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Powers Fasteners Australasia
History

Powers Fasteners is a privately owned, global company (1) specialising in manufacturing and marketing quality anchoring and fastening products for concrete, masonry, and steel. Powers carries a wide range of unique and innovative fastening solutions for concrete and masonry applications. (2)

Powers Fasteners, formerly known as Rawl, has been providing innovative fastening solutions for more than 85 years, (3) including the past 16 years under the Powers name. Powers sells exclusively through distribution.

Recent Developments

In May 2009, Powers Fasteners released their Ridgeback (Diamond blades and cups) Range. Ridgeback is a range of professional quality turbo blades, continuous rim blades, segmented blades, laser-welded demolition saw blades, as well as a full range of Diamond grinding cups for concrete applications. (4)

In December 2009, Powers Fasteners announced its strategic alliance with reputable manufacturer Muro. An extensive range of high volume screwing solutions was released with unique tooling as well as options and accessories to suit a wide variety of drilling machine brands. (5)

In January 2010, Powers Fasteners released their range of rivets in conjunction with their strategic alliance with Spurway Cooke Industries, with a range of hand rivet tools slated to be available from April 2010. (6)

Corporate Vision

Powers aim to help people fasten to concrete, block, brick, steel and drywall every day. (7) Their customers are the users and specifiers of fasteners. Selling through distribution means that Powers aims to build strong relationships with its customer base in order to have the right product on the right job site at the right time. (8)

Operations

Powers employs over 70 staff in its 6 factory warehouses in Australia (9), with local warehouses in every major market. With their Australasian Head Office situated in Dandenong South, Victoria, Powers Fasteners has warehouses and staff located at Smeaton Grange in New South Wales, Acacia Ridge in Queensland, Cairns in Far North Queensland, Regency Park in South Australia and Malaga in Western Australia as well as overseeing operations in the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, Auckland, New Zealand and Bangkok, Thailand. (10)

Strategic Alliances

Powers Fasteners Australasia has long-standing strategic alliances with Mungo (11), SFS Intec, and Heller, and has recently agreed strategic alliances with Muro, Kress and Spurway Cooke. (12)

PeTV

In January, 2010 Powers Fasteners launched its new PeTV project. PeTV is an acronym for Powers electronic Training Vehicle. While Powers has used PTV (Product Training Vehicles) on-site for some time, this new venture is designed to provide training and information using the internet. The launch commenced with a suite of technical videos uploaded to the Powers Fasteners Youtube Channel. (www.youtube.com/powersfasteners)

Products Proprietary Lines

While carrying a large number of commodity lines, Powers Fasteners offers the following proprietary lines to market: (13) Blue-Tip Screwbolt Hollow Set Drop-In Powerbolt Walldog Anchor Legs Rubber Nuts Spikes Vertigo Range of Products (14) Snake Drop-in Scorpion Apolo Range of Products Stick-e Range of Products Tools

Powers has developed the following range of gas tools and offer them for sale within Australia. (15) C3 Trak-it Tool for Concrete C3-ST Short Trak-it Tool for Concrete C4 Trak-it Tool for Concrete W3EX Timber Framing Nailer Pole Tools to suit PA and gas tools Muro

Green Star Powers Fasteners has had four chemical adhesives approved for use for Green Star specifications under the Good Environmental Choice Australia (GECA 1-2005) assessment. These products are AC-100e, Powerstick, AC100PRO and PowerFast Pro Epoxy Injection System. (16)

References 1. http://www.powers.com.au/about 2. http://www.infolink.com.au/c/Powers-Fasteners-Australasia 3. http://www.powers.com/about.html 4. Ridgeback (2009) independent p.3 5. Muro screw fastening solutions by Powers (2009) independent p. 2 6. Blind Rivets Buyers Guide (2010) independent p.8 7. Securing Our Future (2005) independent p.3 8. Securing Our Future (2005) independent p. 9 9. 2009 Construction Site Buyers Guide – Powers (2009) independent p. 1 10. http://www.powers.com.au/distributors/localmap.aspx 11. http://www.mungo.ch/index.php?show=en_e89khhs 12. http://www.powers.com.au/about/strategicalliance.aspx 13. http://www.powers.com.au/mechanical/ 14. http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/18671 15. http://www.powers.com.au/forcedentry/Default.aspx 16. http://www.geca.org.au/EPDs/FinalPFastenersEPDOct09.pdf External Links

Official Site (http://www.powers.com.au) Powers North America (http://www.powers.com) Powers Europe (http://www.powerseurope.nl) Powers PeTV (http://www.youtube.com/powersfasteners)