A Need For Speed-Speedtech International Partners With Fastenal Company to Offer Innovative SPEEDWRAP® Product Line Of Hook & Loop Products And Specialty Fasteners.

A Need For Speed-Speedtech International Partners With Fastenal Company to Offer Innovative SPEEDWRAP® Product Line Of Hook & Loop Products And Specialty Fasteners.

Speedtech International, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative bundling, banding, and cable management products, is partnering with a leading industrial distributor, Fastenal Company, to sell SPEEDWRAP®, its product line of hook & loop and other specialty fasteners.

(January 5, 2016, RACINE, WI) — Speedtech International, Inc., a leading manufacturer of hook and loop ties, straps and specialty fasteners, is pleased to announce its partnership with Fastenal Company, a leading industrial distributor. Fastenal, one of the largest MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) Distributors, will carry the SPEEDWRAP® Brand of Hook & Loop and Specialty Fasteners.

With a factory dedicated to the fabrication and distribution of innovative bundling, banding, and cable management products, Speedtech’s niche has historically been hook and loop products. After 20 years of dedication to solving customers’ banding and bundling application problems primarily, Speedtech’s product line has grown into a plethora of highly innovative specialty fasteners. Today, Speedtech’s SPEEDWRAP® branded product line features one of the widest offerings of cable management, and material handling products including several new patented items.

Fastenal Company, one of the largest MRO distributors worldwide, ranks Number 12 on Industrial Distribution’s 2015 Big 50 List. Fastenal serves its customers with more than 2,700 stores, 50,000 FAST Solutions® vending machines, and online. Fastenal operates 14 distribution centers in North America with additional locations in Asia, Europe, Central and South America, and Africa. SPEEDWRAP®’s growing popularity, stellar reputation, and high quality industrial-grade products led Fastenal to add the SPEEDWRAP® Brand of Products for their quality-conscious customers.

Steve Pope, Speedtech’s Vice President of Sales, asserts, “We are pleased to partner with Fastenal and to offer our customers multichannel acquisition of SPEEDWRAP® products. The MRO channel remains a top priority for Speedtech. By partnering with Fastenal, customers can now pick up our product at local Fastenal branches, have our product delivered to their dock in one of the infamous Fastenal pickup trucks, or have the products managed as part of their stock and bin program inside their warehouse or factory. We are thrilled to be associated with such a fine distributor!”

Along with the hook & loop products, Fastenal will carry some of the new SPEEDWRAP® Specialty Fasteners, including the recently patented, Kwik Bandit™ line of rubber straps and the versatile Ty-Up ™ Pallet Ties.

The SPEEDWRAP® brand is offered through Industrial, MRO, Data Communications, Audio, Video, Hardware, and Recreation Distributors Nationwide. SPEEDWRAP® products ship from Speedtech’s ISO Registered factory located in Racine, Wisconsin.

More About Speedtech International, Inc.

Founded in 1994, Speedtech International Inc. pioneered the development of cable and wire management using hook and loop fasteners. Speedtech provides OEM’s, engineers, product managers, purchasing agents, and distributors the most complete line of hook and loop products including ties, straps, continuous rolls, and unique patented fasteners. Today the company also offers non-hook and loop products for bundling, banding, and securing wires and cables, or for material handling. Newer products include the Kwik Bandit™ Rubber Banding Straps and the Ty-Up® Pallet and Cargo Ties. For more information and Speedtech’s full product offerings, visit www.speedtechinternational.com/.

More About Fastenal

Fastenal sells a variety of industrial and construction supplies. Products include threaded fasteners, tools, metal cutting tool blades and abrasives. Fastenal also offers fluid transfer components and accessories for hydraulic and pneumatic power. In addition, Fastenal offers material handling, storage and packaging products, janitorial supplies, chemical and paint products, electrical