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Formed with the combined strengths of Huck and Fairchild Fasteners, Alcoa Fastening Systems serves the global aerospace, automotive, and commercial transportation markets with the most specialized engineering, highest quality, and the greatest breadth and depth of fastening system solutions in our industry.


These strengths combined with Alcoa's long-standing leadership and commitment to excellence make Alcoa Fastening Systems the best choice to answer your Aerospace or Industrial fastening system needs.


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Alcoa Fastening Systems names Craig Brown as Vice President, Global Aerospace Customers and Marketing

May 1, 2009 Torrance, CA… Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) announces the promotion of Craig Brown to the position of Vice President, Global Aerospace Customers and Marketing. Mr. Brown has been with the company in various roles of increasing responsibility since 1983, and in his new role is responsible for worldwide customer relationships, sales and marketing, customer service, and technical support for the aerospace fastening systems business.
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Alcoa Fastening Systems and Makita Develop Cordless Torque Controlled and Frangible Collar Tools

Alcoa Fastening Systems and Makita Develop Cordless Torque Controlled and Frangible Collar Tools
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March 20, 2009 Fullerton, California… Alcoa Fastening Systems’ (AFS) Assembly Tool Systems division is expanding their product line to include Makita cordless power tools with K-Fast® gear head attachments for both torque controlled and non-torque controlled tools for nuts and frangible collar applications. The K-Fast® gear head attachments have long been an industry standard and recently won approval from Boeing using the Makita cordless platform for torque controlled applications.
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Alcoa Fastening Systems Announces Successful Deployment of Trolley-Tray Fastener Kitting System

Alcoa Fastening Systems Announces Successful Deployment of Trolley-Tray Fastener Kitting System
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January 29, 2009 TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) announced today the successful deployment of its unique Trolley-Tray fastener kitting system at the new Airbus A320 Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Tianjin, China.
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Alcoa Fastening Systems (Aichach) Enters Partnership with EgyptAir

Alcoa Fastening Systems (Aichach) Enters Partnership with EgyptAir
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December 15, 2008 Torrance, California…. Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) announced today that its distribution & services center for worldwide MRO/Airlines customers, located in Aichach, Germany, has entered into a new partnership with EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering.
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Alcoa Fastening Systems Develops Non-Impact Swage Tool for Fasteners

Alcoa Fastening Systems Develops Non-Impact Swage Tool for Fasteners
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September 8, 2008 Torrance, California…. Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) has developed a pneumatic non-impact swage tool for their line of Slimsert® inserts which reduces installation time, better protects the locking feature of the fastener, and provides significant noise reduction.
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Alcoa Acquires Two Aerospace Fastener Businesses to Bolster its Growing Aerospace Portfolio

March 12, 2008 Republic and Van Petty Fasteners to Join Company's Fast-Growing Alcoa Fastening Systems Business
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Alcoa Fasteners and the A380

For the A380, Alcoa has developed a special fastener that bolts composite panels to aluminum crossmembers. A million Alcoa fasteners fly on every A380. Read about it in this special-distribution Fortune cover story.
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