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GAWDA Members Commemorate Milestone Anniversaries in 2023 Congratulations to all GAWDA members celebrating milestone anniversaries in 2023. GAWDA members represent…

Norton Abrasives In 1858, Franklin Norton and his older cousin, Frederick Hancock opened a pottery shop in Worcester, Massachusetts, called…

The past three years have been difficult for all of us. From the depths of the pandemic, we returned to…

Minneapolis Oxygen was founded in 1946 by Henry Sahley. Henry was a former salesperson for National Cylinder Gas who decided…

Tulsa Gas & Gear was founded ten years ago, “with the idea of providing customers with high quality products and…

Alfred Boehm began his career in 1976 as a research chemist for Messer Griesheim Industries in Germany. In 1991, Boehm…

O2 Plus was started in 1996 by two brothers. Rodger Miles was a pharmacist who began the company with his…

Weld Plus was founded in 1991 by Jack Schroeder and Paul Rensing in the basement of Jack’s home. The company…

In 1990, Tim Robb, President of Torco Supply Co., Inc. was attending Shippensburg University and serving in the Navy Seabees…

Complete Welders Supply was founded in Sonoma in 1991 by Mike and Melissa Kowaleski with Carl Watkins and a few…

Roberts Oxygen Company, Inc. was founded on July 1, 1966, by Bill Roberts and his wife, Peg Roberts. Bill began…

WESCO Gas & Welding Supply, Inc. started in 1961 in Prichard, Alabama. Five years later, Ron Pierce joined the company…

SOS Gases, Inc. (Kearny, New Jersey) was established on February 1, 1961, by John A. De Fillipps, Robert Saxon and…

When Van T. (Sam) Young returned home from World War II, he wanted to get into a similar business as…

Welders Supply was founded in 1946 by Jack Raimy in Erie, Pennsylvania. Initially, the company was a small, two-man operation.…

The Andy Oxy Company was found-ed in 1946 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, by W.S. Anderson. The company began as a…

WELSCO, Inc. was originally found-ed in 1941 as Welders Supply Company by R.G. Harrison, with the backing of his father,…

Weldstar Company was originally formed in 1936 and then incorporated as the James F. Paterson Company in 1948. In 1962,…

Harold Harris established Harris Welding Works in 1936. Now named Harris Industrial Gases to better reflect the company’s current direction,…

Central Ohio Welding Company was founded by J. Louis Richter in a small garage in Columbus in 1911. The company…