ASM Cleveland Chapter

• 1: Home
• 2: Meetings
  • 2.1: Meetings 2011-2012
    • 2.1.1: October 2011
    • 2.1.2: Plant Tour 2011
    • 2.1.3: November 2011
    • 2.1.4: November 2011 Student Event
    • 2.1.5: January 2012
    • 2.1.6: April 2012
  • 2.2: Meetings 2010-2011
    • 2.2.1: October 2010
    • 2.2.2: November 2010
    • 2.2.3: December 2010
    • 2.2.4: January 2011
    • 2.2.5: March 2011
    • 2.2.6: May 2011
  • 2.3: Meetings 2009-2010
    • 2.3.1: September 2009
    • 2.3.2: october 2009
    • 2.3.3: November 2009
    • 2.3.4: December 2009
    • 2.3.5: January 2010
    • 2.3.6: February 2010
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    • 2.3.8: April 2010
    • 2.3.9: May 2010
  • 2.4: Meetings 2008-2009
    • 2.4.1: October 2008
    • 2.4.2: November 2008
    • 2.4.3: December 2008
    • 2.4.4: January 2009
    • 2.4.5: February 2009
    • 2.4.6: March 2009
    • 2.4.7: April 2009
    • 2.4.8: May 2009
  • 2.5: Meetings 2007-2008
    • 2.5.1: October
    • 2.5.2: November
    • 2.5.3: December
    • 2.5.4: January
    • 2.5.5: February
    • 2.5.6: March
    • 2.5.7: April
    • 2.5.8: May
• 3: Events
  • 3.1: Baseball
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  • 3.3: Golf
    • 3.3.1: Map
  • 3.5: Past Events
  • 3.6: Bowling
• 4: Zay Jeffries
• 5: Organization
  • 5.1: Bylaws
  • 5.2: Committees
    • 5.2.1: Audit
    • 5.2.2: Awards
    • 5.2.3: Chairman
    • 5.2.4: Historian
    • 5.2.5: Constitution and Long Range Planning
    • 5.2.6: Cleveland Technical Societies Council (CTSC)
    • 5.2.7: Finance - Treasurer
    • 5.2.8: Education
    • 5.2.9: Hospitality
    • 5.2.10: Membership
    • 5.2.11: Nominating
    • 5.2.12: Publications
    • 5.2.13: Registration
    • 5.2.14: Chapter Secretary
    • 5.2.15: Social
    • 5.2.16: Student Affairs Committee
  • 5.3: Chapter History
  • 5.4: Nominations
  • 5.5: Officers & Committee Chairs
  • 5.6: Sponsor & Volunteer
• 6: Education
  • 6.3: Alternative Energy & Material
  • 6.4: Corrosion Symposium
  • 6.5: Thermal Spray Education Symposium
• 7: Directory
• 8: Buyer's Guide
  • 8.2: Buyer's Guide by Company
  • 8.3: Category Guide
  • 8.4: Manage Buyer's Guide
  • 8.5: Join Buyer’s Guide
• 9: Sustaining Members
• 11: Jobs
• 12: Contact

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Monday, October 18th, 2010

Technical Chair: Bradley Lerch

5:45 Social / Networking Time

6:30 Dinner

7:20 Awards Presentation—Swagelok Company & John Lewandowski

7:30 Presentation – Cardinal FASTener Anchoring the Wind Turbine Industry

Denise Muha, Quality Manager, Cardinal Fasteners

Cardinal FASTener Anchoring the Wind Turbine Industry—Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Company, Incorporated just celebrated its 27th year of business. Cardinal is the leading domestic manufacturer of high strength, large diameter fasteners that can be found in applications coast-to-coast, from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge.

More than three years ago, when the Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Company was still focused on manufacturing fasteners for construction projects and heavy equipment makers, an order arrived from Iowa. The buyer asked for specialty fasteners and they needed them in a hurry.

This new customer was a wind turbine manufacturer. Cardinal Fastener’s ability to quickly fill the order helped the company open a new market in the American clean energy sector that is steadily expanding. The company now employs 65 people, 15 more than in 2007. In the last three years Cardinal Fastener manufactured half a million parts for the wind industry, all domestically produced from made-in-America materials. In 2009, President Obama visited Cardinal Fastener and this talk with share some of the highlights of the high profile plant tour.

Denise Muha, has been in the fastener industry for 37 years.  Denise’s career began at the Cleveland Cap Screw Division of SPS Technologies in 1973 as a clerk in the accounting department.   The Cleveland facility manufactured fasteners for industrial and automotive markets at that time.  She was fortunate to have the manager of SPS’s R&D department as her mentor.  This mentorship afforded Denise the opportunity to lead a project team that worked directly with Ford Motor’s engineering group in Dearborn to design and test the “critical engine fasteners” for Ford’s Modular Engine Program.  

In 1994, Denise joined Cardinal as their Sales & Marketing Manager.   It wasn’t long before she moved into the manufacturing side of the business implementing the disciplines required of automotive suppliers into Cardinal’s processes then into quality with those same disciplines.  Bringing Cardinal up to automotive standards and our Lean Manufacturing process gave us the base for our entry into manufacturing fasteners for the wind energy market.