Brudner Polymer Corp. was formed to supply adhesives and sealants.

Huron Capital co-founded Brudner with David Brunori to build a platform company in the adhesives and sealants industry.

“We are excited to partner with David Brunori, an experienced operator,” Huron senior partner Mike Beauregard said. “This is Huron Capital’s 15th ExecFactor platform and the fourth in the specialty chemicals space after Quest Specialty Chemicals, Optimum Plastics and Valentus Specialty Chemicals.”

Brunori said he has “known the Huron Capital team for over 10 years, having run the largest division of Quest Specialty Chemicals, and I have seen first-hand the support they provide to their ExecFactor CEOs.

The Brudner initiative is targeting adhesive/sealant companies in construction/infrastructure, transportation and OEM/assembly.

Brunori has 30 years experience in the specialty chemical industry, including being a chemist at Lilly Industries and PPG Industries and as president of Quest Automotive Products from 2006-2015, which provides paint and coatings systems to the automotive refinish market.

Detroit based, Huron Capital is a private equity firm founded in 1999. Huron Capital has raised over $1.7 billion in capital through six committed private equity funds and invested in over 140 companies. Web: HuronCapital.com

 

Fastening Products of Lancaster expanded to a 25,000 sq ft building and 17 employees.

Fastening Products is a family-owned fastener and hardware supplier. 

Founded in 1971 by engineer Robert Welk, the company expanded into a fastener distributorship in 1974 as Fastening Products. Today Randy Welk is VP and operates the screw machine shop, which was started in 1983. Curt Welk operates the distributorship.

Fastening Products of Lancaster is located at 1980 Old Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster PA 17602. Tel: 717 299-5771 Email: sales@FasteningProducts.net Web: FasteningProducts.net


Joachim Linders has joined General Inspection to handle fastener, automotive and aerospace representation as Gi European sales agent. He has commercial experience in different European countries.

He is the son of Phillippe Linders, who has worked with General Inspection for a quarter century. Gi originally selected Phillippe for his knowledge of the fastener industry and fluency in five languages.

Phillippe said he hopes “to continue this fantastic work for a number of years to come.”

Phillippe recalled representing American companies in Europe and organizing trade missions for small and mid-size New England companies. He joined an American company that belonged to the Federal Mogul Group, and they created three factories for automotive and aerospace fasteners in Europe. After 14 years he went independent and started representing General Inspection and three other American companies.

“The need of the market for inspection machines in Europe in the 90s was great and I soon decided to drop the representation of the other companies and solely worked for General Inspection,” he explained.

“With constant innovation and a fantastic team of colleagues and engineers behind me it is a pleasure to promote the Gi technology in Europe, Africa, Middle East and where ever needed,” Spain-based Linders said. “While we concentrated solely our efforts in the 90s to the automotive fastener manufacturers, we have expanded heavily into ammunition, pharmaceutical and aerospace markets.”

General Inspection started manufacturing 100% sorting machines for fasteners in 1991. In 2003, Gi overhauled machines and introduced six new gauging, sorting and inspection systems. The company is headquartered at 10585 Enterprise Dr., Davisburg, MI 48350. Tel: 888 979-3804 Web: GeneralInspection.com

 

G.L. Huyett expanded its key account management team by appointing Andy Childress key account manager operating for the Nashville area.

Childress’s 20 years in the fastener industry includes roles as regional account manager for Advance Components and inside sale rep for Bolts & Nuts Inc.

Huyett sales VP Dan Harriger said Childress “brings us additional intellectual horsepower to support our distribution customers, and he has a unique geographic location that is central to a large portion of our customer base and can provide in-field support alongside our field sales team.” He is “mechanically inclined and is committed to relationship building.”

Harriger cited Huyett’s “significant technical and engineering support tools,” as well as e-commerce functions to support sales and product information services.

CEO Tim O’Keeffe said Huyett has “worked hard to create an organizational culture aligned to excellence and professional development. I am pleased to see our hard work validated through Andy’s addition to our sales team.”

To contact Andy Childress: Tel: 785 392-1157 E-mail: achildress@huyett.com

Established in 1906 by Guy Huyett, G.L. Huyett is one of the oldest continuously operating businesses in Kansas. The company is a manufacturer, master distributor and importer of non-threaded fasteners supplying industrial distributors, and is located at 1215 E. 8th, Minneapolis, KS 67467. Tel: 785 392-3017 Web: huyett.com

 

Modern Plating Corp. recently broke ground on a new $6 million addition to the company’s facility in Freeport, IL, WIFR reports.

The 26,000 sq ft space will house a plating line, creating 12 jobs for the company.

Founded in 1936, Modern Plating specializes in electroplating for the transportation and other industries, and is headquartered at 701 S. Hancock, Freeport, IL 60132-0838. Tel: 815 235-3111 Web: modernplating.com

Value Fastener LLC launched an e-commerce website designed to “allow users from hobbyists to purchasing managers in need of quick parts for a production line to quickly and easily locate the parts and products they need.”

ValueFastener.com shows all 32,000 stocked products “in real time” for same-day shipping on most orders.

Value Fastener, owned by Greg Weitzman and Allan Weitzman, specializes in anchors, bolts, screws and various commercial and military-grade fasteners. Value Fastener has shipping branches in New Jersey, Illinois and California, and is headquartered at 4382 Strathdale Ct., West Bloomfield, MI 48323. Tel: 248 308-5372

 

Formed metal parts manufacturer Vogelsang Fastener Solutions has partnered with Advance Components to be a master stocking distributor for Vogelsang’s coiled spring pins and slotted and coiled Rollpins. Dallas-based Advance will stock VFS tension pins for the U.S., Canada and Mexico distributors.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Advance Components and having them be our master-stocking distributor,’’ VFS business development manager Nick Penney said. “Our current and new customers will benefit greatly from Advance’s application support team, state-of-the-art warehouse and custom shipping and packaging solutions.’’ 

VFS is a German-owned U.S. and European manufacturer with plants in New Jersey, Germany, Czech Republic and France. The U.S. operations began in 1972 at Viking Tension Products and is now located at 1780 Swarthmore Ave., Lakewood, NJ 08701. Tel: 732 364-4422 Email: sales@VogelsongFastener.com Web: VogelsangFastener.com

Advance Components is an ISO 9001:2008 certified master-stocking distributor located at 2920 Commodore Dr. #100, Carrollton, TX 75007. Tel: 972 446-5500 Web: AdvanceComponents.com

 

Wrought Washer hired Paul Seggelink as quality manager.

“Reputation for quality is a source of great pride within our organization,” said president Jeff Liter. “We are confident Paul is the right person to assure we continue to lead the industry in this area.”

Seggelink has more than 15 years of quality management experience implementing quality standards through lean manufacturing and six sigma initiatives. 

“We plan to continually improve the quality metrics, safety goals and lean manufacturing principles to further drive high quality productivity,” Seggelink added.

Founded in 1887, Wrought Washer operates 225,000 sq ft of manufacturing and regional stocking warehouses.  Wrought Washer is headquartered at 2100 S. Bay St., Milwaukee, WI 53207. Tel: 414 486-3827 Web: WroughtWasher.com