Sherex Fastening Solutions offers a comprehensive range of blind rivet nuts, ideal for fastening in thin sheet metal, plastics, composites, carbon fiber, and other thin sheet materials to enhance assembly speed and performance.
Sherex rivet nuts and rivet nut studs provide strong, durable threads that are perfect fasteners for electric vehicles, heavy truck, aerospace, renewables, construction and agricultural equipment and general industrial applications.
Sherex is the largest manufacturer of rivet nuts in North America
Available in a variety of materials including steel, stainless steel, and aluminum, Sherex rivet nuts also come in multiple sizes, M3 – M16 with imperial sizing, and styles to suit different performance needs, most notably round body and hexagonal body styles. Sherex also offers a line of European-style line of rivet nuts too.
A small sample of Sherex standard and custom rivet nuts
As a leader in engineered fasteners with decades of rivet nut experience, Sherex offers custom-made, application specific blind rivet nuts that are designed into the assembly. Sherex’s engineering staff will always work with fastener, design and application engineers to come up with the best fastening solution based on performance and cost. Also, with a total of seven global manufacturing sites, including three located in North America, Sherex has the ability to for large scale capacity projects and the ability to support OEM localization chain-supply efforts throughout the United States and Europe.
Sherex’s proprietary lines include performance improvement solutions that help assemble applications faster, and secure joints in high-demand and high-torque load environments. Check out our full hexagonal body style rivet nuts, RIV-FLOAT® rivet nuts, which allows for off-center joint assembly, large size high strength rivet nuts, and the industry’s best-in-class round body rivet nut, Optisert®.
Sherex is the largest manufacturer of rivet nuts in North America and features a full line of Made in America with our ATLAS MaxTite® brand of Department of Defense approved rivet nuts.
Rivet Nut Benefits / Advantages
- Provide a strong thread in thin materials that cannot be tapped
- Easy to disassemble and reassemble
- Once installed, additional components with threaded fasteners can be attached
- Pre-painted material will not be damaged during the installation process
- Available in many different styles and materials
- Ideal replacement for weld nuts:
- More efficient, simple installation
- Will not distort base material
- Eliminates weld splatter, toxic fumes, and other by-products of the welding process
- Can be installed in many different kinds of material including steel, plastic, composites, and fiberglass
Sherex Rivet Nut Catalog
Round Body Rivet Nuts | Hex Body Rivet Nuts | ATLAS MaxTite® Rivet Nuts
RIV-FLOAT Rivet Nuts | Large Size Rivet Nuts | Rivet Nut Studs | Custom Rivet Nuts
Sherex Round Body Rivet Nuts
Sherex round body rivet nuts are the most popular and come in a variety of styles, including knurled body, smooth body pre-bulbed, wedgehead, swaging and large and small flange.
Optisert is the best performing round body rivet nut on the market.
Hex Body Rivet Nuts
Full hex body rivet nuts are the best perfoming rivet nuts on the market. We say, if you can produce a hex hole, use a full hex body rivet nut. Semi-hex body rivet nuts are amongst the most popular standard sold in the Sherex rivet nut catalog.
Available in thread sizes up to M16 and 5-8″-11.
ATLAS MaxTite Rivet Nuts
This Made in America rivet nut line is Sherex’s MS/NAS style of rivet nuts used in aerospace and other general industry applications.
Large Size Rivet Nuts
Large size, heavy duty rivet nuts are used for large size application that experience high torque and high vibration. Popular in heavy truck, construction and agricultural equipment, and also have had application use in power poles.
RIV-FLOAT Rivet Nuts
This proprietary line of rivet nuts features a floating thread in the rivet nut which allows for the mating bolt to be installed off-center. This allows for a little slack when there is a stacking issue.
Rivet Nuts Studs
Rivet nut studs are rivet nuts with the through bolt already attached. This saves installers the step of putting in the through bolt, and also allows for assemblers to hang material off the installed stud for ease of assembly. Popular in all industries.
Custom Rivet Nuts
Sherex has a full team of fastener and application engineers to help you with your project. They solve difficult fastener questions and can come up with unique solutions outside of catalog products. They are always looking to design new, custom solutions for end users and with seven global manufacturing sites, Sherex has the capability of bringing unique designs to full scale production.