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McLean, Beach Lead IFI

John Wolz

Porter McLean of ATF Inc. is the new chairman of the Industrial Fasteners Institute and Steve Beach of Textron Fastening Systems is vice chair.

McLean is vice president of sales & marketing at ATF. He succeeds Michael Friel of Haydon Bolt and St. Louis Screw & Bolt.

New IFI board members are: For Division I/industrial products, Dave Monti, Fall River; Division II/aerospace, Christian Darville, LISI/Hi-Shear and Soheil Eshragi, Textron Aerospace Fasteners; Division III/automotive, Ed Plomer, Illinois Tool Works, and Craig Brown-Borden, Lang Fasteners.
Division I chair: Tony Tumbarello, Brico; vice chair, Jonathan Turner, president, Turnasure LLC.
Division II chair: Mike Lawler, Precision Castparts/SPS Technologies; vice chair, Owe Carlson, Alcoa Fastening Systems.
Division III chair: Jim VanIngen, ITW; vice chair, Steve Patton, MacLean Vehicle Systems.
Associate/Suppliers: Leo Monroe, National Machinery; vice chair Ed Konecznv, Magni Group.

The IFI, founded in 1931, represents North American manufacturers of industrial aerospace and automotive fasteners and suppliers of raw material and production services. The IFI recently moved its headquarters (see FIN, February 8, 2006) to: 6363 Oak Tree Blvd., Independence, OH 44131. Tel: 216 241-1482 Fax 216 241-5901 E-mail: rharris@indfast.com Web: industrial-fasteners.org �2006 FastenerNews.com