SHORT TAKES: Alcoa Fasteners, American Fastener Technologies, e-fastener.com, EFC International, Hill Fastener, ITW Bee Leitzke, Ultimate Placements

Jason Sandefur

Alcoa Fastening Systems appointed Richard Sharpe senior vice president for global aerospace customers and marketing. During his six years with Alcoa Sharpe has been vice president of business development and vice president of military, regional and business aviation.
Alcoa Fastening manufactures fastening systems, specialty fasteners, components and installation systems for aerospace and commercial product assembly. Alcoa Fastening has 5,500 employees at 26 locations in seven countries. Alcoa Fastening�s administration office is located at 800 S. State College, Fullerton, CA 92831. Tel: 714 449-4374 Fax 310 784-4313. Web: alcoafasteners.com

American Fastener Technologies is marking its 20th anniversary. CEO Jeff Dutkovic said American Fastener has grown from customers within 100 miles of Pittsburgh�s steel region to petro-chemical plants in Germany and power utilities in Chile. �Our international base comprises almost 40% of total sales, and it�s all because of our expertise in providing the most difficult, exotic fasteners to the world�s demanding customers.
American Fastener supplies is located at Nine Frontier Dr., Gibsonia, PA 15044-7999. Tel: 800 466-9780 Fax 724 444-6250 Web: americanfastener.com

Jeff McClelland was named director of marketing for e-fastener.com, president John Barnicle announced. McClelland�s experience includes the former fastener Internet portal Partini.com, Intel and Ebenefits.com.
His duties include marketing the new e-fastener.com SuperStore, an online outlet for first run, standard fasteners. SuperStore offers 22,000 parts from four U.S. warehouses and lists 3,900 buyers have registered. E-fastener reports shipping 99% of orders within one business day. E-fastener also has 350,000 surplus parts in its online surplus database. �We believe Jeff can take us to next level � marketing our on-line fastener SuperStore to a much wider audience while continuing to grow our distributor-centric functionality,� Barnicle said.
E-fastener.com was launched six years ago. Tel: 330 321-1401 Fax 509 357-8765 E-mail: info@e-fastener.com Web: e-fastener.com

EFC International named Bill Eagan to the newly created position of automotive market manager, president James Laarman announced. Eagan will manage and develop one of EFC�s largest market segments, tier automotive accounts. Eagan has worked more than 17 years in the automotive industry � most recently as engineering director for Comau Pico. He also spent over 15 years with Ford Motor Co. Eagan can be reached at 248 866-8299 or beagan@efc-intl.com.
EFC is a master distributor of specialty fasteners and components and is headquartered at 1940 Craigshire Rd., St. Louis, MO 63146. Tel: 314 434-2888 or 800 888-3326 Fax 314 434-2902 E-mail: info@efc-intl.com Web: efc-intl.com

Hill Fastener Corporation received ISO 9001-2000 certfication, vice president of sales Mike Henry announced. Hill also launched a new website giving customers the ability to retrieve certs.
Hill Fastener is a 48-year-old manufacturer of cold headed fasteners and is located at 1602 McNeil Rd., Rock Falls, IL 61071. Tel: 815 625-6600 or 800 435-2955 Fax 815 625-2407 Web: HillFastener.com

ITW Bee Leitzke received ISO 9001:2000 certification, sales manager Jerry DeWitz announced.
ITW Bee Leitzke manufactures cold headed steel fasteners, and is located at 2000 Industrial Rd., Iron Ridge, WI 53035. Tel: 920 625-2342 Fax 920 625-2643 E-mail: custservice@itwblh.com Web: itwblh.com

Ultimate Placements LLC created a fastener specialty desk to recruit industry executives, professionals and sales personnel, president Stan Erman announced.
Ultimate Placements is located at One Park Centre Dr. #305A, Wadsworth, OH 44281. Tel: 330 334-0285 Fax 330 334-2617 Web: ultimateplacements.com \ �2003 FastenerNews.com