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FASTENERS ON THE INTERNET: InfastGuide.com, FastFair.net, Alcoa.com, ToolAndDieQuotes.com, ToolingU.com, Safebackup.net

Jason Sandefur

Directory Numbers Show Web Growth
How fast is the Internet growing? The final print version of infastGuide published in 1996 didn�t list e-mail and web addresses. Publisher Richard Desormeau reports the new CD edition of the international fastener source directory released this spring has 4,250 manufacturers, importers and master distributors, and 65% list a web site and/or e-mail address. Infastguide.com

Fastener & Fixing Europe/Fastener Fair Europe published its new Buyers Guide to Fasteners & Tools on FastFair.net. Publisher Jerry Ramsdale said there will be a print edition early next year. � Alcoa Inc. published its 2001 Environment, Health and Safety report on alcoa.com. The 37-page document reviews Alcoa�s global environment, health and safety performance, and strategies ranging from the elimination of job-related injury to eventual collaboration with community environmental initiatives. �We can already imagine zero injuries, zero emissions and zero waste,� CEO Alain Belda envisioned. The report acknowledges at least one fatality each year in a work-related accident at an Alcoa facility. It also asserts that much remains to be done to lower greenhouse gases and reduce waste at the aluminum giant�s worldwide facilities. � Quote Source Corporation launched a job section on toolanddiequotes.com The web site is for buyers and suppliers in the tool and die industry � toolingu.com announced it can export industrial training programs to a pocket PC via executable files in addition to Tooling University�s online training. � Bank of America was fully operational within less than an hour after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to Safebackup.net. �The data that companies generate is as valuable as the products or services they provide. It is essential to keep company data stored in off-site safe houses so that the company can recover from a disaster more quickly.� Daily backing-up is insufficient, Safebackup.net noted. �There are many unforeseen dangers, such as fire, floods, computer crashes, theft and more, that could cause your company to fail. It is most ideal to be storing your data in a place that is very far away from your current location, preferably in another city or state.� \�2002 FastenerNews.com