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May 01, 2008; McGuire, Mike ... NEW FEATURES. In our continuing effort to increase our message to fastener professionals around the world, the American Fastener Journal has gone multilingual, with six languages reaching 121 new search engines. The six languages, with search engines in parenthesis, are: Traditional ...

Hall of Fame to Honor Richard Lassiter and William Liao

May 01, 2008; Bannister, Jim ... The National Industrial Fastener Show "Hall of Fame" will induct Richard Lassiter and William Liao at a special luncheon November 2, 2008, as part of the "World's Largest Fastener Expo" in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. RICHARD LASSITER ...

American Fastener Journal Goes Multilingual

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... In a continuing effort to increase its message to fastener professionals around the world, the American Fastener Journal (AFJ) has gone multilingual, with six languages reaching 121 new search engines. The six languages, with search engines in parenthesis, are: Traditional Chinese (21), ...

Number of Line Items on Surplus Fastener Database Reaches Record Level

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... FastenersClearingHouse.com (FCH) announced that its online surplus fastener database has surpassed 275,000 line items, making it the largest database of its kind on the Internet. FCH is a free sourcing option for fastener distributors and acts as a search engine for surplus, odd lot, and ...

Firing On All Cylinders

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... WINZER CORPORATION GIVES SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS THE MRO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE When you think high performance, you think speed, power and teamwork. You think of professional race teams with their powerful cars, talented drivers, motivated pit crews and dedicated sponsors. However, when ...

Global Market for Industrial Fasteners Expected to Grow

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... According to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., worldwide sales of industrial fasteners are projected to exceed US $50.3 billion by 2010, driven by an economic recovery in leading regional markets, particularly in Asia and Latin America. Increased construction activities and a spurt ...

Whose Standard?

May 01, 2008; Doppke, Tom ... The only historical illustration that has stood out is Eli Whitney's famous demonstration of the interchangeability of musket parts made in his factory during the Revolutionary War. The American army experienced a great shortage of muskets during the war. They were assembled from some basic ...

THINKING ABOUT The Unthinkable

May 01, 2008; Archer, David D ... The first and most obvious responsibility of the distributor is to deliver to the customer the component that was requested, in all aspects of its specification: size, grade, finish, etc. While no delivery error is desirable, the errors that are not readily detectable can be the most dangerous ....

BusinessWeek 50 Ranks Nucor Among Top Performers

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... For the third time in four years, steel maker Nucor Corporation, North America's largest recycler, appears on the BusinessWeek 50, which ranks top-performing companies based on the rate of return on investment and sales growth over a three-year period. Nucor comes in at No. 25 on the ...

TORQUE

May 01, 2008; Avellon, Guy ... "Torque" is a simple term we all know and use to designate a certain degree of force exerted to tighten any threaded fastener. The term has been used so freely for such a long time that we do not understand the many variables that affect torque and how it is measured. For one, our unit ...

Sherex Announces New Relationship with Dejond

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Sherex Fastening Solutions has announced it is the exclusive North American distributor for Dejond TUBTARA® and its line of 304 and 316 stainless rivet nuts. "The vision here at Sherex Fastening Solutions has always been to become a worldwide leader in the manufacture, design and ...

GREATER ST. LOUIS METROPOLITAN MARKET

May 01, 2008; Jacobs, Charles F ... The Greater St. Louis metropolitan area includes St. Charles to the north, Farmington to the south, Fenton to the southeast and a section across the Mississippi River that includes East St. Louis, Madison and Venice in Illinois. With a population estimated at a little more than three million ...

Wall Street Continues Slide; AFJ Index Edges Forward

May 01, 2008; Crabtree, Margot ... Major markets endured another month of punishment as the U.S. economy tried to keep itself out of recession. Inflationary pressures driven by record oil prices collided with an economic slowdown, further fueled by the housing slump and credit crisis. As our session ended February 29, 2008, ...

Acument to Create Jobs with New Aerospace Threaded Fastener Production Complex in Rockford, Illinois

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Acument Global Technologies, Inc. announced it will re-enter the high-performance aerospace threaded fastener market with the opening of a production complex in Rockford, Illinois. The facility will create jobs and open a new chapter in the city's long history of supplying assembly systems and ...

A Self-Locking, Reusable, Screw-Thread FASTENING SOLUTION

May 01, 2008; Peacock, Kevin ... Preload Locking Internal Thread Form prevents unnecessarily high logistical, service and warranty costs of typical locking thread forms For years, OEM product designers and fastener application engineers have struggled to provide a self-locking screw-thread system that's reusable and ...

Micro Plastics Introduces New Pricing on Split Loom

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Micro Plastics' recent plant expansion and new state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment have reduced production costs, resulting in lower, more competitive pricing on its Split Loom. A split wire loom is a flexible, corrugated tube with an easy opening seam down the side for quick wire ...

New Online Marketplace Launched for Fasteners and Hardware

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Industrial Leaders, the industry trade portal for engineering, construction and manufacturing professionals, announced the launch of its new auction-based website and marketplace at www.IndustrialLeaders. com. According to Craig Jacobs, spokesman for the company, the site is designed to connect ...

YOU DON'T NEED AN ATTORNEY ...or do you?

May 01, 2008; Chatt, Bill ... I suppose as a new contributor to American Fastener Journal, a little introduction is in order. My name is Bill Chart and I am a litigation associate with the law firm of Erwin and Associates in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to being an attorney, I have over twenty years of experience in the ...