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Stability in Engineering

Stability in engineering
Why choose financially stable suppliers in a volatile industry?

Your suppliers have a major effect on the quality and reliability of your products and services. Your ability to deliver and provide exceptional levels of Customer service are essential in standing out in your industry, only by ensuring you stand out from the crowd in the right ways can you ensure your Business is unaffected by high risk suppliers.

As companies start to suffer with a downturn in orders the desperation of Sales staff will see offers that seem “too good to be true”. Stock may be sold off cheap or items sold at unsustainable price levels in a vain effort to keep the Company trading. Whilst some purchasers may benefit from this haphazard panic selling in the short term, the risks really are too high. If a deal seems too good to be true then inevitably it will be.

If a supplier lets you down, you let your customers down and your reputation is tarnished. This will only damage your standing in an increasingly competitive marketplace this is unforgivable as sound businesses strive to stay at the top of their game.

Choosing a supplier without insight into their trading position will cost you valuable time and money and eventually customers.

Checking the viability of your suppliers allows you to establish their stability and their ability to provide a quality service and a reliable product in both the medium and long term. Choosing a reliable, financially stable supplier means that you can be confident you can always fulfil commitments to your customers.

More so as we approach the end of 2015, as the year closes Suppliers that have no financial strength may seriously affect the quality of your products and services restricting your ability to deliver on your promises. If a supplier lets you down, you let your customers down.

Choosing a reliable, financially stable supplier means that you can be confident you can always fulfil commitments to your customers.


About Hague Fasteners :-

Hague Fasteners have been trading since 1971 and are unusual in their industry, having grown in financial strength year on year during recent times, giving true stability in engineering  

They remain a privately owned manufacturer of Special Engineered Fasteners with strong ethics and focus on “being different”. 

Hague Fasteners pride themselves on their exceptional levels of Customer Service, financial strength, stability in engineering and reliability in an often volatile specialist sector.  

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Engineering Apprenticeships

Engineering Apprenticeships

Hague Fasteners’ continued growth in a saturated industry is, in no small way, down to the persistent policy of bringing in the next generation of young and hungry school leavers yearning to earn a trade in one of the countries booming industries.

Hague Fasteners are serious investors in the local youth, with a strong focus on taking the young men and women from local schools and colleges and giving them a solid foundation in engineering through The Hague Fasteners Apprenticeship Scheme.

With the expert assistance and training given by NOVA training in Willenhall, Hague Fasteners are proud to see the investment in young people paying off as two of their more recent trainees, Hayden Smith & Jamie Fitzpatrick, blossom in their roles within the busy Engineering manufacturing facility at Hague Fasteners.

Hague Fasteners Engineering Apprenticeships
Hayden Smith, Alan Williams (NOVA Training) , and Jamie Fitzpatrick

Company CEO, Jon Hague, reinforced the company ethos saying “it is this next generation of worker that is so important in our Special Fastener Industry. Engineering Apprenticeships are vital for growth, the ability to take school leavers with NOVA training’s fantastic support means we can train and develop the young local talent into our specific sort of staff. Whilst passing on vital skills from some of our more experienced members of staff, these talented youngsters are molded into the very specific high standard support team members that make Hague Fasteners stand out in a very stale, old fashioned, industry. ”

Claire Hague, joint owner of Hague Fasteners and head of Staff Development, went on to say “we are inundated with old fashioned salesmen, production engineers and top level management applying for vacancies here from companies that are perhaps finding things a little difficult, but it is their link to our industry competitors that is the barrier. Our success is due to our being significantly different to the rest of the Special Fastener industry in our exceptional levels of Customer  Service and attention to detail not found at our competitors. We are proud to be different and we don’t want any habits from elsewhere spoiling our ethics.”

Both Jamie and Hayden are now approaching their one year apprenticeship completion date and the skills they now bring by being molded into the ‘Hague Fasteners way’ is a massive boost to the Company. Both youngsters are working to improve the companies despatch department and their freshness ensures Hague never rest on their laurels and that every aspect of the business is encouraged to improve.

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Apprenticeships continue to be The Hague Fasteners Focus, proud to be different and standing out from the crowd.


