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GlobalFastenerNews.com continues to add new features for our growing readership — subscribers and non-subscribers alike.
The FIN Fastener Stock Tracker (click on FIN Stock Review on left or Fastener Stock Review tile on right below Fastener Quiz) is a new service for the thousands of people in the fastener industry who turn to GlobalFastenerNews.com for news and features that no one else provides.
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| Fires Prompt Ferrari To Replace 458 Fender Adhesive with Rivets |
A faulty adhesive that reportedly caused Ferrari's 458 Italia model to spontaneously catch fire has prompted the Italian carmaker to issue a recall on more than 1,200 of the luxury sport cars.
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| Industrial Nut Co. Turns 102 |
Industrial Nut was founded in 1908 as Brightman Hammered Nut & Manufacturing Co., which made special machinery and nuts in Sandusky, OH.
Industrial Nut manufactures special fasteners for use in earth-moving machines, heavy trucks, diesel engines, farm machinery and other assemblies.
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| Nucor Fastener Appeals Advancing Through International Trade Court |
The company's appeals on its antidumping and countervailing petitions continue to move through the U.S. Court of International Trade, with each case being handled by a different judge.
As GlobalFastenerNews.com discovered, a decision in one case could be handed down as early as September.
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| Fastener Stock Results Mixed |
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Fastener stock results were mixed this week, with automotive suppliers getting a boost from robust global vehicle production.
Aerospace fastener suppliers faced tougher conditions, as inventories remain slim and new orders await progress on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner production schedule.
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| ISO 14001:2004 Cuts Energy Usage by Nearly 30% |
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Spirol International continually re-evaluates manufacturing and administrative processes to improve the environment. Programs include recycling paper, batteries, light bulbs, raw materials and manufacturing fluids and energy saving apparatuses such as automatic light switches and auto-flush units in the commodes.
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| Acument Global Technologies in the News |
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Long a fixture in the fastener industry, the company once known as Textron Fastening Systems has undergone changes as it seeks to strengthen its position in global markets.
"We remain a leading global fastener supplier," Acument Global Technologies communications director Tim Weir told FIN.
Among its recent announcements was news that the company is building a new fastener plant in South America.
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| Tariffs on Fasteners and Wire Rod Grow |
Tariffs on fasteners and wire rod have grown in the global economic downturn, and not just among major importer and exporter countries.
In the coming weeks the U.S. Court of International Trade is expected to rule on tariff petitions filed by Nucor Fastener in 2009.
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| Nucor Fastener in the News |
The U.S. fastener manufacturer continues to make headlines, from soaring second quarter sales to its ongoing trade dispute with fastener producers from China and Taiwan.
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| Curiosity Inspires Fastener Patriarch To Collect Art |
Reinhold Würth values curiosity. That is why he had to see the excavated fallen town of Qatna, a major trading metropolis between the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age.
Würth supported the first exhibit of Qatna outside of Syria.
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