Ireland’s trusted choice for timber frame fastening
Contents
About Jameson FitzGerald – Just Fasten 4 & 5
BeA. Manufacturers of world leading fastening technology 6 & 7
Pneumatic strip nailers for framing and anchor nailing 8
Pneumatic coil nailers for boarding and framing 9
Pneumatic staplers for membranes and tapes 10 & 11
The BeA Autotec range of automated modular fastening systems 12 & 13
Screwguns for flooring, drywalling and framing 14 & 15
Pneumatic corrugated fastener tools for butt and corner jointing 16
Cordless nailers for framing and anchoring 17
Fasteners 18
Service and support 19
Jameson FitzGerald – Just Fasten. 100% Irish owned. 100% quality focused
Since 1999, Jameson FitzGerald – Just Fasten has been a specialist supplier of fastening solutions to businesses across Ireland.
Operating from a site in Rathnew Co. Wicklow, we offer customers involved in the industrial, construction, manufacturing and other commercial sectors access to a wide range of high performance products including nails, staples, screws, fixings, pneumatic tools, compressors, abrasives, power tools and much more.
As a business, we pride ourselves on maintaining the highest levels of quality and on our service-led approach.
As a 100% Irish owned company, we also have in-depth knowledge of the Irish market and of the needs of Irish customers.
We combine this unique insight and understanding with the ability to offer you the best fastening technology sourced from around the world.
Thanks to our expertise and experience we are the key Irish distributors for a number of global businesses - including highly respected German manufacturer, BeA.
BeA. Manufacturers of world leading fastening technology
BeA is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of fastening technology, tools and consumables for timber frame engineering.
Formed in Germany more than a century ago, the business has been active in the timber frame and offsite construction sector for more than fifty years.
Today, it is the preferred fastening partner for many of the industry’s biggest names as well as for businesses of all sizes who demand the highest levels of quality, speed and precision.
With all BeA products, peace of mind also comes as standard. The company is ISO9001 certified and all its products are manufactured under rigorously monitored and maintained quality controls.
As a result, they offer exceptional levels of reliability and consistency as well as full compliance with relevant industry standards such as Eurocode 5 and its subsidiaries.
The BeA range also caters for almost any timber frame fastening need.
The business offers a complete range of products from nailers, staplers and screwguns to fully automated nailing and stapling systems.
All of these products, as well as BeA’s extensive expertise, are accessible through Jameson FitzGerald – Just Fasten. FRAMING AND ANCHOR NAILING
PNEUMATIC STRIP NAILERS
BeA’s pneumatic strip nailers are designed around the needs of the professional user. To ensure maximum operator comfort and accuracy, they are well balanced and lightweight whilst offering ‘best in class’ power-to-weight ratios. They are also immensely robust and highly reliable with a very fast cycle rate helping to ensure reduced downtime and increased productivity.
BeA A22/90-F1 framing nailer (plastic strip) • Fires full round head nails from 50mm to 90mm in length • Lightweight thanks to magnesium body. Weighs just 3.2kg • Ergonomic rubber grip handle for maximum operator comfort • Depth-of-drive adjustment provides precise control of nail penetration • Nail lockout feature prevents dry firing and extends tool life • Single or bump fire actuation • Ideally suited to assembling timber frames, sub-frames, gable ladders, floor cassettes and roof cassettes.
BeA D100-934C framing nailer (paper tape) • Drives D head nails up to 100mm in length • Weighs just 3.6kg • Depth-of-drive adjustment provides precise control of nail penetration • Nail lockout feature prevents dry firing and extends tool life • Up to 10 shots per second • Single or bump fire actuation • No-mar magazine cover • Suitable for fastening timber frames, sub-frames, gable ladders, floor cassettes and roof cassettes.
BeA AN R60-34E positive placement nailer for connectors • Developed for fastening metal connector plates, hangers, brackets and straps to timber • Locating nose probe simplifies nail hole location and enables quick and accurate fixing of connectors • Massive time and thumb saving potential compared to fixing by hand • Compact, slim design facilities ease of use in confined areas • Nail lockout feature prevents dry firing and extends tool life • Depth-of-drive adjustment ensures precise control of nail penetration • 360° adjustable exhaust and ergonomic hand grip contribute to greater user comfort • Ideal for fixing timber frame connectors, field splice plates and assembling floor cassettes.
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PNEUMATIC COIL NAILERS
BeA’s pneumatic coil nailers tick all the right boxes for those who both specify and use these tools. Not only are they powerful and highly versatile being able to fire both plastic and wire coiled nails but they’re also immensely robust and able to deliver reliable and consistent levels of performance even in the most demanding of working environments.
