SHORT TAKES: Advance Components, Avdel NA, EFC International, FastenersClearingHouse.com, ITW Red Head, JW Winco

John Wolz

” Advance Components opened an Ohio sales and application office. The new Cleveland office serves Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Dave Audia, national sales manager/East, heads the Ohio office. Tel: 216 642-8236 E-mail: daudia@advancecomponents.com
Founded in 1972, Advance Components supplies 100 million specialty fasteners and parts to distributors, including Tinnerman, AVK and Heyco. Advance is headquartered at 2920 Commodore Dr., Ste 100, Carrollton, TX, 75007. Tel: 800-275-7772 Web: advancecomponents.com

” Avdel North America named four to sales management, sales & marketing director Bob DeVoe announced.
Jessica Wakefield is the El Paso-based regional sales representative for the Southwestern U.S., Mexico and Latin America. Wakefield previously was Latin America operations manager for PennEngineering’s Arconix and Latin America sales director for North American Bolt & Screw.
Steven Butters is regional sales representative for Ontario and will be based at Avdel’s Rexdale Distribution Center outside Toronto. Butters was a territory manager and national account manager for Black & Decker.
Barry Fitzgerald, Western U.S. regional sales manager based in Santa Margarita, CA. Fitzgerald previously held management and business development positions with Sager Electronics and Above Board Electronics.
Gary Schottlander is regional sales representative for the Eastern U.S., based in East Brunswick, NJ. Schottlander was director of operations and business development with National Bolt & Screw.
Avdel, an Acument Global Technologies company, manufactures breakstem fasteners, lockbolts, speed fasteners, threaded inserts, sealing plugs and installation equipment. Headquartered in Sterling Heights, MI, Avdel North America has a production center in Stanfield, NC, and a distribution center in Rexdale, Ontario. E-mail: salesAvdel@acument.com Web: acument.com

” EFC International announced it will subsidize fuel expenses for all employees to commute to work. With oil and gas prices breaking records, EFC wants to keep employees from seeking other jobs closer to home, EFC owner Doug Adams explained. There is “no reasonable forthcoming solution to the fuel expenses that are devastating to its employees, EFC and the world-wide economy,” Adams said. “We encourage all corporations to consider similar support for their employees during these extremely unusual fuel costs. We realize the absurdity of fuel prices more than most companies because we are a major supplier to the automotive industry.”
Founded in 1983, EFC International supplies specialty metal, plastic, electrical component parts to the OEM and distribution. EFC has branches in Atlanta and Chicago and will add a Toronto facility and is headquartered at 1940 Craigshire Rd., St. Louis, MO 63146. Tel: 314 434-2888 Fax 314 434-2902 E-mail: info@efc-intl.com Web: efc-intl.com

” FastenersClearingHouse.com database manager Brian Musker announced the online surplus fastener database surpassed 275,000 line items.
Distributors can post up to 19,000 lines and receive RFQs from buyers. Operations manager Eric Dudas noted that distributors can load data from a variety of formats.
Launched in 2006, Fastenersclearinghouse.com is an independent, online search engine for surplus and odd lot fasteners based in Naperville, IL. Tel: 877 332-7836 E-mail: support-fch@fastenersclearinghouse.com Web: fastenersclearinghouse.com

” ITW Red Head named Amy Kolczak research and code approvals manager and Dave Steiner national sales manager, general manager Mike O’Reilly announced. The new position is part of ITW Red Head’s long-range plan for innovative anchoring systems with proactive testing and liability assessment. She will assist in establishing an International Code Council facility at Red Head for research and support and to enhance testing protocols. Kolczak previously was product manager with ITW Brands and has served on ICC and other organizations professional and technical committees.
Steiner is in charge of the Red Head sales team. Steiner has 18 years experience in the construction industry plus 17 years in concrete anchoring products and tools. Most recently he was division sales manager for Hilti North America.
ITW Red Head, an Illinois Tool Works Construction Products company, manufactures mechanical and adhesive anchoring systems used in commercial construction and industrial applications and is headquartered at 2171 Executive Dr. #100, Addison, IL 60101. Tel: 630 350-0370 or 800 899-7890 Fax 630 495-6158 E-mail: postmaster@itwredhead.com Web: itwredhead.com
” J.W. Winco Inc. will mark its 30th anniversary in June 2008, by opening a renovated headquarters nearly double its previous size.
The 40,000 sq ft facility is constructed with “green” materials and ecological sensitivity, features wood and glass and natural light and amenities, such as a game room and cyber caf� for employees.
With 600% growth in sales in the past 15 years alone, the family-owned J.W. Winco sold over $11 million in parts last year throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. Most customers are OEMs in industries ranging from packaging machinery to medical equipment to construction equipment.
In 1978, John Winkler Sr. and his wife, Anne Winkler, began a packaging machinery business that also sold foil and paper bottle labels.
Soon their son, John Winkler Jr., joined as purchasing agent and expanded the Winco product line. “Back in 1982, I was doing sourcing through J.W. Winco, Inc., for different components for the packaging machinery business, and I went in to my father and said, “If we need these parts, there have to be others who need the parts,”” John Jr. recalled. “I started the distributorship at my desk.”
Today John Winkler Jr. is CEO, and his brother Mark Winkler, who joined the company in 1992, is CFO. A third brother, Robert Winkler, has been with the company since 1994 and is chief technology officer. John Winkler Sr. is chairman and Anne Winkler is co-chair. The three brothers handle daily management and the parents handle capital decisions.
“We have evolved from a small business to a growing force in the distribution of thousands of components,” John Winkler Jr. said. The company achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification eight years ago.
Winco is a wholesale distributor and manufacturer of machine parts and assembly components with exclusive distribution agreements with German and Italian components producers, as well as product distribution rights with U.S. and Japanese manufacturer. Winco’s in-house machining division offers special manufactured components and secondary machining.
Winco is headquartered at 2815 S. Calhoun Rd., New Berlin, WI 53151 (P.O. Box 510035). Tel: 262 786-8227 or 800 877-8351 Fax 262 786-8524 or 800 472-0670 Web: jwwinco.com �2008 FastenerNews.com