7/22/2009
Darling, Speck, Vertullo & Factory Tour
Featured at 2009 NIFS/West
Jim Speck of Johnson Gage Company, Bruce Darling of Porteous Fastener Company and Carmen Vertullo of SimplyBetter will lead three of the conference sessions at the 2009 National Industrial Fastener Show/West.
Vegas Fastener Manufacturing will offer free morning and afternoon plant tours Monday for a total of 100 NIFS participants.
The 13th annual NIFS/West will be November 16-18, 2009 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Conferences and an opening reception will be on Monday and exhibits from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
• Engineer Speck will present a full day “Application Engineering Workshop” on Monday.
• The Pac-West Fastener Association – formerly Western Association of Fastener Distributors – will present a panel discussion on “The Effects of the Recession on Global Fastener Markets,” led by Darling. The P-WFA program will be at 2 p.m. on Monday.
• Vertullo will present the Fastener Training Institute’s full day class on “Fastener Quality Assurance: Print Reading & Inspection.” The class is part of FTI’s Certified Fastener Specialist program.
• The ASTM F16.96 subcommittee on Bolting Technology will meet from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday.
• The Finance Industry Group Network and the Wisconsin office of Business Credit Management Association will present a full day program for finance representativ3es from exhibiting companies.
The official opening reception will be from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Numerous exhibitors sponsor receptions and other events during the three-day NIFS/West.
Show management lists 374 exhibiting companies for the 2009 as of July 1. By show time in 2008 there were 633 companies totaling 819 booths at show time. The NIFS record was set in 2007 at 688 companies totaling 829 booths.
For NIFS information contact show manager Susan Hurley. Tel: 614 895-1279 Fax 614 895-3466 E-mail: susan@fastenershows.com Web: fastenershows.com
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