6/30/2009
HEADLINES
SHOW NEWS: NIFS/West, Fastener Fair Stuttgart, New England Fastener Distributors Association

NIFS/West Announces Seminars for 2009

Show management announced a factory tour and print reading, application engineering and finance seminars for the 2009 National Industrial Fastener Show/West.

The 13th annual West show is scheduled for November 16-18, 2009, at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Vegas Fastener Manufacturing is offering a tour on Monday.

Monday conferences are an all-day seminar on Fastener Quality Assurance: Print Reading & Inspection, by the Fastener Training Institute; Application Engineering Workshop, by Jim Speck, P.E., Johnson Gage Co.; and Finance, Credit Managers & Controllers Meeting, Finance Industry Group Network and the Wisconsin office of the Business Credit Management Association.

The ASTM subcommittee F16.96 on bolting technology will meet on Tuesday.

Show management also announced a video showcase as an additional advertising outlet for exhibitors. One-minute company overviews and product presentations will be displayed on registration area and exhibit hall monitors.

As of June 15, show management reported 582 booths had been sold to 455 companies.
The record number of NIFS/West booths was 829 in 2007.

For information contact show manager Susan Hurley. Tel: 614 895-1279 E-mail: info@fastenershows.com Web: fastenershows.com

Despite Recession, Fastener Fair Stuttgart Setting Records

Fastener Fair Stuttgart has reached a record 560 exhibiting companies for the 2009 trade show, which is 125 more than the biennial show had in 2007.

The third Fastener Fair Stuttgart will be October 7-8, 2009, at the new Messe Stuttgart, adjacent to the international airport in Germany’s industrial heartland.

“We’ve attracted record numbers of exhibitors and we’re now on track to achieve record visitor levels too,” organizer Jerry Ramsdale announced.

He predicted more than 600 companies from 37 countries will exhibit.

“Now our task is to make sure that as many qualified visitors as possible attend the exhibition,” Ramsdale noted. FFS is offering a drawing for a trip to Las Vegas.

Goebel GmbH and the U.S.-based National Industrial Fastener Shows are sponsoring a prize of round trip flight for two people, four nights in a Mandalay Bay Hotel suite and entry in the November 16-18, 2009, NIFS/West trade show.

Visitors pre-registering online at fastenerfair.com also can nominate a colleague as a potential visitor and be in a drawing for an 8GB Apple iPod Nano.

Ramsdale said early indications from online registrations are that “visitors will be attending in record numbers too.”

For information contact Fastener Fair, 18 Alban Park, Hatfield Rd., St.Albans, Hertfordshire AL4 0JJ UK. Tel: (44) 1727 739 150 E-mail: jerry@fastfair.net

New England Show Registration Opens

Table space and early bird registration for the New England Fastener Distributors Association’s second table top trade show is now available online at nefda.com.

NEFDA’s 2009 tabletop show will be September 24 at Sturbridge Host Hotel in Sturbridge, MA. Exhibits will be from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Tables are $300 for NEFDA and Metropolitan Fastener Distributor Association members and $400 for non-members. The early bird cost for distributors attending the show is $25. The prices include a networking dinner.

There will be half-hour technical seminars presented by individual companies. Sessions already scheduled are “Pins, What You Need to Know,” by Fastar Inc.; “Cold Heading,” Crescent Manufacturing; “Blind Rivets & Related Items,” Rivet & Eyelet; “Metrics Made Simple,” Bossard Metrics Inc.; and Nylon Inserts & Locknuts,” Continental-Aero. ©2009 GlobalFastenerNews.com