Phillips Screw CEO Hurley: “The lifeblood of any growth company is new products and service, What keeps me up at night, is how we continue to keep the pipeline of innovation full.”
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More denials than approvals amid reports that “large steel companies like US Steel (X) and Nucor (NUE) have tried to block many requests at the last minute, giving businesses that want exemptions little or no time to respond.”
Lawsuit comes amid news that Missouri-based Mid Continent Nail Corp. laid off 60 workers after losing 50% of its business in the first two weeks of June.
This is a time to “borrow and invest in inflation-beating investments such as new product lines or opening in a new geographic territory, Beaulieu suggested. “Lock in your lease.”
Hilgers, 52, will take over for Dr. Daniel Bossard, who becomes the Group’s new CEO next year.
“Being named a Top Workplace is a humbling achievement, especially because the judges are our employees,” stated CEO Brad Mountz.
The 42nd annual Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association convention will be October 28-30, 2018, in Phoenix.
News that the European Union will apply 25% “rebalancing” tariffs on a range of products imported from the U.S., including seven categories of fasteners, comes amid reports that the U.S. Commerce Department is scrambling to assemble a team to evaluate thousands of exclusion requests.
VP Braun cites raw material and labor costs.
Founded in 1979, Circle Bolt supplies standard fasteners and custom specialty fasteners, as well as vendor managed inventory, for OEMs and MROs.
Warehouse in Querétaro, outside sales engineers, customer service and support staff in Mexico enables EFC “to enhance our service level in the region,” said Mary Becker, VP of North American sales.
LISI Aerospace has supplied Airbus since the beginning of the aircraft manufacturer.
Fredrik Meuller, who holds a MSc. in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics, will be based in the head office in Malmö, Sweden.
“We’ll wait and see if President Trump is re-elected in four years,” the 83-year-old patriarch of the Würth family said. “Würth returns when he goes.”
"As markets recovered and importers returned to long range, longer lead time sourcing, purchasing refocused on Taiwan from which imports continued to grow – even after the antidumping duties on China were repealed," according to Fastener + Fixing executive editor Phil Matten.
"Heyco is excited to announce the recent addition of over 220,000 pieces of 28 different SKUs to Advance Components' offering."
“Raw material prices and lead times were already increasing (25% - 40%),” the Industrial Fasteners Institute’s Washington representative Jennifer Baker Reid told GlobalFastenerNews.com. “This will make matters worse.”
Fastener inflation panel precedes 37th annual Mid-West Fastener Association trade show on June 4 and 66th annual Golf Outing on June 5.
In addition to the looming 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, the fastener industry is also grappling with the fallout from an additional set of tariffs that could place a 25% tariff on all imported nuts.
Aerospace segment gains “driven by an approximate double-digit percentage increase in both commercial aerospace manufacturing and aftermarket revenues.”