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...
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12/9/2009 HEADLINES OBITUARY: Marcia Shain Marcia Shain, 65, died November 26, 2009. Her fastener career included West Spec in the 1970s. She retired from the successor Vertex Distribution four years...
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12/9/2009 HEADLINES Why the U.S. Trade Commission Rejected Tariffs Standard fastener production in the U.S. (courtesy U.S. ITC) The unanimous U.S. International Trade Commission decision to terminate the antidumping investigation...
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12/9/2009 HEADLINES Darling at Pac-West Session: Tariffs Won’t Stop Imports More than a year before Nucor Fastener filed its antidumping petition, Vulcan Threaded Products filed a claim against threaded steel...
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12/9/2009 HEADLINES Ireland at STAFDA: Recession Provides Opportunities Attendees fill the aisles at STAFDA’s convention in Atlanta (courtesy STAFDA). Black & Decker vice president Les Ireland knew the global recession...
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12/9/2009 HEADLINES Bailey, Salome Head SFA; Expo Set for April 10 Mike Bailey of Nucor Fastener is the new chairman of the Southwestern Fastener Association and Bobby Salome of El...
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12/9/2009 HEADLINES IFI Publishes Educational Handbook The Industrial Fasteners Institute will release a new IFI Fastener Technology Handbook in January 2010. The 313-page hardback book is a compilation of fastener...
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12/9/2009 HEADLINES 2009 NIFS/West: Numbers Drop But Exhibitors Still Report Business 2009 NIFS/West By The Numbers The 602 total booth number was down 26.5% from 819 last year. The NIFS...
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12/9/2009 HEADLINES Elder Co. Marks 50 Years Elder Co. is marking its 50th anniversary as a fastener distributor. Founded in August 1959, Elder moved to a new 18,000 sq ft...
