| 1985 FIN - Japan's O&K Acquires Wire Sales of Chicago |
Will start cold heading wire production in Chicago
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| 1999 FIN - Graef: South American Fastener Technology Advancing |
South America produced 270,000 metric tons of fasteners in 1998, totaling $1 billion in sales.
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| 1992 FIN - Missouri Threaded Products Marks 25th Anniversary |
Manufactures low carbon, alloy and stainless threaded rod just one mile from the Arch.
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| 1986 FIN - Mud Slowing Construction of Nucor Fastener Plant in Indiana |
Nucor success will refute naysayers who have given up on this country's ability to compete.
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| 1982 FIN - Italy's Fontana Opens U.S. Warehouse |
Virginia Warehouse Opened
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| 1997 FIN - Quality Engineers: Going, Going, Gone |
"They call me here at work for other jobs."
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| 2010 - Southwestern Fastener Association History & Officers |
In its early stages the Southwestern Fastener Association was known as the Texas Fastener Association.
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| 1988 FIN - TriMas Corp. to be New Parent Company of Fastener Manufacturers |
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| 1993 FIN - TRW Plans to Sell Palnut Fastener Unit to TransTechnology Corp.; The Origins of Thompson-Ramo Woolridge |
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| 1986 FIN - Fastener Women's Network Holds 1st Meeting |
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| 1979 FIN - Keystone Consolidated Plans to Expand National Lock Fasteners |
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| 1992 FIN - Boeing to Replace Fuse Pins With New Stainless Design |
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| 1984 FIN - Fastener Industry's First On-Line National Inventory System |
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| 2000 FIN - Thanksgiving in Palm Springs |
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| 1991 FIN - Bamal Names New Team |
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| 1988 FIN - The Fastener Mall: Providing a Shopping Center for Fastener Distributors |
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| 1997 FIN - Fastener Supply Wins USA Today Award |
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| 1993 FIN - New Washer Design Locks Bolts Without Marring Workpieces |
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| 1980 FIN - Corrosion Resistant Fastener Coatings |
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| 1996 FIN - Nucor's Correnti at MFDA: Pay in Relation to Production |
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| 1988 FIN - Fastener Manufacturers to Benefit From Parent Company Allowances |
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| 1991 FIN - New Manufacturer Established in New Jersey to Produce Spring Pins |
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| 1983 FIN - Eaton, AMCA's Continental Screw Fastener Plants Closing |
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| 1993 FIN - TriMas to Build Plant in Indiana |
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| 1980 FIN - World's Largest Hardware Store? |
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| 1996 FIN - Kaynar of California Acquires Australian Recoil |
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| 1984 FIN - Stelco Reorganizes Fastener Manufacturing |
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| 1990 FIN - Bisco Planning Expansion |
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1988 FIN - Taiwan Encouraging Investment in the U.S. |
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1995 FIN - Barnes Group's Martin Breaks a Barrier |
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| 1980 FIN - Carter Administration Sets Tariffs on Fasteners from India |
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1999 FIN - ISO 14001 is Coming: Focusing on Environmental Decisions |
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| 1989 FIN - Bowman Distribution Expanding Rockford Center |
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| 1997 FIN - Automation Expands Taiwan Production |
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| 1981 FIN - Bristow Moving to New Headquarters |
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| 1990 FIN - Fastener Industry Connection Results in Family Reunion |
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| 1995 FIN - AIFG Survey Tells Fastener Makers to Partner, Invest in Productivity |
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| 1999 FIN - Earnest Machine Products Marks 50th With Book of Company History |
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| 1983 FIN - Reagan Administration Studies Renewing Fastener Trade Sanctions |
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| 1979 FIN - AVC to Increase Raybestos-Manhattan Holdings |
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| 1998 FIN - Fastener Distributor Learns Agility |
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| 1990 FIN - Delta Secondary Opens in Bensenville |
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| 1987 FIN - Vulcan Opens New Facility |
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| 2010 FIN - The First Women to Head Fastener Associations |
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| 1994 FIN - Taylor's Most Frequently Asked Fastener Questions |
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| 1983 FIN - Microdot Gives Employees Bonuses for Buying New American Cars
