STANLEY Engineered Fastening, a Stanley Black & Decker company, has announced that it is joining two of the most famous brands in blind fastening, POP and Avdel, into a single entity. The new brand, which will be known as POP Avdel from this point forward, is now the largest in the market and will produce the broadest line of specialty engineered structural and non-structural blind fastening systems in the world.
These iconic brands are the largest and the oldest in blind fastening dating as far back as 1933 for POP and 1936 for Avdel. This union is designed to create an integrated product line with combined experience of almost 160 years. The merger promises to lead to even more innovative fastening solutions in the future as well as a consolidation and streamlining of existing product lines to help manufactures build more structurally-sound products.(…)
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