Hiring the 40-year industry veteran expands the company's secondary services.
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The addition of NTF’s product lines strengthens Earnest Machine’s position in existing markets while enabling the company to expand into new markets.
Importing platform was created to reduce lead times on commoditized items without increasing cost.
Earnest Machine will be recognized at an awards event in August and will be profiled in Crain’s Cleveland Business’ August 5th edition.
A result of an insufficient fastener company website is that “in absence of information the customer leaves,” Earnest Machine CEO Kirk Zehnder explained.
Earnest Machine will carry metric product made to DIN 931 and 933 spec, in fine and coarse threads, property classes 8.8 and 10.9, and plain and zinc clear trivalent finishes.
Founded in 1948, Earnest Machine is marking its 70th anniversary this year.
Manufacturing manager Al Shannon said the new equipment “opens up additional opportunities, enabling us to bring more drilling services in-house and allows us to take on higher volume runs of up to one million pieces.”
For more on Earnest Machine see the FIN Fastener History section: 1999 FIN – Earnest Machine Products Marks 50th With Book of Complete History; 2010 FIN – Earnest Machine Moving Warehouses to Indianapolis.
Earnest Machine was founded in 1948 by Paul Earnest Zehnder to sell fasteners to the heavy equipment industry that was building the infrastructure of post-WWII America.