9/6/2011 4:56:00 PM
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Unferth & Soja Reach 50 Years in Fastener Industry
Bill Unferth (courtesy Distributors Link)
Joe Soja
Two well-known people in the fastener industry have reached the 50-year milestone and have summarized their careers. Their stories are posted in the Fastener History section of GlobalFastenerNews.com.
Tired of cold Wisconsin winters, 20-year-old Bill Unferth and a friend left his home state in October of 1961 for sunny California and his goal of a sales job.
Four days after arriving he was hired for a hot warehouse job at Cleveland Cap Screw Co., a division of Standard Pressed Steel. He started to work on Friday the 13th at $70 per week with overtime bringing it closer to $100 some weeks.
Unferth’s fastener career subsequently included Russell Bolt, Universal Fasteners, Holo Krome and Bossard. He is currently special projects manager for Lindstrom Metric.
As a college student in 1961 Joe Soja started in Parson’s packing department. He remembers packing metallic blue boxes with an archer logo on the front for Bowman Products.
In 1969 Soja was hired by Durham Mfg. After a year in the factory, he moved into sales and started calling on New England fastener distributors.
“Often times I would get into a territory where I did not have any Yellow Pages so I would go to a phone booth and look up fastener companies,” Soja recalled.
Today Soja manages the New England Fastener Distributors Association. (Photos courtesy Distributors Link Magazine). ©2011 GlobalFastenerNews.com
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