Hague Fasteners and NOVA Training Engineering Apprenticeships Hague Fasteners are thrilled to have discovered local training
providers NOVA Training. Alan Williams, one of NOVA’s Training Providers, attends regularly to check on the progress of the Hague Fasteners Youngsters.

Hague are proud to be supporting the local youth and look forward to continued close working with NOVA Training as the company continues to blossom with youth investment and training.

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Time For Change 

Unrivalled experience in manufacturing Fasteners to Clients designs. Total Customer Focus & Ethics make Hague Fasteners Limited, Special Bolting UK stand out from the crowd.
Hague will give you a refreshing change.
Small Enough To Care : Big Enough To Deliver (since 1971)

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British Special Fasteners

The call for quality British Manufactured Special Fasteners is ever increasing as Critical industry shy away form imported and inferior manufactured bolting to drawings.

Hague have enjoyed a record breaking year as industry returns to it’s roots following an industry realisation over the last decade that cheap imports are not a solution where high quality, timely deliveries and assured customer service is a necessity.

Hague have a long standing family tradition of putting Customers needs first and are proud to always go the extra mile to ensure every client gets the very best attention regardless of the scale of their needs.

Special Fastener Machinery
Special Fastener Machinery

Hague Fasteners continued growth necessitates continued investment in additional plant and machinery and this week we have taken delivery of another Bar Fed 4 Axis Twin Turret CNC Lathe to ensure even greater throughput and thus ensuring we can keep up with an ever growing demand for our high integrity British Manufactured Special Bolting whilst ensuring timely deliveries whilst striving for 100% Customer satisfaction.

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Special Fastener Excellence – Proud To Be Different

Hague Fasteners have continued to adapt, modernise and improve in their 43 years of trading. As a 2nd Generation Family run firm the Customer Service Hague offers continues to be the main reason Clients recommend Hague Fasteners as their First call for manufactured Bolts & Nuts.

Hague transformed themselves within the British Special Fastener marketplace in 2008. For too long Competitors had taken advantage of their Customers needs, disregarding Customer service and flooding industry with  imported Far Eastern products where criticality can not always be assured.

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The varied critical industries Hague supply demand and deserve only the Highest Integrity and Quality  Assured EU/UK/USA sourced materials. Hague Fasteners answer the growing demand for Fully Traceable manufactured bolting. It is almost impossible to find a special fastener in common materials that are made from Quality Assured EU/UK/USA manufactured steel, but you can rest assured this is the norm not the exception when you deal with Hague Fasteners. Hague are proud to be different, no idle claims, just continuous improvement that always puts the Customer first, unrivaled Customer Service, we are Proud to be Different.

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West Midlands Fasteners – A trip back in time

Hague Fasteners have been at the forefront of Special Fastener manufacturing in the West Midlands for over forty years and are rightly proud of their Special Fastener History.

Many of our Customers remember the Hague name from the early years when Hague Fasteners first commenced manufacturing in the heart of the Black Country Fasteners industry in the West Midlands.

In their formative years Hague Fasteners services many industries with their precision engineering components. From the earliest North Sea drilling projects alongside Shell & Phillips Oil, to main line pumping solutions with Weir Pumps, Hague excelled in the rapid production of Quality Fasteners and Taylormade Bolting Solutions.

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Click Image To Open PDF Brochure From 1973

Take a trip down memory lane ! We are proud to publish from our archives one of our earliest Custom Fastener Brochures which shows proudly a few of the early collaborations with some of the Worlds top engineering service companies.

Keep tuned to Hague Fasteners news as we proudly show off more of our historic Fastener Brochures.

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Buy From GB

Hague Fasteners, this week, were approached by “BuyFromGB.com” and are now proud to be featured on their exciting new Website.

Following talk on various Social Media platforms such as Facebook & Twitter, BuyFromGB contacted Hague Fasteners, as the perfect platform to shout about their quality British Manufactured Bolting and Special Fasteners.

Hague Fasteners have been exporting their British Manufactured engineered fasteners right form their inception in 1971 and as keen exponents of selling British Brands, Hague jumped at the chance to shout from the Buy From GB platform.

