What A. Raymond Tinnerman makes

A. Raymond Tinnerman is a maker of engineered metal-clip fasteners and precision metal stampings for the automotive industry in North America. Its quality certificate defines the business plainly: "the design and manufacture of stamped metal fasteners." The product line traces to the Speed Nut, a spring-steel fastener that Albert Tinnerman created in 1936 and that the company still builds under the Tinnerman and Palnut brands. The North American operation makes and finishes on the order of a billion clips and fasteners a year, nearly all of them for vehicle assembly.

The catalog centers on spring-steel and stamped-metal parts that hold a car together without threaded hardware: U-nuts, J-nuts, and other push-on Speed Nuts, spring clips, retainers, and precision stampings that attach trim, panels, wiring, and components on the assembly line. As part of the wider ARaymond mobility network, the group also supplies clipped fastening and assembly systems, cable and tube holders, and fluid-handling connectors, but the Tinnerman side is specifically the stamped-metal fastener specialist. The work sits squarely in Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive supply, feeding OEM build programs directly and through module suppliers.

Ownership and history

The company is the North American fastener arm of ARaymond, a family-owned French industrial group founded by Albert-Pierre Raymond in Grenoble in 1865. The American lineage is even older: the Tinnerman Company began in Cleveland in 1870, invented the Speed Nut in 1936, and grew into a leading supplier of engineered metal clips for the auto and aerospace industries. In late 2009 ARaymond acquired Tinnerman Palnut Engineered Products of Brunswick, Ohio, and merged it with its existing North American operations to form A. Raymond Tinnerman.

The group later split its North American business into two units: an automotive fastener business and a separate industrial business. ARaymond overall reports roughly 1.6 billion dollars in annual revenue and about 8,300 employees across some 25 countries, and reinvests around 6 percent of revenue in research and development. In North America the company runs a multi-plant footprint. Manufacturing has been anchored at Brunswick, Ohio, with plants in Flemingsburg, Kentucky and Logansport, Indiana, a site in Hamilton, Ontario, and engineering, sales, and product-design support based in Rochester Hills, Michigan. In 2025 the company announced a restructuring of its North American and Canadian operations, including a new centralized distribution center in the Detroit area and the staged closure of the Flemingsburg, Kentucky plant through 2026.

Certifications and quality

A. Raymond Tinnerman Automotive holds IATF 16949:2016 certification with product design, the automotive quality-management standard, covering the design and manufacture of stamped metal fasteners. The certificate on record was issued in August 2024 and runs to August 2027, assessed by Smithers Quality Assessments (IATF certificate number 0541321), with purchasing, IT, product design, contract review, sales, and supplier management named as supporting functions at the Rochester Hills, Michigan location. IATF 16949 is the baseline expectation for direct automotive suppliers, and holding it with product design signals that the company engineers parts rather than only building to print. PPAP and APQP are standard practice for suppliers working at this level.

Known customers

A. Raymond Tinnerman does not publish a customer list, which is normal for a fastener supplier working under OEM confidentiality. Its documented relationships come through supplier-recognition awards rather than named programs:

These recognitions name the ARaymond network broadly rather than the Tinnerman plant specifically, so they are best read as evidence that the group holds direct OEM and Tier 1 relationships, not as a program list for the fastener unit alone.

Sourcing evidence

US customs records list about 1,274 import shipments under the A. Raymond Tinnerman Automotive name, with the most recent recorded in September 2026, so the operation is actively importing. The named foreign shippers are almost all other ARaymond entities, including A. Raymond fastener plants in Turkey and France, which is the signature of an intra-group supply network moving tooling and components between the group's own factories rather than buying from third-party manufacturers. Because these are US ocean-freight bills of lading only, they miss air, truck, and rail movements, including most cross-border flows with Canada and Mexico, and product categories come from declared manifest codes, which are noisy. Absence of a record is not evidence of absence. For buyers weighing nearshoring and supply-base stability, the useful read is that the company sources heavily from within a large, established global group.

Frequently asked questions

What does A. Raymond Tinnerman make?

A. Raymond Tinnerman designs and manufactures stamped metal fasteners for the automotive industry: spring-steel clips, push-on nuts such as the Speed Nut, U-nuts, J-nuts, retainers, and precision metal stampings. Its North American operation makes on the order of a billion clips and fasteners a year, nearly all for vehicle assembly.

Who owns A. Raymond Tinnerman?

A. Raymond Tinnerman is the North American fastener business of ARaymond, a family-owned French industrial group founded in Grenoble in 1865. ARaymond acquired Tinnerman Palnut Engineered Products of Brunswick, Ohio in 2009 and merged it with its existing North American operations.

Where is A. Raymond Tinnerman located?

The company's North American manufacturing has been anchored in Brunswick, Ohio, with plants in Logansport, Indiana and Hamilton, Ontario, and engineering, sales, and product-design functions in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Its Flemingsburg, Kentucky plant is being closed in stages through 2026 as part of a North American restructuring.

What certifications does A. Raymond Tinnerman hold?

A. Raymond Tinnerman Automotive holds IATF 16949:2016 certification with product design, covering the design and manufacture of stamped metal fasteners. The certificate on record was issued in August 2024 and runs to August 2027, assessed by Smithers Quality Assessments.

Who are A. Raymond Tinnerman's customers?

The company does not publish a customer list. The wider ARaymond group has reported OEM and customer recognitions including a General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award, a Ford Innovation Day presentation, and a DENSO Supplier of the Year award, which indicate direct automotive OEM and Tier 1 relationships.

How large is A. Raymond Tinnerman?

ARaymond reports roughly 1.6 billion dollars in annual revenue and about 8,300 employees worldwide. Its North American operation has employed more than 700 people across five plants, a footprint the company is consolidating during a 2025 to 2026 restructuring.

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