Michelle Froese

  Western Wire, which provides a diverse product line of industrial wire products and fasteners, offers an online visual index of its components. From cotter pins to hitch pin clips, spring pins, s-hooks, d-rings, key rings, and clips, the company has various sizes, shapes, materials, and finishes, depending on your application. Products are shipped from a 132,000+ square-foot facility in Fenton,…

Typically, military standards are more demanding than standards intended for civilian applications. The same can be said for adhesives that meet these standard. To this end, MIL-STD adhesives offer higher performance, particularly in demanding environments such as in extreme temperatures or corrosive environments. However, it’s first important to ensure a product meets the requirements of…

Kennametal Inc. announced a partnership with TITANS of CNC for its Aerospace Academy, an online education platform designed to teach programmers and machinists next-generation aerospace machining and manufacturing. Powered by Kennametal’s high-performance tooling solutions, the TITANS of CNC Aerospace Academy offers free courses to machinists to teach them about the materials, tooling, and techniques used in advanced…

Fastenal Company recently announced a multi-year, global partership with the National Hockey League (NHL). Fastenal, the largest fastener distributor in North America, will be the official Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) partner of the NHL through the 2023-24 season. This partnership is focused on creating an efficient and reliable MRO supply chain for ice rinks…

Months before the pandemic hit, Ken DeCrane felt it was time to digitalize a few of the services offered at Perlane Sales Inc., a distributor and engineered partner of fasteners and tools. “The challenge in business is to continually be forward-thinking and to avoid complacency,” he says. DeCrane is the company president and he’s been…

Lawson Products, Inc., a distributor of fasteners, tools, material handling products, services, and more to the MRO marketplace, recently announced the acquisition of Partsmaster. Partsmaster, established in 1968, is a nation-wide industrial products supplier that specializes in tools, chemicals, welding, cutting tools, and more. The company also offers maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) solutions, with…

For over 40 years, JW Winco has had the standard for all adjustable levers in its selection. Now, the parts specialist is offering even more versatile models. Adjustable levers are among the most important standard parts for clamping and fixing in place. They are found in several different applications. Here are JW Winco’s latest additions:…

ND Industries‘ line of Thermoloc­ pre-applied processes were developed as chemical alternatives to all metal locking features. ND is a developer and manufacturer of pre-applied fastener thread locking, sealing, masking, and assembly products since 1955. When compared, Thermoloc processed parts are more economical in terms of costs and weight. They prevent loosening due to the…

Magnum Venus Products (MVP), a global manufacturer of production solutions for industrial applications, is launching a new process for closed molding to increase part production by decreasing injection times. The new technique, aptly named Fast Flow LRTM, is a blend of MVP’s Flex Molding Process and Light Resin Transfer Molding (LRTM) and uses collapsible resin channels…

Drilling flat-bottom holes is a challenge. So is drilling on inclined or curved surfaces, or drilling into cross holes, stacked plates, castings, and other rough surfaces. Not anymore. Leveraging the success of its KenTIP FS modular drill, Kennametal has developed a unique insert geometry (FEG) that streamlines many of these types of applications and simplifies…