Employees and customers want authenticity in communication, consultant Deborah Shames told the Women in the Fastener Industry’s 7th annual speaker series. David Booth and Shames, company communication consultants with Eloqui...
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Millennials are now the largest generation of available workers in the U.S. and they are entering the workforce with more education than past generations, Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association...
In August, the Rockford, IL, college announced a program to expand vocation training.
The latest personnel and company news from around the fastener industry.
McDaniel first started with Empire Bolt as an 18-year-old in 2010 as part of the Newtech Skills Center program in Spokane, WA.
Make your e-commerce website “sticky,” Bob Reynolds of INxSQL Software advised conferees at the National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo.
Jason Bader told the Pacific-West Fastener Association to appoint a “dead stock manager” who reports to the president and has incentive-based pay. That dead stock person – who could be...
In the third quarter of 2016, automotive fastener stocks continued to grow and companies with aerospace fastener holdings rebounded from a disappointing first half of the year.
Evansville, IN-based Imperial Fastener & Industrial Supply operates a 25,000 sq ft showroom and warehouse.
Founded in 1968, Massachusetts-based Arnold has US$40 million in sales in primarily the electronics, telecommunications, medical technology and energy market.
“Traveling Salesman” (aka Marty Nolan of R.L. English Co.) is marking the 10th anniversary of FastenerBlog.net. In his first blog on October 10, 2006, Traveling Salesman wrote: “We have all...
2015 Wire Russia had 196 exhibitors from 25 countries, including country pavilions from Austria, China, Germany and Italy.
SFC Zachary Allan Bannister, 33, of Ohio was killed in the line of duty on October 17, 2016, while serving as a member of Alpha 3236, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 3rd...
The European Commission issued proposals to substantially strengthen its antidumping defense and bring duty levels closer to those imposed by the United States. The Commission’s paper “Towards a robust trade...
Wheeler, chairman of Star Stainless Screw Company, was inducted into the National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo Hall of Fame during the 2016 trade show in Las Vegas.
“I never learned the proper way of doing business,” Wheeler told the National Industrial Fastener & Mill Supply Expo Hall of Fame audience. “That forced me to develop on my own.”
Two fastener companies serving different markets - one aerospace, the other industrial - announced plans to build new headquarters.
Accurate Screw Machine, a division of MW Industries, received AS9100 Rev. C certification for its New Jersey manufacturing plant. AS9100 registration is an aviation, space, and defense quality standard, based...
The ASTM International Subcommittee F16.96 on Bolting Technology and the Industrial Fastener Institute are co-sponsoring a meeting to reintroduce the subcommittee to interested engineers and technologists. The meeting will be...
Kevin Chavis of Star Stainless Screw was re-elected president of the Pacific-West Fastener Association and Chris McCaffrey of R&D Fasteners was elected vice president. Ron Stanley of Empire Bolt &...
The Gilchrist Foundation has awarded the final scholarship for the year to Afreen Papa of SWD, Inc., who applied via the Mid-West Fastener Association. Gilchrist Scholarship winners announced earlier this...