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| 1996 FIN - Mayer: Cheap Can Be Expensive |
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| 1987 FIN - Holo-Krome and Allen Combine Forces |
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| Metropolitan Fastener Distributors Association - Past Presidents |
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| 2001 - 2010 IFI's Soaring Eagle Awards |
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| 1994 FIN - Marbacher & Unferth: Metric is Coming |
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| 1984 FIN - 'Pac Man' Purchasing Introduced to Fastener Industry |
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| 1997 FIN - Dan-Loc Goes Global With Flexitallic Acquisition |
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| 1988 & 2008 FIN: Rockford's Role in the Fastener Industry |
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| 1992 FIN - Several New Companies Created Via a Complex Web of Events |
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| 1999 FIN - Bossard Buys McIlhons' Iowa Industrial Products |
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1986 FIN - NFDA Introduces "Total Measurement Tool" for Fasteners |
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| 1993 FIN - Canada's Paulin Opens 1st U.S. Branch |
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| 1988 FIN - Eskay Opens New Plant and Headquarters in Wood Dale |
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| 1984 FIN - Belford Retires as IFI Managing Director |
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| 1997 FIN - EIFI's Lench: Europe Concerned About Dumping of Cheap Imports |
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| 2003 FIN - Chronology of the 1st 100 Years of SPS Technologies |
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| 1982 FIN - U.S. Fastener Manufacturers Counting on Commerce Department's Section 232 Investigation |
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| 2010 FIN - SEFA Marks 35th Anniversary |
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| 1991, 1998 & 2000 FIN - Gardenbolt History |
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| 1989 FIN - SEP of London Buys Precision Socket Screw to Expand American Socket Screw |
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| 1979 FIN - Sullivan 1st Chairman of New England Fastener Distributors Association |
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1995 FIN - Shamrock to Share Technology Learned in New Research Venture |
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| 1985 FIN - Ivaco Adds AHL Group to List of Acquisitions |
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| 1999 FIN - Nissen Website Offers Fastener Buyers Negotiation Power |
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| 1995 FIN - FAA Airworthiness Directive: "The Bogus Rod Bolt Nightmare" |
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| 1982 FIN - Greendorfer and Robinowitz Buy Continental |
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| 1996 FIN - Chicago Celebrates 50th Anniversary
/ 2004 FIN - CBNSA Becomes MWFA |
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| 2000 FIN - Book Review: Historical Search for The Father of the Screw |
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| 1986 FIN - Domestic Automotive Fastener Manufacturers Get Cool Reception from New Foreign Auto Assembly Plants In North America |
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| 1981 FIN - SPS Opens Division Focused on Automation |
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| 1996 FIN - Indianapolis Buys Warehouses for Jail; Service Supply Gets New Distribution Center |
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| 1979 & 1989 FIN - Emhart, VSI & Black & Decker |
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| 1994 FIN - Disabilities Act Extends to Firms With Just 15 Employees in July |
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| 1986 FIN - Big Four Automakers Agree to Standardized Fastener Containers |
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| 1997 FIN - Wittersheim, Freymark, Derry, Turnbull, & Sun at IFE Offer Global Forecast |
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| 1990 FIN - Century Old Dyson & Sons Acquired by Investment Group |
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| 1997 FIN - Greenslade's Required Fastener Reference Manuals |
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| 1983 FIN - Shrum, Broehm, Revercomb, Baker, Goodwin, Stanley and Snider on Surviving the Recession |
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| 1979 FIN - Importer Garden City: Distributors Ordering More Metric Fasteners |
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| 1994 FIN - Huck Uses Personal Computers in Designing Blind Fasteners |
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| 1999 FIN - Callahan's Observations on the Changing Industry at the 20th Anniversary of Fastener Industry News |
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| 1992 FIN - U.S. Steel, Along With Kobe, Plans to Return to Wire Rod Producing |
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| 1981 FIN - New Jersey's Fastbolt Going National By Opening in Sun Belt |
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| 1993 FIN - History of Hodell-Natco Industries |
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| 1989 FIN - Fastenal Expanding in Cities With 20,000 to 70,000 Populations |
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| 1997 FIN - Crawford: RB&W, Arden Futures Within Park-Ohio Is in Logistics |
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| 2009 FIN - Wind Turbine Fasteners Create Draw for Industry's First Presidential Plant Tour |
