“It’s caused us major, major chaos,” Dexter Fastener Technologies VP Jim Cremering told The Detroit News. "We got exemptions for some, but not others. It doesn’t make sense.”
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Reed had agreed to acquire Mack Brooks in January.

“Rising product demand as an integral bonding component for manufacturing vehicles, home appliances, industrial machinery, and aerospace structures is likely to drive industry growth,” according to a report by Research and Markets.

The spring of 2019 doesn’t officially begin until March 21, but the “Spring Fastener Tour” of association meetings has begun.

Concrete fasteners have successfully adapted to meet the ever-changing regulations related to protecting the environment.

Now that more companies are realizing the financial and environmental benefits of investing in production methods and technologies that take the dirty work out of making stuff, clean manufacturing is no longer an oxymoron, Forbes reports.