Founded in 1953 in São Paulo and later acquired by SPS Technologies in 1995, METALAC is a leading manufacturing company for high resistance fasteners in Brazil and is an important supplier for critical application bolts in the automotive industry including connecting rod bolts, cylinder head bolts, main bearing bolts, and brake pins. METALAC is also a manufacturer of premium grade socket head cap screws.
METALAC operates from a 350,000 square foot facility. Since joining Precision Castparts Corp. in 2003, Metalac has benefited from continued investment in modernizing it's facility and continues to work closely with other PCC fasteners sites.
METALAC designs and manufactures engineered critial fasteners and cold formed parts for automotive and general industry.
Key Processes include:
- Cold Forming
- Automatic Sorting
- Thread Rolling
- Plating
- Finishing
- Automatic Machining
- Heat Treatment
- Material Processing
Specialty Fasteners
- Special bolts manufactured according to the customer specification or designed by Metalac to meet the specific needs.
- Brake pins, connecting rod bolts, cylinder head bolts, wheel bolts, main bearing bolts, fly wheel bolts, among others.
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Services
With modern laboratories and new generation equipment, Metalac offers:
- Vibration test to evaluate the efficiency of locking features, using Jünker Machine
- Tests on TTM (Torque and Tension Machine), for head and thread friction coefficients and clamp load
- Fatigue test on fasteners or bolted joints
- Ultrasonic tests
- Failure analysis of bolted joints
- Tightening window behavior and dimensioning, for torque or torque x angle
- Dimensioning of bolted joints with definition of tightening window and resistance class
- Rationalization of assembled joints to reduce the number of items, the complexity and the cost
Metalac
Avenida Itavuvu 4690
Sorocaba, Brazil
Phone: +55 15-3334-3505
Website: metalac.com.br