STANLEY goes exclusive with Home Depot while Q3 Fastening revenues grow modestly
Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, has signed a deal with STANLEY to becomes its exclusive home improvement retailer for hand tools and storage products, starting 2019. Home Depot has also secured exclusivity with tape measure brand STANLEY FATMAX. Previously, the US-based retailer gained sole retail of DEWALT FLEXVOLT cordless tools and DEWALT […]
TERRITORY FOCUS: BENELUX, featuring Stanley, pgb, Fabory, Kobout & PECO
With political uncertainty becoming more of a, well, certainty, the Netherlands has been no exception and remarkably didn’t have a working government for almost nine months of 2017 – for a record 208 days. But it hasn’t seemed to have held back the Netherland economy – far from it. According to estimates from ING, reported by the Financial Times, the […]
Stanley Black & Decker completes acquisition of Nelson Fastener Systems
This week, Doncasters Group announced that the sale of Nelson Fastener Systems to Stanley Black & Decker Inc successfully completed. Burton upon Trent-based Doncasters has retained the Nelson Automotive stud welding and equipment business as part of its Speciality Automotive division. Doncasters CEO David Smoot said: “We look forward to continuing a very successful relationship with […]
STANLEY launches CribMaster ProStock Mini industrial vending machine
STANLEY-owned CribMaster has released a smaller version of its ProStock industrial vending machine for the distribution of tools, safety glasses, aerosols and other consumables. The original ProStock comes as standard with 10 carousels vending up to 560 items. With the new ProStock mini there is the ability mix and match carousels and lockers to dispense […]
Stanley Black & Decker to bolster presence in County Durham
Stanley Black & Decker has signed a new lease with Arlington Real Estate for the 220,000 ft² Meadowfield building near Spennymoor, on the DurhamGate development. The agreement expands Stanley Black & Decker’s presence in the area, having relocated its European Product Development Centre, UK spares and returns operations and its factory shop, from the adjacent site […]
Doncasters to sell Nelson Fastener Systems to Stanley Black & Decker
Burton-upon-Trent’s Doncasters Group has agreed to sell Nelson Fastener Systems business to Stanley Black & Decker Inc for approximately $440 million in cash. The sale, which does not include Nelson’s automotive stud welding business, is expected to close later in the first quarter of 2018. The move comes as Doncasters strives to drive growth in […]
STANLEY launches POP Avdel Proset XT hydro-pneumatic riveters
STANLEY Engineered Fastening has launch a brand new range of POP Avdel Proset XT hydro-pneumatic riveting tools. Built to cover a wide range of industries and suitable for small bench assembly through to heavy duty engineering, the new POP Avdel Proset XT range can be used in virtually any workstation configuration. The left or right […]
Stanley to open Industry 4.0 focused Advanced Manufacturing Centre in Connecticut
Stanley Black + Decker is to open an Advanced Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in downtown Hartford, Connecticut to accelerate its global Industry 4.0 “smart factory” initiative. Called “Manufactory 4.0,” named after the original Stanley Bolt Manufactory founded in 1843, the 23,000-square-foot Centre will employ approximately 50 Industry 4.0 professionals. Sudhi Bangalore, most recently WIPRO’s Global Head of Smart Manufacturing […]
USA fastener & tool round-up: DeWalt to create 450 jobs & Würth expands
Stanley Black & Decker (SBD) is to open a new 300,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Mission, Texas. The facility – SBD’s third in Texas – will make DEWALT power tool products when it opens in early 2018 and will eventually support approximately 450 new jobs in the region. The company said it has added 40% more […]
Black and Decker’s new GoPak power tool battery will charge your phone too
Black + Decker has launched the GoPak System, a four tool combo kit powered by the new 12V Max GoPak battery. Available as a four-tool combo kit, the System includes a drill/driver, jigsaw, detail sander, pivot-head LED work light and GoPak battery – the latter doubles as a power source to charge mobile devices on-the-go […]