Helping Hold the Community Together:
Stanley Engineered Fastening
Story by Chris Miller | Photos by Marty Bowers
W
hat do cars, school buses, tractor trailers, farm
equipment, solar panels, snow mobiles and baby car
seats have in common?
The materials of each of these are literally held together by
rivets, which are permanent mechanical fasteners. And many of
the world’s rivets are produced by Stanley Engineered Fastening,
which has a plant in Stanfield. The 90,000-square-foot location
employs more than 90 people.
“The parts that we make hold things together,” Human
Resources and Environmental Health and Safety Manager Lindsey
Toole said.
Stanley Engineered Fastening is a global company with 37
plants around the world including 15 in North America.
The Stanfield location manufactures Avdel brand product, which
makes an assortment of rivets, lock bolts and
engineered fasteners.
Stanley Engineered Fastening is one of 20 brands that make
up the parent company, Stanley Black & Decker, a Fortune 500
American manufacturer of industrial tools, household hardware
and provider of security locks and products.
The facility has produced blind fasteners since 1995, though
under the ownership of many different companies. It was initially
Avdel Cherry Textron, followed by Acument Global Technologies
and Infastech before becoming Stanley Engineered in 2013.
The Stanfield location specifically manufactures blind fasteners.
Blind fasteners are rivets that can be completely installed from one
side of multiple application materials, unlike nuts and bolts which
require access to both sides of material.
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The blind fasteners are comprised of the mandrel, or stem, and
the body, or shell.
The company manufactures 725 finished goods and 1,600
purchased and sellable parts.
Each blind rivet can be made of stainless steel, regular steel
and aluminum wires and has 150 variations of different sizes and
compositions.
The company receives spools of wire and feeds them into a
header machine which creates the stems and shells. The two
components
are then placed into an assembly machine and melded together for
the final product.
Stanley Engineered Fastening, Stanfield Operations, which
utilizes three shifts per day, currently manufactures between