6/30/2009
HEADLINES
SHORTTAKES: Active Screw, Advance Components, Atlantic Fasteners, J.W. Winco, Rotor Clip, Sherex and Trifast

Active Screw & Fastener will launch a new customer Internet portal. “Active Access” outlines parts and specs supplied to customers; provides photos and prints of each inventoried item; the Last Twelve Months usage report; and searching by commodities, size, thread style, thread pitch, drive, and other specifications.

Active Access was developed to serve multinational and multidivisional company customers.

Active Access is the first of several new services set to launch over the next six-months.
Active Screw & Fastener provides sourcing and inventory management for manufacturing components and suppliers. Active is headquartered at 5215 Old Orchard Rd. #700, Skokie, IL 60077. Tel: 847 967-0800 Web: activescrew.com

Advance Components announced its Women’s Business Enterprise certification by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. The certification as a women-owned business meets customers’ supplier diversity initiatives requiring that a percentage of procurement dollars be spent with minority-owned businesses.

“This certification will help many of our customers get contracts that are reserved for minority businesses,” Advance president Suzanne Cravens explained.

Advance Components is a master stocking distributor of products from Tinnerman, AVK, Heyco and other fastener lines. Advance is located at 2920 Commodore Dr. #100, Carrolton TX 75007. Tel: 972 446-5500 E-mail: info@advancecomponents.com Web: advancecomponents.com

Atlantic Fasteners is expanding with its inventory management service. Atlantic started managing fastener inventories through computerized bar coding in 1993 and customers asked for Atlantic to expand to non-fastener supplies, which spawned Atlantic Inventory Management Service in 1994.

During the current recession customers have made staffing cuts and as order increase there are fewer employees to keep inventory levels steady, order supplies and pay invoices, president Tony Peterson explained.

Atlantic’s inventory management is designed to handle repetitively ordered, low value items such as industrial, office, medical, and safety supplies. Atlantic handles all the tasks involved in maintaining inventories, such as checking stock, reordering, put away, error resolution and paying vendor invoices.

“This frees up important resources for our customers,” said Peterson. “For one customer last year, Atlantic paid 628 vendor invoices, while the customer paid only 12 invoices to Atlantic.”

Founded in 1981, employee-owned Atlantic Fasteners is a global ISO 9001:2000 certified supplier of 16,795 commercial and aerospace/mil-spec fasteners, plus tools, lubricants, adhesives, paint, power transmission, bins and cabinets. Atlantic is headquartered at 49 Heywood Ave. (P.O. Box 1168), West Springfield, MA 01090-1168. Tel: 413 785-1687 Web: atlanticfasteners.com

J.W. Winco Inc. published an updated Standard Machine Components Engineering Manual and catalog. The 1,000-page, full color catalog includes additional engineering and design information for inch and metric products and RoHS information. The catalog includes core products of plus new additions.

J.W. Winco is a wholesale distributor and manufacturer of fasteners, machine parts and assembly components under exclusive agreements with German and Italian components producers, as well as product distribution rights with U.S. and Japanese manufacturers. Winco is headquartered at 2815 S. Calhoun Rd., New Berlin, WI 53151 (P.O. Box 510035). Tel: 262 786-8227 E-mail: sales@jwwincom.com

Rotor Clip Company Inc. is using its experience in processing and coiling wire to manufacture single-turn and multi-turn wave springs.

A wave spring is coiled flat wire with waves added to give it a spring effect for certain applications. Wave springs can act as load bearing devices – compensating for accumulated tolerances in assemblies and providing end-play take-up. Wave springs exert a preload on assemblies made to the low side of the tolerances “snugging” everything up.

Rotor Clip manufactures retaining rings, snap rings, spiral retaining rings, wave springs and hose clamps. The company is headquartered at 187 Davidson Ave., Somerset, NJ 08873. Tel: 732 469-7333 E-mail: sales@rotorclip.com Web: rotorclip.com

Sherex Fastening Solutions published its 2009 Rivet Nut Catalog in print and online at sherex.com.

Founded in 1979 Sherex manufactures and distributes blind rivet nuts, brass inserts, installation tools and specialty fasteners and is headquartered at 400 Riverwalk Pkwy #600, Tonawanda, NY 14150. Tel: 866 474-3739 E-mail: info@sherex.com

Trifast plc appointed Thomas Tan as managing director for TR Asia Investment Holdings PTE Ltd.

Thomas, 55, was one of the founders of Formac Technologies PTE. He previously was managing director of TR Formac and involved in setting up TR Shanghai.

TR Fastenings CEO Jim Barker said Tan’s “expertise in the fastener industry will help the business through the next stage of its development.”

Founded in 1973, Trifast manufactures and distributes industrial fasteners and components. Trifast 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 ©2009 GlobalFastenerNews.com