BuyfromGB.com is a new way for UK manufacturers, exporters & sellers to advertise their services to interested home & foreign buyers.

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British Manufacturing of Studbolts & Nuts – Special Fasteners






Since 1971 Hague Fasteners have perfected the art of Small Batch Special Fastener manufacturing.
From our inception in our earliest form in 1971, our early years saw us dominate the “breakdown delivery service” for troubleshooting emergency supply to the oil & gas industry. 

Hague’s British Engineering Group were one of the earliest British manufacturers of Petrochemical Studbolts & Nuts. Their flow line thread rolling production facility in Wolverhampton ensured ASTM quality assured bolting was shipped around the world for Rigs and pipeline maintenance, the original Studbolt Manufacturing Ltd*

However in the late 1980’s due to costing pressures brought about by cheap Asian competition, Hague Fasteners decided to step away from the standard ASTM material production, leaving the regular sized Studbolts & Nuts to the competition. Naturally the market was flooded with often inferior Chinese manufactured cheap bolting, but as was so often seen in the 80’s British Manufacturing simply couldn’t compete with imports from China.

Several British Companies appeared as stockholders to continue the supply of Petrochemical Studbolts and Nuts by importing container loads of Foreign manufactured product. Some even claimed to “Manufacture” but simply cutting lengths of studding to required lengths misleading as the bolts remain imported and not of EU Origin. During this time Hague closed their Studbolt Manufacturing mass production facility and decided to focus their niche on the more specialist material grades where quality & integrity is required above cost alone. 







To this day, Hague excel in the manufacture and supply of these Superalloy fasteners. Critical bolting in ASTM A453 660, Inconel 718, Inconel 625, Monel 400 along with Duplex & SuperDuplex Grades S31803, S32550, S32750, S32760. 

It is with increasing regularity now that Hague Fasteners are winning orders against the cheap inferior imports where our High Integrity Customers through all Industries are stipulating that Imported Fasteners particularly of Asian Origin must not be supplied. An about turn and a return to British manufacturing excellence. Saving a few pounds is irrelevant if the quality you’re receiving is substandard or the materials received is not in full compliance with the specification required. 


Don’t take unnecessary risks, source from the experts in Special Fastener production. 

The Craftsmen In Fasteners – Risk Free Bolting Solutions Since 1971

* The appearance of “Studbolt Manufacturing Ltd” (now non-trading) in 2003 was as a result of the name being adopted by another firm following the closing down of The Ralin Group’s original named Company in the 1990’s and does not have any connection to Hague Fasteners Limited.
British Manufacturing, Non-standard socket screws, Precision Engineering, Special Fasteners

The Art Of Special Fastener Manufacturing

The Internet is full of hollow words, brash claims & empty boasts. You have to tread carefully to ensure you are not misled and that the facts claimed are true.


The same is true when dealing with any industry. Companies claiming to have achieved outstanding feats, to have been the first, the best and the most reliable. It is outrageous claims particularly within the Fastener Industry that see Companies get stuck so often.


There is an Art to engineering, it takes more than a fancy brochure or an outrageous salesman to actually deliver a quality assured special fastener.


Hague Fasteners have been at the forefront of small batch Non Standard Fastener manufacturing since their foundation in 1971.

An archive of their Sales Brochures from 1971 to current day can be seen in the History page of the Hague Fasteners website.

Many of Hague’s new clients tell horror stories of how they thought they’d found a reliable supplier, suppliers claiming to have a wealth of experience in Incoloy, Hastelloy, Inconel, Nimonic or Other Superalloys only to find their order not delivered or ridiculously delayed or worse still the delivery is of poor quality it even of incorrect material.

Hague Fasteners have a vast array of customers from small private specialist firms through to Multinational Blue Chip organisations in all industries that use Hague Fasteners as their first choice for Special Bolting, Precision Engineered Components & Non Standard Socket Screws.


Why not let them quote you for your next Special Fastener, 42 years and still going strong.

A wide range of the manufactured fasteners made in the UK can be viewed on The Hague Fasteners Gallery.