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2006 FIN – New IFI Headquarters Features Training Space

October 08
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The Industrial Fasteners Institute moved to a new headquarters, which can house the most advanced metalworking training and educational systems

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2009 FIN – ‘World’s Largest’ Title Goes to Fastener Fair Stuttgart

October 08
00:00 2012

For decades the National Industrial Fastener Show has proclaimed itself the “World’s Largest Fastener Show.” The cover of the 2009

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2006 FIN – Jones’ Sell Fastener Technology International Magazine

October 05
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April 13, 2006 FIN –  John Jones and Mary Jones sold Fastener Technology International to the publisher of Rubber World

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2006 FIN – Grainger Offering 9 Times as Many Fasteners

October 05
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2006 FIN  Grainger Commission 7-Foot Fastener Sculpture March 21, 2006 FIN – To mark the addition of more than 30,000

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2007 FIN – Fasteners Exempted From DoD Domestic Requirements

October 05
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May 1, 2007 FIN – Compliant specialty metals of satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity for fasteners “cannot be procured as

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2008 FIN – Campanelli: Accuracy Essential to Fastener Quality

October 05
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November 18, 2008 FIN – Kathy Campanelli, national import specialist for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told attendees of a

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2010 FIN – Under New Name, Defense Agency Buying $590 Million in Fasteners

October 05
00:00 2012

  September 7, 2010 FIN – DLA Aviation is the new official name of Defense Logistics Agency’s aviation demand and

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2011 FIN – SBA Lauds Pilgrim Screw for Viability in Changing Market

October 05
00:00 2012

June 14, 2011 FIN – Media Spotlight – Officials from the U.S. Small Business Administration and U.S. Rep. David Cicilline

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2012 FIN – Industrial Rivet Marking 100th Anniversary

October 05
00:00 2012

  + click to enlarge August 27, 2012 FIN – Industrial Rivet & Fastener Company’s expertise in rivets was the

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1982 FIN – Foremost Contracting for High-Strength Bolts to Assure Domestic Supply

October 05
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June 22, 1982 FIN – An innovative California distributor is attempting to shield a segment of its business from imports

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1990 FIN – Pawtucket Acquires Atlas Screw

October 05
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August 17, 1990 FIN – Pawtucket Fasteners, Inc., Pawtucket, Rhode Island, has acquired Atlas Screw & Specialty, Elizabeth, New Jersey,

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2005 FIN – Million Fastener Jumbo Jet Unveiled

October 04
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  2005 FIN – Million Fastener Jumbo Jet Unveiled

  + click to enlarge January 25, 2005 FIN – Airbus unveiled the A380, the largest and heaviest airliner ever

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2002 FIN – Oberton Succeeds Kierlin as Fastenal CEO

October 01
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  December 12, 2002 FIN – “I had a friend who worked at Fastenal, and I needed a job. It’s

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2003 FIN – Bush Ends 201 Steel Tariffs

October 01
00:00 2012

  December 11, 2003 FIN – Facing billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs from the European Union and Japan, President

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2004 FIN – Stanley: "Yup" Leads to Fastener Career

October 01
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  August 10, 2004 FIN – Twice Larry Stanley gambled on nuts and bolts, and twice he succeeded. After military

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2001 FIN – Industrial Holdings Sells Its Fastener Companies

September 28
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  February 16, 2001 FIN – Industrial Holdings Inc. is offering its engineered products group for sale. The group manufactures

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2000 FIN – Industrial Holdings Counting on Oil Industry Rebound

September 26
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New CEO Marsh Names IHI Management Team November 1, 200 FIN – Michael Marsh, who joined Industrial Holdings Inc. as

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2001 FIN – Financial Buyers Show Interest in Fastener Industry

September 26
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  April 30, 2001 FIN – The interest of financial buyers in acquiring fastener manufacturers and distributors indicates fastener companies

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2005 FIN – How to Identify Hexavalent Chromium

September 18
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  August 24, 2005 FIN – Editors Note: The following column by Phil Matten, editor of Fastener & Fixing Europe,

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1980 FIN – Two Fastener Companies to Produce Their Own Wire

September 18
00:00 2012

  March 4, 1980 FIN – Two California manufacturers of aircraft fasteners who have been faced with a shortage of

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