Founded in 1916 to make fasteners for wooden keg hoops, Girard, Ohio’s Brainard Rivet Company now produces made-to-print cold-formed rivets and specialty fasteners for industrial customers. The 100% employee-owned company has manufactured more than 854 million pounds of cold-headed fasteners, with a 65,000-square-foot plant that makes most of its tooling in-house. Brainard combines custom production with drilling, threading and heat-treating capabilities, and operates under an ISO 9001:2015-certified quality system.
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The Auto Bolt CompanyFounded in 1948, The Auto Bolt Company has been family owned and operated since 1996, building its identity around more than seven decades of bolt-making in Cleveland. Its 70-plus employees work from a 130,000-square-foot facility to produce American-made cold-heading fasteners, with engineering support for customers who need parts made to a print rather than selected from a catalog. ISO 9001:2015 certification and an onsite quality lab support its work for industrial customers.CLEVELAND, OH
C&L Rivet Company, IncSince 1960, Hatboro-based C&L Rivet Company has made custom rivets, fasteners, and micro-precision parts through cold heading and related forming work. Its specialty is turning difficult, often screw-machined designs into precise cold-formed parts, including rivets small enough to measure just .008 inches in diameter by .015 inches long. The company combines 40 headers, in-house tooling, and 12 secondary-operation machines in an ISO 9001:2015-certified facility, with personnel whose combined experience exceeds 500 years.HATBORO, PA
Earnest MachineFrom a small Cleveland machine shop in 1948, Earnest Machine has grown into a family-owned supplier of industrial fasteners with custom machining capabilities. Today, third-generation president Kirk Zehnder carries forward the company’s long relationship with heavy-equipment customers while guiding operations from distribution centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Earnest Machine’s product quality system is certified to ISO 9001:2015.ROCKY RIVER, OH
Master Bolt, LLCMaster Bolt, LLC began in 1984 making a single railroad bolt and has since built its identity around solving specialized hardware needs from its Elyria shop. Today, the company makes custom industrial fasteners for customers across the United States and ships worldwide, with in-house tooling that supports unusual specifications and applications.ELYRIA, OH