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Contents : Member Profile Alcoa Fastening Systems In 1991 The Thiokol Corporation seeking to establish a commercial business base to balance its space and military operations signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Huck Manufacturing Company. At the time Huck had annual sales of about $175 million mostly in industrial and commercial aircraft markets and employed 1 400 people in 14 manufacturing distribution and sales locations in the United States and abroad. International markets represented about 37 percent of Huck's total sales. In 1998 Thiokol changed its name to Cordant Technologies which included Thiokol Howmet and Huck International. Year Founded: 1933 Location: Kingston NY Number of Employees: 135 Principle Product: Fastening systems and tools. CEO: Russell Yeager Council Member since: 1967 Alcoa Fastening Systems located in Kingston has been a member of the Council of Industry since 1967. The company has a rich history of innovation In 2000 Alcoa agreed to purchase Howmet and and success. Huck from Cordant Technologies Inc. At the time Cordant employed about 17 000 people worldwide The company was formed in 1933 by Louis C. in three business groups. Huck a mechanical engineer who had graduated from Cornell University and worked briefly for Alcoa recognized the importance of the Huck brand General Motors. Mr. Huck had invented a blind in the industry and has retained it. Alcoa Fastening rivet fastener a fastener that can be attached even Systems manufactures Huck Brand Fasteners and though access is limited to equipment. one side of a panel and the Today the Kingston facility equipment necessary to inhas annual sales of over $30 stall these fasteners. million. With 135 full time Huck fasteners are used in employees They are building airplanes trucks trailers more than 600 tools per railcars school buses automonth and thousands of mobiles shopping carts and components. Alcoa Fastening dish antennas to name but a Systems is e a critical supfew applications. They are all plier to prestigious compaaround us providing secure AFS Ergo-Tech Blind Bolt System and nies such as Boeing Airbus clamp force where needed. "Smart" InstallationTool and Hardware Lockheed Gulfstream They are made of aluminum Northrop Sikorsky Freighttitanium steel and an impressive variety of alloys. liner Peterbilt Kenworth Volvo Wilson Trailer The sometimes simple and sometimes sophistiGreat Dane Trailer Trinity Rail Freight Car Amercated tools that are used to install and secure these ica Ford Motor Company fasteners are almost exclusively made in the KingBombardier and many others. Their tools are used ston New York facility. to install fasteners on the newly designed Boeing Seeking labor expertise in tool manufacturing 787 Dreamliner and the new Airbus A380. Huck purchased Electrol Inc. in Kingston NY in Huck is proud to be keeping it all together. They October of 1965 and consolidated its installation tool manufacturing operations into the single facil- are proud to be located in the Hudson Valley and ity in Kingston New York which became Hucktrol. the Council of Industry is proud to have them as a member.

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