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Camcar Innovations^® has announced the 2022 winners of its TORX^® Drive System World Class Quality Award. Since its introduction in the 1960s, the TORX^® Drive System has become the world’s leading high performance drive system for threaded assemblies in a broad range of applications and end user markets.

Owner of one of the largest and longest running intellectual property licensing programs in the fastening industry, Camcar Innovations^® established the annual award program in 2005 to recognise its high performing, qualified licensees who demonstrate the greatest commitment to manufacturing high-quality, genuine TORX^® products during the previous calendar year. 

Six drive tool and twenty-two fastener manufacturers – representing the countries of China, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States – were among the TORX^® licensees receiving the award for their 2022 performance. 

The recipients of the TORX^® Drive System World Class Quality Award for 2022 are: 

TORX^® drive tool licensees 

• APEX Tool Group (Dayton, Ohio, USA).
• Klein Tools (Mansfield, Texas, USA).
• Progressive Chun Yip Co Ltd (Tianjin, China).
• SNA Europe (Vitoria, Spain).
• Snap-on Incorporated (Elizabethton, Tennessee, USA). 
• Zhejiang Younhang Automobile Components Co Ltd (Zhejiang, China). 

TORX^® fastener licensees 

• Acument Global Technologies (Belvidere, Illinois, USA).
• Acument Global Technologies (Spencer, Tennessee, USA). 
• Acument Global Technologies (Monterrey, Mexico). 
• Arnold Fasteners (Shenyang) Co Ltd (Shenyang, China). 
• Bulten Hallstahammar AB (Hallstahammar, Sweden). 
• Bulten North America LLC (Streetsboro, Ohio, USA). 
• Celo S.A (Barcelona, Spain).
• Celo SUZHOU (Taicang, China). 
• EJOT-ATF Fasteners de Mexico SA de CV (San Luis
  Potosi, Mexico).
• Gateway Screw & Rivet (Glendale Heights, Illinois, USA). 
• Gosho Works Ltd (Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan) Infastech/Tri-Star Limited (Tainan City, Taiwan). 
• ITW Shakeproof Industrial Group (Watertown
  Wisconsin, USA). 
• Lih Ta Fasteners Co Ltd (Taoyuan City, Taiwan). 
• Meira Corporation (Shinhazama, Seki City, Japan). 
• Semblex Corporation IL (Elmhurst, Illinois, USA). 
• Sin Fu Shan International Corporation (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan). 
• Southco Inc, NY (Honeoye Falls, New York, USA). 
• Stanley Engineered Fastening (Decorah, Iowa, USA). 
• Topura America Fastener Inc (Bowling Green,
  Kentucky, USA). 
• TR Formac PTE LTD (Singapore). 
• Unisteel Technology Co (Nantong City, China).

“Once again we applaud our TORX^® drive licensees who have made the commitment to establish themselves as world class suppliers,” said Steve Dixon, director of Camcar Innovations^®. “The efforts on their part to accomplish this achievement, many of them for multiple years, have contributed to the growing importance of the TORX^® brand and its representation around the world of the highest levels of quality assurance and performance. Camcar Innovations^® is very proud of each of these companies and presenting this award confirms their overall positions as the best of the best.”