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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.”...
11/30/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Grainger Acquires Canadian Distributor The Canadian division of Grainger acquired the assets of the K&D Pratt Industrial Division. Terms were not disclosed. Acklands-Grainger will control the industrial...
12/1/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Trifast Sales & Profits Stabilize UK-based Trifast Group reported sales dropped 32% to GBP 39.85 million (US$ 65.6 million) during the first six months of fiscal 2010,...
11/27/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Big Red Fasteners Gets A Boost Inc. magazine named Big Red Fasteners to its list of 5,000 fastest growing companies in the U.S. Founded in 2001, Big...
11/30/2009 NEWS BRIEFS STAFDA’s Look: Green Movement “Here to Stay” Outgoing Specialty Tools and Fasteners Distributors Association president Hal Look called the “green movement” in business and consumer circles “a...
11/24/2009 NEWS BRIEFS ANTIDUMPING: Why the U.S. Trade Commission Rejected Tariffs Standard fastener production in the U.S. (courtesy U.S. ITC) Nucor Loses Early Ruling Part of Nucor’s case may have...
11/23/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Ireland at STAFDA: Recession Provides Market Share Opportunities Attendees fill the aisles at STAFDA’s convention in Atlanta (courtesy STAFDA). Black & Decker vice president Les Ireland knew...
11/20/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Darling at Pac-West Conference: Tariffs Won’t Stop Imports More than a year before Nucor Fastener filed petitions accusing China and Taiwan of dumping standard fasteners in the...
11/20/2009 Elder Co. Marking 50th Anniversary Elder Co. is marking its 50th anniversary as a fastener distributor. Founded in August 1959, Elder moved to a new 18,000 sq ft purpose-designed...
11/19/2009 John Barnhill Opens The Bolt Company John Barnhill and Shannon Barnhill opened The Bolt Company in New Mexico. Mike Grandjean is a partner. The distributor offers a full line...
11/19/2009 Bailey, Salome Head SFA Mike Bailey of Nucor Fastener is the new chairman of the Southwestern Fastener Association and Bobby Salome of El Paso Bolt & Screw Co. is...
11/16/2009 NEWS BRIEFS China Fastener Exports Dwindle China exports of steel and copper fasteners fell to 16 tons in September 2009, with the value dropping to $233 million, Xinhua News...
11/16/2009 NEWS BRIEFS NAW 2010 Executive Summit Focuses on Where Business and Distributors Are Headed “Where Are We Headed?” is the theme of the 2010 National Association of Wholesaler Distributors...
11/16/2009 NEWS BRIEFS Beaulieu at STAFDA: Recovery To Be Slow “The recession is officially over and 2010 will not be a fantastic year, but better than 2009,” economist Alan Beaulieu...