Mowins, who is Division II / Aerospace Products Division manager for the Industrial Fasteners Institute, has owned Vetted Tech since December 2019.
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September 03
07:11
2019
O’Brien, Meade step down from Industrial Fastener Institute Automotive, Aerospace Division management.
March 29
14:20
2019
The 88-year-old fastener manufacturing organization reports 73 company members and 50 associate members.
February 04
03:59
2019
Brahimi: Prime for the online edition are companies with multiple users. “Companies that need multiple books for a single location or books for multiple locations get a much better deal, and several of those have purchased the online subscription.”
August 28
20:47
2018
Chairman Johnson: Industrial Fasteners Institute member involvement leads to “technical research, training, government relations and workforce development that no one company could do on its own.”
August 27
15:58
2018
Rob Harris was managing director from 1995 through 2017.
June 18
20:59
2018
Dan Walker, PE, has engineering and association management experience.
May 08
01:10
2018
Industrial Fasteners Institute board and selection committee agreed to “separate” with managing director of just four months.
May 08
00:17
2018
For 23 years, Harris was the Industrial Fasteners Institute’s sixth managing director. Technology award goes to Lawler, engineer and leader on material, product, and process standardization committees.
April 16
18:15
2018
Higher prices and a ‘burdensome’ exclusion process fuel uncertainty, according to the Industrial Fasteners Institute's Washington representative Jennifer Baker Reid.
March 20
06:11
2018
Industrial Fasteners Institute chair Phil Johnson, CEO of Agrati’s ContMidGroup, predicted the Trump tariffs won’t last, just as the announced three-year 30% steel tariffs during the George W. Bush administration lasted only half as long as intended.
March 20
03:03
2018
Managing director Ken McCreight announced the IFI has 27 new members, and plans to launch an online apprenticeship training program.
February 01
10:32
2018
After growing up on the streets of Cleveland, on his first day as a high school graduate McCreight walked into Fredon Corporation in Cleveland looking for a job in manufacturing.
January 08
03:16
2018
College will use the donation, which was made December 8, to pay for instructional materials, machinery maintenance, student recruitment and marketing.
November 27
16:26
2017
As he retires, Harris sees a “healthy industry and healthy customers” for the fastener industry. “Boeing and all aerospace are booked with orders,” he pointed out.
October 02
15:08
2017
McCreight becomes the IFI’s seventh MD in the 86-year history of the trade association of North American fastener manufacturers and suppliers.
April 04
14:10
2017
The IFI was founded in 1931 and is an association of North American manufacturers of bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, pins, washers and custom formed parts; and suppliers of materials, machinery, equipment and engineered services.
February 13
16:25
2017
Automakers are reducing weight and improving fuel efficiency by pushing the limits of high strength steels, according to Salim Brahimi, Director of Engineering Technology at the Industrial Fasteners Institute.
January 12
00:50
2017
Since retiring in 2007 as the director of engineering for the Industrial Fastener Institute, Wilson has been an Ohio-based independent consultant.
