The following is a directory of leading suppliers of fasteners for the wooden pallet and container industry. Suppliers offer bulk and/or collated nails. Many also supply pneumatic nailing tools and provide services for maintaining and repairing pneumatic nail tools. The guide is designed to help you identify fastener suppliers and learn about various product lines. Information was provided by suppliers or taken from their websites.
Which nail or screw you choose is important because the fastener has a major impact on pallet performance.
BECK America
Phone: (800) 239-8665
E-mail: Info@beck-america.com
Type of Fasteners: Collated nails and screws. Duplex nails and SCRAIL®. Also offers its unique
LignoLoc® collated wooden nails.
Sizes: Pallet nails .131-inch in diameter. Lengths include 3-inch and 3.5-inch
Sales Region: Nationwide
Product Description: BECK America offers a complete selection of tools and fasteners including
fine threads for best withdrawal values and coarse threads for superior removal performance.
SCRAIL® nail screw fasteners can be used for making wood containers and have a reputation
for fast driving into boards and have 80% of the holding power of traditional screws.
Crane Point Industrial
Contact: Ian Carter
Phone: (503) 648-0336
Fax: (503) 648-0446
E-mail: ian@cranepointllc.com
Type of Fasteners: Machine quality bulk pallet nails, 15 degree wire collated nails, high load coil pallet nails, structural screws, collated screws, bulk screws, plastic collated, paper tape collated, heat treated, horseshoe nails, stainless steel, finish nails, pins, brads, nail plates, structural hardware, tool balancers.
Sizes: Pallet nails in diameters from .083-inch to .162-inch. Finish nails in diameters from 23 gauge to .168-inch. Lengths from 0.50-inch to 6.5-inch collated.
Sales Region: International
Product Description: Crane Point Industrial is a full-service supplier of all types of fasteners, tools and accessories. This year the company added a warehouse in Boise, Idaho, to its warehouses in Baltimore, Houston, Long Beach, and Portland. Crane Point Industrial has relationships with domestic and international nail manufacturers, screw manufacturers, and tool manufacturers that span decades. Crane Point Industrial staff understands the fastener needs of the pallet and container industry. The company is an active member of the National Wooden Pallet & Container Association and the Western Pallet Association.
Corus Fastening (formerly Metropolitan Staple Corp.)
Corus www.corusfastening.com
Contact: Joe Fenton
Phone: (800) 255-7209
Fax: (973) 564-8853
E-mail: info@corusfastening.com
Type of Fasteners: Full range of collated fasteners such as coil nails, machine quality bulk nails, high load jumbo coil nails and heavy duty staples
Sales Region: Northeast, New England and Mid-Atlantic states
Product Description: Family owned and operated since 1969, Corus Fastening is full service leading distributor of industrial grade pneumatic nailing and stapling products serving pallet manufacturers and recyclers. Provides award-winning onsite service with a highly experienced team of factory trained technicians with their fleet of service vans. With over 60 years of pallet fastening expertise, they provide innovative solutions specialized for the pallets industry. They are the oldest and largest supplier in the New England and Mid-Atlantic states. At Corus, we build lasting relationships with our manufacturing partners to deliver consistent quality products that keep your business going strong.
Eagle Force Industrial
Contact: Dean Dasovic
Phone: (604) 562-7447
E-mail: info@eagleforce.ca
Type of Fasteners: Bulk nails, collated nails, staples
Sizes: Various sizes
Sales Region: North America
Product Description: Eagle Force is a distributor supplying tools and fasteners to the pallet and construction industries. The company offers high quality bulk nails, collated nails, and staples. Full and LTL direct shipments.
Everwin
https://www.everwinpneumatic.com/
Phone: (866) 911 399 118
E-mail: sales@everwinpneumatic.com
Type of Fasteners: Collated nails
Sizes: Full lineup of specialized pallet nailers for stringer and block pallets, whether you need a 1" (25mm), a 4" (100mm), or even clinch nails
Sales Region: Nationwide
Product Description: EVERWIN® was founded in 2012 by a group of American and Taiwanese pneumatic tool experts. Apart from the traditional CN80's and CN100's, Everwin has introduced its very own PN90 that has 26% more power and is lighter than the average CN80's. The innovation has brought about more compact and maneuverable tools while keeping the same driving power such as the PN65M being 23% lighter than the CN70. Most EVERWIN tools can be modified for automation use with jumbo magazine assemblies for selected models. Its entire pallet nailer line can be reassembled with the RCVA high speed remote-control valves. These tools are all built for high-volume all day industrial use. EVERWIN continues to be one of the leading brands used by CHEP with approved tools such as the PN70CL.
