Manufacturer Profile: Essentra Components
Essentra Components, formerly known as Richco Inc., manufactures an extensive range of essential hardware and fasteners. Essentra has 69 manufacturing facilities around the globe with capabilities including machine molding and 3D printing prototyping. Essentra’s network of manufacturing facilities produces over 80 million parts per day and stocks over 1 billion parts. In addition to standard products, Essentra’s manufacturing and engineering capabilities allow them to offer custom solutions to solve specific customer requirements. The breadth of Essentra’s product line means that their products are used in all types of applications ranging from industrial machinery to cutting edge electronics.
Essentra’s Product Offering Includes:
- Feet, Bumpers, & Motion Control Hardware
- Cable Ties and Straps
- PCB & Electronics Hardware
- Grommets, Bushings & Cable Glands
- Cooling Fan Accessories
bisco – Authorized Essentra Distributor
bisco industries is a franchised Essentra distributor, carrying the full line of Essentra hardware and fasteners. To learn more about Essentra products download or request an Essentra catalog. To request free samples and get pricing and availability visit biscoind.com now.
What is a PCB Card Guide?
Printed circuit board (PCB) card guides, also called PCB retainers, are short narrow strips of material formed into shallow tapered troughs. PC boards are inserted into the top of the trough while the bottom is secured to an enclosure wall. Most card guides secure the PCB in place through the use of pressure but some card guides utilize levers or screws to lock the PCB in place. Card guides are fabricated from a variety of materials including nylon, aluminum, beryllium copper, and stainless steel. By securing circuit boards in place, card guides prevent damage to PCBs caused by vibration and movement.
The Top Names in Card Guides
For many years Pentair, under their Schroff, Birtcher, and Calmark brands, has been the leading manufacturer of PCB card guides. In fact, many of their branded products such as Wedge Tainers, Lok Tainers, PCB Tainers, and Card Loks have become synonymous with PCB card guides. Other top card guide manufacturers include Bivar, Essentra (formerly Richco), and Keystone Electronics.
Learn More About PCB Card Guides
Check out these helpful catalogs from Calmark, Birtcher, and Keystone to learn more about PCB card guides. As always, bisco representatives are standing by to assist you in configuring products, locating crosses, and finding price and availability information.
3 Types of Cable Clamps by Essentra
bisco industries is proud to offer a versatile selection of durable and highly reliable cable clamps from Essentra. Cable clamps provide a secure yet simple fastening and are an ideal cable management solution for a variety of applications. Below are three different types of cable clamps:
- Cable Clamps – Adhesive Mount: The adhesive mount provides an easily applied secure fastening that can be removed.
- Cable Clamps – Snap In: Snap in cable clamps allow quick and secure installation onto the application. Simply apply pressure to the cable clamp while inserting it into a pre-drilled hole
- Cable Clamps – Screw Mount: As the name implies screw mount cable clamps are secured to the application by a machine screw. Screw mount clamps are often easier to remove but can be more time consuming to install.
Whatever your specifications, chances are bisco industries offers a cable clamp that meets your requirements. We are a local authorized distributor for Essentra (formerly Richco). To search Essentra cable clamps, get pricing and availability, and place orders visit biscoind.com today!
Essential Hardware: PCB Card Guides
Card guides are key to the performance and reliability of most electronic devices. Card guides attach to the edges of printed circuit boards (PCBs) securely holding them in place. Since card guides are used in nearly all electronic applications they must meet the demands of many different environments. Card guides can be found in applications ranging from military communication equipment to network servers.
PCB card guides typically come in two primary mounting configurations: vertical and horizontal. Card guides are also available in many different materials, sizes and locking configurations. Other variations include card guides specifically designed for high vibration or static sensitive conditions.
Whatever your specifications chances are bisco industries can offer a PCB card guide that meets your requirements. We are an authorized distributor for several card guide manufacturers including Essentra (formerly Richco). To search Essentra PCB card guides, get pricing and availability, and place orders visit biscoind.com today!
Protecting & Organizing Wire Using Cable Clamps
What is a Cable Clamp?
