May 8, 1996 FIN – The Switzerland-based International Organization for Standardization has added ISO 14000 as a new international environmental standard. ISO has issued technical and safety standards used mostly by engineers for...
May 8, 1996 FIN – Lawson Products Inc., announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all the assets of Automatic Screw Machine Products Company of Decatur, Alabama, for $10.3 million cash plus the assumption of trade...
Editor’s Note: The last Perspective column (see February 13, 1996, article below) summarized an NBC Nightly News report on a shortage of manufacturing workers in the U.S. Tom McCall Executive Search, which specializes...
December 9, 1996 FIN – The National Fastener Distributors Association will move into a new office adjacent to the Industrial Fasteners Institute in Cleveland, NFDA president Mark Alexander announced. The move will take place as...
September 10, 1996 FIN – Precision Castparts Corp. acquired Astro Punch Corporation of Santa Fe Springs, California, in a transaction valued at $6.5 million. Astro Punch, founded in 1962, had been a direct competitor of the Rico...
