The new Northwest Distribution Center will enhance customer service across the Pacific Northwest, providing the MRO supplier additional capacity.

Consolidated revenue rose 5.9% in the second quarter of 2023 due to higher unit sales, while net earnings gained 3.8%.

As a principal fastener supplier for the payload fairing of European launch rocket Ariane 5, which transported the James Webb telescope into space, Bossard played a part in its achievement.

Ford was founded in 1963 by George Cellary in a New Jersey warehouse, where he took bulk boxes of fasteners, weigh them on a bathroom scale and repacked them in smaller quantities for customers.

Designing fasteners for electric vehicles can be challenging, but with governments looking to cut carbon emissions, the global shift towards EVs creates an emerging market with significant potential.

New lathe will “facilitate a more streamlined machining process that will help us deliver runs of any size with shorter lead times, more accuracy, and better quoting mechanisms,” the company stated.

The 1.6 million sq ft factory in Shandong Province will include automated production workshops and an 86,000 sq ft smart warehouse.

An industrial internet platform has been set up to offer digital factory solutions for fastener manufacturers.

The near-unanimous decision could lead to 7,200 dockworkers striking as soon as June 24, adding to labor tensions at West Coast ports in the U.S.

Metal fasteners are projected to record 4.3% CAGR and reach US$112.4 billion by the end of 2030, while growth in the plastic segment is estimated at 5.8% CAGR.

The renovation project in Cincinnati added 32,000 sq ft of new office space for business operations staff, including executive, sales, marketing and administrative teams.

Prepare the next generation to be innovative. “Promote active experimentation,” Seredich said. “Embrace failure, identify multiple solutions and avoid micromanaging.”

“Until now, the world has proven to be a wonderful spaceship for humanity, and it will continue to do so for a while to come,” stated chairman Reinhold Würth. “Nevertheless, we must not take sustainability lightly when protecting our planet.”

BUMAX model 88 fasteners have been selected to securely fasten the housing of a new payload on the International Space Station (ISS) called Granular Sound.

The trade show – featuring 229 exhibiting companies – will be Tuesday and Wednesday and includes an opening reception at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum.

With lightweighting issues and range anxiety still dominating the electric market, farm machinery manufacturers are reluctant to adopt EV technologies.

“What makes our company unique is that we are a sustainable company creating a product that makes other companies more sustainable,” Gail Friedberg Rottenstrich, co-founder and CEO of ZAGO, a woman-owned business.

Fastener distributor ICF has modernized its distribution center in Italy with an ‘all in one’ logistics solution from Mecalux, including a mini-load system, conveyors and the EasyWMS Warehouse Management Software, Fastener + Fixing Magazine reports.

Nucor produces steel by recycling scrap metal in electric arc furnaces (EAF), also known as circular steelmaking, a process that has a greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) intensity that is less than half the global average and one-third of the average blast furnace steel producer.

Following pandemic disruptions, the aerospace fastener market is poised for success due to a commercial aircraft order increase and rising defense market demand.