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Gesswein opens new U.S. headquarters

Published: January 23, 2012
Tech Cell: Power Tools, Finishing, Consumables

Gesswein, a supplier of abrasives, tools, and machines for metalworking, has announced the opening of its new headquarters in Bridgeport, Conn....

Colfax appoints ESAB vice presidents

Published: January 19, 2012
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Consumables, Automation and Robotics

Colfax Corp., a global manufacturer of gas- and fluid-handling and fabrication technology products and services in Fulton, Md., has named Kenneth...

Washington Alloy names new general manager

Published: January 17, 2012
Tech Cell: Consumables

Washington Alloy Co. has appointed Ed Holmes as its general manager. An experienced veteran of the fabricating and welding industries, Holmes...

American Torch Tip names regional account executive

Published: January 16, 2012
Tech Cell: Consumables

Bradenton, Fla.-based American Torch Tip, a manufacturer of cutting and welding consumables for plasma, GMAW, GTAW, and oxyfuel, has hired Tony...

ESAB acquired by Colfax Corp.

Published: January 13, 2012
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Consumables

Effective Friday, January 13, 2012, Charter International plc, owner of ESAB Welding & Cutting Products, has been acquired by Colfax...

LA-CO appoints new president

Published: January 9, 2012
Tech Cell: Consumables

LA-CO® Industries Inc./Markal Co., Elk Grove Village, Ill., a provider of specialty plumbing and HVAC chemicals, has named George Bowman as...

Praxair acquires American Gas Group

Published: November 2, 2011
Tech Cell: Consumables

Danbury, Conn.-based industrial gas supplier Praxair Inc. has acquired independent supplier American Gas Group. With facilities in Toledo, Ohio,...

Praxair acquires Weldco

Published: August 29, 2011
Tech Cell: Consumables

Praxair Inc., a provider of industrial gases in Danbury, Conn., has acquired the assets of Weldco Inc., Cincinnati. Weldco, which employs 23...

Matheson opens winery, welding, and gas center

Published: August 15, 2011
Tech Cell: Consumables

Matheson, Basking Ridge, N.J., has opened a new winery, welding, and gas center in St. Helena, Calif. This location is part of the company's...

Lincoln Electric acquires Techalloy

Published: August 2, 2011
Tech Cell: Consumables

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. has acquired the welding operation assets of Techalloy Company Inc. and of its parent company, Central Wire...

ELCo names new sales manager

Published: June 14, 2011
Tech Cell: Consumables

ELCo Enterprises Inc., Jackson, Mich., has promoted Robert Wilburn to western Great Lakes sales manager. The territory includes western...

Sodick opens new warehouse

Published: June 3, 2011
Tech Cell: Consumables

Sodick Hightech EDM Consumables, Schaumburg, Ill., has opened a warehouse and distribution facility in California. It stocks wear, spare, and...

Praxair expands Tennessee air separation plant

Published: March 15, 2011
Tech Cell: Consumables

Praxair Inc. has announced that it is doubling the capacity of its Memphis, Tenn., air separation complex to produce oxygen and nitrogen to supply...

Houghton acquires Shell Metalworking, Metal Rolling Oils business

Published: February 17, 2011
Tech Cell: Consumables

Houghton Intl. Inc., Valley Forge, Pa., has completed its acquisition of Shell's Metalworking and Metal Rolling Oils business, a global specialty...

Hobart Brothers receives CE mark certification for tubular welding wires

Published: January 31, 2011
Tech Cell: Consumables

Hobart Brothers, Troy, Ohio, has received the CE mark for four of its tubular welding wires: Tri-Mark® Metalloy® Vantage™, Hobart® FabCO®...

Lincoln Electric to acquire Russian welding consumables manufacturer

Published: October 29, 2010
Tech Cell: Consumables

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mezhgosmetiz-Mtsensk OAO ("MGM"), a...

ILMO Products acquires Smitty's Welding Supply

Published: August 16, 2010
Tech Cell: Consumables

ILMO Products Co. has acquired Smitty's Welding Supply Co. to broaden its delivery of medical, industrial, beverage, and laboratory gases, as well...

