3/1/2011
HEADLINES
SHORTTAKES: AZ Lifting Hardware, Cinco Industries, EFC, Elgin Fastener Group, Lawson Products, Distributors Link, Bruce Darling, P&R Fasteners, Rotor Clip, WAFIOS and Würth USA

AZ Lifting Hardware president Chuck Smith named Cook Industrial Sales as rep for Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.

Cook owner Steve Malone has been a rep since 1987, when his father, Art Malone, acquired the agency from Cook Jordan.

Cook Industrial dates its history back to the founding of railroad and scrap steel supplier Geo. T. Cook Co. in 1910. Cook Industrial eventually was divided from the parent company.

Today the Cook agency reps manufacturers who produce component parts, including fasteners and molded plastics and parts made to print. The agency’s address is P.O. Box 2773, Olathe, KS 66063-0773. Tel: 913 780-5310 E-mail: cookindustrial@comcast.net

AZHL distributes globally-produced industrial lifting hardware including turnbuckles, eyebolts, shackles, hooks and related hardware. AZHL is located at 7150 W. Roosevelt St. Ste C101, Phoenix, AZ 85043. Tel: 888 936-1466 Web: azliftinghardware.com

 

Cinco Industries installed the first Hyo Dong Model HBF-5181 cold header from South Korea imported into the U.S. at Slidematic Precision Components in Rockford, IL.

Cinco president Ray Sullivan noted the 88,000-lbs model has CNC capabilities and 99 jobs can be stored in memory.  It can cut off up to 18mm diameter wire. Web: hyodongmachine.co.kr

Slidematic is a cold heading manufacturer of fasteners from .030 to 1.625 diameters with lengths up to 13″. Slidematic is headquartered at 1303 Samuelson Rd., Rockford, IL 61109. Tel: 815 986-0500 Fax 815 986-0499 Web: slidematic.com

Cinco Industries markets new and used fastener machinery and is located at 14 N 507 Timber Ridge Dr., Elgin, IL 60124. Tel: 847 741-4400 E-mail: rsullivan@cinco-ind.com

 

EFC International named two new sales engineers: Leslie Metzer joins the Bloomingdale, IL, branch and Tom Merrill is based in Dallas.

Metzer will be responsible for application development and account management in the Chicago area. Her previous experience was with Mid-States Bolt & Screw, General Fastener and Oetiker Connecting Technology.

Merrill will cover Texas and Oklahoma He has been an key account manager for Volvo Compressor NA, Behr America and Eaton Corp. He has worked with Dimler/International Truck, Paccar, Caterpillar, Volvo, Lennox, Carrier, GM, Ford and Chrysler.

DFC director of sales Guenter Retkowski cited their sales, product development, automotive and industrial experience as “additions to Team EFC.”

Founded in 1983, EFC International supplies specialty metal, plastic, electrical and assembled component parts to the OEM and distribution markets. EFC has branches in Chicago and Atlanta and is headquartered at 1940 Craigshire, St. Louis, MO 63146-4008. Tel: 314 434-2888 Web: efc-intl.com

 

Elgin Fastener Group named Dale Knotek to its management team.

Knotek has 33 years of fastener experience as an industrial engineer and design consultant in automotive, hardware, construction, military and specialty fastener markets. He has been involved in setting up manufacturing operations in Europe and Asia. Knotek will be based at the EFG headquarters in Indiana.

Elgin Fastener Group also promoted Joe Johannigman to accounting manager and Mike Hughes to operations manager at the Ohio Rod Products division. 

Johannigman has been with Ohio Rod for six years and previously was systems administrator.

Hughes has been sales correspondent, sales supervisor and inside sales manager during his 18 years with Ohio Rod.  His responsibilities will include management of daily plant operations and coordination between various departments.

Elgin Fastener Group has four domestic specialty fastener manufacturers – Ohio Rod Products, Leland Powell Fasteners, Chandler Products, Precision Screw & Bolt; plus Best Metal Finishing and the engineering and international procurement division Elgin Fasteners International. Elgin is headquartered at 1415 S. Benham Rd, Versailles, IN 47042. Tel: 812 689-8917. E-mail: info@elginfasteners.com Web: elginfasteners.com

 

Lawson Products Inc. appointed Bob Border to senior vice president and chief information officer and Lawrence Krema to senior vice president for human resources of its Illinois operating company.

COO Harry Dochelli said Border and Krema have been involved in developing Lawon’s long-term growth strategy.

Border 47, will oversee Lawson’s information technology, including application development, infrastructure, eCommerce and enterprise information management.

Krema, 50, will work with the senior leadership to align human resources with the company strategy.

Founded in 1952, Lawson is an industrial distributor of fasteners and components to the industrial, commercial and institutional MRO market. Lawson also manufactures, sells and distributes production and specialized component parts and provides services and systems to OEMs. Lawson is headquartered at 1666 E. Touhy Ave., Des Plaines, IL 60018. Tel: 866 529-7664 Web: lawsonproducts.com

 

Distributors Link magazine launched a new website which includes a digital edition of its fastener distribution-oriented quarterly magazine, editor/publisher Leo Coar announced.

Beginning with the 186-page winter edition the magazine is now accessible at linkmagazine.com.

