Bossard Holding AG operates in the field of industrial fastening and assembly technology in Europe, the United States, and Asia. The company offers standard fastening elements, such as screws, nuts, washers, pins, clamping and positioning elements, and anchorage systems; direct assembly screws for wood, metal, plastics, and concrete; and securing and anti loosening elements, such as securing and anti loosening screws, self-locking nuts, securing and anti loosening washers, and retaining rings for shafts and bores. It also provides specific fastening technologies, clinching technology, rivet technology, threaded inserts, clip fasteners, welding technology, and embedding and surface bonding fasteners; and functional elements comprising electrical products, access solutions, and sealing technology. In addition, the company offers customized solutions, such as turned, milled, extruded, stamped, and bent parts; and provides related engineering and logistics services. Further, it offers surface coatings for mechanical fastening elements; functional coatings are used when fastening elements require a coating that assume a technical function; and tribological dry coatings, a system solution for mechanically stressed fastening elements and components, such as screws, nuts, and washers. The company was founded in 1831 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.