FEATURE If your company had a sales problem in 2009, then there’s a good chance you found a solution in 2010. Sales and profit gains in the fastener industry were
February 03
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FEATURE Alcoa Fastening Systems “significantly strengthens” its aerospace fastener product lines by acquiring Valley-Todeco and Linread, an industry acquisitions expert said. Alcoa announced this week it will acquire the aerospace
January 30
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FEATURE Fastener companies are seeing “real demand improvement”, prompting them to ramp up to meet growing demand in the aerospace and industrial sectors. Precision Castparts Corp. reported nine-month sales for
January 28
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FEATURE Thanks to the new Article Store, a variety of published items — from news articles, features, technical articles, fastener stock reports and the 2011 FIN Calendar — are available.
January 25
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FEATURE How Sherex went online in 1992 New Sherex site Before most people had ever even logged onto the World Wide Web, Sherex Fastening Solutions had a presence online.
January 24
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FEATURE Apple has garnered attention the past few days over a low-tech upgrade to its popular iPhone 4. The technology giant has drawn user scorn over its switch to
January 23
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FEATURE Photo: EPA/ARMANDO BABANI Albanian artist Saimir Strati used 300,000 industrial screws to create a massive banknote mosaic featuring a portrait of Homer, the ancient Greek poet. “Currency of
January 19
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FEATURE A $75/short ton price hike in US wire rod prices was announced by ArcelorMittal and Keystone Steel & Wire. However spot prices for domestic wire rod have stabilized,
January 18
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FEATURE Patrick Paige Acument Global Technologies Inc. appointed Patrick Paige as President and CEO effective February 1, 2011. Paige
January 12
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FEATURE Here are highlights from the FIN interview with John Byrne, director of common commodities supplier management / commercial airplanes
January 10
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1/10/2011 FEATURE The Boeing Company executive in charge of the 635 million fasteners the airplane maker is projected to use
December 19
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FEATURE Field Fastener was one of several fastener companies to expand in 2010 Acument Global Technologies announced the reopening of
December 15
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FEATURE Since 1979 Fastener Industry News has conducted an End of the Year Survey of the Fastener Industry. The FIN
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The 16th annual FIN Calendar features 106 fastener events around the world. The first FIN Calendar in 1996 listed 54
December 01
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FEATURE John MacLean Jr. (courtesy MacLean-Fogg) MacLean-Fogg Company is marking 85 years of growth to a family-owned, multi-national corporation.
November 24
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FEATURE Johnson at STAFDA: Educate Your Sales Team on “Buy American” as Competitors May Sell Non-Compliant Products Educate your sales
November 18
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FEATURE STAFDA State of Industry Address: Economic Uncertainty is the Problem in 2010 Robert Devers Editor’s Note: The following are
November 17
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FEATURE NIFS/West Booth Totals NIFS/West Total Registration Numbers were mixed for the 2010 National Industrial Fastener Show/West show in Las
November 15
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11/15/2010 12:07:00 AM FEATURE The Kinefac Automated Fastener Production System allows users to improve the quality of the threads or
November 15
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FEATURE Eric Dudas’ Best Practices or ?Thou Shall?? 1. Remember the BIG PICTURE! 2. Consider Social Marketing vs. Social
