Plating Fasteners: Beauty and Brawn

Plating Fasteners: Beauty and Brawn

Fasteners come in all kinds of alloys, materials, and finishes. In fact, there are a number of ways you can customize your fasteners to create unique characteristics that fit your requirements. One of the most popular and versatile treatments used for fasteners is...
Future Advancements in Fastener Technology

Future Advancements in Fastener Technology

Every industry strives to produce new products using the latest technological advancements to make them better, faster, stronger, smaller, lighter, and more reliable and the fastener industry is no different. What makes the fastener industry unique, though, is how...
What is the Story With US/Metric Units of Measure?

What is the Story With US/Metric Units of Measure?

Today the United States finds itself in a unique position regarding units of measure. A growing number of domestic companies and organizations have embraced the metric system – sort of. In fact, there are only three countries that do NOT use the metric system entirely...
The Importance of Quality Control

The Importance of Quality Control

Quality control is a key consideration for anyone specing and purchasing assembly components because any product or piece of equipment is only as good as the parts going into it. For most businesses this means looking for suppliers with ISO 9000 family of standards...
Choosing the Right Stainless Steel Fasteners

Choosing the Right Stainless Steel Fasteners

Before choosing a particular grade of stainless steel for your fasteners, you should first determine the conditions to which they’ll be exposed. For example, do you need a fastener that will stand up to the corrosive effects of salt air or water? In that case, 316...
Nuts & Bolts: A History

Nuts & Bolts: A History

Nuts and bolts, one of the most basic and foundational sets of fastening products that, quite literally, holds the world together, were the offspring of the original screw thread invented by the ancient Greeks. Historic research has revealed that screws and...