Mowins, who is Division II / Aerospace Products Division manager for the Industrial Fasteners Institute, has owned Vetted Tech since December 2019.
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![Mowins, McLean Take IFI Division Roles](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-15-at-10.13.39-AM-505x306_c.png)
O’Brien, Meade step down from Industrial Fastener Institute Automotive, Aerospace Division management.
![DeSantis, Johnson Lead IFI for 2019-2020](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-29-at-2.27.30-PM-505x306_c.png)
The 88-year-old fastener manufacturing organization reports 73 company members and 50 associate members.
![IFI’s 10th Edition Includes 40 Standards Updates](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018-New-Cover-1-505x306_c.jpg)
Brahimi: Prime for the online edition are companies with multiple users. “Companies that need multiple books for a single location or books for multiple locations get a much better deal, and several of those have purchased the online subscription.”
Chairman Johnson: Industrial Fasteners Institute member involvement leads to “technical research, training, government relations and workforce development that no one company could do on its own.”
Rob Harris was managing director from 1995 through 2017.
![IFI Names Walker as 8th Managing Director](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/0-505x306_c.jpg)
Dan Walker, PE, has engineering and association management experience.
Industrial Fasteners Institute board and selection committee agreed to “separate” with managing director of just four months.
![IFI Honors Harris, Lawler With Soaring Eagle Awards](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/8000391444077866127-505x306_c.jpg)
For 23 years, Harris was the Industrial Fasteners Institute’s sixth managing director. Technology award goes to Lawler, engineer and leader on material, product, and process standardization committees.
![Trump Tariffs Squeezing U.S. Fastener Manufacturers](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/RTX35WGS_0-505x306_c.jpg)
Higher prices and a ‘burdensome’ exclusion process fuel uncertainty, according to the Industrial Fasteners Institute's Washington representative Jennifer Baker Reid.
![IFI’s Johnson at NFDA: Tariffs Won’t Last](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/merlin_134830914_ea085354-7937-4ceb-8d03-4aae0cbcc622-superJumbo-505x306_c.jpg)
Industrial Fasteners Institute chair Phil Johnson, CEO of Agrati’s ContMidGroup, predicted the Trump tariffs won’t last, just as the announced three-year 30% steel tariffs during the George W. Bush administration lasted only half as long as intended.
![Johnson, DeSantis Lead IFI For 2018-19](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IFI-1-505x306_c.jpeg)
Managing director Ken McCreight announced the IFI has 27 new members, and plans to launch an online apprenticeship training program.
![IFI’s McCreight Knows Metals Industry From Jobs](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AAEAAQAAAAAAAArCAAAAJGViZWVmZWJlLTAyZTgtNGFmYy04ZDExLTQ0OTJiZTQxZTExZA-505x306_c.jpg)
After growing up on the streets of Cleveland, on his first day as a high school graduate McCreight walked into Fredon Corporation in Cleveland looking for a job in manufacturing.
![Cold Heading Center Receives $20k Gift from IFI & FEF](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Buckbee-Donation-505x306_c.jpg)
College will use the donation, which was made December 8, to pay for instructional materials, machinery maintenance, student recruitment and marketing.
![IFI’s Harris Retiring From “Healthy Industry”](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IFI-505x306_c.jpeg)
As he retires, Harris sees a “healthy industry and healthy customers” for the fastener industry. “Boeing and all aerospace are booked with orders,” he pointed out.
![McCreight to Succeed Harris as IFI Managing Director](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IFI-505x306_c.jpeg)
McCreight becomes the IFI’s seventh MD in the 86-year history of the trade association of North American fastener manufacturers and suppliers.
![Boyd and Johnson Lead IFI for 2017-18](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IFI-composite-505x306_c.jpeg)
The IFI was founded in 1931 and is an association of North American manufacturers of bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, pins, washers and custom formed parts; and suppliers of materials, machinery, equipment and engineered services.
![Enabling Tech Drives Car Fastener Innovations](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/nissan_brazil_resende_weld_line-505x306_c.jpg)
Automakers are reducing weight and improving fuel efficiency by pushing the limits of high strength steels, according to Salim Brahimi, Director of Engineering Technology at the Industrial Fasteners Institute.
![ASTM F16 Honors Wilson](https://www.globalfastenernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ASTM-1-505x306_c.jpg)
Since retiring in 2007 as the director of engineering for the Industrial Fastener Institute, Wilson has been an Ohio-based independent consultant.