Hardware prevails through travailsLike other industries, hardware and narrow trim companies suffered some hard knocks during the pandemic. But manufacturers and suppliers of fasteners, webbings and trim see brighter days ahead.Features | June 1, 2022 | By: Pamela Mills-SennA vast array of fasteners is on display in Lowy Enterprises' showroom. The company stayed open during COVID as an essential business, sourcing components for masks and related medical items and supporting many ancillary areas at that time as well. Photo: Lowy Enterprises Inc.COVID-19 battered economies and companies worldwide, with few industries spared its effects. But if the pandemic turned lives upside down, it also unleashed creativity, determination and a refusal to say "uncle." The result in a lot of cases wasn't just mere survival, but something closer to thriving despite it all. Examples of this can be found among manufacturers and suppliers of fasteners, webbings, elastics, trims, bindings and other goo