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SHORTTAKES: A&W Fasteners, Acument, Alcoa Fastening Systems, Aztech, Cardinal, Fastar, Fasteners Associates, Henkel, Houston Precision, INxSQL, Jay-Cee, Kimball Midwest, McCormick, Modern Plating, MSC, Richard Manno, Rivet & Eyelet, Sherex and SPS

The A&W Fasteners division of Long-Lok Corporation received AS9100 certification, national sales manager Aaron Dollenmeyer announced. The aerospace certification, plus its QSLM approval, allow A&W to supply hardware to aerospace, military and other government customers.
A&W specializes in Mil Spec bolts, screws, nuts and hardware. A&W is one of five Long-Lok divisions and is located at 1509 Marlborough Ave., Riverside, CA 92507. Tel: 951 781-4901 Fax 951 781-8109 E-mail: aaron@longlok.com Web: Longlok.com

Acument Global Technologies Camcar was awarded a government grant and tax benefits for a $2.6 million heat-treatment expansion of its fastener facility in Decorah, IA.
As part of the expansion, Acument plans to add on to add a heat-treatment furnace, communications director Timothy Weir told FastenerNews.com.
“It will be used to handle the plants heat treatment for Elco construction fasteners manufactured there,” Weir stated.
Acument also plans to purchase a generator to convert waste heat into electricity. The expansion is expected to create 15 new jobs.
Headquartered in Troy, MI, Acument has about 8,500 employees in 17 countries supplying fastening products, systems and services to customers in more than 150 countries. Web: Acument.com

Alcoa Fastening Systems announced the successful deployment of a new trolley-tray fastener kitting system at the new Airbus A320 final assembly line in Tianjin, China.
The Tianjin system is similar deployment to the A320 plant in Hamburg, Germany. The system provides all fuselage and wing joint area fasteners from a point-of-use tray. The color-coded visual system is designed to make fastener selection mistake-proof, improve assembly speed and accuracy, and reduce inventory.
AFS has 6,900 employees and manufactures at 21 locations in nine countries, and is headquartered at 3016 W. Lomita Blvd., Torrance, CA 90505. Web: Alcoafasteners.com

Rex Crawford is the new director of sales and marketing for Aztech Locknut, president Mark Kaindl announced. Crawford has 25 years experience in fastener distribution and manufacturing.
Founded in 1978, Aztech is a master distributor and manufacturer of nylon and all metal locknuts and is located at 2675 White Oak Circle, Aurora, IL 60502. Tel: 630 236-3200 Fax 630 236-3210 E-mail: sales@aztechlocknut.com Web: Aztechlocknut.com

Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Co. is slated to receive a $500,000 low-interest loan from the state of Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The state Controlling Board is expected to vote on the deal in April.
The loan is part of a $750,000 investment that could create up to 20 jobs at Cardinal, stated company president John Grabner.
Cardinal Fastener made international news in January when then President-elect Barack Obama visited the factory enroute to his inauguration.
Founded in 1983, Cardinal manufactures hot forged bolts, fasteners and related products for the construction, heavy equipment, power generation, oil and wind turbines industries. Cardinal is located at 5185 Richmond Rd., Bedford Heights, OH 44146. Tel: 216 831-3800 Fax 216 831-3651 E-mail: sales@cardinalfastener.com Web: Cardinalfastener.com

Fastar Inc. president Doug Thonus announced Selgrad & Associates as sales rep for Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Selgrad is headed by John Selgrad and based at 1111 Cloverhill Ln., Elgin, IL 60120. Tel: 847 226-3406 Fax 224 856-5829
Thonus announced Fastar has expanded its stock of MS dowel pin products to include MS9105-01 through MS9105-98.
Fastar is a stocking master distributor of slotted and coiled spring pins, dowel pins and cotter pins to MS, commercial and metric specifications. Fastar is located at 2 Spook Rock Rd., Bldg. E-309 (P.O. Box 929), Tallman, NY 10982-0929. Tel: 888 327-8275 or 845 369-7990 Fax 845 369-7989 E-mail: Fastar@optonline.net Web: Fastar.com

