Feature Stories
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Red Ball Oxygen: 50 Years
While Red Ball Oxygen technically incorporated in 1930, it didn’t begin to resemble the modern company until 1969, when Craig and Lorena...
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Genstar Technologies Company, Inc.: 50 Years
Thomas Kuo, founder-CEO of Genstar Technologies Company, founded Genstar in 1969. He saw an opportunity for growth in the area of industrial...
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Dynabrade, Inc.: 50 Years
In 1969, Walter Welsch was working at 3M as an abrasives’ salesman when he developed the original Dynafile Abrasive Belt Tool. The...
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Acme Cryogenics, Inc.: 50 Years
Acme Cryogenics was founded as a general machine shop in 1969 under the name H&B, serving the Lehigh Valley. A few years...
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Oxygen Service Company: 60 Years
Oxygen Service Company was founded in 1959 by Bill Huber and Bill Lund. The company was originally called Wagner Welding before changing...
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ORS Nasco: 60 Years
Beginning in 1959, a group of stake holders launched the North American Sales Company [Nasco] with a primary focus to serve the...
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Kaplan Industries: 60 Years
Kaplan Industries was officially founded in 1959 as the A-M Fire Equipment Company. But the roots of the company go back even...
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Gullco International, Inc.: 65 Years
While today, Gullco International has locations in six countries and distributors in more than 80, selling cutting-edge welding and cutting automation products,...
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Middlesex Gases & Technologies, Inc: 70 Years
Middlesex Gases & Technologies, Inc. is a family-owned, third-generation distributor of high-pressure cylinders, microbulk and bulk gases, including rare and specialty gases,...
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Cavagna North America: 70 Years
The Cavagna Group was founded in 1949 by Paolo Cavagna and his children. Today, Cavagna is a global company with more than 1,000 employees...
