American Fastener Technologies

What American Fastener Technologies does

American Fastener Technologies Corporation is a privately held industrial fastener distributor founded in 1983 and headquartered in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh metro), serving as a single-source supplier of captive panel fasteners, threaded fasteners, and specialty fasteners to demanding industrial customers worldwide. The company carries an inventory of more than 100 million fasteners across application-aligned categories — construction, precision, marine, specialty, metric, stainless/corrosion-resistant, oil-gas-petrochemical, and structural — as well as a deep product-type menu spanning anchors, bent bolts, cap screws, captive panel fasteners, cotter pins, eyebolts, machine screws, nuts (including Stover locknuts), retaining rings, rivets, self-clinching/self-drilling/self-tapping screws, SEMS assemblies, sockets, spring nuts, washers, weld screws, and wood screws. Materials include stainless steel alloys (301–446, 17-4 PH, 17-7 PH), aluminum, copper- and nickel-base alloys, high-temperature alloys, brass, naval brass, Monel, and silicon bronze, with products tested to SAE, ASTM, ASME, and ISO standards and supported by technical resources such as drill-size charts, grade-marking references, and thread terminology guides.

The business model is direct B2B distribution with quote-based pricing (no public list price), accepting purchase orders via a toll-free sales line (1-800-466-9780), an online quote-request form answered within one business day by an account representative, and worldwide shipping with export crating, NAFTA documentation, drop-ship, charter service, and a documented critical-care emergency service capability. Revenue is generated exclusively through one-time product sales — no subscription, licensing, or recurring contract structure is disclosed — and open-account customers are billed on net-30 terms with a 1%-10-days early-payment discount in USD. Customer mix is heavily skewed toward specialized industrial buyers, with named reference accounts spanning the U.S. Navy (ordnance devices), NASA (Cape Canaveral space support), the Statue of Liberty restoration, an Italian superyacht builder, and a major touring-act staging contractor.

Distribution is global: the firm ships to all 50 U.S. states, 7 Canadian provinces, and 39 countries, and reports a base of more than 2,100 customers, executed by a lean headcount of 11–50 employees. There is no disclosed parent company, no private equity or venture capital involvement, no subsidiaries, no acquisitions, no executive team listed publicly, no patents of its own (a Stover® trademark reference exists but the registration belongs to RB&W Corporation), no product integrations or APIs, and no AI/ML features in the offering.

Name

American Fastener Technologies

Legal name

American Fastener Technologies Corporation

Website

https://americanfastener.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Privately held industrial fastener distributor founded in 1983 in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, supplying more than 100 million SKUs of captive panel, threaded, and specialty fasteners via quote-based B2B sales to military, aerospace, oil and gas, marine, and construction customers in 50 U.S. states, 7 Canadian provinces, and 39 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Fasteners

NAICS

Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing (332722)

SIC

Wholesale-Hardware (5072)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYIMABANAA

Aerospace Fasteners & Hardware

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing/Aerospace Materials and Components

SECONDARYIMAJAKAI

Fasteners & Joining Consumables (Bolts, Rivets, Welding Wire/Rods, Flux)

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Marine & Shipbuilding/Shipbuilding Materials & Components (Steel, Aluminum, Composites, Prefab Modules)

Keywords

• Industrial fasteners
• Captive panel fasteners
• Threaded fasteners
• Metric fasteners
• Corrosion-resistant fasteners

Headquarters

HQ city

Gibsonia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Fastener Product Sales: One-time product sales of industrial fasteners including bolts, screws, nuts, washers, anchors, rivets, and specialty fasteners to B2B customers. Products are sold in various materials including stainless steel, high-strength alloys, brass, and exotic materials. Payment terms of 1%-10 days, Net 30 days available for open accounts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

American Fastener Technologies Corporation is an industrial fastener supplier that stocks and globally sources more than 100 million captive panel fasteners, threaded fasteners, metric fasteners, stainless steel and corrosion-resistant fasteners, structural bolts, anchors, rivets, screws, nuts, washers, and specialty fasteners, all tested to SAE, ASTM, ASME, and ISO standards and sold directly to industrial customers via quote-based phone and online sales. The company serves military, defense, aerospace, oil & gas, petrochemical, marine, construction, and heavy-industry buyers through B2B sales representatives, with worldwide shipping including export crating, drop-ship, and emergency services.