In addition, they benefit from a number of features to maximise operator comfort. These features includes magnesium bodies, helping to reduce overall tool weight, integrated sound absorption, 360° adjustable exhausts and ergonomic handgrips. They are also incredibly well balanced.
BeA 903DC coil nailer • Weighs just 3.0kg • Accepts plastic coiled nails (from 2.5 x 45mm to 3.0mm x 75mm) or wire coiled nails (from 2.5 x 45mm to 3.3 x 90mm) • Adjustable depth control • Serrated nose provides better grip • Plastic nose attachment protects against dirt, dust and damage • Offers both single and bump fire actuation • Dry fire stop feature helps prolong working life • Ideal for fastening timber frames, gable ladders, OSB sheets, cladding and plasterboard (with large cup head nails) • Also suitable for fixing hardened nails to steel frames.
BeA 567DC coil nailer • Weighs just 2.1 kg • Accepts plastic or wire coiled nails from 2.1 x 32mm to 2.5 x 65mm (wire coiled) or 2.8 x 50mm (plastic coiled) • Adjustable depth control • Serrated nose provides better grip • Plastic nose attachment protects against dirt, dust and damage • Offers both single and bump fire actuation • Ideal for fastening OSB sheets, cladding and MgO boards • Also suitable for fixing hardened nails to steel frames.
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PNEUMATIC STAPLERS
BeA’s pneumatic staplers set the industry standard for their reliability and longevity. Thanks to their robust design, use of high quality components and materials, and their straightforward maintenance, they are able to reduce tool downtime and in turn contribute to increased production efficiencies and output.
BeA 95/16-425 stapler • Ideal for fastening membranes, foils and thin materials with reduced risk of tearing • Light and powerful with an ergonomic design • Integrated silencer • Low air consumption • Bottom loading magazine enables quick and easy loading
• Staple information:
Crown width Crown breadth Leg thickness Wire diameter 12.6mm 1.27mm 0.53mm 0.88mm
BeA 380 series staplers • Ideal for fastening membranes and tapes • Light and powerful with an ergonomic design • Integrated silencer • Low air consumption • Bottom loading magazine enables quick and easy loading • Available in three variants – standard tool (BeA 380/16-420), autofire tool with standard magazine (BeA 380/14-450A) and autofire tool with long magazine (BeA 380/14-450AL)
• Staple information:
Crown width Crown breadth Leg thickness Wire diameter 13.0mm 0.91mm 0.70mm 0.85mm
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BeA offers a range of pneumatic staplers that are reliable in the extreme. If you’re looking to achieve reduced downtime and maximum productivity, these are tools you can count on…
BeA 71 series staplers • Ideal for fastening membranes and tapes • Light and powerful with an ergonomic design • Integrated silencer • Low air consumption • Bottom loading magazine enables quick and easy loading • Available in three variants – standard tool (BeA 71/16-421), autofire tool with standard magazine (BeA 71/14-451A) and autofire tool with long magazine (BeA 71/14-451AL)
• Staple information:
Crown width Crown breadth Leg thickness Wire diameter 9.0mm 0.75mm 0.60mm 0.70mm
BeA 14/50-763 • Ideal for plasterboard and structural applications • Full metal body and magazine • Quick release nose for easy jam clearance • Slender nose affords better operator visibility for more precise fastener placement • Top loading magazine holds 150 staples • Stapler drives two types of CE marked staple:
16 series staple. CE marked to EN14566 for plasterboard to timber
Crown width Crown breadth Leg thickness Wire diameter EN 14566 10.9mm 1.59mm 1.35mm 1.50mm 155 series staple. CE marked to EN14592 for structural timber (e.g. OSB)
Crown width Crown breadth Leg thickness Wire diameter 10.9mm 1.59mm 1.35mm 1.50mm
www.justfasten.ie / www.bea-group.com 11 AUTOMATED FASTENING SYSTEMS
THE BeA AUTOTEC RANGE
With increasing demand for offsite construction and a growing number of new entrants to the market, computer controlled, automated fastening solutions can give your business a competitive edge.
By ensuring greater fixing speed, accuracy and consistency, they can help you to enhance quality levels and increase production volumes whilst delivering greater control over production costs.
If you’re looking to embrace the numerous advantages of automation, no one is better placed to meet your needs than BeA.
