IFI Selects Brahimi to Succeed Greenslade

May 20

00:00 2015

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Joe Greenslade

Salim Brahimi

After 45 years in the fastener industry, Joe Greenslade will retire at the end of 2015. Salim Brahimi of IBECA Technologies Corp. will succeed Greenslade as the Industrial Fasteners Institute director of engineering technology.

Greenslade told the Southwestern Fastener Association that he originally planned to work two more years, but decided he wants to spend more time on volunteer work.

As a high school student he was not oriented toward going to college. The father of another student became a mentor to Greenslade and encouraged him to go to college. As Greenslade completed his degree at Texas A&M in 1970 he went to thank his mentor, who said helping someone else was the best way to say thanks.

Greenslade entered the fastener industry with Camcar-Textron and Rockford Headed Products and established his own dimensional calibration company, Greenslade & Co. He has authored many articles and served on ASME B1 and B18, ASTM F16 and SAE fastener committees. Greenslade helped with efforts for the U.S. Fastener Quality Act and the Aerospace Screw Thread Conformity Task Forces and been an A2LA board member.

In 2007 Greenslade sold his company and became the Industrial Fastener Institute’s director of technology.

Greenslade has led the process of converting the traditional IFI Fastener Standards texts to online and developing the IFI Technology Connection, which provides fastener technical tools and support. Web: Indfast.org

Greenslade expanded his volunteer mentoring work helping low socio-economic students at his alma mater high school in Texas to apply to college and for financial aid. Now he is getting involved in setting up mentoring programs at other high schools.

Assisting high school students improve their circumstances through higher education “is the most rewarding thing I have ever done,” Greenslade told FIN. Email: jgreenslade@indfast.org

Brahimi, from Quebec-based IBECA, has been in the industry for 25 years.

Brahimi is a licensed member of the Quebec Order of Profession Engineers and holds a master of materials engineering and a graduate diploma in management from McGill University – where he is completing a doctorate in fastener hydrogen embrittlement.

Brahimi is chair of the ASTM Committee F16 on Fasteners. He received the Fred F. Weingruber Award from the F16 committee for “outstanding contributions to the development of fastener standards, especially in the field of hydrogen embrittlement.” He authored the first ASTM standard dealing specifically with electrode posited coatings on fasteners and was chair of an ASTM task group on hydrogen embrittlement.

Brahimi also serves as head of the Canadian delegation to ISO Committee TC2 on Fasteners and vice chair of the Research Council on Structural Connectons. He is a member of the SAE Fastener Committee and an instructor with the Fastener Training Institute.

This year the IFI presented its Soaring Eagle Technology Award to Brahimi for significant contributions to technological advancement of the industry.

The Industrial Fasteners Institute is an association of North American manufacturers of bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, pins, washers and custom formed parts. Suppliers of materials, machinery, equipment and engineering services are associate members of the IFI. There currently are 72 manufacturer members and 48 associate members. Web: Indfast.org

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