Welding product manufacturers have always supported the industrial welding distribution channel and have been rewarded by that channel for their efforts. However, because of recent changes in the profile and focus of the welding distributor in the US, and the new...
It is no secret that problems with helium availability over the past two years have impacted several industries that rely on this gas. What may be less known is a major financial opportunity for gas producers to serve the balloon...
The Compressed Gas Association (CGA) (cganet.com) was established in 1913 to promote industry self-regulation and to develop new safety standards in response to technical advances. Today, the compressed gas industry (industry) can look back on a century of successful self-regulation that...
Wow! Diesel has climbed to $4.00 per gallon. How can we serve this customer’s location that is 10 miles outside our service area in a profitable way? Why did we have so many emergency deliveries this week?...
We are now more than half way through 2013 and in the US this year’s economy feels much like last year’s. We are moving ahead, but slowly. The recovery remains spotty with forward momentum being driven by a...
In 2014, Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based Atlas Welding Supply Co., Inc. will celebrate its 70th anniversary. In 1944, Charles Temerson and Sons Scrapyard became an Airco distributor and launched its Welding Supply Division. Thirty four years later the name was changed to...
Founded in Beaumont, Texas in 1963 by Al Mazoch, Coastal Welding Supply prides itself on being a single source for industrial and specialty gas requirements. As this second generation company, now headed by J.C. “Chuck” Mazoch, celebrates its 50th...
Cee Kay Supply (ceekay.com), a St. Louisbased company, opened for business on November 3, 1948, as a distributor for National Cylinder Gas Company. Cee Kay was founded by Ralph Chase and Ralph Knight, as they derived the name of...
By 2020, retailers expect 20 percent of all non-food sales to be facilitated through some form of eCommerce. By 2016, half of all consumers’ purchases will incorporate some online or mobile component: comparison shopping, ordering, customizing and paying. And today, 65...
As we anticipated in our February 2013 report (“Latin America Shows Its Resilience but Growth Moderates,” CryoGas, February 2013, p. 42) economic growth continued in Latin America, registering a three percent increase in 2012, but at a slower pace...
