Specialty Screw Corporation

William Osgood Associates

Specialty Screw — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:34:17 +0000

Specialty Screw Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of William Osgood Associates as our sales representatives in the state of Michigan and Windsor, Canada area. Concentrating in the Detroit Metro area for more than thirty years this five person agency joins our sales group with extensive automotive experience. They have an in depth knowledge and understanding of their customers and the requirements in the automotive market place. Please join us in welcoming Robert Angell, Erik Winnega, J.P. Angell, Paul Wiggins, and Scott Wilson as they service existing and potential accounts in this territory.

Located in the Midwest and Chicago Land Area, Specialty Screw Corporation is a Rockford Illinois Fastener Manufacturer of: MAThread® Automotive Fasteners, Ball Studs, Collar Studs, Collar Bolts, Double End Studs, Bolts, Metric Bolts, Special Bolts, Stainless Steel Bolts, Cold Headed Fasteners, Cold Headed Special Fasteners, Cold Headed Products, Engineered Fasteners, Engineered Components, Fasteners, Precision Fasteners, Special Cold Heading, Special Cold Forming, Metric Fasteners, Metric Screws, Metric Bolts, Special Pins, Special Rivets and Synergistic Assemblies.

Markets served include the Automotive, Electrical, Recreational, Hardware, Outdoor Power Equipment, Lawn & Garden, Distribution, Hand Tools and Molded rubber products, Molded plastic products, Commercial and Construction hardware.

Specialty Screw Corporation is licensed to manufacture MAThread® and MATpoint®.

MAThread® and MATpoint® are patented thread designs.
MAThread and MATpoint are registered trademarks of MAThread Inc.

Fastener Manufacturer Cleaning Technology

Specialty Screw — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:58:55 +0000

Specialty Screw Corporation of Rockford Illinois upgraded its part cleaning operations by adding a new parts washer utilizing Ransohoff’s latest cleaning technology, PRO-CLEAN DRUM ™. With the aqueous alkaline continuous part cleaning and additional stages for rinsing and rust inhibiting. An additional oil decanting system for removing oils from the cleaning solution. All added up to parts being cleaner, processed faster while reducing downtime.

Aqueous cleaning effectively removes heading and secondary oils from our fastener blanks making feeding and assembly of parts much more efficient. As part of Specialty Screw’s continuous improvement in the area of energy conservation, plans are being implemented for solar thermal heating of the 240 gallon rinse tank. The payback for the solar installation will be accelerated by trading equivalent carbon credits.

The reaction so far by employees of Specialty Screw Corporation has been very positive. The automatic tank filling option allows for much easier monitoring during the day. The larger drum size has allowed the throughput of fasteners cleaned to double. The new technology and tank auto filing will help reduce downtime.

Ransohoff, Incorporated is located in Cincinnati, Ohio and is a QS-9000 registered and ISO-9001 certified manufacturer. PRO-CLEAN DRUM ™ is a registered trademark of Ransohoff Incorporated.

Located in the Midwest and Chicago Land Area, Specialty Screw Corporation is a Rockford Illinois Fastener Manufacturer of: Automotive Screws, Automotive Fasteners, Automotive Bolts, Ball Studs, Collar Studs, Collar Bolts, Double End Studs, Bolts, Metric Bolts, Stainless Steel Bolts, Cold Headed Fasteners, Engineered Components, Fasteners, Precision Fasteners, Special Fasteners, Special Cold Heading, Special Cold Forming, Metric Fasteners, Special Pins, Special Rivets, and Synergistic Assemblies.

MAThread® and MATpoint® are patented thread designs.
MAThread and MATpoint are registered trademarks of MAThread Inc.

National Fastener Show FYI

Specialty Screw — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:41:55 +0000

Why Las Vegas?

Annual state gaming revenue over 9 billion.
Annual visitors over 35 million.
Number of slot machines over 200,000.
Number of hotel rooms 125,000 and growing.
Miles of lighted neon tubing on the Strip and Downtown 15,000.
Number of conventions hosted annually over 3600.
Number of licensed gambling institutions over 1700.
Number of local golf courses 38.

Specialty Screw Corporation will be attending the 2008 National Fastener Show November 3rd and 4th at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV. Please stop by booth #925, that is when you have some free time.

