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

GAWDA SMC 2023 RECAP Conference Highlights 2023 Sets a New SMC Attendance Record! GAWDA kicked off its 2023 event schedule…

Each year, GAWDA prints its Buyer’s Guide early in the year. This year, the print Guide was shipped with the…

We all know the drill. The management teams all assemble roughly eight-to-ten weeks prior to the end of the business…

The purpose of Ask Your Board is to ask common business questions that all GAWDA members might be dealing with…

By Ken Thompson Dating back many years, our trade association has always used the early months of the arriving New…

By Richard Gottwald, President and CEO, The Compressed Gas Association The Compressed Gas Association is now heading into its 110th…

Resilient, Positive, and Increasingly Automated By Gary Konarska, Executive Director and CEO of the American Welding Society (AWS) If the…

2023 Business Forecast Distributor Forecast   Jump to the Supplier Forecast Growth Ahead in 2023 But Uncertainty Abounds Economic headwinds like…

GAWDA 2022 Annual Convention Recap GAWDA AC 2022 recap View the photos from the GAWDA 2022 Anual Convention. If you…

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

How listings management can benefit your company By Steve Guglielmo By now, we are all aware of just how important…

I’ve been in the welding and gas business for more than 50 years. I truly thought I had seen it…

Sales Pipeline Forecasting Fact or Fiction? By Jay Spielvogel, Venator Sales Group, LLC “I believe I have a 50/50 shot…

Members of GAWDA’s Member Services Committee Discuss the Biggest Member Benefits of GAWDA The following is an excerpt from the…

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…