Legacy Fasteners
Contact: Marsha Libla
Phone: (573) 785-0521
Fax: (573) 712-2936
E-mail: marsha@legacyfasteners.com
Type of Fasteners: Machine quality bulk pallet nails and wire coil pallet nails (small coil and large coil)
Sizes: Offers a wide range of sizes, shanks and points
Sales Region: Nationwide
Product Description: Legacy Fasteners is committed to providing 'Made in U.S.A.' products and keeping the family tradition of offering high quality fasteners and excellent customer service. Legacy Fasteners provides the best products available to customers so they can get the job done. The company also distributes staples and pneumatic tools to support fastener programs. Tool lending programs are available in some areas.
Litnaglis
Contact: Martynas Vauras
Phone: +370 448-53734; +370 659-05040
Fax: +370 448-53744
Email: marketing@litnaglis.com
Litnaglis manufactures a wide range of fasteners for assembling wood pallets and construction applications, including bulk nails, wire collated nails (and high-load nails), and plastic strip and paper tape collated nails. It offers different types of shanks, cutting points, and finishes. Nails are manufactured from the highest quality raw materials and using the most modern production equipment.
Type of Fasteners: Bulk and collated nails for wood pallet and crate assembly and repair and construction applications.
Sales Region: Global
Product Description: Litnaglis is a manufacturer of steel nails for wood pallets and crates and construction applications. It produces high-quality nails for EPAL wood pallets and other types of pallets and containers. They come in a variety of different lengths, diameters, and head styles. Nails feature specialized industrial coatings for the most challenging applications.
Michigan Fastener
Contact: Jon Will
Phone: (810) 728-4005
E-mail: michiganfastener@outlook.com
Type of Fasteners: Machine grade, loose bulk nails and collated nails
Sizes, diameters: .086-.099-.113-.120- and custom sizes
Sales Region: Nationwide
Product Description: Michigan Fastener provides American-made fasteners including screw, ring and smooth. It is a family-owned and operated manufacturer of fasteners in North Branch, Michigan. The owner has nearly 20 years of experience creating quality products for some of our nation's largest distributors and production companies. Michigan Fastener uses quality steel forged in the United States. The company prides itself on being unique in the industry, proving you can put people over profit. Michigan Fastener now offers pneumatic hand tools to customers as well as tooling for automated pallet assembly machines. The company just expanded its manufacturing capacity and can now produce hi-load coils, small coils, clinch point nails, no point, blunt diamond point, extra-long diamond point, HDG bulk and more.
Mid-Continent Steel & Wire
Contact: Bruce Kennedy
Phone: (800) TOP-NAIL (867-6245), (573) 778-1211
Fax: (573) 778-3211
E-mail: blkennedy@mcswusa.com
Type of Fasteners: wire coil, plastic strip, paper tape, hand drive, machine quality bulk pallet nails, wire coil pallet nails, large-coil collated pallet nails, staples, other wood-to-wood fasteners
Sizes: Widest variety in the market, custom sizes available
Sales Region: North America
Product Description: Mid-Continent Steel & Wire is the home of MAGNUM® fasteners and pneumatic tools. It manufactures and stocks a complete assortment of machine quality bulk pallet nails, collated nails, staples, screws and hand-drive bulk nails. MAGNUM® fasteners meet and exceed stringent building codes and industry standards. Fasteners are made in the U.S. with North American raw materials. Mid-Continent is one of the largest nail manufacturers in the world. From on-site repair and delivery to its MAGNUM® Reload program, it offers multiple service solutions to meet your pallet, crating, industrial wood manufacturing or residential construction needs. Committed to creating value for customers and end-users and takes pride in ensuring a superior customer experience. With over 30 years manufacturing fasteners for the construction and industrial markets, Mid-Continent and MAGNUM are synonymous with quality. PDS FastenerSync™ license #1.
