The National Fastener Distributors Association's Board of Directors voted unanimously to retain Vickie Lester of Lester Management Services to serve as executive director.
The NFDA said transition of the group's office from Chicago to Los ...
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Sales and profit figures from the opening quarter of 2012 indicate fastener companies have not forgotten lessons learned in their struggle to survive the global economic downturn of recent years.
Hiring is on the rise throughout the fastener ...
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Carpenter Technology reports rising demand for titanium, nickel and stainless fastener materials.
Friday, April 27, 2012
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The following are highlights from panelists comments at the Southeastern Fastener Association spring meeting in Alabama. The full story is available to subscribers CLICK HERE:
• Mickey Matheny of Northstar suggested that 99% of the import ...
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A hundred years after the Titanic sank, a new article in Physics World titled "The Perfect Storm" lends credence to research suggesting that "faulty rivets" contributed to the demise of the "unsinkable" steamer.
Of course, the idea that some of ...
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Fastener prices are up because steel prices are up over the past decade, Bruce Darling told the Southwestern Fastener Association.
• At the end of 2003, the cost of steel in Taiwan was $364 per ton and China was $375 per ton.
For the second ...
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4/6/2012 5:09:00 PM
This week it was news about people outside a fastener company taking pension funds from those fastener employees.
But in the past some fastener firms have ended up in trouble. In 1994 a federal court judge gave American ...
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Increased sales and profits were on the menu of fastener companies in North America for 2011, the End of 2011 FIN Survey found.
Nearly eight in ten businesses — 78% — reported "moderate" to "strong" sales growth during the year, representing ...
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Dave Monti is the 67th chairperson of the Industrial Fasteners Institute and Steve Paddock of Böllhoff Inc. is the new vice chair.
Monti, general manager of Fall River Manufacturing Co. of Fall River, MA, succeeds Jennifer Johns Friel of MidWest ...
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The All American Fastener Show has been cancelled for May 2012 due to a recent tornado in Missouri. The tornado, which ran through Branson, MO February 29, damaged the host Hilton Branson Hotel and Convention Center. (...)
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