SHOW NEWS: Chicago Plant Tours Feature Aztech, Eskay & Star Stainless

John Wolz

The 2000 plant tours in conjunction with the Chicago Fastener Forum & Expo will feature Eskay Screw Corporation, Star Stainless Screw and Aztech Locknut Corporation.
The Chicago 9th annual plant tours will be on Monday, September 18, 2000. The 19th annual show will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Rosemont Convention Center near Chicago�s O�Hare International Airport.
Star Stainless was founded in 1946 in New Jersey as a stainless steel polishing company with a sideline business of distributing fasteners. Today Star Stainless has 12 branches in North America and distributes stainless steel, silicon, bronze, brass and metric fasteners. The Chicago branch opened in 1980 and has grown from 25,000 sq ft to 80,000 sq ft.
The Eskay plant in Wood Dale, IL, is a 140,000 sq ft facility opened in 1988. Eskay manufactures standard and special cold headed fasteners and provides JIT delivery, a quality assurance lab, engineering, sorting, packaging and bar coding, Eskay uses statistical process controls and is ISO/QS certified. Eskay maintains 2 million pounds of raw materials and 8 million pounds of fasteners in inventory.
Eskay was founded in 1967 and acquired in 1972 by Masco Corporation. In 1984 Masco created spin-off MascoTech for its metal finished parts businesses.
Aztech Locknut Corporation, founded in 1978, manufactures and imports metal and nylon insert locknuts, free-spinning nuts and internally threaded specials. Aztech designed and manufactured the processing equipment for its 60,000 sq ft Aurora, IL, plant opened in October 1998. The facility was constructed to handle manufacturing, purchasing and warehouse functions.
Aztech recently worked with the University of Illinois to develop its quality system and is a QS 9000 certified manufacturer and importer of metal and nylon insert locknuts, free-spinning nuts and internally threaded specials.
Advance registration is required for the plant tours. For information contact show director Nancy Rich at CBNSA. Tel: 847 438-8338. Fax 847 438-7580. E-mail: cbnsa@aol.com Web: www.cbnsa.org

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