Gas and Welding Distributor November/December 2009 issue
News
Masterman Named ESAB President and CEO
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products , Florence, SC, named Andrew Masterman as its new president and CEO. Masterman replaces Brendan Colgan who becomes chairman of The ESAB Group Inc. and will assume additional responsibilities as Operations Director for ESAB Global...
Thermadyn Taps Quinn as New President
The Thermadyne Holdings Corp. board of directors appointed Martin Quinn company president, making him responsible for leading the operations of Thermadyne...
KUKA SYSTEMS LAUNCHES U.S. LASER-WELDING R&D CENTER
KUKA North America opened a new research center in Sterling Heights, MI, where it specializes in joining technologies, like laser welding. KUKA Development...
AWS ANNOUNCES REVISED OXYFUEL CUTTING STANDARD
The American Welding Society's AWS C4.2, Recommended Practices for Safe Oxyfuel Gas Cutting Torch Operation, had been published. The 62-page book describes...
ESAB RECOGNIZED BY FROST & SULLIVAN
ESAB was presented with the 2009 Global Best Partners Welding & Cutting Systems for Energy Generation Award by Frost & Sullivan, noting the company's...
Linde North America Rebrands Spectra Gases
Linde North America has rebranded Spectra Gases Inc. to effective immediately. Acquired in 2006, Spectra Gases is a global leader in next generation fine...
Hypertherm Expands Management Team
In support of several new initiatives in preparation for future growth, Hypertherm has expanded its management team...
Welding Business Briefs:
Hobart Welding Products introduced the Trek 180, a self-contained, battery-powered MIG welding package for true, off-the-grid welding...
Equipment
2010 Buying Trends
Welders and fabricators show some signs of confidence as the new year approaches, and several patterns seem to be driving their purchasing habits...
New Products
Flashback arresters for increased flowrate
To increase flowrate capacity of gas supply systems Witt USA now offers a T-piece kit for parallel connection of flashback arrestors with lower flow rates. The kit allows trouble-free combination of the series 85-10 flashback arrestors in parallel mode by using a set of T-pieces...
Lane-changing storage & retrieval machine
The new lane-changing MaxTriever family of storage and retrieval machines (SRM) from Diamond Phoenix Corp. offers fast delivery from, and replenishment to, more than one aisle of a warehous...
