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.
Free digital version accessible from their website, which also includes the latest fastener news and free registration for the publisher's Aerospace Fastener e-Zine.
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. Free digital version with registration on website
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 Global Fastener 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. Subscription also includes access to website News Briefs and full online edition.
Sure, you have to subscribe for the important news, but the website provides plenty of freebies, like an index of fastener industry associations, a calendar of industry events, prominent fastener industry obituaries, the history of fasteners, product news, trade show listings, and Fastener TV.
