Obituary: Joe Greenslade has passed away. We found out about his death through a Twitter message shared by Pac-West Fstnr Assn (@PackWestFastener)
We received the sad news that Joe Greenslade passed away last night. Read more about his legacy with the fastener industry
We were shocked and saddened to learn this morning that Joe Greenslade passed away suddenly last night.
A link shared along the message redirected to https://www.pac-west.org where we found more information about Joe.
The information on his obituary tells more of his biography. The cause of death, visitation time and date, or funeral plans were not made know.
Joe served as Technical Director for the Industrial Fasteners Institute from 2007 until 2015. He was a fastener industry icon, having started his career in 1970 working for various fastener manufacturers before founding Greenslade and Company in 1978. He sold the company in 2007 and came to work for the IFI. In a recent conversation with IFI managing director, Joe said that working for IFI had been his dream job. You could tell he thoroughly enjoyed working in the industry, and he put 100% of his effort into anything he set out to accomplish.
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