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Unbrako

Unbrako

(OP)
Unbrako has been known for years as a reliable supplier of high strength socket head cap screws from the USA to the ASME, ANSI and ISO standards. At one point they were owned by SPS but they appear to have been sold off. Neither webpage mentions the sale and I can not find anything in a Google search. Some of their distributors do not even know about it. I just got a shipment of them and the country of origin is listed as India.

Does anybody know the story behind what is going on with them? Are they still the same company with the same quality and different ownership and global manufacturing or is only the name the same? Are they still appropriate for safety applications?

 

RE: Unbrako

Suggest you do your own testing or find another vendor.  We did!!!

RE: Unbrako

Crap.
By which I mean, damn, another company hollowed out and exported.
The new owner of the name pledges continued quality, blah, blah.
http://www.deepakfasteners.com/
 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Unbrako

I have a set of Unbrako Allen wrenches, and they definitely have lived up to their name over the past 25 years.  Sad to hear that they've gone the way of all flesh.

RE: Unbrako

Excellence Fasteners of Kattoor India is reputed to be the new supplier under the Unbrako name.  Very few fasteners are being made in the West any longer.   

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

RE: Unbrako

SPS is owned by PCC, essentially an aerospace products company, and it is ruthless about profit margins.  UNBRAKO was sold off because it was underperforming.  SPS Automotive has also been underperforming the rest of the PCC aerospace units, and is not nearly the same company that it was just a few years ago.

Deepak Fasteners is the new owner of the UNBRAKO brand.  Excellence Fasteners is just a distributor.

And yes, Holo-Krome is still manufacturing fasteners in the USA.  THey just moved into new premises in 2010, from West Hartford, CT to nearby Wallingford.
 

RE: Unbrako

Kerr Lakeside is the other alternative socket mfr that is domestic. Holo-Krome is owned by Fastenal...

RE: Unbrako

(OP)
Thank you very much everyone. While the new owner could be producing the same quality components when I go to the effort of specifying a supplier instead of a standard it is because something is too critical to trust to an unknown because of safety.

Holo-Krome was my other supplier for critical items.

At least the new owner kept the high quality literature available.

That is sad to hear about SPS Carroll Smith must be rolling over in his grave.  

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