MacLean-Fogg Component Solutions launched the Threadstrong brand and website to market wheel fasteners to the aftermarket: ThreadStrong.us.

“We are well known as the leading OEM supplier in North America for high performance, decorative wheel fasteners,” sales VP Brad Southwood said.  “It’s always been frustrating to us to see the aftermarket flooded with inferior, low quality and potentially dangerous replacement wheel fasteners of unknown origin.  So we decided to do something about it.”

“We want the aftermarket consumers to know that when they buy a Threadstrong wheel fastener, they can trust it was made in the U.S.A. to all of the needed safety specifications,” MFCS fastener division president Rob Whitey said.

Director of wheel fastener engineering Mark Raves explained “a lot goes into steel fasteners that the general consumer probably doesn’t think about.”  Material strength, corrosion resistance and durability require engineering and quality control for the friction of the fastener’s load bearing surface against the wheel, Raves said.

Founded in 1925 by John MacLean Sr and Jack Fogg in Illinois to manufacture lock nuts for railroads, the company today has 3,000 employees and $1 billion in annual sales. MacLean-Fogg has 28 manufacturing plants in Europe, Asia and both North and South America and is headquartered at 1000 Allanson Rd., Mundelein, IL 60060-3804.  Tel: 847 837-7993  Web: MacLeanFogg.com