The International Fastener Exposition runs September 17-19, 2019, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
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The Pac-West meeting will be October 23-26, 2019, at the Hilton DoubleTree in Rohnert Park, CA.
The FIN Fastener Stock Index climbed in the second quarter of 2019, boosted by a stock performance that produced the strongest June in decades. The FINdex rose 13% in Q2, besting an index of related industrial stocks that increased 6.2%.
Companies requesting exemptions must demonstrate that the product is available only from China, that the tariff will cause severe economic harm and that the product is "strategically important."
Fastener Industry News is marking 40 years since it was first published on July 10, 1979, a year that was dominated by a hostage situation in Iran, energy crisis, record federal expenditures, double-digit inflation and rising unemployment.
Ruggles, CEO / owner of Alabama-based Martin Fastening Solutions, succeeds Kelly Cole of Hayes Bolt & Supply.
China fastener exports climbed 4.4% in the first four months of 2019, while the export value grew 3.2%, ChinaFastener.Info reports.
The 81-year-old Irish-American businessman was nominated in October 2018 by U.S. President Donald Trump. Both of Crawford's parents hail from Co. Cork in Ireland.
Exhibitors expressed mixed verdicts on the two recent fastener trade shows in Chicago and Detroit and the upcoming event in Las Vegas.
CEO: “Both Safran and Sonaca are key aerospace Tier 1 suppliers, and are major users of blind fasteners of which TriMas Aerospace is a market leader.”
Essentra, listed on the London Stock Exchange, is a global manufacturer and distributor of plastic and metal components.
Founded in 1967, Boysen distributes fasteners to an international customer base, employing 54 people at facilities in Munich, Hamburg and Irving, TX.
“While we successfully raised prices as one element of our strategy to offset tariffs placed to date on products sourced from China, those increases were not sufficient to also counter general inflation in the marketplace.”
Fastener associations Southeastern, Southwestern and Pac-West to meet in Texas.
The Böllhoff Group opened a new fastener logistics center in Wuxi, China, responding to “steady” growth in the Chinese market, the group announced. The building, which opened April 1, provides...
Brighton-Best International president Jun Xu told GlobalFastenerNews.com that his company has taken a “hybrid” approach to address tariffs.
The Department of Defense and Department of Energy are “looking hard again at the fastener industry due to questions about counterfeit fasteners,” Mowins said.
Since 2012, robots have been increasing 20% to 30% annually, John Touhy of Fanuc America told a 2019 Fastener Fair USA conference. Robots are “consistently repeatable and reliable” as long as maintained, and they “never talk back.”
Current indications are that the U.S. economy will remain strong, William Strauss, senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, told a 2019 Fastener Tech conference.