About Tab

TAB Hardware founder Terry Buck was raised—quite literally—in the aerospace industry. In 1956, Terry joined his family’s company, Sierra Pacific Supply, where he learned every aspect of the business through hands-on experience. In 1972, he founded TAB Hardware Inc. to fill the need for onsite shelf-stocked, ready-to-ship blind fasteners and specialty aircraft parts. Since then, the company has steadily grown into an award-winning parts supplier to many of the industry’s most prominent manufacturers and distributors. Terry continued the tradition and kept TAB Hardware a small, family run business. His daughter, Shelly, joined the TAB Team in 1979. She worked her way up from the bottom, helped modernize the company, and 40 years later she has taken over as CEO. Shelly helps preserve the legacy of her father by continuing to provide aerospace fasteners to Fortune 500 companies, seeking opportunities for new business, and most importantly, helps maintaining the family work environment that has been the cornerstone of success.