Worldwide Fastener Weekly News, Dec 5-11, 2011 | Bazibaza

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Material Prices – Costs – Market

 

  • CSC Steel Price Hits Bottom Directly To Fuel Purchases | Fastener World Inc. 
    2011-11-29
    Taiwan CSC has announced the domestic price for January and February of 2012. On an average, the price of overall steel products exhibits a drop to NTD1,756 per tonne and a price fall of 7.08%. The price of bar and wire that the fastener industry puts more focus on reduces NTD2,000 per tonne…
    via Professional fasteners […]

Material Prices index from several Official Sources : Dowjones, Wire price DSV (November), Kitco, Yieh corp…

New Products and Services

  • Innovation Direct™ To Be At Forefront Of Marketing Efforts For EZ Out Fastener Remover Invention | PR.com 
    Miami, FL, December 09, 2011 –(PR.com)– An innovative new product targeted at automotive body shop professionals, the EZ Out Fastener Remover, has been developed by Adam Esposito of Lombard, Illinois. The invention’s unique design provides its users with an efficient and effective tool with which to complete a common but often time consuming and labor […]

Company Purchase & Investment

 

  • Agrati And Semblex Form Global Alliance | Fastener+Fixing 
    Italian multinational Agrati Group, a major European company in the fasteners industry for more than 70 years. and the American company Semblex Corporation, a fastener manufacturer and engineering resource located in Elmhurst, Illinois, have formed a global alliance to provide fastener solutions and cold-formed special products for top OEM and component suppliers with global locations.(…)
    via […]
  • Machesney Park Manufacturer Celebrates A Milestone | MyStateLine.com Video 
    Machesney Park – A local manufacturing company opens a brand $3.5 million facility.
    It’s a major milestone for Field Fasteners’ brother duo, Jim and Bill Derry. They bought the company over 20 years ago with only 12 people on staff. Now, the company is a global provider for many items we use everyday (…)
    via […]
  • Interfast Inc. And China’s AVIC International Zhuhai Co. Cut Ribbon On New Joint Venture Aerospace Fastener Warehouse In Guangdong, China | American Fastener Journal 
    Posted Date: 12/07/2011
    Facility to service domestic and international aerospace manufacturers
    Interfast Inc, a leadingToronto-based global aerospace and industrial fastener distributor, and China’s AVIC International Zhuhai Company Limited cut the ribbon on (…)
    via American Fastener Journal.
  • Tucker Fasteners Could Close And Up To 220 Jobs Go | BBC News 
    Up to 220 jobs are at risk at a Birmingham manufacturing plant under plans to move production abroad.
    Tucker Fasteners in Perry Barr could close, with fastening products being made in Giessen in Germany and Hopkinsville in the US instead.
    Parent company Stanley Black & Decker (SBD) said a decrease in output and increased competition were to […]
  • Lederer Opens A Subsidiary In Shanghai | Maschinenmarkt German 
    Lederer eröffnet Tochtergesellschaft in Shanghai
    Im chinesischen Shanghai hat die Lederer Shanghai Fastener Trading Co., Ltd. ihre Tore geöffnet, eine Tochtergesellschaft der Lederer GmbH. Dabei ist China ist kein Neuland für das Unternehmen aus Ennepetal, wie es in einer Mitteilung von Lederer heißt.In der chinesischen Wirtschaftsmetropole Shanghai ist Lederer jetzt mit einer eigenen Tochtergesellschaft präsent. Bild: […]

Antidumping

no info this week

Market infos and Statistics

 

  • RoHS 2: It May Affect You… | Fastener+Fixing | TR Fastening 
    Some fastener manufacturers and distributors may be unaware that the new RoHS 2 directive is likely to affect their businesses. Jenni Morland, European business process manager at TR Fastenings, looks at some of the implications for the fastener supply chain. (…)
    via 72 RoHS 2.
  • Bright Ideas Marketing Strategies For The Fastener Industry | Fastener Technology International 
    Bazibaza comments : from the october / november edition
    I am always interested in sharing the very few articles about marketing dedicated to the Fastener Industry – Joe Cappello has even written a book that I would be glad to read – Joe, if you read this article, please contact me 

    Bright Ideas Marketing Strategies for the […]

Insitutions-Organizations-Associations

 

