Founded in 1982, Oxford, MI-based Quality Fastener distributes industrial fasteners and ancillary products to blue-chip customers and local businesses.
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The IFE Hall of Fame and Young Fastener Professional awards are administered by an International Fastener Expo selection committee.
The third Fastener Fair USA will be May 20-21, 2020, in Charlotte, NC.
There were 987 exhibiting companies from 45 countries. That makes the number of exhibitors up about 10% and total exhibition space up about 5%.

Among the changes during his Phillips tenure is the “emergence of ISO 9000 in it’s many forms – AS9100, QS9000, etc. – as the global standard for quality assurance.”

Earnest Machine and Unbrako Socket Products announced their new alliance by giving out orange and blue socks with their logos at Fastener Fair USA. Earnest is now a master distributor of Unbrako Socket Products to North America.
INxSQL is adding 2,800 sq ft to its 3,200 sq ft Michigan headquarters, CEO Bob Reynolds announced. There will be 13 additional offices to the 17 original, a large conference...
American Elite Molding issued two apologies and paid Advanced Cable Ties $350,000 to settle lawsuits.

U.S. President Donald Trump hiked 10% tariffs on $200 billion of fasteners and other select goods manufactured in China to 25% beginning Friday, May 10 at 12:01 am. The original 10% duty on Chinese fasteners was applied September 24, 2018, prompting the U.S. fastener industry to immediately raise prices.

The move will lift the 25% steel and 10% aluminum tariffs the U.S. placed on its North American neighbors almost a year ago. The tariffs are slated to end within 48 hours.

Sidney, Nebraska, is the former headquarters of Cabela’s Inc., which was downsized after it was acquired. Former Cabela’s employees now use their skills for Huyett.
Deere & Company inducted Assembled Products Inc. into its Supplier Hall of Fame. API also was honored as a Partner-level supplier for 2018 as the Enterprise Supply Management Supplier of...

Omaha, NE-based SouthernCarlson has more than 900 employees that operate 150 locations to provide screws, anchors, bolts, nuts and washers, along with other products.

Nautic Partners LLC completed the acquisition of LindFast Solutions Group in partnership with LindFast management.

Jim Revercomb and Jack Carter opened the fastener supply store on March 10, 1969, in Virginia.

“Every company has a culture. You get it by accident or by design. Make it by design.”

Most aerospace, automotive and industrial fastener companies tracked by the FIN Fastener Stock Index posted stock gains during the first three months of 2019.

The original tariff of 10% will continue for a “substantial period of time because we have to make sure that if we do the deal with China that China lives by the deal,” U.S. President Donald Trump stated in late March.

Flat safety washers, miniature screw threader, and thread-forming screws for thin sheet metal were the 2019 new product winners announced at Fastener Fair Stuttgart.

Mike Bailey of Nucor Fastener, Marc Strandquist of Würth Industry North America, Field CEO Bill Derry spoke on the “Future of Fastener Distribution” during the joint conference of the NFDA, Mid-West Fastener Association and Pacific-West Fastener Association in San Diego.