After three days of record low temperatures beginning Monday, January 6, 2014, due to the Polar Vortex, fastener companies were back to business as usual by Thursday.
Trucking was apparently the biggest problem for Midwest fastener companies.
“We are back to normal winter weather here in Chicago,” Bruce Wheeler of Star Stainless reported. “Schools are back in session, truckers are trucking and the roads are clear.” (…)
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