7/19/2010 HEADLINES CLASSIFIED: IFI Fastener Technology Handbook Provide employees with the technical background and information to truly serve your customers as they seek the right products – your products –...
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7/19/2010 HEADLINES Q2 FINdex Drops Amid Stock Slump Following two consecutive quarters of gains, the FIN Fastener Stock Index fell 8% during the second quarter of 2010. The FINdex outperformed...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES Boeing Patents Fastening System For Dreamliner Boeing received a patent on a fastening assembly for composite structures “that will reduce or eliminate internal sparking and prevent hot gas...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES Tariffs on Fasteners and Wire Rod Growing Tariff disputes involving fasteners continue to make headlines as Western nations grapple with Asian producers accused of flooding markets with subsidized...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES Earnest Machine Moving Warehouses to Indianapolis Office stays in Cleveland Earnest Machine closed its warehouse in greater Cleveland but its office remains open. Artist rendering of Earnest Machine...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES PERSPECTIVE – Fastener Editors: 2009 Sales Down, 2010 Improving (Left to right) Phil Matten, editor of the European-based Fastener + Fixing Magazine; Onaya Yoshiteru, president of Fastening Journal...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITION: Wrentham Tool Acquires PCC’s Rico/Astro Wrentham Tool Products LLC announced it acquired the RICO/Astro punch and header tool product lines of PCC Specialty Products Inc., a Precision...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: NIFS/East Sets Multiple Record Lows The 2010 National Industrial Fastener Show/East set records – all new lows. • There were 70 exhibiting companies totaling 74 booths...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: Online Marketing, Pricing, Bank Credit & Differentiating Distributors Topics at 2010 STAFDA The Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association announced workshop speakers for its 2010 convention....
7/19/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: UK’s FAST Exhibition Oriented Toward Engineering Solutions The engineering-oriented Fastening & Assembly Solutions Technology Exhibition includes industrial fasteners, adhesives and assembly technologies for all manufacturing industries....
7/19/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: Interwire Moving to Atlanta for 2011 Interwire will be May 2-5, 2011, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The Wire Association International Inc. has...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: Fastener Trade Show For Egypt, Middle East & Africa Announced A new fastener trade show has been announced for Egypt. The International Fasteners & Machine Supplies...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES OBITUARY: Joseph T. Alderisio Joseph T. Alderisio, 71, founder of Captive Fastener Corporation, died June 6. He led the fastener manufacturing company from its start in 1974 in...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES Ontario Distributor Sponsors Enduro Racing for U.S./Canadian Holidays Boltworks Industrial Fasteners marketed itself by sponsoring Enduro racing at Ontario’s Merrittville Speedway during the July 1 Canadian and July...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES SHORTTAKES: Aderman, Boker’s, Cardinal Fastener, Deepak, Hariton Machinery, Nakashimada, NEF, NOF Corp., A. Raymond, Safety Socket, Sargent, Semblex, Sherex, TFC and Würth Service Supply Mary Lou Aderman of...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITION: NORMA Group Acquires R.G. Ray of U.S. R.G. Gray headquarters in Buffalo Grove, IL. Germany-based NORMA Group, a metal and plastic engineered joining technology company, acquired Illinois-based...
7/19/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITION: Simpson Mfg. Selling Non-Fastener Subsidiary Simpson Manufacturing Co. Inc. and Simpson Dura-Vent Company Inc. have agreed to sell the assets of Dura-Vent to M&G Holding B.V. and...
6/21/2010 HEADLINES Fastenal Opens 1st Surplus Store Fastenal opened an experimental surplus store in its home town of Winona, MN, BB&T Capital Markets reported. The initial store is small and...
6/21/2010 HEADLINES Fastenal Moving Holo-Krome Photo of Holo-Krome’s facility circa 1937. Fastenal announced it will relocate Holo-Krome’s manufacturing operations from West Hartford, CT, to Wallingford. Holo-Krome will move more than...
6/21/2010 HEADLINES (Left to right) Phil Matten, editor of the European-based Fastener + Fixing Magazine; Onaya Yoshiteru, president of Fastening Journal Co. Ltd. of Japan; John Wolz, editor of U.S.-based...