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Forging ahead
Sustainability drives Clevedon Fasteners ’ journey toward a greener , more efficient future
For over 85 years , Clevedon Fasteners has been one of the world ’ s foremost specialist manufacturers of cold formed components . The company has maintained its long legacy of success through strategy , resilience , and service , as Managing Director , Steve Hardeman , begins : “ We ’ ve been in the manufacturing business since 1939 . Back when the business started , it supplied rivets to the Spitfire factories in Castle Bromwich , Birmingham during the war from premises in Clevedon Street , where the name of the company comes from . The company went through various ownership changes and moved to its present premises in 1955 .
“ In 2000 , Charles Hopkins , the company ’ s Financial Director , and I , took the opportunity to buy Clevedon Fasteners . We started out as minority shareholders , and in 2016 we bought out the major shareholder to become company owners . We ’ ve taken it through ups and downs — the banking crisis of 2008 , the Covid-19 pandemic , and so forth . We ’ ve always emerged on the other side , and , thankfully , we ’ re still going .”
As a manufacturer of rivets , Clevedon Fasteners ’ products are virtually invisible yet integral components of homes , vehicles , and more . As Steve discusses : “ Rivets are essentially small components used for
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