12/22/2009 Valli to Succeed Retiring Simmons as Porteous Seattle Regional Manager Porteous Fastener Company announced Jim Simmons will retire as Seattle-based regional sales manager and will be succeeded by Kurt...
NEWS BRIEFS
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12/22/2009 Payne ‘Moving On’ Into Retirement From Safety Socket Richard Payne is retiring from Safety Socket Screw Corp. after 51 years. Payne grew up in the fastener industry as his...
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12/21/2009 NEWS BRIEFS City Adds $134k to Reliant Fastener Cleanup The city council in Rock Falls, IL, added $134,000 to continue cleaning up the former Reliant Fastener site, the Sauk...
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12/21/2009 China Fastener 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 Economy Trade...
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12/18/2009 Huang Becomes 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 on December...
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12/17/2009 Pease, Moujouros Head MWFA Rich Pease of Federal Screw Products is the 2010 president of the Mid-West Fastener Association and Becky Moujouros of American Fasteners & Components was re-elected...
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12/17/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Adhesive Fasteners Gaining Ground in Auto Industry A new report details the rise of adhesives in the global automotive fasteners market. “New age cars demand economical and...
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12/16/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Nucor Fastener Appeals ITC Vote, Presses Tariff Case Against China and Taiwan Imports U.S. producers’ capacity, production and capacity utilization 2006-2008 (courtesy U.S. ITC) Pressing its case...
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12/14/2009 NEWS BRIEFS China Fastener Exports Down 43% in 2009 China exports of steel and copper fasteners dropped to 15 tons in October 2009, with the value dropping to $217.8...
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12/14/2009 The National Industrial Fastener Show/West will move to the Sands Expo center for 2011, show management announced. The 15th annual West show will also move to a Wednesday/Friday format...
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12/11/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Grainger Unveils Distribution Center Plans Amid Sales Gains Grainger plans to open a 1 million sq ft distribution center in Minooka, IL, by 2012, with renovations slated...
December 11
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12/11/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Orbitform Appoints Stoia Greg Stoia is new applications engineer at Orbitform Orbitform Group hired Greg Stoia as an applications engineer. “An experienced orbital forming and assembly automation...
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12/11/2009 The second Fastener Fair Budapest will expand beyond Eastern Europe, show organizer Jerry Ramsdale said. The event is set September 6-7, 2010, at the SYMA Event Centre in Budapest....
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12/9/2009 IFI Publishing New Educational Handbook The Industrial Fasteners Institute will release a new IFI Fastener Technology Handbook in January 2010. The 313-page hardback book is a compilation of fastener...
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12/10/2009 AIC opened a wire rod mill in Casablanca with an annual capacity of a half million tons. The plant supplied to Univers Acier consist of 28 DC drives stands,...
December 07
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12/7/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Fastener CEO Makes Top 100 List Fastener Warehouse Ltd. CEO Kim Weimer was named to the Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards list by the Women’s...
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12/6/2009 Southwestern Expo Set April 10, 2010; Tower to Keynote “The Keys to High Performance & Personal Renewal” will be Mark Tower’s keynote topic at the Southwestern Fastener Association spring...
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12/4/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Report: Fastener Joints May Boost Fire Risk on Composite Aircraft As government agencies prepare to approve composite materials for aircraft makers Boeing and Airbus, questions have arisen...
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12/4/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Anixter Credit Ratings Upgraded Anixter International Inc. had its ratings outlook upgraded to “stable” from “negative” by Fitch Ratings, the Associated Press reports. The ratings agency also...
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12/3/2009 “World’s Largest” Title Goes to Growing Fastener Fair Stuttgart as 2009 NIFS/West Numbers Plummet For decades the National Industrial Fastener Show has proclaimed itself the “World’s Largest Fastener Show.”...
