SHORT TAKES: Cardinal, Crescent, e-fastener.com, Fabory, Jacobson, MacLean-Fogg, PennEngineering, Powers, Tinnerman, Trifast

John Wolz

” Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Co. Inc. appointed Bill Walczak to vice president of sales.
Walczak joins Cardinal after 22 years with SPS Technologies, including the last five years with the Unbrako division.
Cardinal Fastener manufactures hot forged fastener product from 3/8″ to 3″ diameter, and is headquartered at 5185 Richmond Rd., Bedford Heights, OH 44146. Tel: 216 831-3800 Fax 216 831-3651 E-mail: sales@ cardinalfastener.com Web: cardinalfastener.com

” Crescent Manufacturing relaunched its website with advanced technologies, including product descriptions, reference charts, printer friendly pages and user friendly inventory checking, access to customer service or engineers. The website has an e-club monthly newsletter with coupons and discounts. Web: CrescentManufacturing.com
Crescent is expanding into international markets and in the military and aerospace industries.
Crescent manufactures and supplies fasteners and miniature screws to distributors and OEMs in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Europe and South America. Founded in 1960 in a Connecticut garage, today Crescent is headquartered at 700 George Washington Turnpike, P.O Box 1350, Burlington, CT 06013. Tel: 860 673-2591 Fax 860673-5973 E-mail: sales@CrescentManufacturing.com

” Founder Greg Fields returned to e-fastener.com. For the past four years Fields has been managing e-business projects for W�rth Industry North America.
Fields said his goal is to increase e-fastener.com subscribers and parts listings. “The size of the parts database is the key to everything,” Fields explained. “It is really a positive feedback cycle: the more sellers and parts we have, the more buyers want to use the site; the more buyers that are actively searching for parts make it more valuable for sellers to list inventory.”
Fields announced four e-fastener.com marketing partnerships: Fascomp, an electronic hardware manufacturer; ZaGO Manufacturing, a manufacturer of sealing fasteners; technology company Comparatio; and national ad distributor GlobalSpec.
Founded in 1997, Chicago-based e-fastener.com reports 14,000 registered users and almost 100,000 page views per month and is headquartered at 719 Rogers St., Downers Grove, IL 60515. Tel: 630 324-8506 Fax 630 969-5586 E-mail: info@e-fastener.com Web: e-fastener.com

” Fabory is marking the 60th anniversary of J.M. Borstlap and sons Karel and Joop founding the fastener distributorship on March 10, 1947. Fabory was started as Borstlap & Sons in the Dutch coastal town Scheveningen. As fastener wholesale traders they soon began to sell most of their products under the Fabory brand name.
After outgrowing several locations in The Hague, the Borstlap family relocated to Tilburg in 1968. Several take-overs resulted in The Borstlap Masters in Fasteners Group, a name associated worldwide with high quality products.
John Borstlap was the last member of the Borstlap family to take an active part in the company. Alfons van der Aa became CEO in 2002. In 2006 the name Borstlap was changed to Fabory for group identity.
Today there are 1,750 Fabory employees serve 120,000 customers worldwide by handling up to 7.5 million order lines per year. Fabory stocks 80,000 different mechanical and chemical fasteners, tools and industrial supplies from 1,000 suppliers. Fabory has 100 locations in 14 countries and is headquartered at Zeenheuvelenweg 44, 5004 EA Tilburg, The Netherlands. Tel: (13-5941234 Fax 013-5941468 E-mail: info@fabory.com
In North America Fabory has branches in Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Windsor. E-mail: faboryusa@fabory.com

” Jacobson Mfg. LLC added Dave Krause to its sales team. Krause brings over 20 years of sales experience to Jacobson, working most recently as sales manager for the Unbrako division of SPS Technologies.
Jacobson produces standard and custom-designed threaded and non-threaded components. Tubular and internally products range from 5/32″ to 1″ diameter, with tapping capabilities up to 1″ diameter. Jacobson is located at 941 Lake Rd., Medina, OH 44256. Tel: 330-721-6308 or 330 725-8853 Fax 330 723-4510 E-mail: info@jacobsonmfg.com Web: jacobsonmfg.com

” George Gilmore Jr. is the new COO of MacLean-Fogg Company and the CEO/president of MacLean Vehicle Systems.
Gilmore was president of Chicago-based Exelon Enterprises, a subsidiary of Exelon Corp. Gilmore holds engineering, international relations and MBA degrees and began his 30-year business career at McKinsey & Co. in Germany.
CEO Barry MacLean cited Gilmore”s “ability to drive new business, develop talent and build strong teams” in his selection.
MacLean-Fogg Co. manufactures and supplies engineered fasteners, transmission components and suspension devices to auto, truck and equipment producers worldwide and automatic connectors, composite insulators, distributor and transmission hardware and electrical products to utility markets. MacLean-Fogg has 23 North American manufacturing facilities plus 11 international facilities, $800 million in annual sales and 3,000 employees and is headquartered at 1000 Allanson Rd., Mundelein, IL 60060-3890. Tel: 847 566-0010 Web: maclean-fogg.com

