By: Gia Costella
22nd June 2012Loyalty and quality have been replaced with price and delivery as the criteria for choosing a product in the “cut throat” local fasteners industry, asserts specialised fastener distributor UPL Group MD Richard Simes.
“Fasteners literally keep the world from falling apart. Unfortunately, there are almost no well-qualified, quality-conscious people, who understand the value and cost benefit of good-quality fasteners, left in the industry.
“We live in a disposable era, where everything is made quickly and cheaply and not to last. These are the times we live in and if you don’t move with the times, you will be left behind,” he says.
He adds that, because of this, UPL is now considering selling more affordable, alternative products, which it plans to sell with a warning.
“We will offer these products as a cheap alternative to our normal products and make it very clear to our customer that these products are not our preferred products for any critical application and that we do not take responsibility for any failure,” he says. (…)
