SHORT TAKES: AZ Lifting, Bolt Supply House, Emhart, Fastener Consulting, John Hassall, Hill Fastener, Ohio Rod, Powers Fasteners, Rivet & Eyelet Tech., Siena, SPS, Trifast

John Wolz

” AZ Lifting Hardware LLC named Rick Dexter and Doug Brown of Dexter & Associates as reps for Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and southeastern Michigan.
Dexter and Brown have nearly 25 years of experience. Dexter is based at 10101 Brookefield Dr., Concord, OH 44060. Tel: 440 357-5599 E-mail: dexterandassoc@hotmail.com Brown is at 150 S. Harrison St., Enon, OH 45323 Tel: 937 864-5746 Fax 614 864-5746
Founded in 2006, AZLH supplies eye bolts, turnbuckles, shackles, hooks, rope and chain hardware to distributors and is located at 7150 W. Roosevelt St. B139, Phoenix, AZ 85043 Tel: 888 936-1466 Fax 623 936-8909 E-mail: sales@azliftinghardware.com Web: azliftinghardware.com

” Bolt Supply House president John McCann announced Kurt Mario is the new senior vice president for corporation and five vice presidents, Doug Drury, finance; John Reeder, merchandizing; John Sauer, operations; Roger Poirier, sales & customer support; and Greg Pek, corporate relations.
Bolt Supply House is a 60-year-old master distributor with 13 Canadian branches. Bolt Supply is headquartered at 2451 Dieppe Ave. SW B-1#138, Calgary, AB T3E 7K1 Canada. Tel: 403 245-2818 or 888 795-1687 Fax 403 228-6193 E-mail: johnm@boltsupply.com Web: boltsupply.com

” Jim Doran is returning to Emhart Teknologies as national retail sales manager for Emhart”s automotive aftermarket and Catalog House business, sales director Cindy Canu announced.
Doran was with Emhart for 16 years before joining Alcoa. He also was with W�rth Service Supply. Doran was president of the Southeastern Fastener Association in 2004.
Doran will work with aftermarket marketing manager Russ Brown to develop and implement programs to increase sales and market share for Emhart”s Heli-Coil thread repair and insert products and Pop rivets and rivet tools.
Emhart is a Black & Decker company with 3,000 employees at 24 operating facilities worldwide. Emhart is headquartered at 50 Shelton Technology Center, P.O. Box 859, Shelton, CT 06484. Tel: 203 924-9341 Fax 203 925-3109 E-mail: Emhart.teknologies@bdk.com Web: Emhart.com

” Fastener Consulting Services Inc. is expanding quality assurance services for Asian products, president John Grey announced. Services include purchase specification reviews, dispute resolution, manufacturing and quality assessments, corrective action planning and implementation, lab testing and dimensional verifications.
Grey said the services are a “direct response to the IFI/NFDA Fastener Industry Educational Group” efforts to assure the quality of fasteners in the marketplace. Fastener Consulting has 20 years experience working with companies from Japan, Taiwan and China and has had representation in Shanghai for five years.
Fastener Consulting is located at 291 Butternut Lane, Cleveland, OH 44017. Tel: 440 243-8549 Fax 440 243-4984 E-mail: jgrey@fastenerconsulting.com Web: fastenerconsulting.com

” John Hassall Inc. received a license to manufacture aerospace fasteners utilizing the Phillips Mortorq drive system patented by the Phillips Screw Co. The Mortorq drive system utilizes a shallow head driver to deliver torque transfer. “Adding the Mortorq drive system to our product mix should be highly synergistic as it complements our aerospace specialty fastener manufacturing capabilities,” stated COO Bill Boak.
John Hassall manufactures specialty components, pins, rivets and threaded fasteners for aerospace, commercial/industrial and consumer applications. John Hassall also sources fasteners through partnerships in Asia and Mexico and is headquartered at 609-1 Cantiague Rock Rd., Westbury, Long Island, NY 11590. Tel: 516 334-6200 Fax 516 222-1911 Web: hassall.com.

” Hill Fastener Corporation named three sales representative agencies: Nordstrom & Associates will rep Hill in New England; Bob Bunce Associates in California, Nevada and Arizona; and HSA Manufacturing Solutions in Indiana and Kentucky.
Founded in 1977, Nordstrom is headed by Mike Rothermel. Allen MacPherson and Ron MacPherson are sales reps. Nordstrom is located at 60 Panthorn Trail, Southington, CT 06489. Tel: 860 620-9122 Cell 860 919-3872 Fax 860 620-9029 E-mail: slickroth@aol.com Web: nordstromassociates.com
Bunce has 30 years of fastener rep agency experience. The account will be handled by Bunce partner Forest Cornell, who has been a rep for five years and in the fastener industry for 30 years. Bunce is located at 364 Vista Del Norte, Walnut, CA 01789. Tel: 909 957-1679 Fax 909 839-2824 E-mail: Fcornell@aol.com
HSA was founded in 1973 and still reps four of its original principals. Tim Swinney and Jeff Roberts are the outside sales reps. HSA sells mechanical, cold wire, stamped and cold formed parts and raw materials. It is located at 597 Industrial Dr. #206, Carmel, IN 46032. Tel: 317 846-4562 Fax 317 846-6557 E-mail: tswinney@hsamanufacturingsolutions.com Web: hsamanufacturingsolutions.com
Hill Fastener manufactures special fasteners to customer prints. Founded in 1957 as a manufacturer of special screws for the builders hardware industry and located at 1602 McNeil Rd., P.O. Box 399, Rock Falls, IL 61071-0399. Tel: 815 625-6600 or 800 435-2955 Fax 815 625-2407 E-mail: sales@hillfastener.com Web: hillfastener.com

