May 25, 2011 FIN – Bob Linebarger is retiring after 57 years in the fastener industry. Linebarger started in 1954
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September 2, 2009 FIN – The remaining machinery, equipment and inventory from Anchor Bolt & Screw Company will be auctioned
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January 4, 2010 FIN – Fastenal Company agreed to acquire certain assets of socket head screw product manufacturer Holo-Krome. Terms
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June 25, 2008 FIN – The Industrial Fasteners Institute launched its Technology Connection online technical data service, which went live
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Editor’s Note: FIN interviewed a wide variety of participants at Fastener Fair Europe. Here are excerpts from the comments October
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FASTENER HISTORY Randall Credits Machinery & People for Allfast’s Aerospace Fastener Success + click to enlarge Jim Randall, who acquired
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September 10, 2003 FIN – The manufacturer / distributor / customer relationship “can’t be good without communication,” panelist Bill Unferth
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June 10, 1981 FIN – Richard E. Shanks, president of Fasteners Inc., Spokane, Washington, was recently named “Small Business Person
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November 15, 2005 FIN – Atlantic Fasteners converted to a 100% employee owned company, CEO Patrick J. O’Toole announced. “It’s
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March 1, 2011 FIN – In 1981 Patrick O’Toole was looking for an investment. He ended up with a fastener
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September 10, 1996 FIN – Precision Castparts Corp. acquired Astro Punch Corporation of Santa Fe Springs, California, in a transaction
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October 25, 2011 FIN – The number one issue for the United States and the fastener industry is jobs, Jim
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March 17, 2010 FIN – Since the European Union imposed 87% antidumping duties on Chinese fasteners starting in February 2009,
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May 11, 2009 FIN – “It is entirely ugly out there” and “There are few encouraging signs at this point”
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January 14, 1989 FIN – J. Hammer & Associates, Distributor Sales, Inc. and Distributor Sales S.E., Inc., which operate under
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December 8, 2011 FIN – Italian multinational firm Agrati Group and Semblex Corp. of Elmhurst, IL, announced a global alliance
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Editor’s Note: The Taiwan External Trade Development Council invited leading fastener journalists from around the world to Taiwan to promote
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November 10, 2009 FIN – “Actual dumping we are against,” European Fastener Distributors Association president Geoff Hopwood declared. “We want
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February 28, 1994 FIN – Two domestic producers of wire used for fastener fabrication are moving forward with plans to
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FASTENER HISTORY 2011 FIN – Ex-TV Reporter First Woman to Chair IFI Friel, Monti Lead IFI for 2011-2012 March 28,
