ESAB unveils Texas facility renovation

(From left) Purushothama Doddanna, head of ESAB Denton operations; Flavio Santos, vice president: global products; Shyam P. Kambeyanda, president/CEO; Michele Campion, CHRO; Olivier Biebuyck, president, fabrication technology; and Eleanor Lukens, president, Americas.

ESAB held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open its newly renovated facility in Denton, Texas. The plant was built in 1965 by Victor, an ESAB brand, and has served continuously as a core manufacturing location, North American distribution center, and R&D facility.

The renovation features a new customer experience center for visitors to see the company’s new products and operations. Powered by 100% renewable energy sources, it also includes a training facility with a new demonstration and application development area where customers can see, test, and try out new equipment and consumables.

The company held an open house for its North American distributors and partners, during which the demonstration showroom housed such light industrial products as the Rebel compact multiprocess welding power source series and the Rogue Stick, TIG product lines, and filler metals, as well as heavy manufacturing equipment like ESAB’s new cobot paired with Aristo Edge and Warrior Edge power sources and RobustFeed wire feed systems.

The applications lab provided live demonstrations of the new Renegade Volt battery-powered welding machine and new Swift-Cut automated cutting system for smaller fabricators.