Global Fastener News

SHORT TAKES: EFC Int’l., CIP, ITW, Entegra, Fastener Barn, Global Fastener, Innovative Components, Mathews, All American Systems, Interstate Screw, Lindstrom, Kings Sales, Long-Lok, R.A. Phillips, Pentacon, PCC, Tower, U.S. Anchor

Jason Sandefur

� EFC International was named master distributor for California Industrial Products, a division of Illinois Tool Works Inc. EFC will provide engineering technical support as well as distribution services, company president Jim Laarman announced.
ITW CIP is a Santa Fe Springs, CA-based manufacturer that makes internally multi-threaded spring steel fasteners, non-threaded retainer clips, single threaded �U� nuts, nut plates and wing nuts.
EFC is a fastener distributor with branches in Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas and is headquartered at 1940 Craigshire Road, St. Louis, MO 63146. Tel: 314 434-2888 or 800 888-3326 Fax 314 434-2902 E-mail: info@efc-intl.com Web: efc-intl.com

� Entegra Fastener Corporation will move its distribution center to Indiana during the fourth quarter and expand manufacturing capability in the current warehouse space in Wood Dale, IL, announced inside sales manager Scott Reboletti.
Entegra is merging its distribution center with sibling company Lake Erie Screw Corporation in Frankfort, IN. Currently Entegra outsources heat treating and plating. When the integration is finalized, many of those processes will be completed in-house for faster turnarounds.
Entegra�s inventory will be moved from its 40,000 sq ft Wood Dale distribution center to Lake Erie Screw�s center in Frankfort.
Entegra manufactures standard and special cold-headed fasteners.
Lakewood, OH-based Lake Erie Screw manufactures a wide range of fasteners for standard and custom applications.
Both companies are owned by TriMas Corporation of Bloomfield, MI, a subsidiary of Greenwich, CT-based Heartland Industrial Partners. Entegra is headquartered at 321 Foster Ave., Wood Dale, IL 60191-1432. Tel: 630 595-6250 Fax 630 595-0336 E-mail: entegra@entegrafastener.com Web: entegrafastener.com

� Fastener Barn has published a new catalog of surplus fasteners, Jim Gordon announced. Gordon, who has 25 years of experience in the surplus fastener business, opened Fastener Barn last year. In addition to buying and selling surplus fasteners, Fastener Barn provides stripping and plating.
Fastener Barn is located at 436 100th St., Zeeland, MI 49464. Tel: 616 748-1246 or 800 509-2276 Fax 616 748-1246 E-mail: surplus@FastenerBarn.com or jim@FastenerBarn.com Web: FastenerBarn.com

� Diane Banach was named director of inside sales for Global Fastener & Supply. Banach has 12 years of distribution industry experience. Twenty-year industry veteran Carol Elliott also joined the inside sales team.
Global Fastener is a full-line distributor headquartered at 5500 South Westridge Dr., New Berlin, WI 53151-0087. Tel: 262 789-8682 Fax 262 789-8640 E-mail: sales@gfdsystems.com Web: gfdsystems.com

� Innovative Components Inc. named Jon Joselane as materials manager. Joselane has 24 years of management experience. The company also added three Rep agencies. California-based Mathews & Co. will handle CA, NV and AR. Tel: 949 361-7855 All American Systems of Naperville, IL, will operate in WI, IL, IA and MN. Tel: 630 778-6887 South Bend, IN-based Mike Bane will cover the eastern & southern U.S.
Innovative Components supplies knobs, pins and other fastener products and is headquartered at 1050 National Parkway, Schaumburg, IL 60173. Tel: 800 566-2774 Fax 847 885-9005 E-mail: sales@knobsource.com Web: knobsource.com

� Interstate Screw Corporation has added new lines of anchors, power tools and screws to its inventory, Eric Seiden announced.
Interstate is a 46-year-old master fastener distributor servicing Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America and is headquartered at 475 West 18th St., Hialeah, FL 33010-2418. Tel: 305 888-8700 Fax 305 888-7081 E-mail: sales@interstate-screw.com Web: interstate-screw.com

� Tom Phillips of R.A. Phillips Inc. was named sales rep for western Pennsylvania by Lindstrom Fastener Group. R.A. Phillips is located at 206 E. Main St., Batavia, NY 14020. Tel: 716 343-4754 E-mail: rapinc@eznet.net
Lindstrom also named Kings Sales Company sales rep for seven midwestern states. Kings is located at 3511 W. 44th St., Minneapolis, MN 55410. Tel: 612 922-4266 E-mail: john@Kingsales.com
Lindstrom supplies metric fasteners and is headquartered at 2950 100th Court NE, Blaine, MN 55449. Tel: 763 780-4200 or 800 328-2430 Fax 763 780-0554

� Long-Lok Fasteners Corporation has added R.A. Phillips Inc. as a rep agency for upstate New York and western Pennsylvania. Phillips is located at 206 East Main St., Batavia, NY 14020. Tel: 585 343-4754 Fax 585 344-4210 E-mail: rapinc@eznet.net
Long-Lok manufactures self-locking and self-sealing fasteners and is headquartered at 10630 Chester Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45215. Tel: 800 566-4565 Fax 513 772-1888 E-mail: llinfo@longlok.com Web: longlok.com

� Pentacon Inc. won a $6.5 million deal with Lockheed Martin to help with its F-16 production. The multiyear award brings Pentacon�s 2002 new business contracts with Lockheed to more than $8.5 million. Anixter International Inc. announced an agreement in May to purchase bankrupt Pentacon for $121 million.
Pentacon is a fastener distributor headquartered at 21123 Nordhoff St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. Tel: 818 727-7800 or 800 554-4449 Fax 818 727-8037 E-mail: information@pentacon-inc.com Web: Pentacon.com

� Precision Castparts Corporation named Mark Donegan as CEO of the Portland, OR-based manufacturer. Donegan will replace William McCormick, who will continue as chairman for at least one year and will also serve as a company consultant, according to a PCC statement.
Donegan joined PCC in 1985 from General Electric. He has been COO of PCC since July 2001.
PCC manufactures components, including fastener machinery tooling, for the aerospace and industrial gas turbine industries, and is headquartered at 4650 SW Macadam Ave., Suite 440, Portland, OR 97201-4254. Tel: 503 417-4800 Fax 503 417-4817 E-mail: info@precastcorp.com Web: precast.com

� Tower Fasteners Inc. has received ISO 9001:2000 certification for all six of its domestic facilities, according to quality assurance director Charles Accetta.
The certification upgrades Tower�s ISO 9002 rating, reflecting new industry standards adopted in 2000. The upgrade was awarded after an on-site audit of its corporate facilities in New York and its distribution centers in New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Tower Fasteners is an East Coast distributor of fasteners and electronic hardware and is headquartered at 1690 North Ocean Ave., Holtsville, NY 11742-1823. Tel: 516 289-8800 Fax 516 289-8810 Web: towerfast.com

� Gary Dusseau was named West Coast Regional Manager for U.S. Anchor Corporation. Dusseau, who has 25 years of sales and business development experience in the adhesive construction industry, will be based in West Linn, OR.
U.S. Anchor manufactures mechanical anchoring systems and adhesives and is headquartered at 450 East Copans Rd., Pompano Beach, FL 33064. Tel: 954 782-2221 or 800 872-3330 Fax 954 782-2499 E-mail: info@usanchor.com Web: usanchor.com \ �2002 FastenerNews.com