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| 1996 FIN: Fastener Firms Start Marketing on the Internet |
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| 1994 FIN - Northwest Distributor Johnson Wins Small Business Battle in Congress |
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| 1982 FIN: Fastener Women Tell MFDA of Industry Experiences |
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| 1982 FIN - Three-Year Duties on Imported Nuts, Bolts & Screws Expire |
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| 1998 FIN - Five Distributors Form Pentacon Inc.; Plan Stock Offering, "Aggressive Acquisition" |
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| 1996 FIN - Kirloskar Lists Largest Fastener Manufacturers in Growing India Market |
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| 1995 FIN: Harris Succeeds Scofield as IFI Managing Director |
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| 1984 FIN - ITW Sets Up JV in Japan |
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| 1997 FIN - Computer Simulator is Changing How Header Operators Are Trained |
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| 2006 FIN - Hausoul Follows Merrifield, Dickson, Langholz & Vaughan as NFDA Executive |
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| 1981 FIN - Texas Distributor Changes Involve Pye, Dubose, Heydenreich, McMahon |
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| 1990 FIN - NFDA Announces Survey Results |
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| 1984 FIN - Maryland Bolt & Nut Division of Leonard Jed Co. Acquired by Byrne |
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| 1990 FIN - A Talk With TIFI Chairman Henry Pan |
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| 1989 FIN - Elco and Nagoya Form JV to Manufacture Fasteners for Japanese Automakers in North America |
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| 1995 FIN - Rumors Up Prices |
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| 1998 FIN - The Ubiquitous A325 |
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| How the Western Association of Fastener Distributors Began |
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| 1997 FIN: Global Giant Würth Reentering North American Fastener Market |
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| 1931 to 2009 - Industrial Fastener Institute Chairs |
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| 1987 FIN - RB&W Began as Wood Screw Manufacturer in 1845 |
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| 2009 FIN - Cameron: Before Computers You Just Searched the Warehouse |
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| ONLINE FASTENER MUSEUM |
This GlobalFastenerNews.com online fastener museum is dedicated to Mel Kirsner, who spent more than 40 years collecting fastener memorabilia and creating Mel's Fastener Museum.
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| 1997 FIN Calendar - 256 B.C., 1569, 1798, 1813, 1841, 1859, 1883, 1887 & 1892 Fastener Dates From Mel's Fastener Museum |
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| 1998 FIN - Ice Storms Suspend Infasco Production for a Month |
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| 1981 FIN - Southern Screw Regains Its Name |
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| Lake Erie Screw Grew as Family Business |
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| 1993 FIN - Wrought Washer Opens in West |
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| 2008 FIN - Employees, Customers & Suppliers Tell the Porteous Story |
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| 1980 FIN - Fastener Industry to Have New Showcase Next Year |
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| 1982 FIN - Surber Acquires Accurate Threaded |
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| 2004 FIN - XL Screw Builds New Headquarters Around Racking System |
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| Hill Fastener Started in Rural Illinois |
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| 1992 FIN - Fastener Machinery Association Formed |
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| Gilchrist Opened Capital Fasteners in 1985 |
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| 1979 FIN - President of Fastener Manufacturer Dating Back to 1816 Offers Forecast for the 1980s
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| 1991 FIN - Fastener Services Inc. Sets Up Maquiladora Joint Ventures in Mexico |
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| 1991 FIN - Safety Socket Screw Marks 60th Anniversary |
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| Continental-Aero History Linked to Locknuts |
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| 2009: Rotor Clip Company History |
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| 1997 FIN - Nucor History Book Gives Glimpse of Future |
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| 2009: Nylok Company History |
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| 1997 FIN - Who's the Cheapest CEO in America? |
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| 1999 FIN - Halvorsen Retires After 23 Years of Building STAFDA |
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| 2007 FIN - Distributors Link Marks 30th Anniversary |
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| 2002 FIN - How the Fastener Industry Discovered Columbus |
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| 2009: Solon Manufacturing Marks 60 Years |
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| 1983 FIN - U.S. Fastener Plant Closings |
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| 1987 FIN - Japanese Firm Partially Acquires ELCO |
