Fastenal - Facilities

Facilities

Fastenal has retail stores in every US state, every province of Canada, 14 Mexican states, and Puerto Rico, and Panama.

The company operates 16 distribution centers in California, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Washington, in the cities of Denton, Texas, and Houston, Texas, in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Ontario, in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and in the Malaysian city Nusajaya.

As of 2007, Fastenal operates its own freight fleet in order to reduce highway transport costs.

The location of the first Fastenal site, Winona, Minnesota, has now become that of the company's headquarters. By 2005, a central collections office had been established in Caledonia, Minnesota, 40 miles (64 km) south of Winona.

Machining is a better term for many of Fastenal "manufacturing" operations. As of 2000, the company employs 400-plus people at "six" manufacturing locations, including one manufacturing bolts made using a newer method, cold heading, in Rockford, Illinois, an operation in West Hartford, Connecticut, and another in Malaysia, etc. These sites are probably joined by others in Indianapolis and in Modesto.

Fastenal has sites in China, Dominican Republic, Hungary, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

In 2006, the company had two offices in Taiwan, one of which included a product testing laboratory, which, as of 2007, was A2LA certified.