1/4/2010 HEADLINES Bickford, Barrett, Shieh, Saravanan, Agrawal, Weingruber & Bogatz Honored With 2009 FTI Technical Achievement Awards Fastener Technology International magazine presented its 4th annual FTI Technical Achievement Awards to...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES Top 10 Fastener Stories of 2009 Big companies made big news in the fastener industry during 2009. Boeing, Nucor Fastener, Acument Global Technologies (formerly Textron Fastening Systems) –...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES Nucor Fastener Appeals ITC Vote, Presses Tariff Case Against China and Taiwan (courtesy Nucor) Pressing its case for tariffs, Nucor Fastener has appealed the unanimous decision by the...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES PERSPECTIVE: 2009 Quips of the Year In the midst of the recession, a one-time fastener buyer long-since turned fastener rep spotted a purchasing job opening and applied. The...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES 2009 FINdex Shows Fastener Stocks Recover Most of 2008 Losses FINdex 2009 The FIN Fastener Stock Index rose 33.4% during 2009, gaining back most of the value it...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES OBITUARY: Bill H. Lang Sr. Bill H. Lang Sr., 76, co-founder of Certified Products Inc., died December 25. He and his late wife, Ellen McNeely Lang, started Certified...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: NIFS/West Moving to Sands for 2011 The National Industrial Fastener Show/West will move to the Sands Expo center for 2011, show management announced. The 15th annual...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: 2nd Fastener Fair Budapest Set for 2010 The second Fastener Fair Budapest will expand beyond Eastern Europe, show organizer Jerry Ramsdale said. The event is set...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: China Show Expecting 200 Exhibitors Fastener Expo Shanghai 2010 expects to have 200 companies exhibiting, show organizer Yang Junfeng predicted. CFIA will conduct the National Fastener...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITIONS: Fastenal to Buy Holo-Krome from Danaher; No Cuts Expected Fastenal Company agreed to acquire certain assets of socket head screw product manufacturer Holo-Krome. Terms were not disclosed....
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITIONS: Grainger Plans Distribution Center Grainger plans to open a 1 million sq ft distribution center in Minooka, IL, by 2012, with renovations slated to begin in 2010....
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITIONS: Sterling & Fabory Form Joint Venture Sterling Tools and Fabory – the Borstlap Masters in Fasteners Group B.V. – have formed a joint venture to distribute Fabory...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES ASSOCIATIONS: Pease, Moujouros Head MWFA Rich Pease of Federal Screw Products is the 2010 president of the Mid-West Fastener Association and Beck Moujouros of American Fasteners & Components...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES ASSOCIATIONS: SEFA to Mark 35th Anniversary The Southeastern Fastener Association will mark its 35th anniversary at its March 10-12, 2010, spring conference in Orlando. Tony Nelson will moderate...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES ASSOCIATIONS: Huang Is First Chairwoman of TFTA Tammy Huang is the first woman elected chair of the Taiwan Fastener Trading Association. Elected unanimously in August, Huang became chair...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES Safety Sockets’ Payne ‘Moving On’ Into Retirement Richard Payne is retiring from Safety Socket Screw Corp. after 51 years. Payne grew up in the fastener industry as his...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES Loudermilk: Car Dealership Model Helps Offset Recession “The only option right now is patience,” Lee Loudermilk said of the fastener machinery business. Capital expenditures on new machinery are...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES CLASSIFIED: Active Screw & Fastener is on the move…are you? Active Screw & Fastener is on the move…are you? We’re growing through… Acquisitions • Are you a fastener...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES SHORTTAKES: Advance Components, Auto Bolt, Big Red Fasteners, The Bolt Co., Metris USA, Stelfast, Orbitform, Porteous, Space-Lok, Tecnodin, TR Fastenings Greg Stoia is new applications engineer at Orbitform...
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12/9/2009 HEADLINES McGrath at NIFS/West: ‘Kiss Your Importer’ For Stopping Tariffs Trade attorney Matthew McGrath at NIFS/West. The unanimous U.S. International Trade Commission vote to end the antidumping investigation into...
