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Distributor's Link Magazine Winter Issue 2011 / VOL 34 / NO.1

40 THE DISTRIBUTOR’S

40 THE DISTRIBUTOR’S LINK 3216 E. 35th Street Ct. Davenport, IA 52807-2501 Tel: 1.888.212.6796 or 563.344.0251 www.TrinityHardwareHQ.com New Trinity Hardware Headquarters Warehouse Offer Customers More and Better Products and Services The Good News…and the Bad News The good news: Trinity Hardware Headquarters is expanding with 73,000 sq. ft. of new distribution warehouse space Muscatine, Iowa. The bad news? There is none! For those who buy fasteners, whether in small or bulk quantities, the goals remain constant: lowest price, best quality, lightning-fast shipping – and don’t forget responsive and helpful customer service. The warehouse expansion helps buyers not only meet but exceed those goals. By more than doubling their inventory in the new facility, Trinity now has the ability to offer traditional wholesale customers specialty products, such as Grade 8 Carriage Bolts and Finished Hex Nuts, as well as standard components with a quicker turnaround than ever before. “Trinity is making investments as part of our continued and focused growth,” said Trinity President Tim Dunn. “Our history of more than a century of fastener experience and vast inventory has significant value in the marketplace. What sets Trinity apart are our product niches in addition to our standard components.” Trinity’s Muscatine, Iowa facility Trinity also offers additional value-added services including: ~ Custom packaging ~ Kitting ~ Sub-assembly ~ Private labeling ~ Drop ship ~ Third party logistics (3PL) Enhanced Testing with Muscatine’s Engineering Lab Quality control and technical assurance is a top priority at Trinity. The Muscatine center will also house an engineering lab with enhanced internal testing capabilities including new salt spray equipment for material verification, green structures and product review, harness testers and tensile testing. The new engineering lab allows Trinity the ability to test in a broader scope than the industry norm. For example, most companies don’t perform salt spray testing inhouse. In-house testing means faster results, more testing on more product at a given time, and cost effectiveness. The Nuts and Bolts of Nuts and Bolts The Muscatine center can accommodate more than 7,000 bulk locations, which equals 13 million pounds of inventory. For wholesale distribution customers the benefits don’t stop with an expanded product offering. Trinity Goes Green at Muscatine Trinity had more in mind than just aesthetics when remodeling the Muscatine facility. While it was originally designed around product flow for maximum efficiency, significant improvements were made in the remodel to be please turn to page 114

THE DISTRIBUTOR’S LINK 41 Applied Bolting, based in Vermont, supplies tens of millions of Standard DTIs and Squirter DTIs world wide to structural steel projects such as power plants, oil, gas and chemical plants, mining sites, State DOT bridges, high rises and stadiums. Here at Applied Bolting we are driven by what we hear from and see at jobsites. Derived from these field experiences, we have produced a video series of Field Bolting Clinics for bolting with our DTIs and Squirter DTIs These will improve the constructability of Squirter DTIs by making training videos available on YouTube, Vimeo, and Appliedbolting.com, and flash drives and DVD’s. These videos are designed to give jobsites visual assistance not only on the installation and inspection of Squirter DTIs, but also to better understand field bolting. As of now, there are two background videos designed for Engineers and Inspectors. The training videos cover torque and tension, Squirter Calibration Exercise, What are DTIs and Squirters, and what happens when you cannot squash the bumps. This will be a living document as we will compile more training videos every few months. These will be driven by questions from the field. This will be an invaluable tool for bolt distributors. When there are bolting problems at jobsites, the erector calls the fabricator, and the fabricator calls the bolt distributor. The bolt distributor gets blamed for the bolting problems, while the problems might be caused by site conditions. These videos will address these concerns by getting the right information to the jobsite. As always, you can call Applied Bolting direct for Field Bolting Services. They can be contacted at: 1413 Rockingham Road Bellows Falls, VT 05101. Telephone: 1.800.552.1999 or visit, www.appliedbolting.com.

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