Magazines
Excellent articles, written by experts for engineers and technically oriented end-users. Publishers Carol and Mike McGuire are well-respected industry icons, devoted to promoting the fastener business and educating its followers.
Requires subscription but website freebies include a listing of industry consultants and associations, an events calendar, industry press releases, and helpful links.
If you do nothing else, click on the fastenersources.com link. It takes you to a site filled with helpful links and information. There are reference tables, guides, engineering data, plating terms and specifications, a listing of heat treaters, industry news and loads more. You won't be wasting your time.
Contains technical articles for fastener manufacturers, distributors and end users, written by industry authorities. Sample topics from one month’s issue included: - How understanding metal fastener stress corrosion cracking is a step toward its prevention; - A review of mechanical and chemical fastener cleaning methods and equipment; and - How tighter tolerances improve resistance to fastener loosening. Requires subscription.
Newsletters
If you want well written, easily digestible news about the fastener industry, the few hundred dollars per year you'll spend for Editor John Wolz's Fastener Industry News is well worth it.
He gives you concise articles on current topics, plus interviews with manufacturing and distribution leaders. He also includes important international news, a calendar of fastener events, industry studies, help wanted ads, association meeting coverage, newsbriefs, pertinent financial news and more -- all in about 12 pages per month.
Sure, you have to subscribe for the important news, but the FIN website provides plenty of freebies, like an index of fastener industry associations with links and calendars for industry events, trade shows and educational presentations.
