Japanese SDC Tanaka Inc's Patented Bolt Adopted by the Aerospace Industry

The company is supplying its exclusive patented "SDCⓇ Clean Bolt" to the KAGRA project which is under construction. The bolt has high purity recognized by the project and it is wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant. The company will expand the application of the bolt. The bolt adopts plasma carburizing heat treating technology which is recognized by a space station.

(The Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA), formerly the Large Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope (LCGT), is a project of the gravitational wave studies group at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of the University of Tokyo. KAGRA is likely to enter operation in 2018.)