FEATURE Gowett at STAFDA: Do Business with People You “Know and Trust” + click to enlarge People want to do business with people they know and trust, Bay Tool &
+ click to enlarge As tool and fastener specialists, many Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association members know a lot about their markets, according to Robin Roberts, senior VP
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
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
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
+ 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
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
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
FEATURE + click to enlarge Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. has been innovating for the past 20 years. And some
FEATURE + click to enlarge Dr. Gang Wang, left, and Dr. David (Andy) Hissam with a prototype piezoelectric washer MEDIA
FEATURE + click to enlarge “Kids are naturally creative,” consultant Tom Payne told the Women in the Fastener Industry. But
FEATURE + click to enlarge Rick Peterson + click to enlarge Robert Devers The Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association
Bannister & McGuire Sell NIFMSE To National Firm Bannister and McGuire (courtesy LINK Magazine) The National Fastener & Mill Supply Expo
FEATURE A manufacturer’s rep may have 10 lines, but “for some reason one manufacturer gets 20% of the rep’s
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.
FEATURE + click to enlarge The total number of booths set a record, but overall registration slipped 2.3% and the
FEATURE + click to enlarge Faster production of commercial jets continues to drive profits at the Boeing Co., which saw
FEATURE + click to enlarge The 35th anniversary of what was first known as the “National Industrial Fastener Show &
FEATURE + click to enlarge Jeffrey Cohen has been in business for twenty years — long enough to remember a
10/20/2015 FEATURE + click to enlarge Courtesy NIFMSE The 2015 National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo is set to