SHORTTAKES: Big Red Fasteners, ContMid Group, EFC, MW Industries, New Breed Logistics, OSG-Sterling Die and WCL Co.

12/8/2011
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SHORTTAKES: Big Red Fasteners, ContMid Group, EFC, MW Industries, New Breed Logistics, OSG-Sterling Die and WCL Co.

SHORTTAKES

Marking its 10th anniversary, Oklahoma-based Big Red Fasteners opened a branch in Texas. The branch is located at 805 McKesson Rd., Longview, TX 75604-5614. Tel: 903 295-1110 Fax 903 295-1559

Founded in 2001 by Shawna Clark and Jerry Clark, Big Red is headquartered at 608 N. Walnut Ave., Broken Arrow, OK 74012. Tel: 918 251-7291 E-mail: info@bidredfasteners.com Web: bigredfasteners.com

Sheila Levy joined ContMid Group as account manager for western Michigan, northern Indiana and Ohio, sales manager Bob Kaminski announced.

Levy holds and MBA and has held sales positions in industrial steel treating, travel management and home care companies.

ContMid Group includes Continental/Midland, Jacobson Mfg., MSD Stamping and Minuteman Distribution. Products include bolts/studs, pins, bushings, nuts, shafts, rivets, stampings/door strikers, wheel nuts, and specialty cold formed / machined or stamped steel parts and assemblies.

ContMid is headquartered at 24000 S. Western Ave., Park Forest, IL 60466. Tel: 708 747-1200 Web: contmid.com

EFC International appointed Ira Shushan and Robert Lopez of Specialty Sales as representatives for distributors and OEM customers in California and Nevada, EFC vice president of sales Bill Eagan announced.

Specialty Sales is a manufacturer representative organization for commercial, industrial, electronic and aerospace fastener distributors and manufacturers in California, Arizona, Nevada and the northern Mexico.

Shushan started in the fastener industry in 1964. He was a partner in West Spec Corp. before starting Specialty Sales in 1992. He is based at 2777 Los Pinos Cir, Camarillo, CA 93012. Tel: 805 491-5161 E-mail: ishushan44@gmail.com Web: SpecialtySalesreps.com

Lopez dates his start in the fastener industry to working in a hardware store at age 16. He then worked in the warehouse, purchasing and sales for Production Line Fasteners. In 1995 Lopez started Titan Hardware International. Lopez is based at 9839 Richeon Ave., Downey, CA 90240. Tel: 562 833-6234 E-mail: rlopez@specialtysalesreps.com

Founded in 1983, EFC is a master provider of engineered components, including clamps, rivets, self-retaining nuts, panel fasteners, furniture hardware, shaft retainers, custom plastic components and engineered headed or threaded parts. EFC has facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit and Toronto and is headquartered at 1940 Craigshire, St. Louis, MO 63146-4008. Tel: 314 434-2888 Web: efc-intl.com

MW Industries Inc. is adding 24,000 sq ft to the manufacturing building on its eight-acre site in Houston. The addition will double the floor space and MW will upgrade its equipment.

Founded in 1976, MW Industries manufactures custom fasteners, brackets, metal stampings and washers. MW is located at 2400 Farrell, Houston, TX 77073. Tel: 281 233-0448 E-mail: sales@mwindustries.com Web: mwindustries.com

Boeing selected New Breed Logistics Inc. to provide logistics and supply chain management of commercial aircraft fasteners in support of the Boeing Aggregated Standards Network (BASN) program.

The program includes planning, ordering, storage, and distribution of fasteners for up to 300 Boeing suppliers and 20 Boeing fastener manufacturers.

New Breed will provide forecast aggregation for fasteners, capacity planning, supply base management, transportation management, product storage, and order processing.

New Breed was selected in 2006 as the lead logistics provider for the 787 Dreamliner final assembly and delivery program at Boeing’s manu-facturing campus in Everett, WA.

Founded in 1968 as a trucking company, High Point, NC-basedNew Breed is a privately held third-party logistics services provider that helps companies design, implement and operate efficient supply chains. The company employs more than 7,500 people at 50 distribution centers. Web: newbreed.com

OSG-Sterling Die Inc. moved to a new location: 12502 Plaza Drive, Parma, OH 44130. Tel: 216 267-1300 Web: osg-sterlingdie.com

OSG-Sterling manufactures thread rolling dies including flat, cylindrical and planetary dies.

The company is a merger of the OSG Tap & Die Inc. fastener division and Sterling Die Inc.

The OSG plant in Toyohashi, Japan, produces thread-rolling tools, screw gauges and special gauges.

Sterling Die started supplying thread rolling dies to the Cleveland fastener industry in 1948 and now produces dies for customers in more than 20 countries.

WCL Company Inc. received AS9100:2009 / Rev. C and ISO 9001:2008 certifications.

AS 9100 is the international management system standard for the aircraft, space and defense industry and includes a quality system for providing safe and reliable products to the aerospace industry.

“We have been supplying the fastener industry since 1957 and this takes our company to another level of quality and commitment to serve and satisfy our customer’s requirements,” president Craig Harper said.

WCL supplies fasteners including lock washers, flat and spring washers, threaded fasteners, plastic components and customer specials to industry. WCL is located at 16730 E. Johnson Dr. (P.O. Box 3588), Industry, CA 91744. Tel: 626 968-5523 E-mail: info@wclco.com Web: wclco.com