FEATURE Editor’s Note: UK-based Fastener + Fixing magazine invited European leaders to reflect on 2009 and look ahead to 2010. Following are excerpts: Anders Karlsson, president, European Industrial Fastener Institute:
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FEATURE Doris Johnson and her husband Rennie Johnson at a 1994 WAFD meeting in Rancho Mirage, CA (courtesy Pac-West) From the Fastener History section of GlobalFastenerNews.com: November 11, 1994 FIN
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FEATURE The FIN Fastener Stock Index rose 33.4% during 2009, gaining back most of the value it lost during the stock plunge of 2008. The ’09 FINdex also bested a
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China will impose antidumping tariffs on certain types of carbon steel fasteners from the European Union after determining EU imports had hurt domestic producers, according to China’s Ministry of Commerce.
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FEATURE (Courtesy Nucor Fastener) Pressing its case for tariffs, Nucor Fastener has appealed the unanimous decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission to reject Nucor Fastener’s antidumping and countervailing petitions
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FEATURE Boeing’s Dreamliner (courtesy Boeing.com) Boeing made its first test flight of the fuel-efficient 787 Dreamliner, almost two and a half years later than expected. A critical shortage of fasteners,
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FEATURE INxSQL booth at 2009 NIFS/West EZ Sockets booth at 2009 NIFS/West The recession took its toll on the 13th annual National Industrial Fastener Show/West as numbers dropped, but many
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FEATURE New Merger with Emhart Parent Black & Decker Highlights Fastener History The Stanley Works Tack Shop circa 1880s (courtesy Stanley Works) Investors reacted warmly to news that Stanley Works
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FEATURE Fastener stocks were good to investors during the third quarter of 2009. The FIN Fastener Stock Index increased 19.5%
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FEATURE (Courtesy Nucor Fastener) The U.S. Commerce Department finalized the scope of the antidumping and countervailing petitions filed by Nucor
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10/15/2009 FEATURE The U.S. Department of Commerce officially initiated antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CVD) investigations on imports of certain standard
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FEATURE Fastener worker at Nucor Fastener facility in St. Joe, IN (courtesy Nucor Fastener). Nucor Fastener filed antidumping and countervailing
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FEATURE Photo courtesy of Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel The first All American Fastener Show has been announced for May
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1/1/1900 FEATURE Photo courtesy of Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel The first All American Fastener Show has been announced for
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9/18/2009 FEATURE Steel “Velcro” Takes 35 Ton Load Metaklett developed at the Institute of Metal Forming and Casting of the
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FEATURE October 6, 1997 – Once again the computer is changing the workplace. This time in addition to pleasing management
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FEATURE Ohio States Department of Mechanical Engineering is housed in the Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Laboratory. Researchers conduct
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9/1/2009 FEATURE A325 (photo courtesy of Industrial Fasteners Institute). October 29, 1998 FIN – Editor’s Note: From our FASTENER HISTORY
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8/26/2009 FEATURE Board members of the new Pacific-West Fastener Association sign the document creating the association. Front row: Dee Silver,
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8/13/2009 FEATURE New “Strength Design” concrete anchors (photo courtesy of Powers Fasteners) Distributors selling anchors which will be installed in
