There have been several articles released recently suggesting that fastener sales have been flat or down recently. The Fastener Distributor Index has had its lowest numbers in something like a year. I wrote something similar a month or so ago based upon what I was seeing out on sales calls. But, sometimes it is hard to generalize about a market because while middle America might be slow, the coasts might be booming because of strong aerospace business. With some of the articles I have read, they refer to specific companies and their respective results. Even the FDI is derived based upon the companies that respond and that number can change from month to month.
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via Drilling Down into the health of the fastener market – Fastenerblog.net.