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| 1988 FIN - Textron's Camcar to Acquire Rockford Headed Products |
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| 1994 FIN - Park-Ohio Buys RB&W
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| 1986 FIN - Banner Big in Fasteners Too |
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| 1990 FIN - Forbes Finds One Fastener Billionaire |
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| 1980 FIN - IFI Plus 7 Trade Associations Meet to Discuss Future of Wire Rod Supply |
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| 1990 FIN - Black & Decker Names Gustafon to Head Emhart |
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| 1983 FIN - Grabner Acquires Cardinal |
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| 1984 FIN - Nevada Bolt Supplies Fasteners for Statue of Liberty Restoration |
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| 1985 FIN - Nucor to Build $25 Million Fastener Plant in Indiana |
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| Mazoni Machinery History |
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| 1995 FIN - James: Smaller and Smaller Products Requiring Minuscule Fasteners |
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| 1979 FIN - First Fastener Industry News Published in 1979 |
Fastener Industry News launches its flagship publication
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| 2003 FIN - Faspac Fastener Software Introduced in 1979 |
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| 1995 FIN - Cohn: Remembering When Imports Were Delivered at Night |
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| 1995 FIN - U.S. Industrial Fastener Market Projected to Reach $8.6 Billion by 2000 |
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| 1994 FIN - Couch: Future Trends Challenge Fastener Manufacturers |
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| 1985 FIN - IFI Adds Associate Membership Category |
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| 2002 FIN - Golden's Rules: First, Make a Profit |
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| 1998 FIN - Fastener Software Suppliers Ready for Y2K; But Watch Out for Customers, Vendors & HVAC
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| 1986 FIN - Fast Finder Unveils Computerized Sourcing for Excess Inventory |
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| 2001 FIN - Win Adams: Getting the Order |
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| First Fastener Fair Held in 1995 in England |
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| 1987 FIN - IFI & U.S. Domestic Fastener Producers Make Bold Bid for Japanese and German Transplant Auto Business
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| 1992 FIN - Medalist Acquires Pioneer Screw & Nut
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| 1984 FIN - Csanadi Opens Fall River Mfg. |
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| 1999 FIN - Ford Driving Fastener Realignment |
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| 2000 FIN - What is a Fastener? |
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| Barnhill Bolt Founded in Albuquerque in 1960
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| 1987 FIN - Turnbull's Tri-West Acquires Tennessee Bolt |
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| 1981 FIN - SFM Agrees to Buy Waterbury-Farrel From Textron; Is Number of U.S. Fastener Manufacturers Declining? |
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| NFDA Leaders 1968 to Present |
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| 1982 FIN - Does Raybestos + Hi-Shear Merger Place Raymark Among Largest U.S. Fastener Manufacturers? |
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| 1991 FIN - Thiokol to Enter the Fastener Field Via Acquisition of Huck |
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| 1998 FIN - Ifastgroupe Acquires Hammer and Distributor Sales |
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| 1997 FIN - From Cradle to Grave the Fasteners in Your Life |
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| 2006 FIN - Textron Fastening Changing to Acument |
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| 2005 FIN - South African Fastener Manufacturers' Chairman: Currency is Big Problem |
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| 2007 FIN - Taiwanese Consortium Buys Brighton-Best; Rosentein Retires |
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| 2001 FIN - Fastener People Escape Areas Under Twin Towers on 9/11 |
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| 2000 FIN - Hirsch Succeeds Sights as Textron Fastening President; Rayburn Leaves Fasteners for Baseball
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| 1993 FIN - Ivaco Offers Public Shares |
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| 1997 FIN - Las Vegas Show Gamble Pays Off |
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| 1994 FIN - ITW's Steady Success, Future Featured in Barron's and Crain's |
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| 1985 FIN -Bethlehem Steel Bows Out of Fastener Manufacturing With Sale of 1882 Pennsylvania Plant |
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| 1988 FIN - Jacksonville Bolt Renamed A-Jax |
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| 1989 FIN - England's SEP Acquires Precision Socket Screw of U.S. |
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| 1994 FIN - Los Angeles Area Fastener Companies Shaken But Recovering From Earthquake |
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| 1996 FIN - Mobile Fastener Service Latest Competitive Edge? |
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