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Weiler Abrasives Recognized for “Leading a Warriors Charge” Campaign Weiler Abrasives received the People’s Choice Innovation Impact Award at the 2019 Industrial Supply Association Convention on April 8. The award, which honors manufacturers who bring innovative products or services to the industrial MROP channel, is in recognition of the “Leading a Warriors Charge” campaign the company launched in May 2018. The campaign supports Workshops for Warriors, a nonprofit school providing machining and welding training to veterans, wounded warriors and transitioning service members with the mission to “Rebuild American Manufacturing One Veteran at a Time.” “We are excited to be recognized…

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Computers Unlimited Adds New Features to TIMS Assistant Computers Unlimited has added new features to its TIMS Assistant mobile application, which gives sales staff the ability to meet the needs of customers on the spot and provides an up-to-the-minute link with TIMS Core back at the office. The new features include the following: Open Orders & Quotes — Convert quotes into orders with a single click. View and make changes to existing orders and quotes, including notes and order comments. Contract Pricing — Review individual contract prices and terms quickly and easily. No more guessing about specific pricing agreements for…

Lincoln Electric Acquires Baker Industries, Inc. Lincoln Electric has announced the acquisition of Baker Industries, Inc.. Baker is a privately held Detroit, Michigan-based provider of custom tooling, parts and fixtures primarily serving automotive and aerospace markets. Baker has extensive in-house design and manufacturing capabilities, including machining, fabricating, assembly and additive manufacturing. The Baker organization will complement Lincoln Electric’s automation portfolio and its new metal additive manufacturing service business that will launch in mid-2019. Leveraging Lincoln Electric’s core competencies in automation, software development and metallurgy, the new metal additive business will manufacture large-scale printed metal parts, prototypes and tooling for industrial…

Pulsa Releases Software Update and New Cellular Gateway Pulsa has released a new Cross-Network Cellular Gateway that supports cellular coverage across 10+ carriers in the United States (including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint) and over 400 carriers globally with one hardware platform. In addition, Pulsa has released a software update with several new features, including custom email triggers that allow distributors to configure their sensors to send messages upon reaching custom-defined gas level conditions. The new update also allows for sensor sharing, which means that distributors can share sensors with their customers, while continuing to manage their entire customer inventory…

GRCC Presents Metallica with Steel Guitar In a previous issue, we mentioned the $100,000 grant provided by the band Metallica to Grand Rapids Community College in support of workforce training. In this issue, we wanted to let you know how GRCC gave back. Welding professors John Doneth, Nick Pinckney and Nathan Haney appreciated the band’s support, and used their skills to turn 14-gauge sheet steel into a decorative guitar with the foundation’s logo and “GRCC WELDING” cut into the front. GRCC President Bill Pink and Julie Parks, GRCC’s executive director of workforce training, met with Metallica guitarist James Hetfield at…

Responsive Respiratory Expands Into the CPAP Market with Purify O3 CPAP/BiPAP Ozone Sanitizer Responsive Respiratory has entered the CPAP market with a new portable Purify O3 ozone sanitizer. The Purify O3 sanitizer utilizes ozone technology to disinfect CPAP and BiPAP equipment, including masks, tubing or humidification chambers in just 35 minutes. The sanitation cycle is quick and whisper quiet, killing 99.99% of bacteria and germs. “The addition of the Purify O3 to our product line was a natural extension,” said Tom Bannon, Responsive Respiratory president. “The CPAP and oxygen therapy markets go hand in hand — so many of our…

Messer Group and CVC Close Acquisition of Linde Messer Group and CVC Capital Partners Fund VII recently announced the completion of the planned acquisition of certain businesses in North and South America from Linde plc, launching a new name in the Americas market. Messer Americas offers largely the same products, services and people customers have come to know and trust. Together with Messer Group, the company represents a USD $3 billion global enterprise that includes presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia. “I am proud to serve as CEO of Messer in the Americas, a continuation of my prior role,”…

Computers Unlimited Releases New Bulk Gas Module Computers Unlimited has released a new TIMS Bulk Gas Manager for managing bulk gas tank installations, forecasting, ordering, scheduling, billing and payment processing for all bulk gas operations within the TIMS system. The system allows the user to track any/all gases (propane, CO2, hydrogen, argon, helium, nitrogen and oxygen), as well as to run multiple gas managers at the same time for various gases. To run the manager, the user simply chooses a bulk gas type, selects the configurations and UOM conversions specific to each gas, then reads the dashboard to forecast future…

F&M MAFCO Welcomes New Vice President of Sales and Marketing Timothy Fries has joined F&M MAFCO, Inc. as their new vice president of sales and marketing. Fries has over 20 years of sales management and leadership experience in parallel markets, as well as extensive experience developing new business opportunities and creating customized solutions to fit customer needs. The company notes that Fries’ strong winning attitude and personality are assets that will complement and enhance F&M MAFCO’s ability to meet the needs of its customers as they continue to provide quality, innovative products to the marketplace. Dale Oxygen Named to Pennsylvania Business…