Located in the Midwest and Chicago Land Area, Specialty Screw Corporation is a Rockford Illinois Fastener Manufacturer, Screw Manufacturer, Bolt Manufacturer, Fastener Supplier, Screw Supplier, Bolt Supplier, Supplier to Fastener Distributors, Supplier to Screw Distributors, Supplier to Bolt Distributors of: Automotive Screws, Automotive Fasteners, Automotive Bolts, Special Automotive Fasteners, Ball Studs, Collar Studs, Collar Bolts, Double End Studs, Bolts, Metric Bolts, Special Bolts, Stainless Steel Bolts, Cold Headed Fasteners, Cold Headed Special Fasteners, Cold Headed Products, Engineered Fasteners, Engineered Components, Fasteners, Precision Fasteners, Special Fasteners, Special Cold Heading, Special Cold Forming, Metric Fasteners, Metric Screws, Metric Bolts, Special Pins, Special Rivets, Synergistic Assemblies.
Markets served include the Automotive, Electrical, Recreational, Hardware, Outdoor Power Equipment, Lawn & Garden, Distribution, Hand Tools and Molded rubber products, Molded plastic products, Commercial and Construction hardware. Specialty Screw Corporation is also licensed to manufacture MAThread® and MATpoint®.

MAThread® and MATpoint® are patented thread designs.
MAThread and MATpoint are registered trademarks of MAThread Inc.

2008 Fastener Show Brochure

Specialty Screw Receives Supplier Award

Specialty Screw — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:36:00 +0000

Each year Spartan Light Metal Products awards a plaque to those suppliers that achieve 100% on-time delivery and 100% good quality for an entire calendar year. Specialty Screw Corporation has met the requirement for 2007. Spartan states “We are proud of our supplier base. We consider our suppliers to be the best in the industry. We feel our suppliers provide us with a competitive advantage. Specialty Screw Corporation stands out as one of the elite. Congratulations on a great year!”

Sparton Light Metal Products “The Global Value Leader in Light Metal Technologies… thru engineered solutions and competitive costs”

Located in the Midwest and Chicago Land Area, Specialty Screw Corporation is a Rockford Illinois Fastener Manufacturer, Screw Manufacturer, Bolt Manufacturer, Fastener Supplier, Screw Supplier, Bolt Supplier, of Automotive Fasteners, Automotive Bolts, Special Automotive Fasteners, Ball Studs, Collar Studs, Collar Bolts, Double End Studs, Bolts, Metric Bolts, Special Bolts, Stainless Steel Bolts, Cold Headed Fasteners, Cold Headed Special Fasteners, Cold Headed Products, Engineered Fasteners, Engineered Components, Fasteners, Precision Fasteners, Special Fasteners, Special Cold Heading, Special Cold Forming, Metric Fasteners, Metric Screws, Metric Bolts, Special Pins, Special Rivets, Synergistic Assemblies.

Specialty Screw Corporation is also licensed to manufacture MAThread® and MATpoint®.

MAThread® and MATpoint® are patented thread designs.
MAThread and MATpoint are registered trademarks of MAThread Inc.

National Fastener Show West - Mandalay Bay

Specialty Screw — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:42:35 +0000

Specialty Screw Corporation is pleased to announce that it will be attending the 2008 National Fastener Show November 3rd and 4th at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV. Please look for us in booth #925. Specialty Screw Corporation is a manufacturer of cold head special fasteners for the Automotive, Electrical, Recreational, Hardware, Outdoor Power Equipment, Distribution, and Molded rubber/plastic products industries.

2008 Fastener Show Brochure

Product Types

Ball Studs
Shoulder Bolts and Collar Bolts
Rivets and Special Rivets
Cold Formed Parts and Cold Formed Products
Thread forming screws
MAThread and MATPoint fastening systems
Six-lobe recess drives
Special pins
Double end studs and collar studs
Synergistic assemblies

Head Types

ball
binding
bugle
button
cone head
fillister
flat countersunk
flat fillister
flat undercut
gear
hex
hex flange
hexagon washer
oval
pan
round
round washer
six lobe
square
t-head
truss
twelve point
wafer

Drive Types

clutch
combination
phillips
six lobe
slotted
socket
square
tamper proof

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Specialy Screw Saves Energy

Specialty Screw — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:27:20 +0000

The current relamping of our fastener manufacturing plant in Rockford, IL completes a plant wide relamping that had its initial start in 1998. Replacing 264 T12 florescent fixtures with high efficiency T8 units and reflectors. The new units use half the energy while maintaining the same lighting levels. With a ComEd rebate of 50% of the cost and a Federal Energy Credit on taxes, results in less than a 1 year payback.

