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Lead with Purpose, Serve with Heart Friday, April 19 – Sunday, April 21, 2024Grand Hyatt San Antonio SMC 2024 – Closing Business Session View Photos SMC 2024- Educational Sessions View Photos SMC 24 – Opening Business Session View Photos SMC 2024 – Contact Booth Gallery 2 View Photos SMC 2024 – Contact Booth Program Gallery 1 View Photos SMC 2024 President’s Welcome Reception – GALLERY 2 View Photos SMC 2024 – New Comer’s Reception View Photos SMC 2024: Young Professionals Scavenger Hunt View Photos SMC 2024: Young Professionals Lunch and Learn with Gary Halter View Photos SMC 2024 – Presidents…

The Booze Brothers (and Sisters) welcomed all GAWDA Distributors to their private Customer Appreciation Happy Hour at Margaritaville in beautiful San Antonio, TX after the Contact Booth Program.  The event was held on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at Margaritaville in San Antonio, TX. This is an annual tradition held by Equigas, Direct Wire, Flame Tech, Steelmax, Norris Cylinder, Cryogenic Industrial Solutions, Superior Products, Cryostar, Blue Demon Welding Products & Weldcoa to combine forces to foster one big networking hospitality.

Is your Company Celebrating an Anniversary in 2024? If you are not listed below, and are celebrating a company anniversary in 2024, please contact us to be featured in our third quarter issue of Welding & Gases Today.  Contact Us Member Name Founded Year PFERD Inc. 1799 Roengten USA 1899 ESAB Welding & Cutting 1904 Federated Insurance 1904 Hartman Brothers, Inc 1904 City Carbonic LLC 1909 The Harris Products Group 1914 Arcos Industries, LLC 1919 Earlbeck Gases & Technologies 1919 Keen Compressed Gas Company 1919 DeLille Oxygen Company 1924 JAZ Brush USA 1924 Rexarc International Inc. 1924 Rocky Mountain Air…

Advanced Welding Supply Company John T. Albanese opened up Advanced Welding Supply Company, Inc. on April 1, 2003. However, his passion for the industry goes back much further. John’s passion for the welding industry first began at The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Road Railroad Company where he served a State Indentured Apprenticeship Program as a Boilermaker. John completed his Apprenticeship and became a Journeyman in 1975.  In 1984 John was recruited by Airco Welding Supply Company. He spent the next 18 years there as a top salesperson in Industrial Gases and Welding Related Sales. Because of John’s extensive…