In 2015, Industrial Fasteners were $14 billion dollar market with over 10,000 business. Included are most machine shops. The wave thread 3-axis CNC software has produced the Gcode to machine the wave thread designed to optimize strength. Steel parts will be used for destructive testing. This is the first technology transfer to a machine shop to gather data on how to create a customer in this industry.
Innovative Machine in Winchester, NH are making the first steel wave threaded nuts and bolts.