Acument Global Technologies Names TORX® Drive System World Class Quality Award Winners for 2009

TROY, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acument Global Technologies, Inc. (Acument), a leading supplier of mechanical fastening technology, has announced the 2009 winners of its TORX® Drive System World Class Quality Awards. Owner of one of the largest and longest-running intellectual property licensing programs in the fastening industry, Acument established the annual award program in 2005 to recognize its high-performing, qualified licensees who demonstrate the greatest commitment to manufacturing high quality, authentic TORX® fasteners and tooling during the previous calendar year. Five drive tool producers and 13 fastener manufacturers representing Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States were among Acument TORX® licensees receiving the award for 2009 performance. They include:

“The TORX® World Class Quality Awards program’s global participation represents the reach of Acument’s technology licensing activity and the extensive adoption of our TORX® Drive System by the world’s leading manufacturing markets”

TORX® Drive Tool Licensees

• Cooper Industries – Dayton, Ohio, USA (fifth time)
• Felo-Werkzeugfabrik – Neustadt, Germany (second time)
• Master Manufacturing Co., Inc. – Evansville, Ind., USA (fourth time)
• Western Forge – Colorado Springs, Colo., USA (fourth time)
• Zephyr Manufacturing Company – Inglewood, Calif., USA (third time)

TORX® Fastener Licensees

• infastech Malaysia – Seremban, Malaysia (first time)
• infastech Tri-Star Limited – Tainan, Taiwan (second time)
• Air Industries Company – Garden Grove, Calif., USA (second time)
• Celo, S.A. – Barcelona, Spain (first time)
• Continental Midland LLC – Park Forest, Ill., USA (first time)
• Endela Trading & Manufacturing PTE Ltd. – Singapore (first time)
• Ideal Fasteners, Inc. – Anaheim, Calif., USA (first time)
• ITW - Shakeproof Industrial Products – Broadview, Ill., USA (first time)
• Natec Co., Inc. – Esashi-City, Iwate, Japan (second time)
• PB Fasteners – Gardena, Calif., USA (second time)
• QST International Corporation – Tainan, Taiwan (third time)
• Semblex Corporation – Elmhurst, Ill, USA (second time)
• Yamashina Corporation – Kyoto, Japan (fourth time)

“The TORX® World Class Quality Awards program’s global participation represents the reach of Acument’s technology licensing activity and the extensive adoption of our TORX® Drive System by the world’s leading manufacturing markets,” said Marty Bieschke, Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing for Acument. “Six TORX® fastener licensees won the award for the first time in 2009. Only Cooper Industries, a TORX® drive tool licensee, has won the award in each of the competition’s five years, setting an elite standard of technical, manufacturing and service performance for licensed TORX® manufacturers around the world.”

Breakthrough Drive Systems

Since its introduction in the 1960s, the TORX® Drive System has become the world’s leading high-performance drive system for threaded assemblies in a broad range of applications and end-use markets due to its clear advantages in numerous assembly situations, Bieschke said. Qualified licensed manufacturers apply the TORX® and TORX PLUS® Drive Systems for applications in automotive, industrial, electronics, aerospace, and other markets.

For more information on becoming a licensee of Acument Global Technologies, Inc. and its renowned TORX® and TORX PLUS® Drive Systems, please visit the company’s Website at http://www.acument.com/licensing/index.asp.

About Acument Global Technologies, Inc.

Headquartered in Troy, Mich., USA, Acument Global Technologies, Inc., is among the world’s leading providers of mechanical fastening products and services for the transportation market, including engineered fastening systems, inventory management services, and application engineering support. With more than 2,600 employees at facilities in North America, South America and Europe, Acument supplies fastening products, systems and services to customers around the world. For more information about Acument Global Technologies, visit www.acument.com.