Founded in 1977 in New Jersey by Coar – who was then a sales rep – and Maryann Marzocchi of Southern Screw, the quarterly magazine is oriented toward fastener distributors. Link is located at 4297 Corporate Square, Naples, FL 34104. Tel: 239 643-2713 E-mail: leojcoar@linkmagazine.com

 

After one year of semi-retirement of working 32 hours a week, Bruce Darling has returned to his vice president / materials management role at Porteous Fastener Company.

Darling has been with Porteous for 20 years. He started in the fastener industry 43 years ago with Bosco Fastening Service Center in Dallas.

He has made over 35 trips to the Orient, 1,500 visits to more than 400 factories or trading companies in Canada, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and the U.S.

Darling has spoken at more than 30 fastener association meetings and conventions. He was inducted in the NIFS Hall of Fame in 2006.

Founded in 1966, Porteous Fastener Company is an importer/master distributor of construction and industrial fasteners selling only to distributors. Porteous has 17 branches in the U.S. and Canada and is headquartered at 1040 Watson Center Rd., Carson, CA 90745. Tel: 310 549-9180 E-mail: info@porteousfastener.com Web: porteousfastener.com

 

P&R Fasteners is adding 1,400 rooftop solar panels to its 100,000 sq ft New Jersey plant to offset 99% of the building’s annual electrical load.

“We recognize the growing awareness and demand for environmentally proactive practices from our customers, partners and employees and believe this project is representative of P&R’s commitment to meeting them,” controller Douglas Joyce said. “After a comprehensive assessment, we determined a solar PV project would be the best way to further our sustainability objectives.”

The solar system is designed and installed by Solis Partners. The solar panels will generate approximately 295,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and eliminate more than 400,000 pounds of CO2 emissions annually.

The panels are in conjunction with a white “cool” roof

system. The reflective roof enhances energy efficiency of the building envelope plus increases solar production. The solar facility will be completed in March 2011 .

For more than 40 years, P&R Fasteners is a contract manufacturer of specialty metal products for automotive, electronics, power tools and aerospace industries. P&R has facilities in Tennessee, Michigan, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and China and is headquartered at 325 Pierce St., Somerset, NJ 08873. Tel: 7323 302-3600 E-mail: specials@prfasteners.com

Web: prfasteners.com
 

Rotor Clip Company Inc. will be honored as Company of the Year for Franklin Township, New Jersey, at an awards dinner April 1, 2011, with Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.

Founded in 1957 by Robert Slass in a 2,000 sq ft b uilding in Farmingdale, NY, Rotor Clip moved to the Bronx, NY in the early 1960s and then to Somerset,  NJ in 1972. Today Rotor Clip manufactures retaining rings, wave springs and hose clamps at a 238,000 sq ft facility on 30 acres plus has operations in Sheffield, England and sales offices in Germany.

In addition to employing 275 people and manufacturing retaining rings for domestic and export use, Rotor Clip was cited for support of local education, food bank, 4-H and other programs.

Two sons of the founder, Jonathan Slass and Craig Slass, are active in the business today.

Rotor Clip is headquartered at 187 Davidson Ave., Somerset, NJ 08873. Tel: 732 469-7333 Web: rotorclip.com

 

WAFIOS AG named Dr. Christoph Müller-Mederer as sales & marketing director on the company’s board, chairman Thomas Hösle announced.

He studied mechanical engineering, has a doctorate degree and had been with the German machinery and plant engineering company Voith.

Müller-Mederer succeeds Egon Reich, who will continue on the board until 2013.

WAFIOS recently opened a service center in northern Bavaria near the Czech Republic for the German federal states, Czech Republic and Poland. The center provides repairs, parts and training. There are 110 employees and the center is headed by Tobias Kollarik and Thomas Friedrich.

Service Center Ost is located at Flottmannstrasse 24-28, 95615 Marktredwitz, Germany. Tel: (49) 92 31 96 94 11 Fax (49) 92 31 96 94 57

WAFIOS provides precision machinery for wire, tube and formed parts. The company traces its history to 1893 with the production of a chain link fencing machine by Ernst Wagner. In 1909 Hans Ficker became a partner and Wagner & Ficker Maschinenfabrik was relocated to Reutlingern, Germany. In 1914 O. Schmid joined the firm and the name became WAFIOS. 

Today WAFIOS has 70 representatives operating in 100 countries and is headquartered at Silberburgstr. 5, 72764 Reutlilngen, Germany. Tel: (49) 7121 146 309.  Fax (49) 7121 49 1209 E-mail sales@wafios.de Web: wafios.com

  

Würth USA Inc. received ISO 9001-2008 certification, CEO Michael Krause announced.

Founded in 1969, Würth USA supplies fasteners, shop supplies, hand tools, chemicals, and electrical supplies for the automotive, cargo and fleet maintenance industries. Würth USA has 500 employees and is headquartered at 93 Grant St, Ramsey, NJ 07446. Tel: 201 825-2710 E-mail: info@wurthusa.com Web: Wurthusa.com

Würth USA is a part of Künzelsau, Germany-based Würth Group, which includes 400 companies in 84 countries and 62,000 employees. Würth global sales totaled EUR 8.5 billion (US$11.7b) in 2010. Web: Wurth.com ©2011 GlobalFastenerNews.com