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How to secure a 15 m
tall rock devouring giant heavier
than a dozen jumbo jets
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The next generation of gasketing.
Providing more exible solutions.
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Dear Readers,
Have you ever wondered how to drill a hole into a mountain? If so, the story of Martin Herrenknecht and his
rock-eating submarines might interest you. Maybe you were the kind of child who took grandpas mechanical
alarm clock apart to see how it works? In this case, Rudolf Neumayer and his Tear Down Centre could be just
what you are looking for.
What we would like to do in the rst issue of Loctite
you'll ride
shotgun in the Dakar Rally with the Loctite
brand.
So, lean back and enjoy the ride.
Yours sincerely,
Highlight: Dakar 2009
Come along to the bivouac and learn more
about the heroes of the Dakar.
Side Glance
Energy the breath of civilisation.
Reliability Report 1: Berg Propulsion
Marine propulsion systems. High tech and
maximum precision, hand made. Breathtaking
technology from Sweden.
Reliability Report 2: Herrenknecht
Tunnel boring technology from Germany.
How does Loctite
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Vice President
Loctite Industrial Group
Henkel Adhesive
Technologies EMEA
Cdric Berthod
Cdric Berthod
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Editorial | 3
A cloud of dust on the horizon. A VW Touareg
approaching at breathtaking speed. The towering
mountains and dunes of the Atacama desert rising up
all around Copiapo, in the northern part of Chile. The
Copiapo Copiapo special is a pretty tough challenge:
476 kilometers of the steepest dunes, deep sand and stony
tracks. According to the drivers its the toughest one in the
history of the Dakar.
The Touareg whizzes by only a metre away at top speed,
the air lled with the powerful roar of the new turbo-diesel
engine, a sound that makes every off-road fans heart beat
faster. Next the eld of competitors arrives hot on the heels,
in rapid succession: the great Mitsubishi, Hummer and
BMW X-Raid desert racers. And then, following a short
distance behind, the monster trucks rumbling by, making
the ground shake. Thick clouds of dust have engulfed the
terrain. The Atacama desert is said to be the driest in the
world, with places where it hasnt rained for 400 years.
Conditions for the drivers are tough: Rough terrain, difcult
navigation, extreme temperature differences and, most of
all, the dry and dusty conditions, push all competitors to
the limit. Vehicles are continually subjected to hard shocks
and ying stones, the steep dunes demand the highest
level of performance from the engines.
That day the stage nishes at the Copiapo bivouac, the
northern most point of the rally. The Desert Knights
Henkel engineers, better known as the Loctite
Charlies,
are also ready for action: Jean Gaborit from France,
Clio Renato Ruiz and Demetrio Santos from Brazil. The
Dakar Service Center, set up as a common platform for
Euromaster, BF Goodrich and Loctite
/Pattex, is easily
visible from a long distance. Loctite
since 2005.
Right now there are three bikers
dragging their fairings to the
Loctite
Desert Knights in the
Copiapo bivouac
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Demetrio Santos are busy doing a plastic repair on a BMW
body part. Their daily work and many exciting insights into
the heart of the rally are documented on the Loctite
live blog
www.dakaradventure.com
Chief Charlie Jean is nowhere in sight. I nally discover him
with the Hummer team! Robby Gordons box-shaped race
vehicle is almost completely disassembled, sitting on the
repair stand like a skeleton. Jean is explaining to the chief
mechanic how to use Loctite
,
Teroson, Pattex
Products: Adhesives,
Sealants, Surface
Treatment
Major applications:
Threadlocking,
Gasketing, Sealing,
Retaining, Plastic
Repair, Windscreen
Replacement, Glass
Repair, Instant Bonding
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High-tech from
Sweden
The rays of the morning sun reflect on the calm surface of the sea, before they
reach the white lighthouse that has been operating for more than a hundred years.
The small sailing boats are quietly bobbing up and down in their moorings, wooden
houses with the characteristic low roofs line the waterfront and the cries of the
seagulls are the only sounds that the wind carries.
Production in ckero Berg Propulsion headquarters Propeller blades ready for assembly High precision meets high-tech
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Reader recruiting Reader | 6 | 6 Reliability Report 1
What sounds like the beginning of a bad novel or a holiday
brochure for travellers with a taste for maritime nostalgia,
actually describes the location of a modern production plant:
The island cker, off Swedens West coast, is home to the
ship propeller manufacturer Berg Propulsion, one of Swedens
leading high tech companies.
Ensuring reliability with Loctite
7063
Loctite
243
A dowel pin controls the propeller
blades. Secured by Loctite
243
The hydraulic system is embedded
into the shaft
After only one hour the system has
to withstand 70 bar of oil pressure
All the blades are
assembled and the
propeller is ready
for use
Assembly of the pipes securing it
with Loctite
243
No room for error
From modest beginnings, the company was founded as
a shipyard for shing vessels in 1912, Berg Propulsion
has developed into a multinational company constructing
propellers for all kinds of vessels. Tankers, containers,
cargo ships and luxury yachts, to name just a few, all rely on
the experience and the craftsmanship of Berg Propulsion.
