PAM Fastening Marks 25th

John Wolz

PAM Fastening Technology Inc. is marking 25 years of manufacturing fastening products for the building, furniture, woodworking, and framing equipment industries and plans expansion of its facilities in the coming year, president Ed Minchew announced.

Pam was founded in 1981 as Power Adhesive Machines Inc. by Heinz Buhnen to produce hot melt adhesives and hot melt applicators for the North Carolina based furniture industry. PAM soon began distributing Brevetti joining machines and double miter saws.

Today PAM has 1,300 customers for its 2,000 products and quadrupled in size over the past decade. PAM has three product segments: Hot melt, frame assembly and autofeed & collated screwdriver products. In the coming year PAM is planning on expanding its sales team, warehouse and existing building or move to a larger facility,

PAM Fastening’s parent company was started by Buhnen’s father in 1922 in Germany as Buhnen Gmbh & Co. KG. PAM Fastening is a subsidiary of the Brennen, Germany-based Buehnen Group and is headquartered at 2120 Gateway Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28208. Tel: 704 394-3141 Fax 704 394-9339 E-mail: sales@pamfast.com Web: pamfast.com �2006 FastenerNews.com