1/4/2010 HEADLINES 2009 FINdex Shows Fastener Stocks Recover Most of 2008 Losses FINdex 2009 The FIN Fastener Stock Index rose 33.4% during 2009, gaining back most of the value it...
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1/4/2010 HEADLINES OBITUARY: Bill H. Lang Sr. Bill H. Lang Sr., 76, co-founder of Certified Products Inc., died December 25. He and his late wife, Ellen McNeely Lang, started Certified...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: NIFS/West Moving to Sands for 2011 The National Industrial Fastener Show/West will move to the Sands Expo center for 2011, show management announced. The 15th annual...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: 2nd Fastener Fair Budapest Set for 2010 The second Fastener Fair Budapest will expand beyond Eastern Europe, show organizer Jerry Ramsdale said. The event is set...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES SHOW NEWS: China Show Expecting 200 Exhibitors Fastener Expo Shanghai 2010 expects to have 200 companies exhibiting, show organizer Yang Junfeng predicted. CFIA will conduct the National Fastener...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITIONS: Fastenal to Buy Holo-Krome from Danaher; No Cuts Expected Fastenal Company agreed to acquire certain assets of socket head screw product manufacturer Holo-Krome. Terms were not disclosed....
1/4/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITIONS: Grainger Plans Distribution Center Grainger plans to open a 1 million sq ft distribution center in Minooka, IL, by 2012, with renovations slated to begin in 2010....
1/4/2010 HEADLINES ACQUISITIONS: Sterling & Fabory Form Joint Venture Sterling Tools and Fabory – the Borstlap Masters in Fasteners Group B.V. – have formed a joint venture to distribute Fabory...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES ASSOCIATIONS: Pease, Moujouros Head MWFA Rich Pease of Federal Screw Products is the 2010 president of the Mid-West Fastener Association and Beck Moujouros of American Fasteners & Components...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES ASSOCIATIONS: SEFA to Mark 35th Anniversary The Southeastern Fastener Association will mark its 35th anniversary at its March 10-12, 2010, spring conference in Orlando. Tony Nelson will moderate...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES ASSOCIATIONS: Huang Is First Chairwoman of TFTA Tammy Huang is the first woman elected chair of the Taiwan Fastener Trading Association. Elected unanimously in August, Huang became chair...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES Safety Sockets’ Payne ‘Moving On’ Into Retirement Richard Payne is retiring from Safety Socket Screw Corp. after 51 years. Payne grew up in the fastener industry as his...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES Loudermilk: Car Dealership Model Helps Offset Recession “The only option right now is patience,” Lee Loudermilk said of the fastener machinery business. Capital expenditures on new machinery are...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES CLASSIFIED: Active Screw & Fastener is on the move…are you? Active Screw & Fastener is on the move…are you? We’re growing through… Acquisitions • Are you a fastener...
1/4/2010 HEADLINES SHORTTAKES: Advance Components, Auto Bolt, Big Red Fasteners, The Bolt Co., Metris USA, Stelfast, Orbitform, Porteous, Space-Lok, Tecnodin, TR Fastenings Greg Stoia is new applications engineer at Orbitform...
12/9/2009 HEADLINES McGrath at NIFS/West: ‘Kiss Your Importer’ For Stopping Tariffs Trade attorney Matthew McGrath at NIFS/West. The unanimous U.S. International Trade Commission vote to end the antidumping investigation into...
12/9/2009 HEADLINES OBITUARY: Marcia Shain Marcia Shain, 65, died November 26, 2009. Her fastener career included West Spec in the 1970s. She retired from the successor Vertex Distribution four years...
12/9/2009 HEADLINES Why the U.S. Trade Commission Rejected Tariffs Standard fastener production in the U.S. (courtesy U.S. ITC) The unanimous U.S. International Trade Commission decision to terminate the antidumping investigation...
12/9/2009 HEADLINES Darling at Pac-West Session: Tariffs Won’t Stop Imports More than a year before Nucor Fastener filed its antidumping petition, Vulcan Threaded Products filed a claim against threaded steel...
12/9/2009 HEADLINES Ireland at STAFDA: Recession Provides Opportunities Attendees fill the aisles at STAFDA’s convention in Atlanta (courtesy STAFDA). Black & Decker vice president Les Ireland knew the global recession...