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Rockford: High-tech fasteners in future?
Heading toward Rockford on Interstate China. Despite the Asian competition, the metals" that McGuire anticipates.
highway, west of Chicago, are 18- Rockford Area Economic Development Council For Rockford native Bill Derry, fasteners are
wheelers loaded with coils of wire rod. lists 22 fastener companies in the city, which his career. As a college senior Derry went to
The trucks are a visible sign that Rockford has a population of 152,916 and claims a a job fair to look for a position with a bank.
is still a fastener manufacturing town. three-county metropolitan area of 339,100. There was a long line at the bank's recruiting
After decades of fastener job losses, Acument's decision to manufacture table and there was no one waiting at the
Acument Global Technologies' decision to aerospace fasteners in Rockford was based Camcar table. After 18 years with Camcar, in
manufacture aerospace fasteners in Rockford on the plant’s being available and the 1989 Derry joined Rockford Products, and in
represents a turnaround for the north central region’s being "blessed with highly skilled 1990 he and his brother Jim acquired Field
Illinois city on the Rock River. machine operators," Camcar's McGuire Fastener Supply Co.
"We're treated as heroes," Acument's explained. "They have 10, 15 or 20 years Five years ago, 80% of Field's business
Camcar Aerospace Manufacturing Center & experience." was within 200 miles, Derry noted. Today
Research executive director Tim McGuire says One fastener both changed Boeing and Field has satellite facilities in five states.
of the "welcome home feeling" he is brought Camcar back into aerospace fastener An Illinois customer wanted Field Fastener
receiving in Rockford. manufacturing: 1-12 x 10.433" O/A 90IP TORX to provide its VMI service to a plant in
"The Camcar name is still recognized from PLUS® 100º flat head machine screw with Malaysia. Now Field is supplying fasteners
the old days," McGuire told FastenerNews.com. shoulder. internationally – some of which never come
"People tell me, 'So glad you are back.'" "It is the right product at the right time," into its headquarters warehouse in the
Rockford's economic leaders are looking declared McGuire. "The aircraft industry needs Rockford suburb of Machesney Park.
beyond Camcar and talking about titanium to cut costs of operating an airplane. New Acument's aerospace division and Field's
and other high-tech fastener products as the composite materials are lighter, but require growth beyond Rockford are just what local
future for the industry in Rockford. different fasteners." officials envision as the way to expand the
In the 1800s wood screws and nails were "Camcar has the name, the expertise and area’s fastener economy. Janyce Fadden,
needed to supply the furniture industry the people," McGuire added. "We have really president of the Rockford Area Economic
started by Swedish immigrants in Rockford. 'been there, done that,'" he said of Camcar's Development Council, asks existing local
The Rock River provided both 60 patents. businesses, "Are your customers exporting?"
transportation and the site for a dam that Rockford also has experienced machinery If so, she wants them to do what Field
would harness waterpower for factories. The operators. Camcar has "mothballed headers Fastener is doing – growing globally with its
Galena & Chicago Union Railroad moved from a generation or two ago," McGuire customers. That is why the council offers
materials in and products out. pointed out. "Headers can be old." export training.
Following World War II, some Rockford The new TORX PLUS Maxx drive system Robert Lamb, industrial development
industries, including furniture and agricultural became the product for growth. It is the third manager for the City of Rockford, told FIN
equipment, were nearly extinct. Fastener generation of the TORX system, which was that manufacturing with titanium is a growth
manufacturing and machine tool industries patented in 1971 and enhanced in 1992. industry for Rockford.
were at a fraction of their peak production. Torx Plus is designed to drive system bolts The largest employer in Rockford, Hamilton
Beyond the factories, Rockford historically to the limits of their strength by Sunstrand, is adding 100 engineers to its total
led in fastener technology. In 2002 the concentrating the highest available levels of employment of 2,300.
Industrial Fasteners Institute awarded the late torque directly to studs, ball studs and Lamb pointed out that Sunstrand is testing
Ray Carlson its Trowbridge Technology Award. threaded fasteners. The new TORX PLUS Maxx 38 of the 40 Boeing 787 systems at its
Carlson was recognized for developing the studs have re-engineered drive lobes that Rockford facilities. "You feel like you've
"Raycarl heading process, which expanded extend into the threaded portion of the walked inside a 787" after visiting the testing
manufacturing capabilities, in both size and fastener point. facility, Lamb observed.
complexity, to levels that continue to benefit Engineers at the Camcar lab are already Adding that the custom design alloy
the cold forming industry." working with Northern Illinois University on fasteners for the first space rover came from
But fastener manufacturing has continued next-generation titanium aerospace fasteners. Rockford, Lamb said the future is in the
to move west from Rockford … to Japan in That fits with the future of "more titanium, high-tech niche. "We are not going to
the 1980s, Taiwan in the 1990s and next more A286 stainless steel and other exotic compete on a commodity basis."
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