” PennEngineering appointed Chris Marx as global vice president of sales and marketing. Marx has sales and marketing experience in the fastener industry serving the electronics and aerospace customer markets. Most recently he was vice president of sales and marketing for Cherry Aerospace.
PennEngineering operates manufacturing facilities and key sales offices in North America, Europe, and Asia and is supported by a worldwide network of authorized engineering representatives and distributors. The company is headquartered at 5190 Old Easton Rd., Danboro, PA 18916.Tel: 800 237-4736 and 215-766-8853 Fax 215 766-0143 Web: pemnet.com

” Powers Fasteners Inc. published the fifth edition of its Specification & Design Manual. The 390-page manual updates previous editions and provides anchor technology, testing standards, construction codes and approval listings for Powers products.
Powers Fasteners supplies mechanical and adhesive anchors, roofing fasteners, gas-firing tools and powder actuated fastening systems serving construction and plant maintenance markets. The company has manufacturing facilities in Michigan, Indianapolis and Chicago; 28 U.S. regional sales locations; facilities in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Thailand, and is headquartered at 2 Powers Ln., Brewster, NY 10509. Tel: 914 235-6300 Fax 914 576-6483 E-mail: info@powers.com or engineering@
powers.com Web: Powers.com

” Tinnerman Palnut Engineered Products Inc. unveiled a new brand image with the name shortened to Tinnerman, a black and red logo, “connection engineering” as its new slogan. and a new website: tinnerman.com.
“The new and simplified brand image and name Tinnerman builds upon the company”s heritage as a fastening innovator, while signaling our new direction, our solutions-based strategy and a new, more approachable attitude,” CEO Joseph Ponteri explained.
“The new brand signifies our company”s revitalization, our commitment to expand product development beyond our original light-metal fastening systems and into more sophisticated connection systems that deliver significant improvements in product assembly time and labor efficiencies to our customers in both light and heavy duty applications,” executive vice president and CMO Jeff Steiner said.
The privately-held company”s roots date back to 1870 when the Tinnerman Stove & Range Co. was founded in Cleveland, Tinnerman Palnut”s first fastener product, the SpeedNut, was developed in 1936 to solve a problem caused by the shipping of Tinnerman stoves.
The Tinnerman SpeedNut was soon used for other products, including airplanes and automobiles. Tinnerman eventually shut down its stove business to focus on SpeedNut. Subsequently Tinnerman”s portfolio grew to 10,000 parts.
Between 1960 and 2001, the company underwent a series of acquisitions, integrating complementary manufacturing capabilities and product technologies from Eaton Corporation, TRW and Textron.
Since 2001 with new investment and a new management team Tinnerman “is revitalizing itself with new product development capabilities in metal, plastic and alternative joining materials, new approaches to the market and a new solution-based sensibility,” Steiner said.
The Tinnerman brand will be used for commercial identification, but the company retains the Tinnerman Palnut Engineered Products legal name.
Tinnerman designs, produces and supplies of engineered spring steel fasteners, precision stampings, plastic components and related assemblies to automotive and industrial original equipment manufacturers. Major customers include American Buildings Co., Chrysler Group, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Honda, John Deere, Johnson Controls, Lear, Mattel, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Toyota. Tinnerman operates sales offices in Southfield, MI, Chard, England and Tokyo; manufacturing in Ohio, Kentucky, New Jersey, Indiana and Ontario and is headquartered at 1060 W. 130th St., Brunswick, OH 44212. Tel: 330 220-5100 or 800 221-2344 Fax 330 220-5797 E-mail: sales@tinnerman.com

” Trifast PLC named Steve Auld chief executive. Auld was appointed executive director in 2005 upon the acquisition of Serco Ryan. Auld has 24 years of fastener experience and succeeds Jim Barker, who officially steps down May 31.
Barker has been chief executive since 2002. Trifast chairman Anthony Allen thanked Barker for overseeing the Serco Ryan acquisition and “the transformation of the Group into a major player in the industrial fastener market.”
The Trifast Group reported annual sales of �117.3 million (US$234.9m) and profits of �5.6 million (US$11.2m).
Founded in 1973 as a fastener distributor, Trifast has been publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange since 1994. Trifast has six manufacturing plants in Europe and Asia and1,200 employees.
Trifast has 37 locations in Europe, North America and Asia and is headquartered at Trifast House, Bellbrook Park, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1QW England. Tel: (44) 0800 7315553 Fax (44) 0800 525230 E-mail: sales@trifastenings.com Web: trifast.com \ �2007 FastenerNews.com