Quincy, MA - March 25, 2014 - Permanent Technologies, Inc. (Pinksheets: PERT.PK) announced that Frederick Barry II, a senior executive with hands-on experience in manufacturing, production control and selling in consumer and industrial fasteners, has joined the company as President and Executive Board Member.
"I'm truly excited about joining Permanent Technologies," said Mr. Barry. "The TineLok™ vibration proof fastener is an incredible product that I believe will make a positive impact on the reliability, maintainability and overall cost of manufactured goods."
Mr. Barry spent most of his career helping build smaller companies in the nut and bolt industry into viable, sustainable successful companies. He brings crucial skills Permanent Technologies has been seeking to help TineLok gain wide acceptance across various market segments.
Since joining Permanent Technologies, Mr. Barry has revamped the company's website, standardized the company's product offerings, and has laid the sales and marketing groundwork for adding major distributors to their network, all of which he has accomplished in prior organizations.
"We have been looking to round out our team with an executive-level resource that brings a manufacturing and sales background along with engineering knowledge. We believe by internally developing these key functions we will be able to generate sales in the near term," stated Patrick Tremblay, CEO of Permanent. "We're confident Mr. Barry has the capabilities, contacts, and industry knowledge to achieve great things for our Company."
Prior to joining Permanent Technologies, Mr. Barry spent twenty-six years with Standard Lock Washer & Manufacturing Company. He is also the third generation of his family with a career in the fastener industry. Collectively he and his family have over ninety years' experience building successful companies in this sector.
"TineLok™ is truly a standout product that has the ability to change the industrial fastener market. We believe that with Fred Barry on our team, TineLok™ can become the standard for any fastening application where vibration is an issue," added Mr. Tremblay.
About
Permanent Technologies, Inc.
Permanent
Technologies is the inventor and manufacturer of the TineLok™ Fastening System
-- a family of fasteners that are designed to hold tight in the most demanding,
extreme and harshest conditions, environments and applications.
The TineLok™ Fastening
System's vibration-proof, self-locking technology is an affordable alternative
to traditional fasteners when increased safety, reliability, operating life and
reduced maintenance is desired or required.
The Company has been granted
numerous patents both in the U.S. and internationally for the TineLok™
technology. Both TineLok™ and Universal Lok™ are trademarks of Permanent
Technologies, Inc. For more information
please visit www.TineLok.com.
Forward
Looking Statements:
This press release contains
certain "forward-looking" statements that involve a number of risks
and uncertainties. Statements, which are not historical facts, are
forward-looking statements. The Company, through its management, makes
forward-looking public statements concerning its expected future operations,
performance and other developments. Such forward-looking statements are
necessarily estimates reflecting the Company's best judgment based upon current
information and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, and there can be
no assurance that other factors will not affect the accuracy of such
Forward-looking statements. It is impossible to identify all such factors,
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
estimated by the Company. They include, but are not limited to, the Company's
ability to develop operations, the Company's ability to consummate and complete
an acquisition, the Company's access to future capital, the successful
integration of acquired companies, government regulation, managing and
maintaining growth, the effect of adverse publicity, litigation, competition,
sales and other factors that may be identified from time to time in the
Company's public announcements.
This press release is
provided for information purposes only and is not intended to constitute an
offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
Contact:
Permanent Technologies, Inc.
Frederick Barry II
email: fbarry@tinelok.com
phone: (617) 481-9531