Product overview

American Fastener Technologies is an industrial fastener supplier established in 1983, offering over 100 million fasteners in stock. The company's product portfolio is organized into fastener categories by application (Construction, Precision, Marine, Specialty, Metric, Stainless Steel/Corrosion Resistant, Oil & Gas, Structural) and by product type (Anchors, Bent Bolts, Cap Screws, Captive Panel Fasteners, Cotter Pins, Drywall & Deck Screws, Eyebolts, Machine Screws, Nuts, Retaining Rings, Rivets, Screw Driver Insert Bits, Self Clinching Fasteners, Self Drilling Screws, Self Tapping Screws, SEMS, Sockets, Spring Nuts, Thread Cutting Screws, Thread Rolling Screws, Thumb & Wing Screws, Washers, Weld Screws, Wood Screws, Threaded Fasteners). The company also provides technical standards and guidelines, quote request services, and ships to all 50 US states, 7 Canadian provinces, and 39 countries. Products meet SAE, ASTM, ASME, and ISO standards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Construction Fasteners Fastener family designed for construction applications, including concrete and masonry expansion anchors, construction adhesives, self-drilling, concrete, cement, sheet metal, deck, lag, and wood screws, and anchor bolts.
• Precision Fasteners High-quality fasteners for industries requiring critical tolerances and exacting specifications, including oil and gas and marine applications.
• Marine Fasteners Corrosion-resistant fasteners for marine environments, including salt-water applications, offered in 18-8 and 316 stainless steel, brass, Naval Brass, Monel, and Silicon Bronze.
• Specialty Fasteners Custom and specialized fasteners designed for unique problem applications, including high-temperature environments such as missile launches and deep-mining operations.
• Metric Fasteners Metric screws, cap screws, sockets, rods, studs, washers, machine screws, bolts, nuts, self-tapping screws, rivets, pins, and tamper-proof security fasteners available in DIN/ISO standards with RoHS-compliant options.
• Stainless Steel & Corrosion-Resistant Fasteners Corrosion-resistant fasteners in stainless steel alloys (301-446, 17-4 PH, 17-7 PH), aluminum, copper-base, nickel-base, high-temperature, and nonmetallic materials.
• Oil, Gas & Petro-Chemical Fasteners Fasteners for the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries, including ASTM/ASME A193/A194 studs, heavy hex nuts, TEFLON/Xylan-coated options, and stainless steel grades for harsh service.
• Structural Fasteners & Galvanized Structural Bolts Quenched and tempered steel heavy hex structural bolts with minimum 120 ksi tensile strength, compliant with AISC, AASHTO, and ASTM A325/A490 specifications.
• Technical Standards & Guidelines (Reference Materials) Reference materials supporting fastener selection, including proper drill bit size charts, ASTM/SAE/ISO grade markings, heat-treated alloy specifications, mechanical requirements, metric specifications, tap and drill size charts, and thread terminology.
• Threaded Fasteners Catalog (Screws & Bolts) Catalog grouping of the company's threaded screws and bolts, including bent bolts, machine screws, self-clinching fasteners, sockets, cap screws, self-drilling screws, thread-cutting screws, weld screws, drywall and deck screws, self-tapping screws, thread-rolling screws, wood screws, eyebolts, SEMS, and thumb and wing screws.
• Captive Panel Fasteners Press-in style and flare-in style captive panel fasteners used to secure panels.
• Anchors Anchor family including hammer drive anchors, lag screw shields, toggle wings, plastic anchors, wedge anchors, and hollow wall anchors in various specifications.
• Bent Bolts Custom bent bolt configurations including J-bolts and other bent geometries produced to specified dimensions.
• Cap Screws Hex head cap screws and related cap screw types, including lag screws, carriage bolts, dowel screws, elevator bolts, tap bolts, head plow bolts, slotted flat countersunk, reliant frame bolts, step bolts, hanger bolts, and serrated flange screws.
• Cotter Pins & Spring Pins Cotter pins and spring pins offered in various sizes and specifications.
• Drywall & Deck Screws Bugle head screws, Twin Fast screws, and particle board screws for drywall, deck, and particle board applications.
• Eyebolts Type 1 regular pattern and Type 2 shoulder pattern eyebolts per ANSI B18.15 with safe working load specifications.
• Machine Screws External threads Class 2A machine screws in various head types and detailed specifications.
• Industrial Nuts Nut product family including two-piece hex cap nuts, hex coupling nuts, hex castle nuts, T-nuts, wing nuts, finished hex nuts, heavy hex nuts, hex slotted nuts, serrated flange lock nuts, K lock nuts, square and hex machine screw nuts, hex panel nuts, regular square nuts, nylon insert stop nuts, and Stover locknuts.
• Retaining Rings Type E, Type HO (internal), and Type SH (external) retaining rings.
• Rivet Fasteners Closed-end rivets, blind rivets (dome head and large flange head), and U-FIX brand blind rivets per ANSI B18.1 standards.
• Screwdriver Insert Bits Insert bits for various screw drive types, with point size, body diameter, and compatibility charts.
• Self-Clinching Fasteners Self-clinching studs and self-clinching nuts for panel fastening applications.
• Self-Drilling Screws Self-drilling screws with hex head, hex washer head, pan head, and wafer head configurations.
• Self-Tapping Screws Self-tapping screws in drive screw Type U, flat head, square drive flat head, oval head, combination drive pan head, square drive pan head, Torx drive, truss head, and Type A/AB/25/B/High-Low thread styles.
• SEMS Screw Fasteners Pre-assembled screws with internal-tooth, external-tooth, split-lock, and square-conical lock washers.
• Socket Fasteners Socket head cap screws, button head socket cap screws, flat head socket cap screws, low head socket cap screws, hex wrenches, socket pipe plugs, socket shoulder screws, and socket set screws.
• Spring Nuts Heat-treated spring steel nuts in U-type, J-type, and flat configurations.
• Thread-Cutting Screws Thread-cutting screws for creating new threads in pre-drilled holes, in flat head, flat head Torx drive, hex head, oval head, and pan head configurations.
• Thread-Rolling Screws Thread-forming (thread-rolling) screws including Plastite and Genuine Taptite II brand products.
• Thumb & Wing Screws Type P and Type S thumb screws and wing screws designed for manual fastening.
• Washers Washer product family including internal-tooth and external-tooth lock washers, flat washers, fender washers, USS washers, SAE washers, countersunk finishing washers, countersunk external-tooth washers, split lock washers, and hi-collar helical spring lock washers.
• Weld Screws Steel weld screws with projections on top of or under the head, used for projection-weld fastening.
• Wood Screws Flat head, oval head, and round head wood screws per ANSI standards.

