Interesting Web Sites
I always like to search the web to see what is new in the fastener cyber-world. And, there always is something new.
ThomasNet.com has always been invaluable to search out fastener companies and they have recently started publishing more news and links to the fastener industry. Click on the following site to check it out.
http://www.thomasnet.com/articles/hardware/fastener-conventions
I also noticed there is a new site specifically designed to assist those people looking for jobs in the fastener industry. You might want to check out:
www.fastenerjobs.com
I would like a little feedback from the field on any other sites that you readers find interesting or helpful. In the past, I have mentioned the sites from Kanbridge and Brighton as one that I hear good things about from distributors. In just the past few weeks both the American Fastener Journal and FIN have mentioned Richard Manno'Co.'s new site. You can now get real time inventory from their site at www.richardmanno.com.
Please feel free to send back to me other sites that you find useful and please tell me why you think the site is unique or worthy of note. It is not that I am against anyone self-promoting on this site but, just because the site is YOUR site does not necessarily make it interesting or unique.
Fire away.
ThomasNet.com has always been invaluable to search out fastener companies and they have recently started publishing more news and links to the fastener industry. Click on the following site to check it out.
http://www.thomasnet.com/articles/hardware/fastener-conventions
I also noticed there is a new site specifically designed to assist those people looking for jobs in the fastener industry. You might want to check out:
www.fastenerjobs.com
I would like a little feedback from the field on any other sites that you readers find interesting or helpful. In the past, I have mentioned the sites from Kanbridge and Brighton as one that I hear good things about from distributors. In just the past few weeks both the American Fastener Journal and FIN have mentioned Richard Manno'Co.'s new site. You can now get real time inventory from their site at www.richardmanno.com.
Please feel free to send back to me other sites that you find useful and please tell me why you think the site is unique or worthy of note. It is not that I am against anyone self-promoting on this site but, just because the site is YOUR site does not necessarily make it interesting or unique.
Fire away.
Thanks for the plug, TS. We've been working hard to generate traffic to the website and the inventory checking feature offers distributors an additional benefit - the cross-referencing we've done throughout the range of linear motion fasteners and related products. We expect to have pricing, along with a completely updated home page, done within the next month or so. Again, many thanks to you for highlighting the positive trends at work in our industry.
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TS,
The fastener sourcing website www.usfastenersources.com continues to grow weekly as companies send in their line cards for FREE and they are posted on the site. The Fastener Tradenames also continues to grow weekly and will surpass its goal of over 2000 names by the end of the month.
Also we are up-dating our list of independent fastener manufacturers REPS for publication in the next issue of the AFJ. So if you are a REP and noted listed from last year or the current American Fastener Buyere's Guide 2009, please send us an email with your up-dated information.
Good luck and continued success... help keep the fastener business in America!
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Hi TS,
As you know I will very soon open a search engine based on web pages like google, specialised for fasteners worldwide. With World Unique feature to sort out the webpages.
It will be very much complementary to a sourcing website like the one of AFJ which is very useful.
The social corporate responsabiliy aspect is very developped and will involve professionnal associations.
Also, on my personnal netvibes page, on one single page, you can get all daily news for fasteners in the US from the specialised magazines like AFJ and even your blog ! for immediate review,
There is one page dedicated to Asia.
Unfortunately for Europe, we are still waiting for daily news from Fastener & Fixing magazine (fastenerfair Europe)
here it is : http://www.netvibes.com/drivalin#Fasteners
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Interesting Web Sites? TS, have you ever been searching for an available or surplus part and find yourself bouncing all over the internet, site to site?
Here’s the "interesting web site" that I've had enormous success with; www.fastenersclearinghouse.com.
These folks seemed to have talked to every fastener guy/gal around and put together a really cool, easy to use, and very effective web site. If you haven't already checked it out, then the next time you look for a part for a customer, "Try it, you'll like it".
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The case of www.fastenersclearinghouse.com is very interesting.
This is one the first successful example in fastener business that is really B2B oriented.
I remember they (probably Brian Musker) told me on Las Vegas show that European market was not ready yet for it.
It starts to face some competition now with websites like www.extrafasteners.com that AFJ introduced in this year March/april issue.
Developping strongly in those days in B2B are websites with quotes.
Specialised in Fastener business, an example is www.fasten.it
Another famous one is www.mfg.com, they are not fastener business oriented but claims to succeed in multi-millions deals in forging, including heading...
Can anyone confirm it ? some readers using it successfully ?
thanks for feedback
Daniel Rivalin
www.ikalia.com
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