4/5/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITION: Birmingham Fastener Buys NSS T-Bolt Birmingham Fastener’s manufacturing and distribution center in Alabama (courtesy Birmingham Fastener) Birmingham Fastener and Supply Inc. announced the acquisition of the T-Bolt...
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4/5/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITION: EACO Corp. Acquires Bisco Industries EACO Corp. completed the acquisition of Bisco Industries Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1973, Bisco distributes fasteners and electronic components...
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4/5/2010 HEADLINES Pac-West Honors Kirsner; Fastener Museum Restarting The late Mel Kirsner Mel’s Fastener Museum was destroyed by a Southern California wildfire in 2003 The Pacific-West Fastener Association named its...
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4/5/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: NIFS/East Discount Deadlines The “Early Bird Discount” deadline for the National Industrial Fastener Show/East is April 23. The 29th annual NIFS/East is scheduled for May 25-26,...
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4/5/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: Show Offers Free Registration Free advance registration is being offered for the first All American Fastener Show. The show lists 28 exhibiting companies for the May...
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4/5/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: 211 Companies Headed for Shanghai Trade Show Fastener Expo Shanghai reports a total of 410 booths booked thus far for the June 16-18, 2010, trade show...
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4/5/2010 HEADLINES CLASSIFIED: Fastener Training Program The Fastener Training Institute and the Industrial Fasteners Institute will present a five-day version of the Certified Fastener Specialist technical training program on July...
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4/5/2010 HEADLINES SHORTTAKES: Atlantic Fasteners, CDP Fastener Group, Chun Zu, DCI International, Earnest Machine Products, Elgin Fastener Group and Marine Fasteners The military-aerospace division of Atlantic Fasteners moved across the...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES Aderman Organizing Fastener Women Mary Lou Aderman has been in fasteners since she was a teenager. Her father, Don Aderman Sr., started a rep agency in 1963 –...
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3/17/2010 SPS Adds 50 Machinist Jobs in Pennsylvania Manufacturing may be moving away from Philadelphia but one fastener producer was singled out by PhillyNews.com for expanding – including adding 50...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES China Transshipping Fasteners To EU Through Malaysia Richard Yeap Soon Thong (courtesy Malaysian Star) Since the European Union imposed 87% antidumping duties on Chinese fasteners starting in February...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES PERSPECTIVE: NFDA Report – U.S. in Early Stages of Mild Recovery In October 2009, the U.S. Industrial Production Index dropped to its lowest level since 1946. Now the...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES Heco Woodscrew Wins Fastener Innovation Prize A new Heco woodscrew won the Fastener Innovation Prize at the 2010 International Hardware Fair in Cologne (Köln), Germany. Schramberg, Germany-based Heco...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES Bialas New President as SEFA Marks 35 Years Joanne Bialas of International Fasteners is the new president of the Southeastern Fastener Association. Outgoing president Ernie Pine of Ifastgroupe...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES Biodegradable Medical Screws Won’t Replace Titanium New composite screw (center) with titanium screw (right) and older polylactic acid screw (left) � courtesy Fraunhofer Institute The Fraunhofer Institute for...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITION: Emhart Teknologies Acquires FIT Emhart Teknologies acquired aerospace fastener maker Fastener Innovation Technology Inc. of Gardena, CA. Terms were not disclosed. “Combined with our Heli-Coil initiatives and...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITION: Mountz Acquires Mr. Metric Mountz Inc. acquired all assets of fastener importer Mr. Metric Inc. based in San Jose, CA, reports Daily Business News. Terms were not...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: Roundup of North American 2010 Spring Trade Shows • April 10, 2010: The Southwestern Fastener Expo has 67 exhibiting companies thus far for the trade show...
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: Mandalay Bay Lowers Rates for 2010 NIFS/West Host hotel Mandalay Bay lowered room rates for the November 8-10, 2010, National Industrial Fastener Show/West in Las Vegas....
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3/17/2010 HEADLINES SHORTTAKES: Advance Components, Brighton Best, BZ Sales, CCM, Dörken-MKS, FastenersClearingHouse, Hariton Machinery, HB Aerospace, Jergens, Mac’s Hardware, Metal Coatings Int’l, Smith Fastener, and Sonic Industries Advance Components is...
