FEATURE + click to enlarge Here are the remaining 2012 fastener trade shows. For details click on Trade Shows at GlobalFastenerNews.com. June 6-8, 2012, Fastener Expo Shanghai June 25, Mid-West Fastener Show,
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FEATURE + click to enlarge The 2011 FIN Stock Review is available, revealing strong investment to capture greater market share. Among the findings: * This California fastener company made acquisitions
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5/28/2012 12:35:00 PM FEATURE 1. On March 9, 2011, Alcoa Fastening Systems purchased McKechnie Fasteners for $240 million. 2. On May 17, 2011, Porteous Fastener Company purchased the business assets
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FEATURE So you think you know your fastener acquisitions? FIN invites you to test your knowledge. Match the Acquiring company to the left with the Target company to the right.
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FEATURE + click to enlarge In his Top Ten Fastener Acquisitions of 2011, Richard Hagan includes the purchase of Elgin Fastener Group LLC. Details of the Elgin deal and the
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Lisa J. Kleinhandler MEDIA SPOTLIGHT — A new public-private partnership is helping at least one fastener company find growth by tapping overseas markets. The Williamson
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Fastener History Welcome to FIN’s Fastener History section. Over the coming months and years we will add hundreds of FIN and guest articles and the stories of FIN subscriber companies
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Vickie Lester Big changes are underway for the National Fastener Distributors Association. The NFDA board voted unanimously to retain Vickie Lester of Lester Management Services
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5/2/2012 12:34:00 AM FEATURE + click to enlarge Courtesy Fastener World When Kent Chen took over his family’s 40-year-old fastener
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Sales and profit figures from the opening quarter of 2012 indicate fastener companies have not
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4/29/2012 7:35:00 PM Computer Insights Inc. promoted Paul DeFalco to supply chain integration manager, CEO Dennis Cowhey announced. DeFalco will be
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FEATURE + click to enlarge The following are highlights from panelists comments at the Southeastern Fastener Association spring meeting in
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4/22/2012 12:14:00 PM FEATURE The 4th annual North Coast Distributor Social will be June 7, 2012, at the Crowne Plaza
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Give your supplier as much information on how the fastener will be used, ask questions
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FEATURE More to Titanic Disaster Than “Faulty Rivets” + click to enlarge A hundred years after the Titanic sank, a
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Fastener prices are up because steel prices are up over the past decade, Bruce Darling
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FEATURE + click to enlarge This week it was news about people outside a fastener company taking pension funds from
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FEATURE + click to enlarge Dave Monti Dave Monti is the 67th chairperson of the Industrial Fasteners Institute and Steve
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FEATURE There are 158 fastener exhibitors among the 1,314 exhibitors at Wire 2012 this week in Düsseldorf, Germany. Total
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FEATURE + click to enlarge An additional Transpacific $400 general rate increase would take effect April 15 and bring this
