Market is mainly driven by increase in the use of robots for efficient aircraft production processes and growing use of robotics to handle aircraft orders backlog.
January 20
00:02
2017
End of 2016 FIN Survey participants expressed more confidence in the incoming White House on business issues than eight years ago. The 2017 incoming White House rates 3.5 on a 1-to-5 scale, compared with 2.3 for 2009 and matching 3.5 for 2001.
January 17
23:43
2017
New high-tech solution crafted in cooperation with UW–Madison engineers lets workers on customers’ manufacturing floor send a “time to restock” signal simply by dropping an empty bin into a chute for electronic identification.
January 12
00:31
2017
MEDIA SPOTLIGHT: “We can no longer compete with the escalating energy costs we are seeing here in Ontario,” CEO Byron Nelson told the Canadian Press.
January 02
01:29
2017
GlobalFastenerNews.com looks back at the performance of the FIN Fastener Stock Index over the first nine months of 2016.
December 29
19:25
2016
There are hundreds of stories annually in Fastener Industry News. Here are some of the top headlines from 2016. These headlines do not include Acquisitions, which will be summarized in the
December 23
14:11
2016
Once again the fastener industry marked the holidays on social media. Some companies used simple messages to convey holiday hours and cheerful wishes. Others got more creative. Advance Components
December 19
02:02
2016
Equipment from Rockford Products plant shuttered in 2016 to be sold February; Rockford employees lose 401(k) money.
December 19
00:21
2016
The Culture Index can tell prospective employers what kind of employee an applicant will be because the personality test tells you what applicants are wired as.
December 16
00:02
2016
Sales of fasteners in North America and Western Europe are expected to grow more slowly than the global average through 2020, according to Global Industrial Fastener Market, 9th Edition, a new study from the Freedonia Group.
December 13
00:08
2016
Combs: “If you don’t want to be the test case, the smart thing is to do what the law says.”
December 08
11:54
2016
“See the road ahead,” Tim O’Keeffe advised the National Fastener Distributors Association in a presentation on the lifecycle of companies.
November 03
16:48
2016
Wreck spilled 42,000 gallons of oil into the Columbia River and forced the evacuation of a nearby town.
November 03
16:40
2016
“I never learned the proper way of doing business,” Wheeler told the induction audience. “That forced me to develop on my own.”
November 03
16:25
2016
Jason Bader told the Pacific-West Fastener Association to appoint a “dead stock manager” who reports to the president and has incentive-based pay.
November 03
16:19
2016
Months ago show director Susan Hurley predicted the 36th National Fastener & Mill Supply Expo would top 1,000 booths. The
October 31
16:33
2016
The European Commission issued proposals to substantially strengthen its antidumping defense and bring duty levels closer to those imposed by
September 22
20:12
2016
FEATURE Italy’s Agrati Acquires Continental-Midland + click to enlarge Italy’s A. Agrati S.p.A. acquired ContMid Holdings, Inc. from equity firm
September 22
20:12
2016
FEATURE Cold Forging Academy To Train Next-Gen Fastener Workforce + click to enlarge Courtesy Rockford Register Star “Rockford may no
September 22
20:12
2016
FEATURE Aerospace Fasteners Market To Top $9 Billion by 2021 + click to enlarge The aerospace fasteners market is expected
