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I have been to several fastener manufacturing plants. A number of them are very memorable to me. Chicago Hardware and their forging hammers. Kerr Lakeside making domestic socket heads. R&D Fasteners and their impressive inventory of exotic raw materials including various stainless, monel and inconel. I have seen many screw manufacturers and washer manufacturers. I have seen screw machine manufacturers like The Richard Manno Co. and Captive Fastener. I always enjoy seeing domestically produced fasteners. This week I had the opportunity to visit another very unique plant, the Alcoa owned Huck Manufacturing plant in Waco, Texas. What a place!First of all, it is a really big facility…something like 400,000 square feet of manufacturing space. But more impressive was the variety of truly unique products made by Huck. The Huck Bolts and the wide variety of Huck Blind Fasteners. You readers know the products, but to see them produced was cool. And learning how the products were developed and how they have evolved is a testament to fastener ingenuity in our great nation. This was truly a unique plant visit. (…)