ESAB provides filler metals for construction of 1 World Trade Center

Published: July 7, 2010
Tech Cell: Consumables

ESAB Welding & Cutting Products, Florence, S.C., has announced that several hundred thousand pounds of its filler metals have already been...

Harris Products Group names national accounts director

Published: April 6, 2010
Tech Cell: Consumables

The Harris Products Group, Mason, Ohio, has appointed Lorie Plengemeier to the position of director of national accounts. Plengemeier spent 10...

nexAir relocates Atlanta-area branch

Published: February 9, 2010
Tech Cell: Consumables

Memphis-based atmospheric gases and welding distributor nexAir has relocated its Atlanta branch to Suwanee, Ga. In May 2008 nexAir acquired...

Wallover Oil purchases assets of Larson Chemical

Published: December 15, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables, Shop Strategies

Wallover Oil Co., Strongsville, Ohio, a manufacturer of industrial lubricants and cleaners, has purchased the assets of Larson Chemical Co.,...

ESAB adds new manufacturing lines in Ohio plant

Published: November 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Aluminum Welding, Arc Welding, Consumables, Repair and Field Welding

ESAB Welding & Cutting Products, based in Florence, S.C., has added two new wire drawing lines at its Ashtabula, Ohio, manufacturing facility....

ESAB appoints president – CEO, North America

Published: October 5, 2009
Tech Cell: Aluminum Welding, Arc Welding, Consumables, For CEOs, Oxyfuel Cutting, Plasma Cutting, Repair and Field Welding

ESAB Welding & Cutting Products has announced the appointment of Andrew Masterman as president and chief executive officer of ESAB North America,...

Wall Colmonoy announces staff appointments

Published: July 14, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables

Wall Colmonoy Corp., a manufacturer of high-temperature, nickel-based brazing and coating alloys in Madison Heights, Mich., has announced the...

Airgas continues Operation Homefront support with second $100,000 donation

Published: June 29, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables

Airgas Inc., a distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, and welding, safety, and related products, today marked the upcoming...

Rankin Industries hires director of sales

Published: June 9, 2009
Tech Cell: Automation and Robotics, Consumables

Rankin® Industries™, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., a manufacturer of buildup and hardfacing products, has added R.L. Baker as director of...

Boeing approves Master Chemical metalworking fluid, emulsion, for areas 5, 6

Published: June 9, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables, For Engineers

Master Chemical Corp., Perrysburg, Ohio, has announced that MicroSol 585, a nonchlorinated, semisynthetic metalworking fluid, and E917, a...

Lincoln Electric dedicates new facility in India

Published: May 11, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. today dedicated a 100,000-square-foot welding consumables facility in Chennai, India, which will serve the growing...

Techalloy names vice president – sales

Published: April 14, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables

Stan Merrick has been promoted to vice president of sales at Techalloy Welding Products, Baltimore. He is responsible for the worldwide sale of...

Air Products brings third Tangshan, China air separation facility on-stream

Published: March 19, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables

Air Products has announced that it recently brought on-stream its third air separation facility (ASU) in Tangshan, Hebei Province, Northern China...

Taylor-Wharton announces leadership changes

Published: March 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables

Taylor-Wharton Intl., Mechanicsburg, Pa., has announced several executive leadership changes. Stuart Jara has been promoted to president of the...

Praxair completes 15 acquisitions in 2008

Published: March 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables

Praxair Distribution Inc., a subsidiary of Praxair Inc., Danbury, Conn., has announced that it completed 15 acquisitions in 2008, with sales...

Airgas acquires Great Lakes Oxygen

Published: February 10, 2009
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Consumables

Airgas Inc., Radnor, Pa., has completed the acquisition of Great Lakes Oxygen, also doing business as Welder's Supply, Westside Welders Supply,...

Tower Oil & Technology announces staff appointment

Published: January 13, 2009
Tech Cell: Consumables

Tower Oil & Technology Co., an employee-owned metalworking fluids manufacturer in Chicago, has appointed Steve Lowery as its new vice president,...

