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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…

By Mike Marks and Dan Horan, Indian River Consulting Group Customer expectations have been changing for years, and the COVID-19…

The CGA sent a letter to all 50 state governors asking that essential workers be prioritized in vaccine distribution By…

By Steve Guglielmo and Brian Beaulieu GAWDA Chief Economist Brian Beaulieu is renowned throughout GAWDA for his clear-eyed forecasting and…

By John Campbell and Maura Garvey We all experienced hardship and some real loss during 2020 with COVID-19. However, our…

In response to the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Compressed Gas Association (CGA) continues to shift how we…

By Gary Konarska, Executive Director and CEO of the American Welding Society (AWS) During times of crisis, good business leaders…

The following are responses from GAWDA suppliers across North America about what they expect to see in 2021. To see…

After a difficult year in 2020, most distributors expect to see growth in the new year Every year in the…