FEATURE + click to enlarge Alcoa announced long-term supply contracts with Boeing valued at over $2.5 billion. Alcoa will supply multi-material fastening systems for every Boeing platform in its largest
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12/23/2015 FEATURES China’s fastener exports totaled 2.28 million tons with the value of $4.1 billion during the first ten months of 2015, ChinaFastener.Info reports. The top five export destinations of
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Below is a summary of fastener industry acquisitions during 2015 by way of 24 FIN headlines this year – with a week of potential more
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+ click to enlarge The biggest issue of doing business in Mexico is the cost, Mark Shannon of Tower Fasteners told the National Fastener Distributors Association. In 2000, Holtsville, NY-based Tower
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Field sales have grown an at average of 20% annually since Bill Derry and Jim Derry acquired the Illinois-based fastener distributorship from founder Dick Field 25 years ago. They credit
November 19
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FEATURE + click to enlarge MEDIA SPOTLIGHT: “Boeing is starting to implement robotic fastening of 777 fuselage panels, the beginnings of what will be a significant shift toward robotization of
November 16
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. has been innovating for the past 20 years. And some analysts think that’s just the beginning for the largest e-commerce
November 12
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Dr. Gang Wang, left, and Dr. David (Andy) Hissam with a prototype piezoelectric washer MEDIA SPOTLIGHT – A piezoelectric load-sensing washer provides a more accurate
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FEATURE + click to enlarge “Kids are naturally creative,” consultant Tom Payne told the Women in the Fastener Industry. But
November 06
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Rick Peterson + click to enlarge Robert Devers The Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association
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Bannister & McGuire Sell NIFMSE To National Firm Bannister and McGuire (courtesy LINK Magazine) The National Fastener & Mill Supply Expo
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FEATURE A manufacturer’s rep may have 10 lines, but “for some reason one manufacturer gets 20% of the rep’s
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10/31/2015 11:42:00 AM The historic Caparo Atlas Fastenings Ltd. was closed by a UK court administrator, according to Fastener+Fixing magazine.
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FEATURE + click to enlarge The total number of booths set a record, but overall registration slipped 2.3% and the
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Faster production of commercial jets continues to drive profits at the Boeing Co., which saw
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FEATURE + click to enlarge The 35th anniversary of what was first known as the “National Industrial Fastener Show &
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Jeffrey Cohen has been in business for twenty years — long enough to remember a
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10/20/2015 FEATURE + click to enlarge Courtesy NIFMSE The 2015 National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo is set to
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Talk about a rough start to a quarter. For the third time in 11 months,
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Bannister & McGuire Sell NIFMSE To National Firm Bannister and McGuire (courtesy LINK Magazine) The National Fastener & Mill Supply Expo
