ITW Shakeproof Industrial stands as a premier designer and manufacturer of value-added, high-quality engineered fastening solutions. Shakeproof’s extensive product range includes machine and thread-forming screws, thread cutting, anti-strip and anti-backout screws, metal stampings, and lock washers. Since our inception in 1923, Shakeproof has been at the forefront of eliminating loosening joints!
The mission at ITW Shakeproof Industrial is clear: to design and produce fastening products of superior quality, delivered promptly and at fair value to our customers.
Introducing the Shakeproof™ Thread screw, featuring the innovative SinuLOC™ wave feature strategically placed on an externally threaded fastener. This groundbreaking design enables the same fastener to be utilized across all steel applications. The patented locking Shakeproof™ wave feature creates mechanical interference between internal and external threads, ensuring that the fastener remains securely tightened in any environment, whether subjected to vibration, shock, or heat.
With a rich history dating back to 1929, ITW Bee Leitzke has been at the forefront of various in-house manufacturing processes, offering significant cost savings to our customers. In 2011, ITW merged the Bee Leitzke business with Shakeproof to establish the ITW Shakeproof Group, providing the industry with a comprehensive line of Pins, Tethers, and additional products. Through our relentless focus on innovation, ITW delivers superior, efficient, and user-friendly solutions to a diverse range of industries, including automotive, agriculture, outdoor power, construction, aviation, boating, and more.
Shakeproof Innovation
Through continued focus on new product development, ITW Shakeproof Industrial remains a design leader in cross-market, single-customer, cost-reducing innovations. Our focus on innovation has resulted in better, faster, and easier fastening solutions for both our customers and the end users.
- The BosScrew® was created for plastic applications, the Tap/R® as a thread forming screw, and the Cyclone® for sheet metal applications. Our most recent innovation, the Shakeproof Thread®, integrates a wave thread that, in application, creates a mechanical interference to ensure the fastener simply stays tight. These threaded products are utilized in many applications in the appliance, trailer, electrical, heavy truck, and rail markets.
- ITW Shakeproof’s helical lock washers, internal and external lock washers, crest cups, and square cones were developed as anti-loosening devices for a variety of applications in the railroad, industrial equipment, automotive, and OEM screw markets.
- ITW Shakeproof’s cotter, clevis, and lock pins were designed to secure equipment in the agriculture, outdoor power, snowplow, and pole line industries.
- ITW Shakeproof’s stampings, including the twisted tooth lock washer and custom order products were designed to revolutionize the stamping industry for a variety of applications in the appliance, automotive, heavy truck, lawn and garden, and medical markets.
Whether you’re looking for a standard product or a custom design, you can trust ITW Shakeproof Industrial to deliver uncompromised value and performance.