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With our diversified production capabilities, Associated Fastening Products manufactures fittings to custom specifications. We offer an abundance of material options and produce plugs and accessories in any configuration for applications that require a made-to-order solution. Products we manufacture include plugs for dry seal socket, flush sealing, NPT Philips, and NPT slotted pipe. We also make rod end and yoke end joints in any size or configuration. Serving the OEM market in dozens of industries, we provide prime quality products and personalized and responsive customer service.

Inside our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, we leverage high-tech production control and quality assurance systems to ensure all products are dimensionally accurate and comply with specifications. We manufacture custom fittings from an extensive selection of metals, including aluminum, CRS, copper, stainless steel, titanium, and others. We also offer various plastics with a range of performance attributes. With our manufacturing systems, we produce fittings measuring up to 8” in diameter and from 1/8” to 24” in length as standard, with larger sizes available upon request. For finishing, we offer all different types of plating options.

Our comprehensive quality management program includes statistical process controls, visual inspections, and hardness testing per specifications. All of our processes are lot controlled for traceability, and we provide value-added services like special packaging, poly bagging, stock and release programs, and vendor managed inventory services. We handle small production orders as well as those that run into the millions. For more information about custom fitting manufacturing or to request a quote, contact us directly.
Unit of Measure

Specifications

Plugs

 N/A Dry Seal Socket Pipe Flush Sealing Pipe National Pipe Thread Taper (NPT) Phillips Pipe National Pipe Thread Taper (NPT) Slotted Pipe

Others

 N/A Rod End Yoke End

Metallic Materials

 N/A Alloy Aluminum Beryllium Copper Brass Cold Rolled Steel Copper Grade #5 Grade #8 Phosphor Bronze Stainless Steel (18-8, 316, 304, 410) Titanium

Non-Metallic Materials

 N/A Acetyl Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) Adhesive Cellulose Acetate Delrin® Fiberglass Fibre Fishpaper Garlock® Glass Polyester Hydlar® Insulating Papers Kapton Kel F® Klinger® Kynar® Mica Mylar® Neoprene Nomex® Nylatron® Nylon Phenolic Polycarbonate Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) Polyethersulfone (PES) Polyethylene Polyphenylene Oxide (PPO) Polypropylene Polystyrene Polysulfone Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) Rexolite® Rubber Rulon® Techtron Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) Torlon® Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMW) Vespel® Vinyl Vulcanized Fiber

Testing

 N/A Hardness

Diameter

 N/A 0 to 8 in

Length

 N/A From 1/8 to 24 in. or more

Plating

 N/A Black Zinc Bronze Cadmium Chrome Copper Dip Tin Gold Hot Dipped Galvanized Mechanical Galvanized Nickel Painted Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Silver Plated Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Tin Wax Zinc Trivalent Zinc Trivalent Dichromate Zinc Zinc Yellow Zinc Dichromate Black Oxide Brass Antique Brass Zinc/Nickel

Inspection

 N/A Go/No-Go Gauges Optical Comparator Plug Gauges Quality Assurance Ring Gauges Shipping Manager

Quality Assurance

 N/A 100% Inspection International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2008 Registered Lot Traceable (With Dated Imprint When Requested) Optic Weight Checkers Quality Records Quality Standards (QS) 14000 Compliant Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Documentation and Certifications

 N/A Certificate of Conformance (C of C) Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFAR) First Articles Heat Treating Certifications Material Certifications Plating Certifications Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) The United States of America (USA) Manufactured

Secondary Operations

 N/A Assembly Bagging/Kitting Counterboring Deburring Fabricating Heat Treating Plating Powder Coating Reaming Riveting Spot Facing Stress Relief Swage Tapping Welding

Additional Services

 N/A Reverse Engineering Shipping Special Packaging Warehousing

Production Volume

 N/A 1 to 1,000,000's Prototypes to Production Manufacturing

Lead Time

 N/A Drop Shipments Hot Rush Orders Available On Time Deliveries Pre-Expedited Orders Short Lead Times Stock and Release

Additional Information

Industry Focus

 N/A Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Transportation

Industry Standards

 N/A American National Standards Institute (ANSI) American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) German Institute for Standardization (DIN) Industrial Fastener Institute (IFI) International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Mid-West Fastener Association (MWFA)

File Formats

 N/A 3D ACIS Model File American National Standards Institute (ANSI) AutoCAD (DWG, DWZ) Bit Mapped Graphics (BMP) Catia (CATDrawing, CATPart) Delcam (DGK, DMT) Drawing Exchange Format (DXF) Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) Inventor (IDW, IPT) IronCAD (ICD, ICS) Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG, JPEG) MasterCam (MDX, MC8, MC9, SET) Portable Document Format (PDF) Pro-E or Pro/Engineer (DRW, PRT, XPR) SolidWorks (SLDPRT, SLDDRW, SLDDRT)