skills we
Tee Bin Ong has been appointed as the new
will become a stronger and more efficient supplier
head of group sales and marketing. Born in 1968,
of these products’ says Steve McHugh. ‘As a global
quality supplier, we provide solutions to a wide
he has worked for Bossard since May 1999. He
range of fastener problems. From very high
successfully established Bossard's subsidiary in
volume automotive applications to very low
Malaysia. In July 2004 he took over the
volume industrial applications, Philidas supply
management of Bossard's business with global
many leading Distributors, OEMs, Tier 1 and 2
EMS customers, with subsidiaries in China,
suppliers throughout the world’. Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Mexico.
Emhart transfers UK Helicoil®
rights to Bollhoff
In a customer letter issued by VP for sales and marketing, Christian Lubascher, Emhart Teknologies has
confirmed that, effective 1 January 2009, Bollhoff GmbH will be responsible for the sales and
marketing of the Helicoil® brand in the UK, Northern Ireland and Eire.
Bollhoff has been the longstanding Helicoil manufacturing and sales/marketing licensee for Europe. Emhart
began marketing Helicoil directly in the UK market in 2006. Bollhoff, which manufactures Helicoil products at
its Bielefeld, Germany, headquarters, has been keen for many years to complete its European coverage
through inclusion of the UK market.
Vipa upgrades testing capabilities
Vipa SpA is developing a new testing laboratory which will contain all the relevant apparatus to
control and test products.
In this laboratory Vipa has installed a new machine for tensile strength tests up to 60 tonnes. This
machine can also carry out tests for traction, compression and flexion. It contains software that allows the
calculation of AG, according to ISO 7500. The software also gives the machine the capability to visualise,
print and store data of results in Windows ‘95, ‘98 and NT.
With this new equipment it will be possible to execute specific tests for the customers, including the
new assembly (screw, nut and washer) according to ISO 14399 for HV bolts class 10.9 up to M27. “We at
Vipa are investing in our company to ensure the highest quality of products and technical service for
customers.”
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