The global leader Impressive flexibility
BeA is the world’s leading provider of automated As well as extensive expertise, BeA Autotec fastening technology to the offsite construction solutions offer you enormous flexibility. The industry and has been providing solutions under company’s Autotec solutions employ a modular its Autotec brand for many different types of approach which allows you to choose from a fasteners and all kinds of timber and steel frame combination of four mains powered units as applications since 1989. well as different nose and feed systems, various magazine systems and numerous sensor set-ups The business also remains a continued innovator to meet specific line control requirements. thanks to a dedicated automation design and development team based at the company’s BeA can even provide robotic reload stations head office in Ahrensburg, Germany as well as to make your Autotec solution even more its close relationships with all the major producers autonomous. of automated production lines for timber or steel frame construction. This includes Weinmann, Randek and JJ Smith.
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• Framing stations, for nails or corrugated fasteners • Panelisation with OSB, MgO, plywood, timber, plasterboard, Fermacell and similar, using staples or nails on plastic or wire coils • Attachment of insulation with nails or staples up to 220mm long • Attachment of breather membranes and tapes.
KEY TOOLS SUITABLE FOR AUTOMATED APPLICATIONS:
BeA 268 coil nailer BeA 230 top loading stapler • Choice of horizontal or vertical magazines BeA 232 side loading stapler • Ability to use plastic or wire collated jumbo nail coils in the BeA 235 long magazine stapler (rear loading) same tool. • A range of tools to suit any production set up • Ideal for membrane fastening.
BeA R130 / R160 strip nailers Skater tools • Robust framing nailers that can be reloaded without • Manually controlled semi-automated staplers or coil nailers stopping production lines • Can be used with a guide track or able to use panel edges • Fire nails from 3.0 to 5.0mm in diameter and up to 160mm for guidance in length. • Precise control of fastener spacings improves fixing quality.
BeA 264 changeover cassette stapler • Fires a range of staples approved for structural or plasterboard applications • Offline reloading maximises autonomy and reduces downtime.
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SCREWGUNS
The BeA range features a number of robust and high performance screwguns for flooring, drywall and framing applications. Without exception, these products benefit from carefully considered features to ensure maximum efficiency and ease of use. This includes large capacity magazines and exceptional screw guidance to reduce jams.
The majority of these tools are sold under the KMR brand. A sister business to BeA and part of the same wider Behrens Group of companies, KMR is a widely respected name across Europe. It has a heritage of providing high-end tools developed by professionals for professionals which spans more than 100 years.
MAINS POWERED TOOLS
KMR3338 heavy-duty screwgun • Available as both 110V and 230V versions • Ergonomically designed and well balanced • Fast and effective screwdriving thanks to powerful motor and 125 screw coil magazine • Claw coupling ensures precise control over screw depth • Tx bit delivers greater bit longevity • Compatible with a wide range of screws. Accepts screws from 4.5 x 40mm to 5.0 x 80mm as standard with a conversion kit available for screws from 3.5 to 4.2mm • Extension pole available for standing operation • Ideal for flooring, structural timber framing and connecting frame panels to base plates.
KMR3345 flat tape screwgun • Available as 110V and 230V versions • Heavy-duty, highly robust construction • Designed for high volume work • Accepts standard drywall screws from 25 to 55mm in length • Perfect for fastening plasterboard and gypsum fibre board to both wood and metal substrates.
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BeA is part of one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of fastening technology for wood-based applications, the Behrens Group, enabling it to offer access to screwguns from sister business, KMR.
CORDLESS TOOLS
KMR3383 heavy-duty screwgun • Comprises Metabo screwdriver and KMR attachment • Powered by long-life, fast recharging 18V / 5.2Ah Li-Ion battery • Ergonomically designed and well balanced • Fast and effective screwdriving thanks to powerful motor and 125 screw coil magazine • Claw coupling ensures precise control over screw depth • Tx bit delivers greater bit longevity • Compatible with a wide range of screws. Accepts screws from 4.5 x 40mm to 5.0 x 80mm as standard with a conversion kit available for screws from 3.5 to 4.2mm • Quick release allows easy separation of the screwdriver for use as a conventional cordless screwdriver drill • Extension pole available for standing operation • Ideal for flooring, structural timber framing and connecting frame panels to base plates.