Fasteners Associates Inc. was appointed the Florida rep for Peerless Hardware, president Brian Crouch announced.
Founded in 1951 by Charles Speitel as a machining and finishing division for Pennsylvania Malleable, today Peerless is headed by third-generation family owners James Speitel and Peter Speitel.
Peerless manufactures custom castings and forgings and stocks standard sizes of thumb screws, wing screws, wing nuts and handle nuts, and is headquartered at 210 Chestnut St., Columbia, PA 17512. Tel: 717 684-2889 Fax: 717 684-3503 Web: peerlesshardware.com
Fasteners Associates is a sales and stocking rep based at 5110 Adamo Dr., Tampa, FL 33619. Tel: 813 655-0300 Fax 813 655-0339 E-mail: brian.crouch@fastenerassociates.com Web: Fastenerassociates.com

Henkel Corp. launched two websites to promote adhesives and sealants for truck and trailer manufacturing: gluemytrailer.com and gluemytruck.com. The websites include application videos of assembly with adhesives instead of mechanical fastening. The video includes bonding the trailer bed to the frame, bonding skins to the frame, seam sealing the frame and skins, bonding and sealing panel trim, bonding the diamond plate and the nose to the skins, bonding internal brackets, and threadlocking miscellaneous hardware.
Founded in 1876, Henkel is a Fortune Global 500 company operating adhesives, home care and personal care businesses and is headquartered in D�sseldorf, Germany. The U.S. adhesives business is located at 1001 Trout Brook Crossing, Rocky Hill, CT 06067-3582. Tel: 860 571-5100 Fax 860 571-5467 Web: henkel.com

Houston Precision Fasteners was approved by Boeing IDS for PH13-8Mo, Inconel, A-286 and alloy steel bolts and screws under the 3M and ST3M standards. HPF is in the process of titanium fastener approval.
HPF was founded in 2000 by Dan Hunt. Mark Hahn joined as a partner in 2005. HPF manufactures high strength, fatigue rated, close tolerance standard and custom fasteners for aerospace and is located at 10018 Tanner Rd., Houston, TX 77041. Tel: 713 462-2227 Fax 713 456-2471 Web: HoustonPrecisionFasteners.com

Douglas Weiland is the new executive vice president of INxSQL Software, president Bob Reynolds announced. Weiland is former CEO and co-owner of Lord & Sons Inc. and has 30 years of fastener industry experience.
Integrated Inventory Solutions develops software for fastener distribution and is located at 3525 Elizabeth Lake Rd. Suite B, Waterford, MI 48328. Tel: 877 446-9775 Fax 248 681-6677 E-mail: rjr@inxsql.com Web: Inxsql.com

Jay-Cee Sales & Rivet Inc. published the fifth edition of its product catalog, Allan Weitzman announced. The 48-page catalog can be downloaded from the website: rivetsinstock.com, or mailed upon request.
Founded in 1948, Jay-Cee supplies rivets, rivet nuts, lockbolts and tools.
Jay-Cee is located at 32861 Chesley Dr., Farmington, MI 48336. Tel: 248 478-2150 Fax 248 478-6416 E-mail: sales@rivetsinstock.com

Kimball Midwest reported double-digit revenue growth for 2008, with total sales exceeding $124 million.
The company attributed growth to an expanded sales team and enhanced market penetration of its 35,000 line-item inventory. During 2008 Kimball Midwest completed expansion of its Dallas distribution center from 40,000 sq ft to 65,000 sq ft.
Founded in 1923, Columbus, OH-based Kimball Midwest is a distributor of MRO hardware supplies, with 600 sales reps and distribution centers in Nevada, Texas and Ohio. Web: kimballmidwest.com

McCormick Associates Inc. moved to a larger office, president Ken Schneeloch announced. The new address is 128-3 Bauer Dr., Oakland, NJ 07436. Tel: 201 644-7224 Fax 201 644-7427 E-mail: theschnee@aol.com
McCormick is a 35-year-old manufacturers rep agency covering New Jersey, New York and Eastern Pennsylvania. McCormick sells to fastener distributors, mill supply, military and aerospace distributors and catalog houses.

