3·15: It’s Time to Pay Attention to Screw Quality

The 2025 "3·15" Gala, themed "Building Integrity and Boosting Consumption," will focus on illegal activities that infringe on consumer rights in areas such as food safety, public safety, financial security, and the digital economy.

Although this year's gala theme does not directly mention fasteners and their upstream and downstream industries, this small screw, hailed as the "rice of industry," quietly permeates various sectors with its indomitable quality, closely linked to consumer rights. The quality of fasteners is of paramount importance, much like the foundation of a high-rise building, crucial to the stability and development of the entire industrial system.

PART 01 How Important is the Quality of Fasteners?

Fasteners, these seemingly insignificant tiny components, are actually indispensable in our lives. From speeding cars to towering buildings, from complex machinery to ever-evolving electronic devices, they are like hidden elves, omnipresent.

If the quality of fasteners is not up to par, it will not only affect the smooth progress of industrial production and manufacturing but also bring immeasurable hidden dangers to the convenience and safety of daily life.

Imagine a car speeding on the highway, just because the quality of bolts and nuts is not up to standard, leading to loosening or even breaking, the consequences would be unimaginable! The safety of consumers' lives would be hanging by a thread, as if on the edge of a cliff, ready to fall into an abyss of disaster.

In the transportation industry, those fasteners that support the towering bridges and ensure the smooth extension of tracks, once quality issues arise, it will not only bring huge economic losses but also stir up a storm of negative impacts in society, causing irreparable damage.

PART 02 Frequent Quality Issues in Fasteners

In recent years, quality issues in the fastener industry have been like ghosts lurking in the shadows, frequently appearing.

In 2023, the Fujian Provincial Market Supervision Administration found two types of automotive bolts unqualified during spot checks, with issues in the tensile test project. This means that in extreme cases, these bolts may break, posing significant risks to car driving.

In 2024, the Wuxi Municipal Market Supervision Administration conducted a quality supervision spot check on fastener products, with 3 out of 30 batches found unqualified, an unqualified rate of 10%. In the same year, Hebei Province also detected a batch of unqualified fastener products, with issues in the wedge load test, which would cause the fasteners to fail to bear the required load in practical applications, posing safety hazards.

PART 03 How Fastener Companies Can Ensure Quality

The frequent occurrence of fastener product quality issues is a loud alarm for fastener production companies. To avoid quality problems, fastener companies can focus on raw materials, production, and testing.

Source Protection, Building a Quality Defense Line

Fastener companies need to scrutinize wire suppliers with strict eyes, examining their qualifications, equipment, and quality systems, establishing long-term cooperation agreements, and conducting regular reviews. Strict control at the source is like laying a solid foundation for subsequent production.

Professional Crafting, Sculpting the Flower of Quality

Increase investment in the selection and maintenance of production equipment such as cold heading machines, thread rolling machines, and heat treatment equipment, refine production processes, strengthen personnel skill training, enhance the operational skills and quality awareness of producers, making the production process a solid guarantee of quality.

Precise Testing, Guarding the Great Wall of Quality

In addition to focusing on raw materials and production, the testing process should not be overlooked. Equip with advanced testing equipment such as hardness testers, tensile testing machines, optical inspection machines, etc., and regularly calibrate them to ensure measurement accuracy. Establish a comprehensive inspection system and a quality traceability system, recording the entire lifecycle of products, making product quality as solid as a rock.

Quality is the foundation of a product, and products are the cornerstone of a company's development. For fastener companies, product quality is crucial to production, manufacturing, transportation, and even affects all aspects of life. Companies should strengthen quality awareness, strictly control production processes, and provide society with safe and reliable fastener products. Together, we can create a trustworthy and worry-free consumption environment, contributing to the boost of consumer confidence and the healthy and sustainable development of the industry.