BeA SC55 collated screwdriver • Light and powerful autofeed screwdriver • Solid aluminium casing for increased durability • Available as 4000 and 1600 rpm versions (SC55/4000 and SC55/1600) • Ergonomic handle contributes to better driving control and more accurate screw placing • Easy adjustable to accommodate different screw lengths and drive depths • Retrackable belt feature • Belt hanger mountable on both sides • Easy feed in system for collated screws • Left / right turn • Powered by Li-Ion battery capable of driving 1000 screws per charge • Applications: Fastening gypsum boards, gypsum fibreboards and wooden panels (chip boards and OSB) to wood and metal substrates.
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PNEUMATIC CORRUGATED FASTENER TOOLS
The comprehensive nature of BeA’s product range enables it to cater for almost any offsite construction fastening need. This includes the specialist demands of butt and corner jointing such as when fastening roof trusses or manufacturing web floors.
To accommodate this requirement, BeA offers a number of high performance, highly robust corrugated fastener tools.
BeA W25-82E maxi corrugated fastener tool • A powerful and robust tool • Highly reliable and a preferred choice for businesses worldwide • Compact and well balanced • Fires extra wide 35mm heavy duty W maxi corrugated fasteners in either 18mm or 25mm lengths • Single actuation trigger.
BeA W15-358C standard corrugated fastener tool • A powerful and robust tool • Highly reliable and a preferred choice for businesses worldwide • Compact and well balanced • Fires standard 25mm W corrugated fasteners in either 9mm, 12mm or 15mm lengths • Single actuation trigger.
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CORDLESS NAILERS
To meet the needs of on-site erection teams and operatives involved in yard work, BeA offers a cordless framing nailer (D90) and a cordless anchor nailer (R60).
Both tools are well balanced and lightweight ensuring optimum user comfort and reduced fatigue levels even after long and sustained periods of use.
Both tools are also highly robust and employ long life, high efficiency fuel cells enabling them to fire 1000+ nails from every cell.
BeA D90 cordless nailer • Nail lockout prevents dry firing • Depth control enhances fixing accuracy • Versatile nail fuel packs compatible with most other gas nailers • Fires D head nails CE marked to EN14592 • Ease of handling - weighs just 3.4kg • Suitable for timber frame erection, fixing roof battens, fencing and yard work remote from air lines.
BeA R60 cordless nailer • Nail lockout prevents dry firing • Depth control enhances fixing accuracy • Nose probe helps positively place nails accurately in anchor holes • Fires hardened round head anchor nails CE marked to EN14592 • Ease of handling - weighs just 3.2kg • Suitable for fixing joist hangers, field splice plates, timber connectors and the reinforcement of open web floor joists.
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FASTENERS YOU CAN TRUST
BeA is able to meet your timber frame fastening needs with complete system solutions.
As well as offering hand tools and automated systems, the business also produces a full range of fasteners which are widely acknowledged as some of the best on the market.
These products, which include nails, staples, screws and timber connectors, are manufactured to the highest standards and using industry leading production controls to ensure the utmost in consistency and reliability.
All BeA fasteners are also independently tested by major testing and certification bodies and are backed by application specific approvals such as those required by Eurocode 5 and its subsidiary standards. This ensures you enjoy complete peace of mind concerning their performance and their fit-for-purpose nature.
BeFix Screws
BeA’s BeFix screws have become the preferred choice for some of Europe’s biggest and best known names in timber frame engineering.
CE marked by ETA with full provision of independently assessed performance, these large head structural timber screws benefit from:
• High levels of pull-over strength • A reaming thread section which delivers a positive clamping effect • A cutting point which ensures faster insertion and the ability to drive more screws per battery charge • A Tx drive for better torque transmission and longer bit life • A flat head for improved aesthetics and reduced interference with other components.
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INDUSTRY LEADING SERVICE AND SUPPORT
Jameson FitzGerald – Just Fasten believes in offering customers a complete package consisting of high quality products such as the BeA range backed by equally high levels of service and support. With us as your fastening partner, you can look forward to:
• Field based technical sales representatives able to provide expert advice and responsive customer service
• Good ex stock availability and next day delivery on new tools, consumables, accessories and spare parts
• Access to our fully equipped, expertly staffed workshop which is able to carry out preventative maintenance and repairs
• Loan tool contracts*
• Free training for tool operatives.
*Subject to product volume usage requirements.
www.justfasten.ie / www.bea-group.com 19 To find out more
Contact Conor FitzGerald on +353 (0)86 803 5563 or email: [email protected]
Jameson FitzGerald – Just Fasten, 2 Charvey Grove, Rathnew Industrial Estate, Rathnew, Co. Wicklow, A67 E942, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)404 25725 www.justfasten.ie www.bea-group.com