TriMas Aerospace’s Monogram Aerospace Fasteners and Allfast Fastening Systems operations were both awarded new supply contracts by Airbus, expanding the company’s engineered fastener sales in Europe.
About 53% of respondents saw sales growth above seasonal expectations, while 23% characterized sales as below seasonal expectations.
Earnest Machine closed National Threaded Fasteners’ facility in Perry, OH, on February 12 and will move the inventory and operations to its facilities in Indianapolis and Atlanta.
Arconic's Engineered Products and Forgings businesses (engine products, fastening systems, engineered structures and forged wheels) will be renamed Howmet Aerospace Inc. in April.
Barnes acquired the Germany-based fastener manufacturer in 2002 and incorporated it into Barnes’ Engineered Components business unit within the Industrial Segment.
Founded in 1937, Decatur, IL-based R.V. Evans has been owned and operated by the Evans family for over 80 years and is currently led by Kelly Evans (president) and TC Evans, who will continue to lead the company.
New smart fasteners provide documentation and tracking, digital access to relevant setting instructions, training & inspection documents, and even certifications, according to ProTool Reviews.
Women in the Fastener Industry is accepting applications for four memorial scholarships.
Prior to the 5pm social, Solution Industries will hold an open house at its 50,000 sq ft facility.
By replacing conventional fasteners in a vehicle with BUFOe, CO2 emissions can be reduced by more than 30% in the manufacturing process, according to the Swedish fastener manufacturer.
EFC International signed a warehouse lease to increase space in a relocation of its Chicago office from approximately 34,000 square...
South Africa made a final determination on safeguard measures for imported threaded fasteners of iron or steel, proposing to implement a three-year safeguard measure on the products involved in the form of value tariffs, according to Yieh Corp Steel News.
Chinese fastener factories were returning to work after the “enforced extension of the Chinese New Year holiday as part of the containment of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak,” Fastener & Fixing Magazine editor emeritus Phil Matten reported.
“Sales developed in an unusually heterogeneous way in 2019,” the group stated. Sales in Germany increased 2.1%, while sales outside of Germany gained 6.8%.
Company investing as much as NT$300 million (US$9.86 million) to establish a highly automated fastener factory in Taiwan to expand capacity and efficiency.
EFC International signed a warehouse lease to increase space in a relocation of its Chicago office from approximately 34,000 square feet in nearby Bloomingdale, IL, to a 63,318 sq ft facility in nearby Hanover Park, the Chicago Daily Herald reports.
Taiwan exported 1.6 million metric tons of fasteners totaling US$4.6 billion in 2018. The April 21-23 trade show includes one-on-one procurement meetings.
Smart of Italy acquired by National Machinery in 2015.
The company purchased the 50,000 sq ft facility in April 2019 and renovated it to house more than 100 full-time staff.

