SHORT TAKES: Assembly Products & Sales, Barnes, Brighton-Best, Distribution Dynamics, Greenslade, Hayes Bolt & Supply, North East Fasteners and Specialty Screw Corp.

Jason Sandefur

� Mary Chambers of Isodyne Sales and Doug Rolston of T.J. Teegarden/FLB Industries merged their rep agencies into a new partnership, Assembly Products & Sales.
Chambers has been in the fastener industry since 1972 and opened Isodyne in 1993. Rolston started in fasteners in 1977 and acquired Teegarden in 1995. Chambers has been president and Rolston was chair of the Southwestern Fastener Association. They were SFA board members at the same time.
�We have known each other for many years,� Rolston pointed out. �We know it is a god fit.�
�And our experience allows us to be up and running from the start of our new venture,� Chambers added.
Mike Best continues from Isodyne as outside sales and Adriana Jimenez manages the warehouse.
Assembly Products is located at 3426 Dalworth, Arlington, TX 76011. Tel: 817 633-2212 Fax 817 633-7747 E-mail: info@assemblyproducts.biz Web: assemblyproducts.biz

� Barnes Distribution named Cynthia Ramirez as director of corporate accounts. Ramirez joined Barnes Distribution in 2000 and was promoted to senior corporate account manager in 2002.
A Barnes Group Inc. company, Barnes Distribution supplies MRO products, including fasteners, to the industrial, heavy equipment and transportation markets. Barnes Group is headquartered at 123 Main St., Bristol, CT 06011. Tel: 860 583-7070 Fax 860 589-3507 E-mail: info@barnesgroupinc.com Web: barnesgroupinc.com

� Brighton-Best completed its upgrade to ISO 9001:2000, COO Steve Gruenhut announced.
Brighton-Best supplies socket and hex cap products in inch and metric sizes and is headquartered at 1665 Heraeus Blvd., Buford, GA 30518-3383. Tel: 678 288-1000 Fax 678 288-1019 E-mail: info@brightonbest.com Web: brightonbest.com

� Distribution Dynamics Inc. appointed Dominic Polimeni president and CEO. Previously Polimeni was chairman and CEO of Questron Technology Inc.
Polimeni also was the CFO for Arrow Electronics and a partner in the New York office of Arthur Young & Co. (now Ernst & Young). He is a member of the Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. board of directors.
Both Questron and DDI acquired fastener distributorships in the late 1990s. Publicly held Questron went into bankruptcy and was acquired by the GE Supply division of General Electric in 2002.
�I am proud to be presented with the opportunity to lead DDI and look forward to bringing the business and its associates to clear and increasing opportunity,� Polimeni said. �I firmly believe that DDI is ripe with the ingredients for success, with its loyal long-standing customers, superior suppliers, supportive investors, and, most of all, its dedicated and talented team of associates.�
DDI is a value-added distributor of fasteners, hardware and related products specializing in inventory logistics management for OEMs, and is headquartered at 6450 Carlson Dr., Eden Prairie, MN 55346. Tel: 952 974-7290 Fax 952 974-1771 E-mail: info@distributiondynamics.com Web: distributiondynamics.com

� Greenslade & Company Inc. launched its new Windows-based inspection software called N-spekt to facilitate incoming and final inspection operations. The program reportedly makes inspections three times faster than recording data by hand. N-spekt feeds digital gage input into an inspection report, and allows attribute data to be entered through a keyboard. The software calculates highest and lowest values, mean and standard deviation for each characteristic, and indicates nonconforming measurements.
A fee demo can be downloaded from n-spekt.com.
For more information contact Greenslade and Co., 2234 Wenneca Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76102. Tel: 800 435-2657 Fax 817 870-9199 E-mail: greensladeandcompany@sbcglobal.net Web: greensladeandcompany.com

� Hayes Bolt & Supply completed its upgrade to ISO 9001:2000, president Suzanne Dukes announced.
Hayes Bolt is a fastener distributor located at 2950 National Ave., San Diego, CA 92113. Tel: 619 231-5966 Fax 619 231-7528 E-mail: sales@hayesbolt.com Web: hayesbolt.com

� North East Fasteners named Nehal Trivedi as IT manager. Trivedi will implement NEF�s new computer systems using Microsoft .Net framework.
President Eric Webster also announced that NEF�s sister company, Wili Metal Products, has purchased a 10,000 sq ft facility adjacent to its current location in order to add larger machines for increased capacity. Web: wilimetals.com
NEF manufactures small and miniature screws and is headquartered at 8 Tremco Drive, P.O. Box 322, Terryville, CT 06786-0322. Tel: 860 589-3242 Fax 860 589-6969 E-mail: nef@nef1.com Web: nef1.com

� Specialty Screw Corp. is celebrating its 50th anniversary with events planned for Nov. 10-15, 2003, announced president Russell Johansson. Johansson and his father, Arvid Johnson, bought the Rockford, IL-based fastener manufacturer in 1973.
Specialty Screw was founded by Harold Dahlberg, Willard Wise, Arthur Novak and Wallace Carpenter on November 13, 1953. Originally located on 19th Street, the company moved to the current 80,000 sq ft manufacturing facility at 2801 Huffman Blvd. in 1979.
Adopting the slogan, �Manufacturing Can Make It In Rockford,� Johansson said he is proud of Specialty Screw�s long tradition in Rockford.
Specialty Screw manufactures cold formed fasteners for various markets, including automotive, electrical and hardware, and is headquartered at 2801 Huffman Blvd., P.O. Box 5003 Rockford, IL 61125. Tel: 815 969-4100 Fax 815 964-2300 E-mail: sales@specialtyscrew.com Web: specialtyscrew.com �2003 FastenerNews.com