SHORT TAKES: Mid-State Nut & Bolt, Northern Precision, PPG Industries, Alltech Engineered Finishes

Jason Sandefur

” Mike Zeleny joined Mid-State Bolt & Nut Co. Inc. as director of purchasing, president Brad Wilson announced. Zeleny has both manufacturing and distribution experience and has held purchasing and operations positions with three companies in Houston: Bray Controls, Distribution Dynamics and Alloy & Stainless Fasteners. E-mail: mzeleny@msbolt.com
Wilson said Zeleny would lead a “more aggressive” strategy in procurement to become “more profitable as a company.”
Frank Miller remains quotations manager at Mid-State. E-mail: fmiller@msbolt.com
Mid-State is a 60-year-old distributor of fasteners and class C items and specializes in VMI. Mid-State is located at 1575 Alumn Creek Dr., Columbus, OH 43209. Tel: 614 253-8631 or 800 282-1801 Fax 614 253-1585 E-mail: dbroehm@msbolt.com Web: msbolt.com

” Northern Precision Ltd. opened a new �500,000 (US$881,390) headquarters on the Durham Lane industrial zone of Doncaster, UK, director Steve Smith announced.
The purpose-designed facility includes administration and sales offices, “flowline” product receipt/quarantine, storage and dispatch area and a product inspection and testing area.
Smith described the new facility as “the springboard for yet more exciting news.”
NP reports its customer base accounts for 44 million fasteners sales of �1.75 million (US$3.1 million) annually. Exports to the U.S., Chile, Portugal, Russia and other countries total 27% of sales.
Northern Precision, founded in 1996 by Arthur Smith and Tony Mortlock, in a house with one bedroom for two desks and another bedroom for stock. NP distributes self-clinching fasteners, rivet bushes, sheet nuts, high-strength and broaching fasteners, weld nuts and studs, cage nuts and blind rivets, special turned and cold-formed components. Northern Precision is located at Unit 3 Durham Lane, Armthorpe, Doncaster DN3 3FE UK. Tel: (44) 1302 836010 Fax (44) 1302 836012 E-mail: sales@npfasteners.com Web: npfasteners.com

” PPG Industries has begun construction of a facility in Taiwan for electrocoating and dip/spin coatings of fasteners and small parts, senior vice president Rich Alexander announced. The plant will operate as Alltech Engineered Finishes when it opens in the second quarter of 2006 in the Hsiao Kang district of Koahsiung.
Alltech will coat parts for construction, industrial, electronics and automotive applications. The plant”s capabilities include processing zinc phosphate conversion coatings and multiple colors of electrocoat.
Viktor Sekmakas is managing director of PPF”s Asian coatings operations and Peter Ho is Taiwan sales director. Tel: (886) 3 3663922.
Pittsburgh-based PPG is a global supplier of coatings, glass, fiberglass and chemicals, with 108 plants and affiliates in 20 countries. Sales were $9.5 billion in 2004. PPG is headquartered at One PPG Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15272. Tel: 800 627-6015. Web: ppg.com \ �2006 FastenerNews.com