3/13/2010

Ray Zirkle and Doug Zirkle will represent the National Industrial Fastener Show/West worldwide selling booth space in the machinery, tooling and mill supply section of the traditionally distribution-oriented trade show.

The International Fastener Machinery & Suppliers Association chose to work with NIFS for 2011 instead of co-locating its International Fastener & Precision Formed Parts Manufacturing Exposition (IFE) trade show with Interwire in Atlanta.

IFE was co-located with Interwire in Cleveland in 2009 where the number of exhibiting companies dropped to 57 from 100 in 2007.

In Las Vegas the machinery section is part of NIFS/West. The IFE name goes in “hiatus” for 2011.

NIFS management had termed the booth sales arrangement as a “merger,” but there is no ownership change for either NIFS or IFE.

The next NIFS/West is November 8-10, 2010 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. For 2011 NIFS/West will move to the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas for an October 19-21 trade show.

This year IFMSA is meeting in conjunction with the Wire 2010/International Wire & Cable Trade Fair April 12-16 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Fastener Tech – scheduled June 13-15, 2011, in Chicago – also markets a machinery portion of its trade show.

For IFMSA information contact Zirkle.
Tel: 203 794-0444 or 800 688-1698 E-mail: rzirkle@bzsales.com

For NIFS information contact show manager Susan Hurley. Tel: 614 895-1279 E-mail: info@fastenershows.com ©2010 GlobalFastenerNews.com

Related Links:

• International Fastener Machinery & Suppliers Association

• NIFS/West