Browsing: 80 years

Back in 1945, Hubert Weiler of Weiler Welding Company, a distributor of gas equipment and supplies, sensed a need to start a conversation. He, along with a few others in the industry, like George H. Ohmer, Vaughn Stacey Rice and Ed Caluwaert, sparked something that would make an eight-decade impact on the gases and welding industry — the formation of the National Welding Supply Association (NWSA) in Dayton, OH.What began as a small gathering of 13 distributors, all of whom came together because of shared challenges and common goals, has grown into today’s Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA), a…