Elgin Fastener Group Makes Latest Acquisition

Elgin Fastener Group recently acquired the cold heading segment of Landreth Fastener Corp.

November 16, 2011

Elgin Fastener Group

Elgin Fastener Group, LLC (EFG) announces the acquisition of the cold heading segment of Landreth Fastener Corp. (Landreth) of Houston, TX. Established in 1962, Landreth advanced from owning a single piece of cold heading equipment to become a 35,000 square foot manufacturing facility with 27 cold headers, a precision machine shop, a supporting tooling shop and an automatic inspection/packaging area. Their production of solid and semi-tubular rivets, cold headed specials and precision machined parts has supported Landreth’s customer base of furniture, appliance, automotive and oil/petrochemical-related companies for over 49 years.

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