Small increases add up: The average major league baseball player earns $1 million by batting .250 or three hits every 12 times at bat. The superstar, who gets paid millions of dollars, gets only one more hit every 12 times a bat.
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“Don’t use email to manage projects or tasks,” Bader told the NFDA and NEFDA joint meeting. “You frame a house before putting on the roof.”
Global industrial fastener demand will grow 3% in 2017, a Freedonia Group researcher told the Fastener Industry Summit.
“As a mechanical engineer, I used to take fasteners for granted,” DeCata told GlobalFastenerNews.com. “Now I don’t.”
Despite uncertainties with the Trump Administration, the good news is that “manufacturing is a popular word again,” the Industrial Fastener Institute’s lobbyist told the Fastener Industry Summit.
“At some point in your career, you have to reinvent yourself,” Michael Simpson advised the Women in the Fastener Industry.
The $17.3 facility, which will include an engineering lab, is expected to add 71 jobs over a five-year period, according to the Detroit News.
New facilities, which complement Bufab’s U.S. headquarters in New York, were opened to handle growth in North America.
STAFDA will offer 50x50 island booths to “unclog aisles and break up the inline look for a cleaner show.”
Ryan Waychoff joined Advance Components as a regional sales manager. Previously, Waychoff worked in field sales at Fastenal and in the construction industry. Waychoff holds a degree from Oklahoma State...
Endries, founded in 1970 by Bob & Pat Endries in the basement of their Wisconsin home with $5,000 capital, was acquired by Ferguson in 2005.
The Bossard Design Center (BDC) is a 10,000 sq ft fastener design and testing facility located 20 miles east of the largest U.S. electric vehicle manufacturer, Tesla.
Fastener segment revenues rose 3.4% despite a decline in U.S. auto and light-truck sales during the quarter.
Overall revenue for Arconic, which includes Alcoa’s former $1.8 billion Fastening Systems and Rings business, increased 4.5%.
Sales in North America increased 5%, mostly due to increased average net sales unit prices in the U.S. as well as an increase in sales volumes.
Next Southeastern Fastener Association meeting will be April 24-26, 2018, at the Ross Bridge Resort in Birmingham.
Deadline for nominating a candidate for the NIFMSE Hall of Fame is June 30, 2017.
"Susan literally ran the Expo for Mike (McGuire) and I . . . handling every aspect from accounting to promotion, exhibit space/directory advertising/sponsorship sales, conference program and special event planning, registration, day-to-day operations, and onsite management," NIFMSE co-founder Jim Bannister told GlobalFastenerNews.com.
Tim Malone is retiring from Spring Bolt & Nut Manufacturing LLC after 38-year fastener career. Malone started with Bolt Manufacturing in 1979 and later was with Walker Bolt Mfg. Co....
Aerospace and automotive fastener companies reported solid revenue growth in the opening quarter of 2017.