The demands placed on the reliability and durability of
Bergs CP (Controllable Pitch) propellers are enormous:
Once the propeller is tted to the vessel, alterations
become extremely difcult and the propellers are in use
for 25 years or more. There is no room for error, because
the safety of the ship and the vessel depend on the quality
of the product. Money is another aspect; every day that a
ship has to remain in the dock for repairs costs the owner
between $15 and $20,000 a day, explains Bergs Managing
Director Anders Christoffersson. (see interview)
Family businesses gone global
Technological progress has made its
mark on every aspect of life, and the
manufacturing process at the plant on the
idyllic island of cker is no exception
to this rule. A lot has changed since
Johann Wiktor Berg manufactured
the rst CP Propeller for a
wooden shing vessel in 1929;
one of those changes is the use
of Henkels Loctite
products.
Berg Propulsion and Henkel, the
global leader in adhesive technology, have a lot in common:
Both started as family businesses with an emphasis
on high-quality products and both have developed into
successful companies operating on a global scale.
Henkel had the opportunity to observe the production
process at Bergs island plant. The gigantic propeller,
with a diameter of more than 9 metre, dwarfs the men
standing next to it. The shining bronze propeller blades
appear almost menacing in their shining perfection. At every
stage of the manufacturing process Loctite
products have
an important role to play: The threads of hydraulic pipes
responsible for controlling
the individual
bl ades
Customer:
Berg Propulsion,
Sweden
Task:
Securing hydraulic
systems to assure
reliability for 25 years
and more
Products:
Loctite
243
Loctite
638
Reliability
at work
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What is your position at Berg Propulsion? I am Vice President of our
technical division Berg Propulsion Technology. And we are developing Bergs
products of tomorrow.
You use Loctite
increases
reliability of our products.
Why do you use Loctite
technical support daily in the form of calculations and application solutions. Then, we
also get ongoing product training for our technicians and engineers.
Do you know more about the brand Loctite
product as replacement for the locking washer. And it worked. Since then we have
used Loctite
products and other products; those we know among others are your
lubricants and exible adhesives and instant adhesives.
What do you think are the most important characteristics and benets of
Loctite
gives us.
are retained with Loctite
243. Loctite
product family.
Co-adapting to industrial evolution
Peter Wrobels story is an example for a more long term project. It was a 2 year
process that led to the development of Loctite
sealants in order to work well with that material. Before Mr. Wrobel
and his team embark on such a project, though, there needs to be a solid business case. If a
successful commercial application seems less than probable, we dont go into the lab,
because thats very cost-intensive, explains the team-leader. Wrobel is a trained chemist, but
he has acquired a good feeling for the business side of things through customer visits. While
there is still a place for the coincidence and the power of the subconscious, after all success
and failure is still down to people, individuals with their strengths and weaknesses, innovation
depends today on to a large extent on exact planning and efcient use of resources.
Peter Wrobel, Senior Development Scientist,
Automotive Product Development Dept.
Henkel Technology Centre Europe
RD&E insights
The evolution of new adhesives
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Achieving fast xture on passive metal substrates such as nickel- & other plated
surfaces is quite a challenge for an anaerobic threadlocker, especially if requirements
also call for good sealing performance and high strength, as well as very good thermal and
shock resistance.
Finding the optimal solution: Loctite
and Herrenknecht
Herrenknecht has been growing ever since its foundation
in the 70s. It now employs around 3000 people worldwide
and sales reach 1 billion Euro for the rst time in 2008.
This impressive success story is partly due to the fact
that Herrenknecht took advantage of the opportunities
offered by globalisation. China is one of the countries which
Herrenknecht focused on early and in 2008 they were able
to celebrate the delivery of the 100th machine to the power-
house of the world economy. Completed main drive waiting
for the assembly into the
machine.
Forget Star Wars, forget Star Trek, forget the Matrix.
Wherever one of the machines operate, Malaysia, China,
Switzerland or Brazil, Henkels Loctite
products always
play an important role during the construction of those
insane pieces of engineering. Loctite
threadlocker 243 is
used to lock all the screws in the machine, which has to
withstand enormous pressure while it eats its way through
the rock.
Another application which makes good use of the
reliability that Loctite
products do you
use in the manufacture of tunnel boring machines?
Mr. Lais: In our department we mainly use Loctite
586
for bonding anges and 577 for thread sealing, 243 for
threadlocking and Loctite
7070 as a cleaner.
Where do you use Loctite
adhesives on your
machines? Mr. Lais: We use Loctite
mainly on the
cutting wheel drive. We apply product 586, to increase
friction.
In general, what parts of a machine are most severely
stressed during operation of the equipment? Mr.
Draeger: The cutting wheel and the main drive are
subjected to very high loads. Just imagine that the cutting
wheel is moving through the ground, encountering a variety
of soil types and loading conditions. There may be hard
rock or loose rock. In the case of hard rock it's mainly the
pressure and the force to be transmitted by the
cutting wheel when it's carving away the rock.
With loose rock, it's mainly the torques, the
rotating or twisting forces that act there and
cause very high stresses.
How does such a tunnel boring machine get from this
production facility to its nal destination ?
Mr. Draeger: The tunnel boring machine is fully assembled
right here in the factory. But, to move the machine to the
construction site, it must be disassembled again.
That's why the machine is completely modular in design,
and modules are assembled with bolts. We will disassemble
these bolted joints to get accurate structures which we
can transport to the construction site. Once they have
arrived at the construction site, these structures are then
re-assembled, tightened with bolts or welded.
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Handy Hints | 22
Discover reliability in the most extreme racing conditions.
Learn more about the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and Loctite's
technology partnership with the fastest one make cup in the world.
... coming soon
Come along and visit the kings of earth.
Discover the plant of TEREX in Scotland.
Get insights into the production of 100 ton rigid trucks.
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