On the fastener manufacturing plant tours you'll see cold heading, hot heading and thread rolling for commercial and aerospace products.

Your tour will include: Binder Metal Products, AVK Industrial Products and R&D Fasteners.

Binder Metal Products has produced washers and custom stampings for over 75 years. They have adopted and are regis¬tered for all of the latest in quality standards, including QS9000, ISO9002, NVLAP accredited laboratory, and PACCAR certi¬fied vendor program with a 99% rating. Binder Metal Products provides many services to their customers, including fabrication of tools (a complete tool and die shop is on-site), CAD (computer aided design) for documenting requirements via a print, EDI, on-time delivery and an online quote system. Click here for their website

AVK Industrial Products, located in Valencia, Califor¬nia, manufactures blind installed threaded fasteners for transportation and general industrial markets worldwide. They feature product lines of both unified (INCH) and metric fasteners along with numerous special designs that meet customer application requirements. The goal of AVK is to be the world market leader in the design, development and manufacturing of blind installed fasteners. Click here for their website

R&D Fasteners, in Rancho Cucamonga, was founded in 1984 to provide quality fasteners and hardware-related items to the military, industrial and commercial markets at competitive prices. Today, they specialize in manufacturing specialty fasteners and hardware-related items to aerospace, industrial, commercial, marine, waterworks, heavy equipment and US government, including industry standards, specials and any items to individual prints.Click here for their website