Another area for energy conservation that Specialty Screw Corporation is investigating is the utilization of solar concentrators to preheat our aqueous parts washer fluid that has a total of 600 gallons of processing for our new three stage parts washer being delivered in September 2008. With integrated filtering equipment, the new parts washer from Ransohoff will further reduce our waste processing fluids in half, which originally we reduced in half when Safety-Kleen installed a waste water recycling unit back in 1998.

Specialty Screw Corporation has an on going Green Initiative which you can view at our website. You can also monitor Specialty Screw through our RSS news feed.

Specialty Screw Corporation

MAThread® and MATpoint® are patented thread designs.
MAThread and MATpoint are registered trademarks of MAThread Inc.

2008 National Fastener Show

Specialty Screw — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:07:28 +0000

Specialty Screw Corporation will be attending the 2008 National Fastener Show November 3rd and 4th at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV and will be loacated in booth #925. Specialty Screw Corporation is a manufacturer of cold head special fasteners for the Automotive, Electrical, Recreational, Hardware, Outdoor Power Equipment, Distribution, and Molded rubber/plastic products industries. Exhibits will be open from 9:00am - 4:00pm Monday, November 3rd and from 9:00am - 2:00pm Tuesday November 4th. Don’t forget to stop by and talk to our sales team.

Specialty Screw Corporation

National Fastener Show Registration

Located in the Midwest and Chicago Land Area, Specialty Screw Corporation is a Rockford Illinois Fastener Manufacturer, Screw Manufacturer, Bolt Manufacturer, Fastener Supplier, Screw Supplier, Bolt Supplier, Supplier to Fastener Distributors, Supplier to Screw Distributors, Supplier to Bolt Distributors of: Automotive Screws, Automotive Fasteners, Automotive Bolts, Special Automotive Fasteners, Ball Studs, Collar Studs, Collar Bolts, Double End Studs, Bolts, Metric Bolts, Special Bolts, Stainless Steel Bolts, Cold Headed Fasteners, Cold Headed Special Fasteners, Cold Headed Products, Engineered Fasteners, Engineered Components, Fasteners, Special Fasteners, Special Cold Heading, Special Cold Forming, Metric Fasteners, Metric Screws, Metric Bolts, Special Pins, Special Rivets, Synergistic Assemblies.
Markets served include the Automotive, Electrical, Recreational, Hardware, Outdoor Power Equipment, Lawn & Garden, Distribution, Hand Tools and Molded rubber products, Molded plastic products, Commercial and Construction hardware. Specialty Screw Corporation is also licensed to manufacture MAThread® and MATpoint®.

Metric Fasteners

Specialty Screw — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:16:54 +0000

Many issues still surround the use of the Metric System in manufacturing today. In the 70’s there was an effort to increase the use of the metric system in the United States. Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, then the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act in 1988, making the metric system the preferred method. Today the US still does not consider the metric system as its primary or preferred means of measurement.

Looking more specifically at the manufacturing of fasteners, screw, and bolts metric fasteners are in a large part driven by the Automotive Industry. Let’s start with design and engineering. In the 70’s many companies were still on draft boards, however today we fully utilize CAD systems which not only let us draw parts to size instead of scale, they easily switch between the english and metric systems of measurement. However specifications are still hard to get in metric, Why is there not a IFI standard for metric hex washer head when one is available in inches?

The shop floor and manufacturing process is full of more english measurement potholes. Converting to inches shaves 10ths off of tolerances by rounding. Lathes, mills, grinders, and other tool making equipment and support equipment have dial indicators and measurement scales all based on the english system. All gauging equipment and tools such as sliding calipers, micrometers, and test equipment like torque wrenches use of the english measurement system and have to be replaced with their metric system quivalents.

Duplication creates waste such as tools for production where most companies have metric and english drill bits, taps, rollthread dies, etc… Along with dual head markings for inch-grade and metric-property class. This duplication along with the efforts for conversion between the two systems adds up to a tremendous amount of waste.

Office systems and subcontracting of services for manufacturing operations, heat treating, plating, etc… need to be analyzed. Not only from an engineering drawing stand point of linear measurement, volume, and weight but production control, purchasing, and accounting systems use of weight and piece tracking. With all the underling systems and measurement tools it’s easy to see why changing from english measurement to the metric system will take a long time and cost us all a lot of money in the process.

