John Wolz The Western Association of Fastener Distributors will conduct three one-day regional mini-conferences instead of a general spring 2002 conference. The one-day conferences are being planned for San Jose...
NEWS BRIEFS
December 14
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John Wolz Editor’s Note: As a tribute to the founder of Fastener Industry News, the following are excerpts from Dick Callahan’s 15 years at the helm of FIN. They give...
December 14
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John Wolz Win Adams and Reinhold Wurth have two things in common. For one, they both emphasize sales as their key to success. My strength was always getting an order,...
December 14
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John Wolz The New England Fastener Distributors Association joint meeting with the Southeastern Fastener Association will be held September 5-7, 2003, at the Regal Bostonian Hotel in Boston, NEFDA president...
November 28
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John Wolz The Wire & Cable Industry Suppliers Association is a new sponsor of the Wire Association International�s Wire Expo 2002. The convention is scheduled June 8-13, 2002, in Chicago....
September 13
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John Wolz FastenerExchange.com and Partini.com created excitement in the fastener industry in 2000 with splashy global advertising and trade show presence. Though the two widely promoted fastener dot.coms and several...
September 13
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John Wolz The 2001 Confederation of British Metalforming technical conference will focus on affordable opportunities. The conference will be October 12, 2001, at the National Metalforming Centre inWest Midlands. There...
September 05
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John Wolz U.S. wire rod producers filed anti-dumping and countervailing-duty cases against a dozen nations as imports increased 53% even under trade restrictions. GS Industries Inc. announced at the end...
July 26
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John Wolz The American Wire Producers Association headquarters moved to 801 N. Fairfax St. #211, Alexandria, VA 22314-1757. Tel: 703 299-4434. Fax 703 299-9233. E-mail: info@awpa.org Web: awpa.org Founded in...
March 13
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John Wolz What percent of your fasteners were manufactured in North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Taiwan, China, Japan, other Asian countries or other continents? A 51.3% majority...
February 08
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John Wolz Questron Technology Inc. named Douglas Zadow executive vice president of the corporation. Zadow has been a director and president of the Questron logistics unit.\ Questron CEO Dominic Polimeni...
February 08
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John Wolz Alan Vidinsky was elected chair of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors at the annual meeting in January in Washington, D.C. Vidinsky is founder and CEO of Valin Corp....
December 08
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2000
– Beerman: Keep Ahead of the Competition John Wolz Competition continues to grow, and members of the Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association need to develop niches to stay ahead,...
December 08
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2000
John Wolz The Industrial Fasteners Institute and National Fastener Distributors Association reported no significant changes in industry practice due to the small lot exemption of the 1999 amendments to the...
December 05
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John Wolz The Industrial Fasteners Institute and National Fastener Distributors Association reported no significant changes in industry practice due to the small lot exemption of the 1999 amendments to the...
December 05
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2000
John Wolz NYF Corp. is licensing its database of more than 100,000 part records for fasteners from 80 manufacturers to the Infinite Content division of i2 Technologies Inc. i2 will...
November 19
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John Wolz Brighton-Best Socket Screw Mfg. Inc. purchased the socket screw inventory of Bremick Fastener Pty. Ltd. and Bremick will distribute Brighton-Best socket screws, president Perry Rosenstein announced.\ Bremick has...
November 14
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John Wolz The General Accounting Office is seeking public comment on the small lot exemption to the U.S. Fastener Quality Act to determine if the industry would use it as...
September 29
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John Wolz The American Wire Producers Association registered objections to a recent federal government report because it focused on flat-rolled products and presented an unbalanced and incomplete view of the...
September 07
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John Wolz The National Fastener Distributors Association is sponsoring a 2001 sourcing trip and factory tour to Australia.\ The two-week trip for 16 people in mid-September 2001 will include tours...
