Weld My World - Welding News

In this article we are going to go over some welding news headlines that we found interesting. We found these all over the internet and are compiling it for you here. New welding show on Netflix, ESAB demo box program, and Lincoln maitenance app.

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While Jimmy Byrd has been working as a welder since the age of 18, his daughter Kristin took a very different path before entering the family welding business. 

It’s impressive that Jonathan Flores, 24, has completed his welding program with a 4.0 average and is poised to graduate with a number of promising welding opportunities. However, what’s most striking about his accomplishment is that Flores has done all of this from a wheelchair since he is paralyzed from the chest down.

Welding student Masih Madani had been studying housing development for the past four years. When he looked into the housing crisis in northern Nevada, he realized that he could weld shipping containers together in order to provide affordable housing. Madani enrolled in Western Nevada College’s

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Welder and blacksmith Nicolas Wicks became an unpaid intern for a blacksmith in Scotland before returning home to his career in environmental economics, and the direction of his life changed dramatically. Wicks learned that his grandfather, who had worked as a welder and trained shipbuilders

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Welding has proven to be a surprising but fulfilling career for many high school students, and Samantha Petrosino, 18, switched from the cheerleading squad and sports to a career in welding. Petrosino avoided classes that didn’t particularly interest her in high school, but her welding

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Water patrol deputy Chris Guise spends his days patrolling the waters of his parish, going between wetlands and waterways, but in his off time, he spends hours welding in his shop at home. Guise has been welding since he was a teenager, and he would

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 steel frame doors that can hold a door in place for bomb deactivation training.

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. One graduate, Misty Cockrill noted that the sessions in the workshop gave her a sense of freedom and

NASA’s planned trip to Mars in the 2030’s is one step closer to reality now that the massive fuel tanks have been completely welded together. 

A two-man welding shop in Minnesota has fabricated materials for small companies and some of the largest businesses in the state. Jay Netter and Ron Schackmann have established a reputation for handling a large workload and meeting their deadlines after 24 years of business. Image

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You can find welding just about everywhere you look, not just in fabrication shops. If theaters want to build larger, elaborate sets, they’re going to need welders to fabricate the metal joints together, and that’s where Bryn Mawr College theater major Samantha Wall, 17, comes

Welders were front and center during the Republican presidential debate this past week as candidate Marco Rubio noted that America needs to stop stigmatizing the trades such as welding. However, Rubio added that welders make more money than philosophers, causing debates over his facts.

Noah Hayes, 14, has suffered from a rare neuro-genetic disorder known as Angelman Syndrome, but that didn’t stop him from wanting to go trick or treating for Halloween. Hayes dressed as Captain America, but was looking for a way to improve his wheelchair.

Automotive companies have long sought how to weld steel and aluminum together rather than relying on riveting and glue. Lightweight aluminum has long been ruled out as a partner for steel by engineers. However, Austrian welder Alois Leitner claims to have solved a riddle that

Welding instructor Mark Prosser of Blackhawk Technical College in Wisconsin knows that the long term survival of the welding trade depends on getting young people interested in welding and then hooked on it as a potential career path. He knows first hand that welding can

When Ford switched from steel components to aluminum components on its assembly lines in Dearborn, MI, the company lost 10 weeks of production and spent $359 million on new welding processes for aluminum. When GM switched to including more aluminum in its cars, it sought