Norbar Launches New Torque App
Norbar Torque Tools is launching a handy torque conversion calculator as a free download on Android and iPhone systems. Similar to the calculator featured at the company's website, the new...
Norbar TrukTorque Shaped for Success
The newly launched TrukTorque™ pneumatic torque multiplier from Norbar Torque Tools features a special banana shaped design reaction arm to handle bolt tightening on both front and...
Ultrasonic Moscow Gold for Norbar
The USM-3 ultrasonic bolt meter, manufactured by Norbar Torque Tools, has won a gold medal* at the recent MetrolExpo show in Moscow. This is a leading event for metrology, the science...
HSE Confirms Norbar Multiplier's Good Vibrations
Recent tests carried out by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) have demonstrated that vibration exposure for operators using pneumatic torque multipliers to tighten 100 commercial...
UKAS Acknowledges Norbar Expertise
The Norbar Torque Tools calibration laboratory in Banbury, Oxfordshire has achieved an extended level of endorsement from the government-recognised United Kingdom Accreditation Service,...
Norbar Receives Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade
A glowing example of British manufacturing, Norbar Torque Tools, based in Banbury, has been honoured with the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade for its contribution to...
Norbar Torque Tools Wins Coutts Prize for Family Business
Norbar Torque Tools from Banbury has been named ‘Best UK Family Business, Southern England and Wales Region’, in the £5-25m turnover category of the Coutts Prize for Family Business 2008/9....
Safety for Heavy Industry
Quick, easy, safe and, best of all, cost-effective. What better list of benefits for a new piece of testing equipment? It was developed to take care of the tough and arduous conditions found...
Ultrasonic Measurement Ensures Mechanical Joint Integrity
Although measurement of the torque applied to a bolt or other threaded fastener during tightening provides sufficient feedback in most applications, there are more specialised tasks...
High Accuracy Torque Multiplier for Wet Valve Actuation
Norbar Torque Tools has developed an innovative torque multiplier for the subsea tools market. Designed as an adapter to allow API 17D class 4 intervention torque tools to generate the...
Extended Pneumatic Torque Wrench Range Features New Gearbox Design
Thanks to a new gearbox design, the new class leading models in Norbar Torque Tools’ range of Pneutorque® pneumatic torque wrenches are now faster, lighter, smaller and therefore much...
On Show at the Fastening Assembly & Solutions Exhibition
The highlight of the Norbar stand at the Fastening Assembly & Solutions Exhibition will be the results of one of the most significant design exercises in the company’s history - the new...
Robust, Accurate New Torque Wrench Raises the Standard
Norbar Torque Tools has been making torque tools in Banbury for more than 65 years. They now introduce one of the most significant new designs in their history, the new TruTorque. The aim of...
Torque Tools Brave Mozambique Deluge on Gas Pipeline
Norbar Torque Tools played a pivotal role in the successful installation of a new natural gas pipeline running from Mozambique to South Africa. Torque Tool (Pty) Ltd, the Southern...
New Torque Tool Makes a Splash in Offshore
The oil and gas industry is an important market for Norbar Torque Tools. Every fastener used on pipelines has to be tightened to a verifiable torque setting to ensure its integrity. Given...