  • ASTM Standards For Mechanical Fasteners And Related Processes: 3rd Edition | American Fastener Journal 
    Posted Date: 12/04/2011
    Compiled from over 15 volumes of the Annual Book of ASTM Standards, this new publication provides ALL of the standards developed by ASTM Committee F16 on Fasteners, as well as all of the most commonly referenced documents.
    This edition of 159 standards
    via American Fastener Journal.
  • Taylor Quotes Rocky To STAFDA: “Keep Moving Forward – That’s How Winning Is Done” | Global Fastener News 
    • Even hand tools are becoming more technical, Taylor noted. “The advance opening profile places more metal in high stress areas and precision serrations keep the wrench seated on the fastener,” Taylor explained. “This increases torque and reduces slippage, improving safety.”…
    via Taylor Quotes Rocky to STAFDA: “Keep Moving Forward – That’s How Winning is Done” […]

Training-Management

 

  • ASTM Standards For Mechanical Fasteners And Related Processes: 3rd Edition | American Fastener Journal 
    Posted Date: 12/04/2011
    Compiled from over 15 volumes of the Annual Book of ASTM Standards, this new publication provides ALL of the standards developed by ASTM Committee F16 on Fasteners, as well as all of the most commonly referenced documents.
    This edition of 159 standards
    via American Fastener Journal.
  • School Children Learn To Know Companies And Job – Plettenberg | DerWesten | German 
    Schüler lernen Betriebe und Berufe kennen – Plettenberg | DerWesten
    …Erste Unternehmen sind gefunden
    Mit Nedschroef, Prinz Verbindungselemente und Otto Rentrop Drehteile waren schnell erste Unternehmen für eine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Projekt Löwenzahn gefunden.
    Insgesamt 36 Schüler wurden so in der vergangenen Woche bereits durch die drei Plettenberger Betriebe geführt….
    via Schüler lernen Betriebe und Berufe kennen – Plettenberg […]

Trade Show – Fair

 

  • What Visitors Say About 6th Fastener Trade Show? | Chinafastener .info 
    The 6th Fastener Trade Show saw its great success on November 12, 2011 at Guangzhou Poly World Trade Expo Center. The show attracted 302 exhibitors to over 400 booths, displaying the latest products and technology in around 13,000-square-meter area to 7726 professional visitors from throughout China and 36 countries and regions…
    via What Visitors Say about […]
  • Fastenal Show To Finish Up Year | Fasternerblog.net 
    It’s not really the end of the year yet, but it is the end of the Trade Show Year. At least for me it is. This coming week I will have the pleasure to once again attend the Fastenal Trade Show in Orlando. This show is amazing. It really is. […]

Media – Blog – Audio – Video

 

  • Something Every Fastener Freak Needs To See | ScrewCrew.com 
    I have seen some images online of some of these screw sculptures, but this article at TwistedSifter.com has some great photos that really capture what this guy is up to, along with some very interesting information about this award-winning artist who (…)
    via Something Every Fastener Freak Needs to See | ScrewCrew.com.
  • No Average Fastener Sculpture | ScrewCrew.com 
    People have been soldering, brazing and welding fasteners together into shapes for a long time. This one seems to take it a step or ten further. Very nice looking and well done. If you can swing the 200 bucks, it would be very cool (…)
    via No Average Fastener Sculpture | ScrewCrew.com.
  • Episode #36 – The Gift (133:59) | Fully Threaded Radio 
    Description: An all-star line up tackles the biggest fastener industry headlines of the year gone by, and makes forecasts on the year ahead during this very special holiday edition. Industry blogger, Traveling Salesman, Andy Pels, of ScrewCrew.com, along with the amazing J.R. Prahl share their wit and wisdom, and also comment on their favorite FTR […]
  • Aerospace Ezine – Latest Edition Is Out | American Fastener Journal 
    Bazibaza comments :
    You will have to register but it is free of charge. Don’t miss this new issue. 

    Enter the email that you used while registering,
    to access the ezine collection.
    via American Fastener Journal – eZine Log-In.

All Company Infos

 

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Free Press Review by Bazibaza Fastener Directories 

Week in Review :

The big shock this week came from the possible closure ot Tucker Fasteners in the UK. 200+ jobs are at stake, with transfer to Giessen in Germany and Hopkinsville in the US instead, on decision of parent company Stanley Black & Decker (SBD).

Aerospace Ezine latest edition, from American Fastener Journal is out.

As well as #36 of Fully Threaded Radio.

And for european manufacturers, in case you miss it, make sure you read carefully the article on Fastener+Fixing about RoHS 2 directive with the contribution of Jenni Morland of TR Fastening.

Last, an interview of Manuela Elmi, she is the boss of an italian Factory.

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