This past August, in the high desert of eastern Utah, the country’s first helium-only gas well on federal lands was drilled and completed at Harley Dome. The well, the Flatirons Federal 4-1, was completed in the Entrada Sandstone...
nexAir (nexair.com), one of the largest distributors of atmospheric gases and welding supplies in the United States, debuted its Advanced Welding & Cutting Demonstration Lab last month. Located at nexAir’s Walnut St. location in Memphis, Tennessee, the lab is an innovative...
FABTECH 2013 will be held at McCormack Place in Chicago, Illinois in November, and North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding, and finishing event is expected to attract record numbers. More than 35,000 attendees and 1,500 exhibitors are expected at...
Promoted as a showcase for new technologies that enable fleets and industry to expedite LNG fuel use, Zeus Development Corporation hosted a conference on June 25 and 26 at the Wyndham Hotel in Houston, Texas. The two day...
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...
