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THE DISTRIBUTOR’S LINK
PARKER FASTENERS
13765 W Auto Dr, Goodyear, AZ 85338
TEL 623-925-5998 FAX 623-925-5968 EMAIL sales@parkerfasteners.com WEB www.parkerfasteners.com
PARKER FASTENERS....DEFINING
ACCELERATED SUCCESS by Stan Lockhart
In seven short years, Parker Fasteners has
established itself as a top-quality manufacturer of socket
drive and special stainless-steel fasteners. Robert Parker,
President & CEO combines his long-term experience as a
header man, with entrepreneurial business skills, which
is evident in Parker’s rapid rise to
excellence!
Early in the company’s
formation, other manufacturers
took notice of Parker’s special
skill of utilizing Cold Forming hardto-work
materials and utilized
Parker to produce blank parts
they could not produce. Today,
those relationships are still intact
and Parker has continued to
expand their product offering to
include Military and Aerospace
grade socket screws and tamper
resistant fasteners including their
patented “Lock-Out®” drive that
utilizes an oval center pin and an
endless array of outer lobes which can be customized
to a particular end-user as their exclusive design. The
elliptical design also improves torque during installation.
The “Lock-Out®” is the first patent granted in this area
in over twenty years.
Matt Boyd, Vice President, Global Innovation, has
led the company to another level of success by
finding niche markets with demand for A286 and
other special grades of stainless steel that are not
readily available from most screw manufacturers today.
Working with expensive materials for safety-critical
applications has Parker Fasteners focused on “Precision
and Quality First!” Many of Parker’s socket screws
are dual certified to A193/A320
& NAS 1351/MS16996. Parker
produces and has entered into a
stocking agreement with Advance
Components, for a line of NAS
A286 “N” series socket screws.
The new partnership makes
these great products available
to wider segment of the market
by eliminating manufacturing
minimums.
In addition to the wide range of
materials that the company works
with, diameters offered range
from #00 to 5/8” creating many
opportunities across multiple
industries from small electronics
to heavy equipment.This alone could set the company
apart from many competitors. The secret sauce as
Robert Parker will tell you…is in the tooling. Most of
which is created in house and facilitates the production
of these world-class fasteners!
PARKER FASTENERS BUILDING ACQUISITION THIS PAST SPRING, SITS ON
A 10 ACRE SITE AND WILL PROVIDE YEARS OF GROWTH IN THE FUTURE.
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