Gehle Loomis founding Tool Engineering Industries as a metalworking engineering and sales business in October 1979 in the basement of his home.
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He joined the Indiana company in 2005 and has been general manager and director of product development.
During his career he started seven corporations in manufacturing, R&D, hospitality and international trade.

The tariffs imposed by U.S. president Donald Trump dominated the front page of Fastener Industry News for 2018. But other articles included acquisitions, the FIN Fastener Stock Index, court battles, 50th anniversaries for two companies, new fastener leaders and key policy issues.
In 2003, Dan Zehnder founded Trinity Logistics Corporation, which was acquired by Agrisolutions earlier this year. Zehnder is NFDA vice president.

He founded Lufasco Inc. (Lubker Fastener Company) in 1967 and led the company until it was sold in 1998.
Semblex Corp., which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2018, announced that Jinsoo Kim will succeed Don Cunningham as president.
Founded in 1954, Header Die & Tool manufactures cold forming tooling and specialty manufactured parts.

Surveyed exhibitors reported overall success at 2018 trade show in Las Vegas, but they were unanimous in finding no value in longer second day.
Lighter automobiles among uses for Henkel adhesives. Germany-based Henkel reports 130,000 adhesives customers in 800 industrial areas worldwide.
Nucor called POK “a natural fit” for its existing cold finish businesses, including Nucor Fastener and Nucor’s recently acquired cold finish facility in Monterrey.
ASG, a division of specialty fastener manufacturer Jergens Inc., has opened a warehouse in Limerick, Ireland.

Rockford subsidiary of Cleveland-based Freeway Corporation manufactures 4 million automotive washers daily.

Danboro, PA-based fastener manufacturer signed an agreement with Irwin Industrial to distribute PEM fasteners in Canada.
“We also succeeded in achieving growth without a corresponding increase in operating expenses,” stated CEO Jörgen Rosengren.
Company to relocate and grow Chinese operation in the coming months, Fastener + Fixing Magazine reports.

Johan Sandberg has held executive positions in large industrial companies, including Volvo Powertrain and Volvo Aero.
Women in the Fastener Industry scholarship honors the late Joanne Goodman Sherman of Industrial Rivet & Fastener Co.

“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.”
First held in 2010, the sixth Taiwan International Fastener Show will be April 21-23, 2020, in Kaohsiung.