Industry Activities 

by Gang Hao Chang, Fastener World

The Fort Worth, Texas-based Greenslade & Company Inc. is a world’s leading company specialized in offering high-quality gaging products & services for the global fastener industry. Incorporated by the former company owner Joe Greenslade in Rockford, Illinois in 1978, Greenslade & Company has made a big leap forward since its calibration laboratory was accredited in 2000 and since Mr. Larry Borowski and Mr. Larry McLaughlin took on the ownership from the founder Joe Greenslade. Through decades of effort and development, Greenslade & Company has not only shown robust strength in development of standard/custom gaging related to fastener inspection, but also has expanded its accredited calibrations to go beyond the strict dimensional format.  

Gaging products of Greenslade & Company are widely used in many industries around the world, particularly in the automotive, medical, aerospace, commercial, oil & gas and construction industries. With the support of its ISO 17025 certified calibration laboratory, Greenslade & Company is able to process products in its lab and have them 100% certified before products are allowed to leave the warehouse, which could significantly reduce the potential cost and risk of goods return due to the misuse of disqualified gaging products by customers.

For years, the professional team of Greenslade & Company has been dedicated to the R&D of high quality gaging products and services that can be best suited to various needs of customers from different industries. Recess Checker™, Lengthchek™, N-Spekt™, Major Gage™, Fastation™ to name a few are all patented products of the company and have been adopted by many customers to deal with gaging issues which continue to be of great concern to the industry. President Larry Borowski of Greenslade & Company said, “The design of all of our products is solely based on the idea of “Simpler is Better”, since the end user needs to be able to use these gages quickly and easily, and they have to be robust enough to stand up to machine shop type environments.”   

One of the wide array of services Greenslade & Company can offer is its calibration laboratory. “Combining the equipment used for calibration with our fastener inspection equipment, there are not many fastener inspections jobs that we cannot do,” President Borowski said with confidence. Being well rooted in the fastener industry and holding seats at major fastener committees such as ASME and SAE, Greenslade does have many resources at its disposal to handle most fastener related consultation needs.

In addition to general fastener gaging and calibration, Greenslade also offers a very helpful data collection software “N-Spekt” that can both benefit small and large companies. Small companies get the benefit of having all their data stored electronically, and can submit professional looking inspection reports to their clients.  Larger companies benefit from the networking capability of the software where someone sitting in an office in Ohio, can instantaneously view inspection reports generated by their facility in China. Moreover, in order to make sure customers with demand for certain equipment are fully satisfied, Greenslade & Company has also established a strategic alliance with an industry leading manufacturer of custom high-end fastener testing equipment, TesT GmbH since Feb 2017, making the service range of Greenslade & Company more complete and customer-oriented. 

President Borowski emphasized, “Greenslade & Company, Inc. can help support customers with our gage offerings as well as our technical knowledge of the fastener industry and we can help customers develop their quality program, and teach them to better understand the basic inspection requirements.”

Looking forward, Greenslade & Company will continue to focus on reinforcing its brand awareness and try to grab the largest market share in the industry. Through participation in fastener trade shows in Las Vegas and Chicago and the cooperation with its representatives in Taiwan, India, Brazil and China, Greenslade & Company will work hard to play an essential role in supporting customers and industries with high quality inspection needs.

Contact: Mr. Larry Borowski

Email: lborowski@greensladeandcompany.com