” Ohio Rod Products launched an updated website at ohiorod.com. The updated website includes RFQs and the ability to order fasteners and expedite orders online. Other features include product information, engineering data, resource links, literature requests and contact information. A section titled “Got a Fastener Problem?” allows users to submit requests for help.
Part of the Elgin Fastener Group, Ohio Rod manufactures cold-headed and threaded long-length specialty fasteners for a variety of durable goods and consumer product industries. Ohio Rod”s address is P.O. Box 416 (or 1415 S. Benham Rd.) Versailles, IN 47042. Tel: 812 689-6565 Fax 812 689-6635 E-mail: ohiorod@eni.com

” Powers Fasteners Inc. announced three additions to its engineering sales staff: Kent Carlson and Annemarie Fleming as field technical service managers for the Western and Eastern regions respectively, and Bob Sinclair as field engineer for the Northwest region.
Len Colasuonno, vice president of sales & marketing, said they will focus on informing the engineering community of recent code changes.
Carlson, a professional engineer, joined Powers after six years as director of engineering for Shearmax Corporation. His 25 years of construction engineering experience also include his own structural engineering consulting firm and a partner in a materials testing laboratory.
Fleming was an account executive for Global Spec, an engineering marketing service firm. She has 20 years of experience in business development and sales.
Sinclair, a professional engineer, has 28 years federal government engineering experience. He subsequently was a technical service rep for ITW Ramset/Redhead for six years.
Powers Fasteners supplies mechanical and adhesive anchors, roofing fasteners, gas-technology tools and powder-actuated fastening systems for the construction and plant maintenance markets. Powers has manufacturing facilities in Michigan, 27 U.S. warehouses, four international locations and is headquartered at 2 Powers Lane, Brewster, NY 10509. Tel: 914 235-6300 Fax 914 576-6483 E-mail: info@powers.com or engineering@powers.com Web: Powers.com

” John Fisher is the new manufacturers rep for Rivet & Eyelet Technologies LLC for Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, national account manager Maria Garcia announced.
Fisher started in the fastener industry in 1991 with Iowa Industrial Products and also was with Des Moines Bolt before opening his rep agency, Siena Fastener Inc. a year ago. Fisher is located at 11305 Meredith Drive, Des Moines, IA 50322, Tel: 515 240-2293 Fax 612 395-9155 E-mail: JohnTFisher@sienafastener.com
Rivet & Eyelet launched lines of heavy-duty series structural aluminum and steel rivets, CEO Patrick Brooks announced.
Rivet & Eyelet manufactures blind rivets, eyelet products, setting tools and semitubular/solid rivets and is located at 1215 Main St. #110, Tewksbury, MA 01876. Tel: 978 851-2700 or 800 853-7011 Fax 978 851-4488
E-mail: maria.garcia@riveteyelet.com Web: riveteyelet.com

” The Aerospace Fastener Group of SPS Technologies published a guide to SPS inserts and studs, engineering manager Rich Yarnall announced. The guide is for engineers and designers with the applications and features, as well as the various types and styles of threaded inserts and studs, including solid wall staked inserts, staked studs, swaged inserts, floating inserts and ringlock studs, inserts and rings.
SPS Technologies supplies high-strength fasteners for commercial and military aircraft, jet engines, high-performance automobiles and other applications requiring reliability and consistent quality. The SPS Aerospace Group is located at 2701 Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, CA 92702-1257. Tel: 714 850-9311 Fax 714 850-3605 E-mail: ryarnall@spstech.com Web: spstech.com/aero.

” Trifast PLC named Bill Currie Neil Wilson as a non-executive director to succeed Andrew Cripps.
Wilson has been CEO of the engineering and distribution group WYKO Group Ltd. since 2003. WYKO operates from over 200 business units with annual sales of around �240 million (US$473.6million) in the UK, U.S., Europe, China and Japan. Wilson previously held senior management positions within global fastener distributor W�rth Group of Germany.
Trifast CEO Steve Auld promoted general manager Dr. Mike Teng to managing director of TR Asia. Teng succeeds Steven Tan. Tan retired as a company executive director and managing director of TR Asia.
Trifast manufactures and distributes industrial fasteners and components with sales of �131.95 million (US$260.5million). Trifast has locations in Europe, the Americas and Asia and is headquartered at: Trifast House, Bellbrook Park, Uckfield, E. Sussex TN22 1QW UK. Tel: (44) 800 731-5553 Fax (44) 800 525230 E-mail: info@trfastenings.com Web: trfastenings.com