Modern Plating Corporation published a zinc/nickel plating reference guide, sales manager John Nordlof announced.
Founded in 1936, Modern Plating provides product finishing services through internal capabilities and alliances.
Services include electroplating and organic coatings (dip-spin process), heat treating, plating, e-coat, patching, sorting and packaging. Modern Plating is located at 701 S. Hancock Ave. (P.O. Box 838), Freeport, IL 61032-0838. Tel: 815 235-3111 Fax 815 235-4571 E-mail: john.nordlof@modernplating.com Web: john.nordlof@modernplating.com

MSC Industrial Direct Co. Inc. published the third volume of its Fastener Source Book. Greg Levy, senior MRO director, said customer feedback led to the third volume having 3,000 new products, including 700 domestic socket products, 18-8 and 316 stainless fasteners, and material handling bins and drawers for fasteners. The press run increased 50% from the previous edition to 75,000 fastener catalogs.
MSC also published its first Accupro catalog of metalworking products. The 100-page catalog includes 10,000 metal cutting, tool holding and other products.
The stand-alone catalog contains more technical specifications, machining guidelines, training tips and conversion guides, senior vice president of marketing & product management Erik Gershwind explained.
Founded in 1941, MSC Industrial distributes 590,000 metalworking and MRO supplies – including fasteners and hardware – from 3,000 suppliers to 371,000 customers. MSC has 97 branch sales offices and 912 sales people and is headquartered at 75 Maxess Rd., Melville, NY 11747-3151. Tel: 516 812-2000 Web: mscdirect.com

Richard Manno & Co. published a new catalog that includes its increased inventory. General manager Charlie Accetta announced.
Richard Manno has expanded stocking of military hardware, including dowel pins, slotted stainless steel shoulder screws, hex socket shoulder, set and cap screws and black oxide stainless steel machine screws.
Richard Manno manufactures and distributes precision screw machine products and military and commercial hardware items and is located at 42 Lamar St. West Babylon, NY 11704. Tel: 631 643-2200 Fax 631 643-2215 Web: richardmanno.com

Rivet & Eyelet Technologies LLC named Kevin Booth Sales Inc. as manufacturers rep for Indiana and Michigan, national sales manager Maria Garcia announced.
Booth is located at 815 S. Grace St., Lombard, IL 61048. Tel: 630 916-7922 Fax 630 916-7923
Rivet & Eyelet supplies stamped and extruded blind rivets, setting tools and custom engineered eyelet products and is located at 1215 Main St. #110, Tewksbury, MA 01876. Tel: 978 851-2700 Fax 978 851-4488 Email: maria.Garcia@riveteyelet.com Web: riveteyelet.com

Sherex Fastening Solutions launched a 3D interactive online catalog for engineers and designers.
The program allows customers to configure rivet nut fasteners and threaded brass inserts for plastics and download 3D CAD models in an “as installed state” into designs.
Founded in 1979, Sherex manufactures blind rivets and brass inserts and is located at 400 Riverwalk Pkwy. #600, Tonawanda, NY 14150. Tel: 866 474-3739 Fax 716 875-0358 E-mail: info@sherex.com Web: sherex.com
The Aerospace Fastener Group of SPS Technologies published an 84-page brochure on slotted inch and metric hex locknuts for aerospace, industrial and commercial applications. The brochure includes information for designers and engineers on Flexloc self-locking nuts and illustrates tightening torques. E-mail: acraig@spstech.com Web: spstech.com/aero
The aerospace group also published a guide to SPS aerospace inserts and studs for engineers and designers. The guide illustrates solid wall staked inserts, staked studs, swaged inserts, floating inserts, ringlock studs, inserts and rings and provides features, applications, configurations, materials, sizes, threads and standards. Tel: 714 850-9311 E-mail: ryarnall@spstech.com
Founded in 1903, the SPS Technologies fastener division of Precision Castparts Corp. produces specialty high-strength fasteners, assemblies and precision components for commercial and military aircraft, jet engines and high performance automobiles and other applications. SPS is headquartered at 301 Highland Ave., Jenkintown, PA 19046-2692. Tel: 215 572-3000 Fax 215 572-3790 E-mail: spshq@spstech.com Web: spstech.com �2009 FastenerNews.com