New Supplies Co.
Contact: Mike Aurelio
Phone: (219) 595-5299
Fax: (219) 595-5325
E-mail: mike@newsupplies.net
Type of Fasteners: Wire collated nails, screw, ring and smooth shank, large wire coil, standard wire coil, galvanized and ungalvanized, staples, collated screws, staples
Product Description: New Supplies Co. has been in business for 50 years, specializing in nails and staples. It is a full-service supplier of collated fasteners and tools. It also offers expertise in automated nailing systems, including Woodpecker nailing machines. Full-service programs with loan tools and service are available throughout the Midwest.
Simpson Strong-Tie
Phone: (800) 925-5099
E-mail: web@strongtie.com
Type of Fasteners: Framing nails, exterior nails, Strong-Drive® specialty fasteners, collated nails, collated fasteners for Quik Drive® auto-feed screw driving systems, Strong-Drive Connector nails in a variety of materials, including hot-dip galvanized, Type 304 and Type 316 Stainless Steel.
Sizes: Length range 3/8-inch to 6 inches; diameter range 0.049-inch to 0.238-inch.
Sales Region: Nationwide
Product Description: For more than 60 years, Simpson Strong-Tie has dedicated itself to creating products and technologies that help people build safer, stronger homes and structures, as well as pallets and containers. Simpson Strong-Tie works closely with other professionals to provide code-listed, field-tested products and value-engineered solutions. It offers a wide variety of high-quality collated fasteners and fastener productivity solutions. Use the Fastener Designer and Fastener Finder applications on the company website to search for the right fastener using multiple criteria, such as application, type, length, color or model number.
Universal Fastener Outsourcing
Contact: Jim Boyd
Phone: (800) 352-0028
E-mail: JBoyd@911-nails.com
Type of Fasteners: UFO Ballistic Nailscrews, UFO PneuScrews, and other collated and bulk fastener products as well as special pneumatic tools.
Sizes: UFO Ballistic Nailscrews for pallets and containers ranging from 2-¼ to 3-½ inches length and 0.113 to 0.131 inches diameter.
Sales Region: U.S. and Canada
Product Description: Universal Fastener Outsourcing offers a patented screw that drives with a nailer you already own. Virginia Tech testing reports are available online; it was ranked at the highest level with a multi-use – the only screws to ever pass all this testing. These are suitable for many applications – as fast as nails but with all the great advantages of using screws. The time savings versus regular screws are huge and will be more than the cost of the fasteners. Many sizes available, from 1-¼-inch to 4 inches. Contact Sherry for a free sample, Sherry@NailScrews.com or call the number above
Viking Engineering & Development
Contact: Brandy Kolar
Phone: (763) 586-1224
Fax: (219) 595-5325
E-mail: BrandyK@VikingEng.com
Type of Fasteners: Bulk and collated nails for pallet and container assembly.
Sizes: Common and specialty nails for all production needs.
Sales Region: North America
Product Description: Viking Super Stock nails have the highest carbon content in the industry. Viking offers the strongest blunt point and blunt diamond point nails in the pallet industry. Manufactured from C1042 high carbon wire rod, they may be used in any pallet nailing machine that uses bulk pallet nails. Viking Super Stock nails are guaranteed to work trouble-free with any Viking pallet assembly system. Viking operates eight warehouses throughout the U.S.
Viper Industrial Products
www.viperindustrialproducts.com
Phone: 501-679-6814
E-mail: cs@viper-us.com
Type of Fasteners: collated nails, bulk nails, collated screws, bulk screws, ballistic fasteners, staples, hog-rings, clips, high load nails
Sizes: Pallet nails, fine wire staples, heavy gauge staples, ¼’-5”
Sales Region: North America
Product Description: Viper Industrial Products is a nationwide distributor of industrial fasteners and accesories in the pallet, crating, and manufacturing markets. Our strong vendor partnerships and commitment to on hand supply enable our customers to deliver product on time to theirs. We not only supply fasteners but have a variety of pallet building machines. Our “Woody” and “TimberWolf” machines alleviate the physical strain and skilled labor of building new pallets. The “Honey Badger” is the top choice for building with recycled or reclaimed wood because of its tolerance of different widths and thicknesses, it just don’t care!
