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Last Thursday Bead Industries celebrated a monumental achievement: its 100-year anniversary in continuous business. I’m extremely proud to have been a part of the company’s history for the last 16 years, and that a small family business in Connecticut can accomplish such a milestone.
Though a little damp and foggy, more than 150 people came through our doors to help us celebrate: including current employees and their families, board members, former employees, vendors, customers, colleagues and fellow manufactures. We were also extremely delighted that legislators from Hartford and local officials came to make speeches and present Bead with proclamations memorializing the occasion. Joining us were Senator Gayle Slossberg, House Representatives Paul Davis, Kim Rose and James Maroney, as well as Milford Mayor Benjamin Blake and Orange’s First Selectman James Zeoli. May 8th was proclaimed “Bead Industries Day” in both Milford and Orange, as our facility straddles the town line. Even a proclamation from Governor Malloy’s office honored and recognized Bead’s accomplishment
There was plenty of food and drink for the visitors including a specially brewed pale ale labeled “Bead Industries Centenni-ale.” There were history boards located throughout the building, each describing a decade of manufacturing innovation, and an 18-minute video of the history of Bead and the Bryant family premiered in the Boardroom.
A great time was had by all.
Bead Industries Celebrates 100 Years with its Employees – On March 17th, Bead Industries celebrated 100 years of continuous operation. Though many public events are in the works for the coming months, today was a time for Bead employees to gather together to celebrate the company’s centennial year in their Milford/Orange plant. Corned beef and cabbage was brought in from a local restaurant, and […] http://ow.ly/2ERzpY
Bead Welcomes a Third Daughter to the Business – Leading contact pin manufacturer for nearly 100 years, Bead Industries, Inc., announces the addition of another fifth generation family member, Sylvia Pessin, to the family business. Bead has hired Pessin as Customer Relationship Manager, making her the third daughter to join the company. Her sisters, Jill Mayer and Leah Davenport, came to Bead in 2008 […] http://ow.ly/2y1PTf
Bryant receives Jeffrey Butland Family Owned Business of the Year SBA Award http://ow.ly/2wJFCn
Bead Industries, Inc announced the purchase of the assets of Autoswage Products’ tubular and square wire swaging operation on Thursday December 30, 2010. The acquisition will become part of the corporation’s Bead Electronics Division based in Milford, CT. “This acquisition strengthens Bead’s position in the very competitive electronics interconnect market”, Mr. Bryant said.
Bead is the leading manufacturer of swaged tubular, solid wire and continuous reeled interconnect pins for the automotive, telecom, connector, data and lighting industries. Ron Andreoli, President of Bead Electronics said, “The acquisition of these product lines expands our current swaging business, provides additional complementary technology and supplements Bead’s organic growth strategy focused on new products and enhanced marketing. The integration is going smoothly and all orders will ship as scheduled. Our new customers can expect the innovative products and excellent customer service Bead Electronics is known for.”
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Bead Industries has been using the cold metal forming process, known as swaging, for over 96 years. From the old French word for blacksmith or forging, swaging is a type of stamping operation using a progressive die. Flat metal strip moves through a draw die and is formed into a seamed tube, then enters a die with a number of cavities that progressively forms the pin into a finished product. As the pin is formed it osculates 90° with every strike, similar to making a snowball. The process of swaging produces extremely uniform parts as there is no where for the metal to flow but within the confines of each cavity, so pin features occur at the exact same location piece after piece. What’s more, there is virtually no scrap in the process: 50 pounds of metal enter the process and 50 pounds of parts exit the process.
When compared to other cold-forming processes, swaging has the best of both worlds: it’s almost half the price of screw machined parts but can achieve much greater uniformity and more diverse geometries than stamped parts. Though scrap is inherent in both screw machining and stamping, scrap is virtually non-existent during swaging.
Bead Electronics swages many varieties of tubular and solid wire pins. Through the swaging process, Bead can produces collars, ears, knurls, and other retention devices as well as offset pins. Our new patent pending True Grip Pin is the first continuous-reeled pin with a collar making it a hybrid through hole and surface mount pin designed for automatic insertion.
It is truly amazing that Bead is able to forge its way to the future using a process designed at the beginning of the last century.
The Family Jewels Are Nickel-Plated Steel 