Threaded Fasteners goes national

Mobile, Ala.-based Threaded Fasteners, which opened in 1979 supplying fasteners and steel bolts to firms around town, now operates offices in seven cities handling nationwide customers, and with a workforce of more than 130, all of whom own a portion of the company under new ownership several years ago. Billy Duren, the current owner of TF, started with the company on Day 1 sweeping floors and separating nuts and bolts. Four decades later, he is the company president, and has overseen a relocation and consolidation of the Mobile offices to the Crichton area. A large part of the business comes from exclusive contracts with certain power companies for all their materials for transmission, from anchor bolts to the tips of the towers, according to Duren. The company makes its own parts, and now sells fabricators for use in general and black steel, plant maintenance, and marine construction. Orders now flow through sales offices in Pensacola and Panama City, Fla.; Gulfport, Miss.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. There’s even an office and warehouse in Canada. (Source: AL.com 06/12/17)