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Short Takes: Barnes, Beacon Fasteners, Earnest Machine, Faspac, General Inspection, ND Industries, Nord-Lock, Quality Screw & Nut, Republic Technologies, RS Technologies and Struers

John Wolz

� Barnes Distribution announced it is centralizing U.S.-based customer service functions in Cleveland, OH, by the end of June. Centralizing allows Barnes to respond to daily fluctuations in support requirements.
Barnes Distribution, a unit of Bristol, CT-based Barnes Group Inc., distributes MRO supplies, die and nitrogren gas springs and security products on four continents. Founded in 1857, Barnes Group manufactures and distributes precision metal parts. Barnes Distribution is headquartered at 1301 E. Ninth St. #700, Cleveland, OH 44114-1824. Tel: 216 416-7200. Web: barnesgroupinc.com.

� Beacon Fasteners & Components announced an expansion of its thread forming screw stocking program. President Robert Wegner said Beacon will stock more than 150 million thread forming screws by this fall.
Founded in 1979 by Gary Pavlik and Wegner, Beacon stocks and supplies Sems and specialty cold-headed fasteners and is located at 204 W. Carpenter Ave., Wheeling, IL 60090. Tel: 847 541-0404 or 800 669-2658. Fax 847 541-1789. Web: beaconfasteners.com.

� Earnest Machine Products Co. named Tim Dunn the new COO. Dunn was in the insurance division of John Deere.
Founded in 1948, Earnest distributes fasteners for the construction equipment, heavy-duty truck and agricultural equipment industries.
Earnest is an international fastener distributor with warehouses in Tampa, FL; Burlington, IA; Wichita, KS; Birmingham, England; Lyon, France; Davenport, OH; and the headquarters at 12502 Plaza Dr., Cleveland (Parma), OH 44130-1083. Tel: 216 362-1100 or or 800 321-3064. Fax 216 362-9970. E-mail: ohio@earnestmachine.com Web: earnestmachine.com.

� Faspac Systems Inc. announced an agreement with Loftware Inc. to bundle barcode printing software with Uniquity distribution software.
Faspac, founded in 1979, supplies fastener and industrial distribution and manufacturing software in North America and the UK. Faspac is headquartered at 7590 Fay Ave. #301, LaJolla, CA 92037. Tel: 858 454-0062 or 888 794-7879. Fax 858 799-3598. E-mail: sales@faspac.com Web: faspac.com.

� Eric Peterson joined General Inspection Inc. as the vice president of engineering. Peterson was director of engineering at Axsys Technologies.
General Inspection manufactures laser, eddy current and acoustic inspection systems and is located at 10585 Enterprise Dr., Davisburg, MI 48350. Tel: 248 625-0529. Fax 248 625-0789. Web: geninsp.com.

� ND Industries Inc. announced it expanded capabilities by adding ND Finishing Services to its coating and processing services.
Founded in 1955, ND processes locking and sealing applications for threaded fasteners, bottled anaerobic thread lockers, thread sealers, cyanoacrylate adhesives, retaining compounds, primers, actuators and two-part structural adhesives. ND is headquartered at 1000 N. Crooks Rd., Clawson, MI 48017. Tel: 248 288-0000. Fax 248 288-0022. E-mail: ndinfo@ndindustries.com Web: ndindustries.com.

� Julie Scrimger is the new marketing director at Nord-Lock Inc.
Nord-Lock is the exclusive North American manufacturer�s rep for Nord-Lock washers and is located at 6524 Schamber Dr., Muskegon, MI 49444. Tel: 231 799-1097. Fax 231 798-1792. E-mail: nord-lock@i2k.com Web: nord-lock.com.

� Quality Screw & Nut Company Inc. received exclusive license to manufacture High Torque Fastening System, Barbara Saviano announced. The system combines a buttress-type thread and a stamped helix in the material to create a joint encompassing the features of both a machine and a thread rolling screw.
Quality Screw & Nut has branches in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, New York, Texas and Mexico and is headquartered at 101 Frontier Way, Bensenville, IL 60106. Tel: 630 595-0000. Fax 630 595-1440.

� Republic Technologies International LLC appointed John Asimou executive vice president for operating technology and quality assurance. Asimou succeeds director of quality assurance Cliff Miller, who is retiring after 38 years with Republic. Asimou joined Republic in 1998 when the company was formed with the merger of Bar Technologies and Republic Engineered Steels.
Republic is a privately held steel manufacturer with 4,600 employees and 2000 sales of $1.3 billion. Republic has plants six U.S. states and Canada and is headquartered at 3770 Embassy Pkwy., Akron, OH 44333-8367. Tel: 800 232-7157. Web: republictech.com.

� RS Technologies received three ISO certifications, president Ralph Shoberg announced. The core business was ISO 9001 certified, the tooling and equipment reliability and maintainability received QS 9000 certification, and the company became ISO 17025 compliant for force and torque instrumentation calibration and fastener testing services.
RS introduced a product line of low-capacity torque transducers for verifying torque tool performance during assembly, sales manager Dale Sturm announced.
RS, founded in 1991, designs and manufactures torque and force transducers, instruments and test systems. RS is located at 24350 Indoplex Circle, Farmington Hills, MI 48335. Tel: 248 888-8260. Fax 248 888-8266. Web: rstechltd.com.

� Struers Inc. published a CD-ROM Metalog Guide, for preparing microstructures of metal materials for quality assurance and production process control.
Struers manufactures equipment and consumables for the metallographic industry and is headquartered at 810 Sharon Dr., Westlake, OH 44145. Tel: 440 871-8188 or 888 787-8377. Fax 440 871-8188. E-mail: info@struers.com Web: struers.com. \
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