Cable clamps play an important role in guiding, organizing, and protecting wire and cable. As the name indicates, cable clamps utilize pressure to bundle and secure cables and wires in place. Cable clamps are first fastened to a panel, often using a snap-in fastener, screw, or adhesive. Once the clamp is secure the cable is pressed into place. Depending on the clamp configuration the cable can be inserted from the top, side, or bottom of the clamp.
Essentra Components – Top Line Cable Clamp Manufacturer
Offering over 50 cable clamp styles and configurations, Essentra Components (formerly Richco) is among the top manufacturers of cable clamps in the world. As an authorized Essentra distributor, bisco industries offers online product information, pricing, availability, and ordering for Essentra cable clamps. Whether you’re researching design options or ready to buy visit biscoind.com.
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Reducing System Wear Using Anti-Vibration Mounts
If you’ve ever driven in an old truck you probably remember feeling like you hit every bump and divot in the road. That’s likely because the technology used to reduce motion and vibration in the truck was outdated. Vehicles today are equipped with advanced shocks and vibration mounts to reduce the amount of motion felt by drivers and passengers. These advancements in motion control aren’t just limited to commercial automobiles. In fact, motion control technology is utilized in all kinds of applications from industrial machinery to medical devices. Some of the simplest and most widely used motion control solutions are bumper feet and vibration mounts. These devices dampen vibration using springs and dense materials like rubber.
Why Use Vibration Mounts & Bumper Feet
- Increased system longevity by reducing stress on components
- Improved usability and increased precision
- Cost savings over the life of the application
bisco + Essentra = Your Source for Motion Control Solutions
One of bisco industries’ top manufacturers of motion control technologies is Essentra Components (formerly Richco). Essentra’s manufacturing capabilities allow them to produce a broad range of small, essential components like vibration mounts. As an authorized Essentra distributor, bisco offers online pricing and availability on hundreds of motion control products. Search biscoind.com today to find pricing for the Essentra products on your bill of materials (BOM).
bisco industries Now Offering Online Pricing & Ordering for Essentra Components
Authorized Essentra Components distributor, bisco industries, has recently updated their website to include pricing and ordering for nearly all of Essentra’s 100,000 catalog items. bisco’s new online pricing makes buyers and engineers’ lives easier by reducing the time spent finding product information and waiting for quotes.
Essentra Components (formerly Richco) is a leading manufacturer of small essential hardware and fasteners. Essentra serves a “wide range of industries including equipment manufacturing, automotive, fabrication, electronics and construction”.
Essentra’s Product Offering:
- Abrasives & Grinding
- Access Hardware
- Adhesives, Sealants & Tapes
- Bearings & Power Transmission
- Cutting & Machining
- Fasteners
- Feet, Casters & Glides
- Fibre, Wire & Cable Management
- Knobs, Handles & Grips
- PCB & Electronics Hardware
- Caps & Plugs
- Clamps & Workholding
- Extensions & Structural Systems
- Flange Protection
- Tooling & Positioning Components
bisco industries strives to be the “one stop shop” for Essentra products in addition to hundreds of thousands of items from other manufacturers. Visit biscoind.com today to find pricing and availability on Essentra products.
9 Card Guide and Ejector Brands from bisco industries
bisco industries is a master distributor of electronic components and fasteners. We offer stock on over 200 product lines and are an authorized distributor for over 150 manufacturers.
bisco carries a wide variety of printed circuit broad (PCB) hardware including card guides and ejectors. PCB card guides are used to mount circuit boards in constricted spaces, such as a rack. PCB ejectors and extractors are mounted directly onto the board, providing a handle for technicians to pull the board without touching any of the circuitry.
bisco industries offers PCB card guides and ejectors from the industry’s top manufacturers including:
- Atlee
- Birtcher (Pentair)
- Bivar
- Calmark (Pentair)
- Innovative Plastics
- Essentra (Formerly Richco)
- Schroff (Pentair)
- Teknational
- Vero Technologies
Don’t forget that bisco also supplies heat sinks, fans, batteries, spacers, standoffs, component holders, fuses, brackets, potentiometers, switches, and relays, making us your one-stop-shop for PCB hardware. In fact, the printed circuit board industry is the second largest industry group that bisco serves. Let us put our product knowledge and industry-leading quality processes to work for you. Visit biscoind.com or contact our e-commerce team for immediate quotes.
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