North America

PennEngineering® Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Heyco® Products Inc. | Penn Engineering

July 28, 2016 PennEngineering® (Danboro, PA, USA) has entered into an agreement to acquire Heyco® Products Inc. (Toms River, NJ, USA), it was announced today by both companies. Terms of the agreement were undisclosed and no changes are anticipa... [Read More]
2016/07/28

Fastenright extends its operations – Cape Business News

Tuesday, 26 July 2016 14:39 Published in Metals in Industry Fastenright will be adding a third warehouse to its operation to ensure it has always enough stock on hand for its clients. It expects to have the additional storage up and running by ... [Read More]
2016/07/26

Stanley Black & Decker Fastener Sales Drop | Global Fastener News

  "Engineered Fastening organic revenues declined 4% due primarily to lower electronics volumes attributable to one major customer." (...) Monday, July 25, 2016 via Global Fastener News. [Read More]
2016/07/25

Steel Dynamics Acquiring Vulcan Threaded Products – Global Fastener News – USA

7/25/2016 FEATURE Steel Dynamics Inc. agreed to acquire 100% of one of its customers – Vulcan Threaded Products Inc. – for $126 million. Founded in 1978, Alabama-based Vulcan manufactures threaded rod products, cold drawn and heat treated ... [Read More]
2016/07/25

bisco industries Named 2016 MDM Market Leader | Market Wired

ANAHEIM, CA--(Marketwired - July 20, 2016) - bisco industries has been included on Modern Distribution Management's 2016 Top Fasteners Distributors list. 2016 is the fifth consecutive year that bisco has ranked as a MDM Market Leader. bisco's ... [Read More]
2016/07/21

Marc Strandquist Elected NFDA President for 2016-2017 – NFDA – National Fastener Distributors Association

Marc Strandquist (pictured right) of The Wurth Group (Indianapolis, Indiana) was elected as the 2016-2017 president of the National Fastener Distributors Association. Kevin Miller of Bamal Corporation (Charlotte, North Carolina) will serve as vice ... [Read More]
2016/07/15

Lamborghini Eyes Fewer “Weighty Fasteners” – Global Fastener News – USA

Lamborghini's Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory is one of the only places outside of Boeing that can simulate lightning strikes, hail, birdstrikes, and engine failures, Automobile Magazine reports. The lab is under the careful tutelage ... [Read More]
2016/07/15

CAMO® Edge Fastening Will Be Featured on FOX Competition Series HOME FREE, Airing Thursdays at 9/8c | PRNewswire

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,, July 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The unscripted competition series HOME FREE, in its inspirational second season, airs Thursdays on FOX. The show features the CAMO Edge Fastening system, which is used to fasten all four of the ... [Read More]
2016/07/14

Intersolar North America 2016: IronRidge introduces Universal Fastening Object – Solar Novus Today

IronRidge, Inc., a manufacturer of solar mounting products, today unveiled at Intersolar North America 2016, the Universal Fastening Object (UFO), a product designed to accelerate installation of residential, commercial and ground-based solar ... [Read More]
2016/07/12

Trifast Eyes Electric Car Market for Growth – Global Fastener News – USA

Trifast says it is poised to profit from car makers’ forays into robotic vehicles, the Northern Echo reports. Trifast says automotive work accounts for more than 30% of the business’ global revenue, with the UK industrial fastener market ... [Read More]
2016/07/11