Specialty Screw Corporation

Located in the Midwest and Chicago Land Area, Specialty Screw Corporation is a Rockford Illinois Fastener Manufacturer, Screw Manufacturer, Bolt Manufacturer, Fastener Supplier, Screw Supplier, Bolt Supplier, Supplier to Fastener Distributors, Supplier to Screw Distributors, Supplier to Bolt Distributors of: Automotive Screws, Automotive Fasteners, Automotive Bolts, Special Automotive Fasteners, Ball Studs, Collar Studs, Collar Bolts, Double End Studs, Bolts, Metric Bolts, Special Bolts, Stainless Steel Bolts, Cold Headed Fasteners, Cold Headed Special Fasteners, Cold Headed Products, Engineered Fasteners, Engineered Components, Fasteners, Special Fasteners, Special Cold Heading, Special Cold Forming, Metric Fasteners, Metric Screws, Metric Bolts, Special Pins, Special Rivets, Synergistic Assemblies.
Markets served include the Automotive, Electrical, Recreational, Hardware, Outdoor Power Equipment, Lawn & Garden, Distribution, Hand Tools and Molded rubber products, Molded plastic products, Commercial and Construction hardware.
Specialty Screw Corporation is also licensed to manufacture MAThread® and MATpoint®.

Fastener Suppliers Showcase

Specialty Screw — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:56:50 +0000

Specialty Screw Corporation is pleased to announce that it will be attending the 2008 National Fastener Show November 3rd and 4th at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV. Please look for us in booth #925. We welcome you to join us and visit with our experienced sales team. If you’re looking for fastener manufacturers, screw manufacturers, or bolt manufacturers we would like the opportunity to talk with you.

Specialty Screw Corporation located in Rockford Illinois is a fastener manufacturer and fastener supplier of Ball Studs, Cold Headed Fasteners, Cold Headed Products, Cold Headed Special Fasteners, Collar Studs, Collar Bolts, Automotive Screws, Automotive Fasteners, Metric Fasteners, Metric Screws, Special Automotive Fasteners, Bolts, Special Bolts, Engineered Fasteners, Special Cold Forming, Special Cold Heading, Special Fasteners, Special Pins, Special Rivets, Tappet Valves, Double End Studs, and Synergistic Assemblies. Markets served include the Automotive, Electrical, Recreational, Hardware, Outdoor Power Equipment, Lawn & Garden, Distribution, Hand Tools and Molded rubber/plastic products industries. Specialty Screw Corporation is also licensed to manufacture MAThread® and MATpoint®.

MAThread® and MATpoint® are patented thread designs.
MAThread and MATpoint are registered trademarks of MAThread Inc.
Specialty Screw Corporation

What is MAThread

Specialty Screw — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:15:29 +0000

The greatest challenge faced in the assembly of automobile has been cross threading. Assembly
failures due to cross threading and galling are both disruptive and expensive.

The innovative MAThread® completely eliminates this problem, lowering costs for auto makers.
It was realized that MAThread is not only the solution to this problem but almost all the problems associated with car assembly, which accounts for approximately 97% of the problems.

MAThread® is advantageous because it is unaffected by excess paint and it is sensitive towards tool speed. They correct off-angle installations and force component alignment without thread damage as well as improve operator ergonomics by reducing repetitive stress.

MAThread® immensely saves cost because it eliminates the money outflow associated with assembly failures, repairs, scrap, downtime, as well as the need for warranty service. This adds up to multibillion dollars saved for major car companies from rework and labor. MAThread efficiency and reliability has made it a favorite among top companies who wish to curb expensive malfunctions which lead to fixing that’s free for consumers due to warranty and the like.

The discovery of MAThread® has revolutionized car manufacturing, drastically changing a process that was originally faulty as well as pricey. Now, with its introduction, it is not only capable and reliable, but also versatile and adaptable. It can be used for numerous products, giving almost a perfect fit for all. By choosing a MAThread capable company, you can be assured of cost efficiency and reduced labor, which will hugely dampen unnecessary spending and overtime.

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Specialty Screw Corporation located in Rockford Illinois is a fastener manufacturer of Cold Headed Products, Automotive Screws, Automotive Fasteners, Metric Fasteners, and Engineered Fasteners. Markets served include the Automotive, Electrical, Recreational, Hardware, Outdoor Power Equipment, Lawn & Garden, Distribution, Hand Tools and Molded rubber/plastic products industries. Specialty Screw Corporation is also licensed to manufacture MAThread® and MATpoint®.

MAThread® and MATpoint® are patented thread designs.
MAThread and MATpoint are registered trademarks of MAThread Inc.