Founded in 1999, Houston-based MSI Supply distributes fasteners, stud bolts, PVF, flanges, and gaskets for the petroleum and pharmaceutical industries.
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December 10
01:47
2018
“Low paid salesmen are expensive,” CPA tells STAFDA. “High paid salesmen are cheap.”
December 10
01:30
2018
Song was written for the 2017 Specialty Tools & Fastener Distributors Association convention as a tribute to the trades, but multiple members have put it on their websites, executive director Georgia Foley announced at the 2018 convention.
December 10
01:15
2018
The next International Fastener Expo will be earlier – September 17-19, 2019 – and again at Mandalay Bay.
December 10
01:01
2018
Surveyed exhibitors reported overall success at 2018 trade show in Las Vegas, but they were unanimous in finding no value in longer second day.
December 10
00:39
2018
The 8th Fastener Fair Stuttgart – March 19-21, 2019 – will exceed the biennial 2017 trade show in Germany.
December 10
00:22
2018
Bufab hired Johan Sandberg as global business development director and a new member of executive management. Sandberg will start in January 2019, replacing Urban Bülow, who relocated to the U.S....
November 12
12:03
2018
“The automotive and equipment associations work hard,” stated Vanessa Sciarra, VP for legal affairs and Trade & Investment Policy for the National Foreign Trade Council. “They are your best friends.”
November 12
10:36
2018
Social media consultant tells STAFDA that 74% of buying now begins online before talking to any salesperson.
November 12
06:00
2018
STAFDA president: One lesson from competing with Amazon and other major players “is the idea that we win when our customers win, or Mr. Bezos’s now famous mantra ‘it is all about the customer’.”
November 12
04:01
2018
Bossard already announced partnerships with three 3D printer manufacturers in early 2018, when the Bossard Group took over the representation and distributorship of these companies for the Swiss market.
November 12
03:59
2018
“Before acquiring KLX, Boeing was starting to invest in ways to be more integrated with customers’ parts stocking operations as a step to achieve this,” writes Lee Ann Shay of MRO-Network.com. “KLX already is doing that by being integrated in customers’ shop floors day to day through its bin stocking programs for OEMs, airlines and MRO.”
November 12
02:12
2018
Sales and hiring increased during the month, while customers expressed uncertainty about future orders due to U.S. tariffs.
November 12
01:57
2018
Sean Baird, president and owner of Hampton Roads Fastener & Construction Supply Inc. in Virginia Beach, VA, is the new president of the Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association.
November 12
01:53
2018
Carmen Vertullo and Rob LaPointe co-founded AIM Testing Laboratory. The primary focus of AIM is consultation, training and testing of fasteners and related products. Product offerings include technical guidance, specifications...
November 12
00:51
2018
Offsite construction is on the rise and Bill Sisto predicted to the Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association that contractors will partner with prefab companies.
October 22
16:54
2018
Nearly five months after the U.S. imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, fastener manufacturers continue to receive “inconsistent” responses from the U.S. Commerce Department related to exclusions requests, according to the Industrial Fasteners Institute’s Washington representative Jennifer Baker Reid.
October 22
14:46
2018
The FIN Fastener Stock Index bounced back in the third quarter of 2018, rising 9.2% after declining 0.4% in the previous quarter.
October 22
05:17
2018
Back in the early days of XL Screw, communication with overseas suppliers was with teletype machines, unreliable phone service plus multiple stop, smoke-filled flights to Japan. Reflecting on the changes in his 46 years at XL, Bob Sachs cited increased efficiency through technology.
October 22
03:59
2018
The biennial Wire trade show in Germany has long dominated the fastener machinery exhibitions. Wire Düsseldorf noted passenger cars contain more than 1,000 screw connections – 300 of them in the combustion engine – and some 1,000 springs.
