SAVE THE DATE – LIVE WEBINAR – September 12 – Strategies for Lightweighting: How Fasteners Can Support Lightweighting Efforts

September 12, 2025 – Webinar: Strategies for Lightweighting: How Fasteners Can Support Lightweighting Efforts
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET

Description: In recent years, lightweighting has become an important design initiative for many products. The primary driver of this initiative is that lighter weight, more compact products provide some manner of benefit, such as lightening an airplane to make it easier to take off or an automobile to improve gas mileage. But how can small fasteners play a role in this process? This webinar will explore that question and look at three different strategies on how fasteners can and do play a vital role in lightweighting efforts. In this webinar we will discuss and look at examples of direct lightweighting, lightweighting through improved fastener performance, and fasteners as enablers. This webinar should be especially relevant to application engineers and those companies that support the automotive and aerospace fastener markets.

Who Should Attend: Application Engineers, Engineering, Business Development, Sales, and anyone interested in learning more about how you can support customers in their lightweighting initiatives.

Event Details

Instructor

Laurence Claus, IFI Director of Education and Training

COURSE DETAILS

In recent years, lightweighting has become an important design initiative for many products. The primary theory of this initiative is that lighter weight and more compact products provide some manner of benefit – such as lightening an airplane to make it easier to take off or an automobile to improve gas mileage.

How can small fasteners play a role in this process? This webinar will explore that question and look at three different strategies where fasteners can and do play a vital role in lightweighting efforts.

TOPICS INCLUDE

  • Direct lightweighting
  • Lightweighting through improved fastener performance
  • Fasteners as enablers

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This webinar is especially relevant to application engineers and companies that support the automotive and aerospace fastener markets.

  • Application Engineers
  • Engineering
  • Business Development
  • Sales
  • Anyone interested in learning more about supporting customer lightweighting initiatives

Event Details

Date: September 12, 2025

Start time: 12:00 p.m.

End time: 02:00 p.m.