Double-digit gains driven by continued growth in the commercial aerospace market, including wide body aircraft recovery.
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New sales manager has 29 years of fastener industry experience, time with DB Roberts, Emhart Fastening Teknologies, and Fastenal.

Order includes a rule requiring foreign steel and aluminum material to be processed within North America.

U.S. tariffs on Mexico and Canada will likely increase inflation, which domestic fastener distributors will struggle to pass along.

Fastenal Co. reported fastener sales dropped in January, though the rate of decline improved from December’s sales decrease.

Deal enhances SWD’s service offerings for the metal finishing and fastener sorting sectors.

Full-year Automotive OEM sales slipped 1.5%, while Construction Products sales dropped 6.1%.

Aerospace and general industrial growth was offset by automotive market softness in the final quarter of 2024.

The U.S. economy is at “somewhat of an infection point,” Lauren Saidel-Baker told the Metropolitan Fastener Distributors Association.

Upgrade includes a revised logo, updated brand colors, and refined messaging for the fastener distributor.

Four months after acquiring Bristol Machine, Industrial Threaded Products plans to relocate BMC’s manufacturing facility to the Inland Empire.

April 7-22 event will be held at Brighton-Best International and taught by Industrial Fasteners Institute instructors Laurence Claus and Salim Brahimi.

Threaded fastener and industrial supply distributor opened a new 25,000 sq ft distribution center - its third.

Deal comes weeks after Stanley Black & Decker signaled its plan to shop $1.2 billion Engineered Fastening business in 2025.
Register now for the 7th Fastener Fair USA tradeshow in Nashville on May 28-29.

Holly McDaniel is Sales Manager at WCL Company, where she started as a sales rep in 2005.

Norwalk, CT-based US Anchors manufactures construction anchors, fasteners and other building components through its brands TOGGLER, Wej-It and Heckmann.

Greer, SC-based metric fastener distributor began in Y2K in a basement with just a phone line and a fax machine.

Integrated Packaging & Fastener's new 37,000 sq ft facility includes 27 workbenches to process a broader range of packaging requirements.

Automation and lean manufacturing are reshaping automotive assembly lines, demanding fasteners tailored to robotic precision.