Trusted fasteners + smarter processes = one complete aerospace assembly system
Aerospace assembly is only as strong as its weakest link. Programme, parts, processes, and people must all be connected from the start, delivering optimal performance and working together seamlessly.
In recent years, as growth within the industry has surged at unprecedented levels, one question has emerged: How do we build at scale more efficiently while maintaining consistency?
Click Bond now has the answer: by engineering every link in the chain.
It starts with a solid foundation: the adhesive bond
For nearly 40 years, Click Bond, Inc., a Carson City, Nevada-based manufacturer, operated with the belief that holes don’t belong on an aircraft.
It started in 1987, when Click Bond began manufacturing elegant and innovative solutions that use the power of adhesive bonding specifically developed to make its partners’ designs lighter, stronger, faster, and safer, all while supporting and expanding what’s possible for its customers in the aerospace and defence industries.
Adhesive bonding extends platform life and streamlines the assembly process. Click Bond’s innovative fastening products range from rivetless nutplates — which can be installed 68% faster than riveted products and require no installation holes — to adhesive-bonded fastening solutions that can withstand extremes of shock, temperature, and vibration, all while preventing galvanic and atmospheric corrosion.
Adhesive-bonded fastening solutions provide the following benefits:
- Improved cycle time
- Reduced foreign object debris (FOD)
- Lower production costs
- Simplified installation and maintenance
- Prevention of corrosion
- Weight reduction
- Reduced errors and rework
- Preservation of structural integrity
Today, Click Bond’s adhesive-bonded fasteners have proven themselves on the most demanding, high-performance aerospace and defence platforms in the world.
For nearly 40 years, Click Bond has been solving its customers’ biggest challenges. Now, in meeting the increased demands of the modern aerospace industry for scalable, repeatable results, the company starts with this solid foundation: a trusted line of more than 5,000 adhesive-bonded products sold worldwide.
Adding speed, repeatability, and precision for high-rate manufacturing
Click Bond has always employed customer-driven innovation. Its leaders and engineers have listened to their customers and the demands of the industry, and, in response, the company has made a significant investment in strengthening the bond — with its parts and its customers. Building upon the exceptional quality of its adhesive-bonded fasteners, Click Bond has developed the next generation of bonding solutions.
Click Bond believes that holes don’t belong in an aircraft, and variability doesn’t belong in assembly. So at the 2026 Farnborough International Airshow, Click Bond debuted its extraordinary Stronger Together system — pairing its proven fasteners with technology that makes that foundation even faster, more consistent, and fully traceable at scale.
The system has three pillars.
- Pillar one: Proven bonded fasteners. This is the solid foundation everything else is built on — almost 40 years of flight-critical, commercially available adhesive-bonded fasteners, trusted on the world’s most demanding platforms. Bonded fasteners simplify installation and maintenance, improve cycle time, lower production costs, avoid errors and rework, and prevent the galvanic corrosion and structural weak points that drilled holes leave behind.
- Pillar two: Automated Bonding Technology. Surface preparation variability has long been the leading root cause of bonded fastener issues in production and sustainment. Click Bond’s new Automated Bonding Technology (ABT) removes that variability, combining laser surface prep and precise adhesive dispensation in as little as 30 seconds — making bonding seven times faster than manual methods, with quality data to match. FIA 2026 marked the world premiere of the ABT Handheld (CBA-300), joining the ABT Desktop (CBA-200) and Bonded Fastener System (CBA-100) as a complete suite ready to deploy on a production floor today.
- Pillar three: XR Digital Solutions. The aerospace assembly workforce faces an experience-level decline, even as the complexity of the work grows. Click Bond’s Digital Solutions close that gap. Mixed-reality work instructions are projected directly onto the programme surface, guiding placement, validating installation, and building in traceability every step of the way. The results speak for themselves: At Vertical Aerospace, digital-guided installation of Click Bond fasteners took the assembly of 9,500 bonded fasteners on the VX4 from three months down to five days.
Trusted fasteners, automated bonding, and digital guidance combine to make the Stronger Together system.
Click Bond showcases an exciting new asset in Brighton Science
With the recent acquisition of Brighton Science, a Click Bond company, the company is highlighting its latest investment in the science of the bond itself — surface intelligence and bond-readiness data, which sits alongside the Stronger Together platform.
Brighton Science teamed with Click Bond at Farnborough 2026, for the first time ever, to provide an R&D preview demonstration of its BConnect platform, to give visitors a glimpse of where Click Bond will eventually take surface intelligence next — incorporating it into the digital workflow.
Trusted fasteners. Smarter processes. One complete system, engineered link by link.
For more details, visit www.clickbond.com.
