Darling at SFA: Freight Charges Add to Cost Hikes April 1, 2008 FIN – While hikes in Asian steel prices get lots of media coverage these days, other factors are compounding cost pressures. In December 2007 the ports of Los...
Acument Global Technologies will close an automotive fastener plant in Wytheville, VA, during 2009. Employment at the plant declined over the past year from 200 to the current 162 jobs that will be lost with the closing....
November 18, 2008 FIN – Steel is feeling the crunch of the global financial crisis, Nucor Fasteners general sales manager Jim Witucki told attendees of a Western Association of Fastener Distributors seminar at the National...
+ click to enlarge December 11, 2008 FIN – Today’s troubled economy requires companies to reinvent themselves, Rick Peterson told the Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association in his...
January 11, 2008 FIN – The abandoned Reliant Fastener factory in downtown Rock Falls, IL, burned to the ground December 28. The factory was engulfed in flames by the time fire crews arrived shortly after 5 p.m. Fourteen fire...
