SHORT TAKES: ADP, Assembly Products, B&G Manufacturing, Brafasco, Dimco-Gray, Nedschroef, Essebi, Powers, Tower Fasteners, WiLi, NEF

John Wolz

” ADP Rivet appointed Assembly Products & Sales as its southwest warehouse and sales agency, vice president of sales & marketing Peter Femiak announced. Assembly Products will stock and ship ADP blind rivets in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Assembly Products was formed in 2003 by Mary Chambers and Doug Rolston. Mike Best handles sales in Assembly Products” eastern territory and Scott MacCormack is in charge of the warehouse. Assembly Products is located at 3426 Dalworth, Arlington, TX 76011. Tel: 817 633-2212 Fax 817 633-7747 E-mail: info@assemblyproducts.biz
ADP designs and manufactures blind rivet products and is located at 465 Ledyard St., Hartford, CT 06114. Tel: 203 296-6541 Fax 203 296-6704 Web: adprivet.com

” B&G Manufacturing Inc. expanded to provide heat treating capability. The new furnace instrumentation, system accuracy and temperature uniformity have been certified to AMS2750C and fasteners are heat treated to AMS H 6875 requirements.
B&G manufactures specialty threaded fasteners and machined components for the power generation, medical, transportation, petro-chemical, nuclear, aerospace, marine, mining and defense industries and is located at 3067 Unionville Pike, Hatfield, PA 19440. Tel: 215 822-1925 or 800 366-3067 Fax 215 822-1006 E-mail: info@Bgmfg.com Web: BGmfg.com

” Toronto-based Brafasco Inc. is opening its first Chicago showroom and warehouse. Three more Midwest locations are planned in the coming year.
The new Chicago warehouse is located at 2400 Landmeier Rd., Elk Grove Village, IL 60007. Tel: 847 427-1600 Fax 847 427-1616 E-mail: elkgrove@brafsco.com
“Chicago remains a major industrial market and Elk Grove Village has one of the largest concentrations of manufacturing businesses in the world,” CEO Bob San Julian explained. “A location here gives us the opportunity to expand.”
Founded in 1966 in Brampton, Ontario, Brafasco is an industrial supply company specializing in fasteners, safety supplies and other industrial tools and supplies. Brafasco has 20 branches in Canada and two in Michigan, with annual revenues of CDN$40 million (US$32.2 million). Brafasco employs 200 people and is headquartered at 93 Heartlake Rd., Brampton, Ontario L6W 3K1 Canada. Tel: 905 451-7774 or 800 268-3007 E-mail: info@brafasco.com Web: brafasco.com
Brafasco is a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm Glencoe Capital. Glencoe, which manages $950 million in assets for institutional investors, bought Brafasco as part of an earlier portfolio company, Kar Products, that the firm sold in 2003.

” Dimco-Gray Company Inc., appointed Tony Fenno president and CEO. Fenno joined Dimco-Gray from the Kerr Group of Pennsylvania where Fenno and other management participated in the buy out of NYSE-traded Kerr. Founded in 1948, employee-owned Dimco-Gray manufactures screw machine and cold headed parts and other fastening technologies, knobs and specialty timers. Dimco-Gray has 205 employees and is headquartered at 8200 South Suburban Rd, Centerville, OH 45458. Tel: 937 291-4702 or 800 876-8353 Fax 937 433-0520 E-mail: sales@dimco-gray.com Web: Dimco-Gray.com

” Nedschroef Herentals NV is now representing Essebi Coldforming
Machines for North America, general sales manager Marc van Thiel
announced.
The North American office for the Netherlands-based Nedschroef Herentals is Nedschroef Detroit Corporation, which recently moved to 5690 18 Mile Rd., Sterling Heights, MI 48314. Tel: 586 795-1248 Fax 586 795-1216 E-mail: essebi@nedschroef.net
Nedschroef Detroit provides service and parts for Belgium-built Nedschroef coldformers and Essebi machines. Marc Rigole is general manager and Steven Verkerke tooling engineer.
Ozzero, Italy-based Essebi produces 1 die/3 blow, 4die/4blow and 5 die/5 blow coldformers up to 10 mm (3/8″) diameter. The Essebi coldformers are complementary to Nedschroef”s range that start with 10mm and go up to 33 mm.

” Powers Fasteners named Sara Hicks Midwest regional manager and Hollis Shepp as western regional manager, vice president of sales & marketing Lenny Colasuonno announced.
Hicks joined Powers after seven years with ITW and previously was with Gunnebo Fasteners for 18 years. Shepp was with Hilti for 16 years.
Hicks succeeds Barry Rosenberg, who became director of OEM sales, and Shepp succeeds Rob Moe, who was named eastern regional manager.
Powers manufactures mechanical, adhesive, powder actuated and gas-fired fastening systems. Powers has 28 North American branches and is headquartered at 2 Powers Square, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Tel: 914 235-6300 Fax 914 576-6483 Web: powers.com

” Tower Fasteners Co. Inc. promoted Mark Shannon to vice president of sales and marketing, CEO Bryan Shannon announced.
Founded in 1967, Tower is a family-owned distributor of fasteners and provides inventory management. Tower has distribution centers in Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and is headquartered at 1690 N. Ocean Ave., Holtsville, NY 11742. Tel: 631 289-8800 Fax 631 289-8810 E-mail: pr@towerfast.com Web: towerfast.com

” WiLi Precision Fasteners Co. Ltd. opened a new facility in Ningbo, China, general manager Wang Wei announced.
WiLi manufactures precision small and miniature fasteners for many industries and is a wholly foreign entity owned by Microfast International LLC, a division of NEF Corporation.
WiLi is now located at No. 8, Wujiang Rd., Beilun, Ningbo, China. Tel: (86) 574 868 20278 Fax (86) 574 868 20163. E-mail: wilifasteners@wilifasteners.com Web: wilifasteners.com
WiLi was formerly known as WiLi Metal Products of Ningbo.
NEF was founded in 1963 as North East Fastener and is a U.S. manufacturer of small and miniature fasteners headed by president Eric Webster. NEF is headquartered at 8 Tremco Dr., P.O. Box 322, Terryville, CT 06786. Tel: 860 589-3242 Fax 860 589-6969 Web: NEF1.com \ �2005 FastenerNews.com