PennEngineering has enjoyed a sustained history as a global leader in the fastening industry since our founding in 1942. PEM?, the company’s leading brand has been recognized as the premier product in the thin sheet fastening industry for over 75 years. Today, their expanding portfolio of fastener designs and technologies continues to keep pace with the challenges presented by an ever-evolving marketplace.

Their solutions and engineering expertise benefit from ongoing investment in research, new product development, and strategic locations around the world. Their customers gain the benefits accrued from their worldwide presence grounded in “local” access and, as a result, they remain the “go-to” fastening resource for virtually every industry, including the electronics and computer, data/telecom, medical, automotive, marine, aerospace/avionics, and general manufacturing categories. No challenge is too big or too small.

PennEngineering is strongly supported by manufacturing and technical facilities in the United States, Europe, and Asia and a global network of authorized engineering representatives and distributors. All are well-equipped to deliver timely and reliable solutions wherever and whenever required.

The idea that revolutionized production fastening

When K.A. Swanstrom founded Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp. in 1942, he did so with a revolutionary new product: an easy-to-install, self-clinching fastener that provides load-carrying threads in metal sheets too thin to be tapped. At first, Mr. Swanstrom produced his innovative design with four machines in a Doylestown, Pennsylvania garage. This simple operation soon gave way to a modern facility in Danboro, Pennsylvania because manufacturers and engineers alike recognized the benefits of self-clinching fasteners. They not only reduced time, labor, weight and inventory on many assembly jobs, but they also opened up a whole new world for engineers and designers, making a wide assortment of thin-metal designs possible for the first time.

PennEngineering is product portfolio consists of PEM® Fasteners/microPEM® Fasteners/Installation Equipment/Heyco® Engineered Plastics/ATLAS® Brand Rivet Nuts .