GANDINI FASTENERS

Gandini Fasteners leader in Italy and in Europe in the distribution of fastening elements, bolts and screws as well as metallic and plastic technical items. Nowadays at the fourth generation and thanks to the continuous search in over 100 years for first quality products and suppliers Gandini is a brand synonym of reliability, experience and credibility.

1914
The Gandini Group has its origin as ?Fabbrica Nazionale Pistoni Milano? founded by Pietro Gandini and specialized in the production of light alloy pistons, gudgeon pins and piston rings. During the First World War the Company became one of the major suppliers of spare parts to the Army and the Navy and immediately after the war a vital supplier to the burgeoning Italian Automotive Industry.

1945
Then came the second generation years, the start of the cooperation with Seeger.Almost completely destroyed during the Second World War the factory was
re-established in Milan and in Valbrona. Under the management of Pietro?s son, Ugo Gandini, who boosted the production, updated the sales organization and introduced the sole supplying in Italy of the original Seeger retaining rings in special steel, from the normal standard types for bore and shaft to the wide range of special patented ones.

1987 - 2010
Piergianni Gandini, son of Ugo, becomes the third generation to lead the Company. He steadies the expansion of the two Divisions: the industrial one in Canzo with the building of the third pistons production plant as well as the establishment of a hi tech robotized foundry and the commercial one in Sesto San Giovanni since the 2001 with the trading distribution of the fastening elements.The Gandini Fasteners activity extends here and the sales grow with the Seeger rings and the best European brands of dowel and tension pins, disc springs, different locking elements and plastic parts. Further to the globalization of the markets
and the new regulations imposing the end of the sole agency relations the Gandini Fasteners business widens out to new suppliers and to the foreign Countries: the search, the purchasing and the sale of the products all over the world are objects of the new trend of Gandini, one of the first Companies in our field which understood in the 90s years the web potential and showed the products online.

2003 - 2016
Stefano and Alessandro new entry, sons of Piergianni Gandini. In these years the Company consolidates even more its presence on the market, enlarges the already wide catalogue products range with new ones such as the lock nuts, stud bolts, cylindrical dowel pins, keys and with further standard as well as special parts. New orders and new customers for the machined customized parts to be produced by Gandini Industria. The Technical Department has been implemented so to better follow the consulting to the customers. A modern building structure on an area of 12.500 square meters where have seat the premises, conference rooms, warehouse and a very technological EDP centre involved with the development of the domestic Enterprise Resource Planning.
Seeger rings, Retaining Rings

• Rings for axial and radial mounting, selflocking
  
• Rings for axial gap compensation, rings with constant radial wall, wire rings.
  
• Support and shim washers.
  
• Pliers and assembly devices.

Spiral retaining rings

• Single or double turn retaining rings, constant section rings, wave rings.
  
• Hoopster retaining rings.
  
• Laminar rings.
  
• Metric and imperial sizes.
  
  

Wave springs

• Single wave springs.
  
• Round wire springs.
  
• Crest-to-Crest springs. Linear springs.
  
  

Christian Bauer Disc Springs

• DIN 2093 carbon steel. Stainless steel disc springs.
  
• Disc springs for bearings preload slotted and plain.
  
  

Standard Disc Springs

• DIN 2093 carbon steel. Stainless steel disc springs.
  
• Disc springs for bearings preload plain.
  
  

Keys

• Keys with gib-head.
  
• Woodroff.
  
• Keys steel.
  
  

Ground flat

• square and round steels.
  
  

Lock nuts, washers, adapter sleeves, adjusting rings, hook wrenches

• Locking nuts, safety washers and brackets, precision nuts, self-locking nuts, tensile and pressure adapter sleeves.
  
  

Washers

• Knurled, notched, elastic, plain, safety washers.
  
  

Spring pins andspiral pins

• Heavy and duty series.
  
  

Bushings

Compression limiters

Cylindrical and taper dowel pins, grooved pins


Stud bolts

Screws

• Hexagonal, cheese, oval headed screws.
  
• Grub screws, knob headed screws.
  
• Nuts.
  
• Hexagonal, selflocking and flanged nuts.
  

Miniplast® plastic parts

• Technical items: washers, finishing parts, spacers, cable and pipe fitting.
  
• Screws, nuts, spacers.
  
• Cups and plugs, high temperature component and for electrical sector.
  
• Handles, clamps and handwheels, crack handles and handwheels.