“EIFI is 40 years old”, is how Anders Karlsson, President of the European Association of Fastener Manufacturers, opened his speech at the Stuttgart Fair held from 28 to 30 March this year.
It was on 6 September 1977, in fact, when the president of the French C.S.B.V.F., Chambre Syndicale de la Boulonnerie et de la Visserie Forgeés, Mr. H. Lorrain, convened the representatives of already existing National Fastener Associations and individual companies from 14 different countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Liechtenstein, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. During their meeting held in Paris, it was decided to establish a European association named the “European Industrial Fasteners Institute”, based in Cologne in Germany, as from January 1978.(…)
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