Distributor Zone – Page 3
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NewsCalifornia distributor changes name
Encore Welding and Industrial Supply, LLC has renamed itself Encore Gas Supply as part of the California-based distributor’s “mission for the future”.
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Driver shortage: The white line as life line
As Merle Haggard sings in Moving On, “The white line is the life line to a nation. And men like Will and Sonny make it move.” Today, over 70% of all freight tonnage in the US is transported over our nation’s highways making the ‘white line’ more important than ever. ...
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Making a HERO
The Argon HERO – new to market in 2020 – is attracting interest in the industry with its claims to save costs by preventing the loss of argon during transfer from bulk tanks to microbulk delivery systems such as Chart’s Orca™.
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Improving efficiency, production and storage
Solutionwerks offers advice for better operations at cryogenic and adsorption air separation plants, part 1.
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Lincoln Electric to expand consumables range
Lincoln Electric® has revealed it’s trying to ‘take the hard out of hardfacing’ with an expansion of its hardfacing consumables product line.
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NorTECH not only sells, but educates
Norco looks to foster relationships at center for latest robotic and welding equipment, writes Nick Parkinson.
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IWDC Annual PurityPlus® Annual Meeting preview
Members, industry experts and approved vendors of the IWDC PurityPlus® program will converge at the Wild Dunes Resort in beautiful Isle of Palms, South Carolina for the Annual PurityPlus® Meeting on February 4-6.
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Computers Unlimited Users Group recap
Computers Unlimited, developers of TIMS Software, hosted its annual Users Group Conference in September, creating an opportunity for up-and-coming gas distributor talent to experience TIMS Software and to network with both new and veteran users along with industry related vendors.
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Hardgoods and gases sales slow in Q3
Sales of hardgoods and gases fell in third quarter of 2019, according to the Baird/gasworld Q3 2019 Welding and Industrial Gas Survey and Fabrication Channel Checks.
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Fabtech 2019 returns to Chicago
North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating and finishing event, Fabtech, will return to the city of Chicago, Illinois, on November 11-14.
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Absolute Air breaks ground in Faribault, MN
Absolute Air, LLC broke ground in Faribault, about 50 miles south of Minneapolis on September 19, executing on their announced plans to build a merchant air separation plant (ASP) in the Minneapolis metropolitan area to serve its partners and customers. The plant is expected to be producing gases by early ...
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2020 Vision
gasworld News Journalist Molly Burgess speaks to Abydee Butler Moore to discuss her new tenure as GAWDA President.
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Keen celebrates centenary
In 1919, when Stanley Keen started out his small business in Wilmington, Delaware he probably never envisioned it growing into the establishment it is today.
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Eight years of FSMA
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law on January 4, 2011. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration), an agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services, was given more authority to regulate food production, distribution and recalls.
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Distributors capitalizing on emerging end markets
Nearly half of the industrial gas distributors who responded to the Baird/gasworld Industrial Second Quarter (Q2) 2019 Welding and Industrial Gas Survey supply CO2 for legalized cannabis/CBD oil production.
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CGA launches new publication delivery system
The Compressed Gas Association, Inc. (CGA) has launched a new publication delivery system that provides enhanced access capabilities and an array of tools designed to support user interaction with CGA’s library of more than 340 industry safety publications.
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GAWDA Annual Convention preview
This year’s Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) Annual Convention will see members gather for the four-day event themed “It’s All About Service” at the Marriott Marquis, Washington DC, on September 28 – October 1.
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A pattern of expansion
Eighty years ago, at the age of 22, Harry W. Bennear founded Dale Oxygen, Inc. Located in the Dale section of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the company began as a shop that sold and delivered oxygen and acetylene gas cylinders and related equipment for welding and cutting applications. Having expanded several times ...
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Earlbeck celebrates 100 years in business
Earlbeck Gases Technologies, a family orientated Baltimore-based gas and welding supplier, is celebrating a milestone achievement of 100 years in business. Since its formation in 1919, the company has drastically grown through multiple market developments and facility expansions, which has help drive its great success.
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A bridge to the future
During May 14 – 16, 2019 over 500 attendees spanning 112 Independent Welding Distributors Cooperative (IWDC) member companies and 95 IWDC vendor partners joined together in the “City of Bridges”, Pittsburgh, PA, for the IWDC’s annual Sales and Purchasing Convention.