Quantifiable outcome

• Served over 2,100 customers worldwide
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• W.W. Grainger: Grainger is a Fortune-scale industrial supply distributor with extensive fastener lines and KeepStock inventory management services for industrial buyers. It overlaps with AFT on threaded fasteners and structural hardware but as part of a 1.5M+ SKU catalog.
• MSC Industrial Direct: MSC Industrial is a large multi-channel MRO and fastener distributor serving metalworking, aerospace, and industrial customers with metalworking and fastener offerings overlapping AFT's portfolio, but as part of a much broader MRO catalog.
• Lawson Products: Lawson Products is a U.S. distributor of fasteners, fittings, and maintenance products sold through direct-sales route coverage to industrial customers — overlapping AFT's B2B industrial fastener business at a broader product scale.
• Fastenal: Fastenal is the largest U.S. industrial fastener and MRO supply distributor with a national branch and vending-machine network. It competes with AFT on threaded fasteners and structural bolts but operates at vastly greater scale across a broader MRO product portfolio.

Direct peers

• McMaster-Carr: McMaster-Carr is the U.S. benchmark catalog distributor of industrial fasteners, hardware, and raw components, operating with a same-day shipping model across an enormous SKU range — directly comparable to American Fastener Technologies' core specialty/marine/structural fastener distribution business.
• Bolt Depot: Bolt Depot is an online-focused U.S. distributor of fasteners (bolts, screws, nuts, washers, anchors) shipping to industrial and DIY customers — a directly comparable specialty fastener distributor with a different channel mix.
• Bisco Industries: Bisco Industries is a specialty distributor of fasteners, electronic hardware, and components serving aerospace, defense, and industrial OEMs — a closely comparable niche industrial fastener distributor profile to AFT.
• Mutual Screw & Supply: Mutual Screw & Supply is a regional U.S. distributor specializing in threaded and specialty fasteners, anchors, and hardware for industrial and construction customers — a closely comparable mid-size fastener distributor to AFT.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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