Specialty Screw Corporation was fortunate to receive a grant through our electrical energy provider, Exelon, and facilitated by our electrical component supplier, Steiner Electric, that paid for approximately 25% of the material and labor cost in retro fitting our T12 florescent lamps with the more energy efficient new electronic ballasts, reflectors and T8 florescent lamps. This reduced our energy load for those lamps by 50% that equates to a 2.37 year payback. In addition in our … [Read more...]
William Osgood Associates
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 … [Read more...]
Specialty Screw Saves Energy
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 … [Read more...]
What is MAThread
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 … [Read more...]
Rockford Woman Magazine Feature
Patti Bigger, Corporate relations manager of Specialty Screw Corp., Rockford comments on the cover story "Build a network of support" See Cover Story Local women on networking Patti Bigger On how networking has helped her: “Receiving a positive endorsement or a negative caution from a trusted contact accelerates decision-making.” On whether a networking group gives her credibility: “An affiliation can support credibility, but more importantly, it is how you utilize the resource.” … [Read more...]