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Growing Welding Industry in Buffalo NY

Buffalo, NY has taken its first steps toward supplying additional welders for the growing welding industry that expects more than 17,000 job openings related to welding or...

Students Create Feeding System for Giraffes

When it’s time for the giraffes to eat at the Asheboro, N.C. Zoo, supervisors found that the current feeding system didn’t allow the zookeepers enough room to...

Beer, BBQ, and Welding

Welding team and married couple Kelly DeWitt Norman and Travis Norman own a large property in the Texas hill country where they host intensive welding camps for...

New Welding Shield Developed

A group of Montana high school students took welding classes over the past year and were then administered a welding certification test where four of the seven...

High School Student Graduates from College Level Welding Course

High school student Sue Ellen M. Linn, 17, will be graduating from high school and a college-level welding program simultaneously. Linn took a series of dual credit...

Welding Students Help Local Police Department

The bomb squad at the Scranton, PA Police Department had a special request for the Johnson College Welding Training Center. Students were asked to build heavy duty...

6 Welding Projects for the Birds This Spring

The weather is warm, the flowers are up and spring is finally here. You don’t have to be a master gardener or a sharp-eyed bird watcher to...

Superior Welding Shop Celebrates 100 Years

The original Superior Welding Shop in Hutchinson, Kansas is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year and is still going strong. The company was started in 1917 by...

Art and Metal

Welder and former logger Mark Looper has combined his two talents into his latest endeavour: creating works of art out of metal and blending them into the...

Welding Business Awarded Company of the Year

The Pasco County Jail, near Tampa Bay, Florida, has provided a welding class that has kept all of its former students out of jail after release. Over...

Welding Automation Jobs on the Rise

Welding played a big role in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade in San Diego, where welding students at San Diego Continuing Education fabricated a massive...

Welding Projects to Organize Your Garage or Shop

Now that the New Year has arrived, the question on the minds of many is “how to make the most of it?” There is no arguing that...

Women Trained to Weld in Prison

A pilot welding program in a Montana women’s prison has successfully graduated 10 women whose welds passed industry standards and gave them a tremendous sense of accomplishment....

Next Generation Spin Welder Announced

Welding student Joseph Guidry, 21, graduated from Lamar Institute of Technology’s two-year welding certificate program, but Guidry isn’t your typical welding student: he’s deaf.

State Champion Welder Hopes to Go International

Former Marine Brandon Hyde returned from home to Wisconsin and struggled to find steady work. He turned to drugs and alcohol as a form of escape, and...

Young Welder Starts Own Business

Business owner Rick Reuter became a certified welder at the age of 20. By the following year he had fabricated his own rental boiler that became a...

Halloween and Fall Welding Projects

Fall is here, and the pumpkins and hay bales gracing the front porches of your town may have you in the mood to carve up a jack...

$10 Million Dollar Welding project in Juneau, Alaska

The visitors to Juneau, Alaska’s waterfront will soon find a massive whale sculpture that was welded in part by Craig Starmer. The project costs $10 million and...

Volunteer Welding Projects for Your Community

No matter where you find yourself in the world, one thing is absolutely true: There are people in your community who need your help. We all have...

Welding Offers More Steady Work and Good Hourly Pay

Brookdale Community College and Ocean County College (OCC) in New Jersey have moved 20 new welders from unemployment or unstable careers to new opportunities in the field...

Boy Scouts Learn to Weld

A dozen Boy Scouts attended a welding introduction course at the Wallace Community College’s mobile welding unit in order to learn about the possibilities of a career...

4 Welding Projects To Deck Your Deck

Summer is here, even if the calendar doesn’t officially say so, and nothing says summer better than lounging around outside. Perhaps you have a poolside deck or...

Professor Picks Up Welding after 40 Year Break

Nearly forty years ago Frederick Sachs learned how to weld from a friend while growing up on a farm in New York state’s Hudson Valley. However, Sachs’...

Texas Puts Emphasis on Training Skilled Workers

As the state of Texas puts a stronger emphasis on training skilled craft workers to fill the many job opportunities opening up, men and women are seizing...