Kory Fontes remembers crying during her first welding lesson with her father at the age of ten. Those days are long gone as she has now joined...

Texas City high school student Gabe Simpson has to get around in a wheel chair all day at school because of muscular dystrophy, but that doesn’t stop...

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...

A ‘Girls-Only’ trade class at Oregon’s Sherwood High School attracted over 120 students, which was double the expected enrollment. The class is called ‘Imagine, Design, & Build...

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...

While it’s always appealing to pick a simple welding project that offers a quick win for the weekend, the coming winter is the perfect time to start...

George W. Settle III visited the village of Kehale, Lebanon in order to teach the older children in a home for orphans how to weld, but he...

Dustin Payne served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marines, but when he returned home, he sought out work in the oil fields of...

A recent Gizmodo article featured friction welding for pipes with seemingly otherworldly images and videos of pipes being forced together and then rubbed together so that an...

You won’t be any “cooler” (temperature-wise that is!) with a Tillman welding jacket, but you will be safer since you can avoid getting burned with UV rays...

Welding students in Minnesota’s Anoka Technical College are being recruited to join union apprenticeship programs before they even graduate. In fact, 23 students have already been accepted...

Single moms in Wyoming can now work with the CLIMB program in order to find welding, driving, forklift, or warehouse inventory jobs that pay a high wage...

The latest group of students at Midwest Technical Institute include a father and daughter who wanted to try out a new career together. 

Welders at the Hobart Institute participate in an intensive 9-month job-training program that virtually guarantees they’ll find work by the time they graduate. According to Bloomberg News:...

As the demand for high-paying, reliable middle-class jobs continues to grow and welding companies continue to post open positions, women have become an essential part of the...

Donna Hammond worked for over 30 years as an electrician on construction sites, and as one of the few African American women on the job site, she...

The coming shortage of welders was highlighted as part of the Harvard Business Review’s latest article about the industries which may or not may not struggle as...

Operation: Arc is a new graphic novel that aims to explain the process and applications of welding to young readers. The book includes full color illustrations, technical...

Ward Walker is an Indiana welder with an eye for the unusual and discarded. Walker turns scrap metal into works of art that he calls “scart.” Walker...

While a pack of MIG wire won’t make a very impressive gift for the welders in your family, and some radioactive TIG welding electrodes are the last...

It’s time for another holiday welding project round up. Whether you need welding project plans or some top notch inspiration, we’re building off last year’s list of...

While Brie Jenkins, a welder from the Ozarks, made front page news when she won second place in the American Welding Society’s Oktoberfest held in Springfield, none of...

Bob Dylan has taken to welding and iron working in his latest artistic project. Pulling from his iron ore roots of Hibbing Minnesota, Dylan has put together...

The limited time Hypertherm promotion continues this month at Baker’s Gas and Welding. You can pick up a consumable kit at 50% off with the purchase of a...