Member Profile
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2.3KWillard C. Starcher: GAWDA Charter Member continues to thrive after more than 80 years
Willard C. Starcher, Inc. was founded by Willard Starcher in 1938. Prior to opening the company, Starcher had worked as a schoolteacher...
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2.3KA Strong Culture Propels Purity Cylinder Gases to More than 80 Years of Success
One of GAWDA’s charter members, Purity Cylinder Gases, has built its business on five core values. The evolution and growth of Purity...
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2.5KEmpowering Its People: How Holston Gases, Inc.’s entrepreneurial culture has spurred more than 60 years of success
Holston Gases, Inc. (Knoxville, Tennessee) was originally founded as the Holston Oxygen Company in 1958. Pat Baxter and Bob Walsh had worked...
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2.2KKeen Compressed Gas: Celebrating a Century of Success
Keen Compressed Gas of Wilmington, Delaware, is proudly celebrating 100 years of service to its customers. Stanley Keen established the business in...
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3.5KOXARC: A Complete Single-Source Supplier and the Best in Customer Service
Rooted in the magnificent Pacific Northwest, OXARC is a leading U.S. industrial gas distributorship with over 360 staff members and 22 locations...
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3.6KIndiana Oxygen Company: A 21st Century Regional Gas and Welding Innovator
Over a hundred years ago, two entrepreneurial brothers, Walter and John Brant, recognized the need for a gas supplier to serve the...
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3.6KO.E. Meyer Company: Marking 100 Years of Customer Service Excellence
What are the odds of a business reaching its 100th operational anniversary? According to Yale University Professor Richard Foster, they’re not high....
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3.7KButler Gas Products: A Distributor’s Distributor
The hallmark of many independent gases and welding distributors is family ownership. For Butler Gas Products (BGP) of Pittsburgh, 2018 marks its...
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4.0KMiddlesex Gases & Technologies: Continuously Implementing Ways to Service New Customers
In the early 1990s, when many were pondering what the term “biotech” meant, the team at Middlesex Gases and Technologies saw an...
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1.4KNoble Gas Solutions Bulk, Dry Ice, Spec Gas Growth Help Distributor Gain Ground, Triple Space
As you head into New York State’s capital city of Albany over the Patroon Island Bridge, you can get a bird’s-eye view...
