Fastap Screw Products parent company Faspac Inc. has permanently ceased operations after 41 years of business, Building Products Digest reports.

Vancouver, WA-based Faspac also operated the Screw Outfitters online store (screwoutfitters.com), which has also been closed.

“Over four decades ago, the principals of what would become Faspac offered an otherwise technically undistinguished screw product to contractors from a small store front contractor's supply in a suburb of Seattle, Wa. Although it might have looked like the average ‘self-tapping’ screw product of the time, its one distinguishing hallmark over other screw products, was its uncompromising quality in materials used in its design and manufacture.”

Five years later, the company relocated to City of Industry, CA, and was renamed Faspac, offering its established product line as Fastap Self Tapping Screw Products. There they developed a new screw product named Fastap Plus Self Tapping Exterior Grade Screws, with a special polymer coating Fastap trademarked as “Duracoat.”

“This coating was common in automotive and aerospace manufacture and prized for its rust resistance while keeping the screw free from ‘hydrogen embrittlement’ (a problem with galvanized products), but unheard of in woodworking circles.”