Jason Sandefur

• Olivier Jarrault is president of newly formed Alcoa Fastening Systems. Jarrault is the former head of Fairchild Fasteners, which Alcoa Inc. bought in December 2002 for $657 million and combined with Huck International to form the new division. AFS fasteners and aerospace products, including rivets and tools, are based in Torrance. The division’s commercial products group is based in Waco, TX. Huck veteran Don Busby is president of commercial products.
AFS is headquartered at 3000 W. Lomita Blvd., Torrance, CA 90505. Web: alcoa.com

• Bell Fasteners Canada and Zelenda Metric Canada are being combined June 1, 2003, to form Cook Fasteners Inc., president Paula Cook announced. The Cook family continues to own the company.
“We have exclusively represented Bell Fasteners and Zelenda Metric in the Canadian market for 21 years and seven years respectively,” Cook explained. “Due to changes with our American counterparts, we felt as though the Canadian market was moving in a different direction, and the decision to create a completely independent company was necessary in order to purchase our products at competitive prices and maintain high inventory levels.”
Cook Fasteners will add product lines.
Robin Brown is sales manager; Geoff Weaver, operations manager; Lloyd Power, sales rep; Libet Bonilla, accountant; and Sinclair Brown, warehouse manager.
Cook Fasteners imports and distributes stainless steel, nonferrous and metric fasteners is located at 6199 Danville Rd., Mississauga, Ontario L5T 2H7, Canada. Tel: 905 564-1555 Fax 905 564-7098

• Rep agency Diamondback Fasteners announced new lines from FPC Corporation, Vega Industries, Cobra Anchors and Premier Heading.
FPC manufactures blind rivets, rivet guns, glue sticks, hot melt adhesives, staples, glue, staple and nail guns, and tackers. FPC, headed by president Michael Kamins, is headquartered at 355 Hollow Hill Dr., Wancanda, IL 60084. Tel: 847 487-4583 or 800 860-3838 Fax 847 487-0174 E-mail: glueguns@aol.com Web: surebonder.com
Vega Industries, headed by general manager Scott Day, supplies driver bits and nut runners. Vega is located at 8319 Allport Ave., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670. Tel: 562 698-1269 Fax 562 698-1299 E-mail: email@vegaindustries.net
Cobra Anchors is located at 504 Mt. Laurel Ave., Temple, PA 19560. Richard Labelle is vice president of operations. Tel: 610 929-5764 or 800 824-7717 Fax 800 432-4143 E-mail: Richard Labelle@cobraanchors.com
Premier Heading, led by president Leroy Wilkins, manufactures 12-point nuts, locknuts, hex flange nuts, barrel nuts and washers to aerospace and automotive standards and is located at 5273 N. Commerce Ave. #10, Moorpark, CA 93021. Tel: 805 517-1007 Fax 805 517-1006 E-mail: sales@premierheading.com Web: premierheading.com
Diamondback, founded in 2001, is a rep agency headed by Mike McGuire and headquartered at 298 Hopewell Dr., Powell, OH 43065-9350. Tel: 614 848-3232 or 800 848-0304 Fax 614 848-5045 Web: diamondbackfasteners.comE-mail: mmcguire@fastening.com

• GF&D Systems named The Rep Agency, headed by Rick Evans, as sales rep for Arizona, California, New Mexico and Nevada, president Art Salani announced. Evans has over 25 years of experience in the fastener industry. E-mail: therep@cox.net
GF&D distributes grease fittings, hose whips and couplers and is located at 5500 S. Westridge Dr., New Berlin, WI 53151. Tel: 800 360-1318 Fax 262 789-8640 E-mail: info@gfdsystems.com Web: gfdsystems.com

• Hodell-Natco Industries Inc. named Jamie Clarke as sales manager and Al Racicki as chain products coordinator, announced general manager Kevin Reidl.
Hodell-Natco also acquired the assets of Chicago-based Western Chain Co. The purchase increases Hodell-Natco’s capacity in the chain assembly market.
In addition, Hodell-Natco upgraded to ISO 9001:2000.
Cleveland, OH-based Hodell-Natco is a master distributor of standard and metric fasteners and chain with seven locations nationwide. E-mail: sales@hodell-natco.com Web: hodell-natco.com

• Meier Transmission Ltd. acquired Samson Industrial, Meier Holding LLC CEO Tom Bohardt announced.
Meier Transmission, headquartered in Cleveland, OH, has $60 million in annual sales and 250 employees.
Tulsa-based Samson distributes fasteners, hose, gasketing, belting and safety products from 13 locations in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina.
Meier Transmission and Samson will be subsidiaries of Meier Holding LLC. Samson will continue to operate as Samson Industrial, with Bohardt as president.
Meier Transmission, founded in 1948, distributes electrical and mechanical power transmission, motion control and machine safety products. With the acquisitions of Mon electric and Electric Motor Repair since 2000, Meier added product service capability. Brian McMahon was promoted from sales & marketing director to president of Meier Transmission.
Meier is headquartered at 1845 E. 40th St., Cleveland, OH 44103. Tel: 216 881-0444 or 800 634-3764 Fax 216 881-6093 E-mail: mail@MeierTransmission.com Web: MeierTransmission.com

• Gus Halas was named CEO of T-3 Energy Services Inc. Halas replaces Mike Stansberry, who will remain with T-3 as executive vice president of business development. Halas is a 15-year energy industry veteran who joins T-3 from Lenexa, KS-based Clore Automotive.
Key fastener executives for T-3 are Judy Jandl, who heads Walker Bolt and LSS Lone Star; and Brandon Dawes, who runs A&B Bolt & Supply. Jandl took over Walker Bolt from Calvin Remmert, who moved to another T-3 location as a facilities manager.
T-3 provides oilfield products and services, including fasteners, to the Gulf Coast oil and gas industry, and is headquartered at 13111 NW Fwy. #500, Houston, TX 77040. Tel: 713 996-4110 Fax 713 996-4123 E-mail: info@t3energyservices.com Web: t3energyservices.com

• Wurth Adams Nut & Bolt opened a branch in Sioux Falls, SD. Reggie Christians is branch manager; Shawn Lensing, inside sales; Kevin Schoellerman and Mike Arens, inventory management and order fulfillment.
The branch is located at 47187 Winter Pl., Sioux Falls, SD 57107. Tel: 605 448-2715 Fax 605 543-5054
Wurth Adams was founded in 1979 as Adams Nut & Bolt and was acquired by the Wurth Group of Germany. The distributorship now has nine locations in the Midwest and Texas. Wurth Adams is headquartered at 10100 85th Ave. N, Maple Grove, MN 55369. E-mail: info@adamsnutandbolt.com Web: wurthadams.com \ �2003 FastenerNews.com