Erin Waidelich has 15 years experience in industrial and aerospace fastener distribution.
About 90 employees work at the facility.
The new dates put the Wire show in conjunction with the International Exhibition for Metalworking Technologies.
Martin Calfee of Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. and Leo Coar of Distributor’s Link were named as the first “Legends” in the fastener industry.
“Finalizing this deal will make Fabory the market leader in the Portuguese fasteners market and we are looking to further build our positioning across Iberia.”
In 1995, he became the sixth Industrial Fasteners Institute managing director and by the time he retired in 2017 he was longest to serve in the role.
Founded in 2003, Tigard, OR-based OBI supplies industrial fasteners and electronic hardware specializing in vendor-managed inventory (VMI) and servicing customers in the Pacific Northwest.
The trade show includes a fastener & wire section, which combined with the automobile & machine parts section accounts for 17.8% of the “field of interest.”
CEO David Byrne saw the need for an e-commerce option for 24/7 finding and ordering hardware in addition to the sales team and business development managers working with customers.
First branch in Maine gives the distributor its 16th location in now seven East Coast states plus Washington DC.
Reclaiming a suggestion of its original identity, Fastenal Co. sold $2 billion in fasteners during 2021, adjusting to a U.S. economy that pivoted from personal protective equipment to longer term projects involving bolts and nuts.
The FIN Fastener Stock Index increased 25.1% in 2021 during a tumultuous year that saw international shipping rates skyrocket. Nucor Corp. topped the FINdex, capitalizing on its position as a domestic steel manufacturer amid U.S. tariffs on steel imports.
“The automotive industry is shifting to electric and autonomous vehicles, and we want to actively contribute to this extraordinary transition.”
“The lead times out of Asia have increased significantly during Covid and freight costs and container issues has meant that we had to react and onshore more product.”
Rich & Hunt were earlier named as Women in the Fastener Industry 2021 honorees.
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All nominations are reviewed and evaluated by the Fastener Industry Coalition board, which includes representatives from 13 regional and national fastener industry nonprofit associations.
He was the National Fastener Distributors Association president in 2003 and in 2012 received the NFDA lifetime membership.
Jim Witucki was with Nucor Fasteners for 26 years and then was the North American sales manager for Skako Vibration A/S of Denmark.
Bear Grylls first drew attention for outdoor adventures that became his wilderness survival TV shows in the UK and America: “The Island with Bear Grylls” and “Running Wild with Bear Grylls.”