Western Enterprises donates equipment to local community college

Published: January 13, 2009
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Consumables

Western Enterprises, Westlake, Ohio, has partnered with Lorain County Community College (LCCC) to supply equipment for the new National Center for...

Lincoln Electric acquires Brazilian brazing products manufacturer

Published: January 13, 2009
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Consumables

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc., Cleveland, has acquired a 90 percent interest in Brastak, a Brazilian manufacturer of brazing products. The...

Hobart Brothers expands manufacturing operations

Published: December 16, 2008
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Consumables

Hobart Brothers Co. has announced the expansion of its manufacturing operations into a new, 65,000-sq.-ft. facility located in Troy, Ohio. The new...

Cored welding wire manufacturer launches facility in Ohio

Published: November 11, 2008
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Consumables

RevWires LLC, a cored welding wire manufacturer in Troy, Ohio, is scheduled to open an 80,000-sq.-ft. research and manufacturing facility this...

Houghton receives Q1 award from Ford Motors in Brazil

Published: October 14, 2008
Tech Cell: Consumables, For CEOs

Houghton Intl., Valley Forge, Pa., has received the Ford Q1 award, Ford Motor Co.'s highest recognition of supplier quality. Since 2004...

ESAB opens flux plant

Published: October 14, 2008
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Automation and Robotics, Consumables

ESAB Welding & Cutting Products has added a new flux plant to its filler metal manufacturing facility in Hanover, Pa. The company says the plant...

President Bush visits Lincoln Electric

Published: October 14, 2008
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Automation and Robotics, Consumables, Oxyfuel Cutting, Plasma Cutting

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. welcomed President George W. Bush to its world headquarters and manufacturing plant in Cleveland on July 29. Bush...

Houghton signs agreement to acquire D.A. Stuart

Published: September 16, 2008
Tech Cell: Consumables, For CEOs

Houghton Intl. Inc., Philadelphia, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire D.A. Stuart. The transaction, anticipated to close in 2008, is...

ESAB appoints VP of product management, development

Published: August 12, 2008
Tech Cell: Arc Welding, Consumables

ESAB Welding & Cutting Products, Florence, S.C., a manufacturer of welding and cutting equipment and welding filler metals, has added Michael J....

Hypertherm acquires manufacturer, supplier of laser consumables

Published: August 12, 2008
Tech Cell: Consumables, Laser Cutting

Hypertherm, Hanover, N.H., recently acquired ESSE A Srl., Italy, a manufacturer and supplier of laser consumables and accessories. The...

Unist names national sales manager

Published: June 17, 2008
Tech Cell: Consumables, Finishing

Unist Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich., has promoted Mark Cooper to national sales manager of all of the company's products. He oversees support of the...

Tower Oil names president/CEO

Published: May 15, 2008
Tech Cell: Consumables

Tower Oil & Technology Co., Chicago, recently appointed Kirk McCubbin as president and CEO. The company is an employee-owned manufacturer of...

Thermacut expands sales team

Published: May 15, 2008
Tech Cell: Consumables, Oxyfuel Cutting

Thermacut Inc., Claremont, N.H., recently created new sales positions and promoted staff to better serve its customer base throughout North...

Airgas acquires A&N Plant

Published: May 15, 2008
Tech Cell: Consumables

Airgas Inc., Radnor, Pa., recently acquired A&N Plant, a European supplier of new and reconditioned rotating, positioning, and welding equipment....

Praxair acquires Kirk Welding Supply

Published: March 11, 2008
Tech Cell: Consumables

Praxair Distribution Inc., a subsidiary of Praxair Inc., Danbury, Conn., has acquired Kirk Welding Supply Inc., Kansas City, Mo. Kirk operates 10...

New Miller Web page connects visitors to welding resources

Published: January 15, 2008
Tech Cell: Aluminum Welding, Arc Welding, Consumables, Plasma Cutting, Repair and Field Welding

Miller Electric Mfg. Co.'s new Industries and Interests Web page, located at www.millerwelds.com/interests, organizes the information available on...