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Tinnerman Palnut Expands Canadian Facility

Jason Sandefur

Tinnerman Palnut Engineered Products is consolidating its fastener production in Ohio by closing its Brunswick plant and shipping production to its Canadian division in Hamilton, Ontario. The company still has fastener facilities in Massillon, OH, and New Jersey.
Tinnerman Palnut is expanding its Hamilton operations with a new 43,000 sq ft building. The $1.8 million expansion should be completed by Nov. 1, adding more than 40 employees in Ontario for a total of 230.
Bob Windsor, vice president of sales and marketing, told FIN the Brunswick plant will be closed by the end of September.
The Hamilton facility will handle all the design and prototype work for metal fasteners, which comprise 80% of Tinnerman Palnut’s sales in North America. Mike Sheehy, vice president of the company�s Canadian division, estimates the plant produces more than six million fasteners per day. Company-wide, Tinnerman Palnut produces over four billion fasteners each year.
Sheehy told the Hamilton Spectator that Tinnerman Palnut chose the Hamilton factory for two reasons.
�No. 1, we had the space. And No. 2, we have had a history of success in expansions and in assuming new business,� Sheehy stated.
Tinnerman Palnut is developing a brownfield site with help from the city of Hamilton, which expects to contribute more than $300,000 over the next decade to recondition the former trucking depot site.
Owned by Kohlberg and Associates, Tinnerman Palnut employs more than 500 people, but does not release sales figures. The company offers 10,000 metal and plastic fastener designs for the automotive, heavy truck and appliance industries.
For more information, contact marketing services manager Lori Knapp. Tel: 800 221-2344 ext. 5121 E-mail: lknapp@tinnermanpalnut.com Web: tinnermanpalnut.com �2003 FastenerNews.com