Roundup regulars will notice the newest edition to our weekly news report: welding health. Articles related to welding health issues and solutions will go in this section of the roundup.
Welding health aside, be sure to check out the latest welding events, welding jobs and much more in this edition of the “Weekly Roundup.” Enjoy!
Special News
Welding mentors help people succeed
When two seasoned welders met a couple of years ago, they wanted to find a way to help other people interested in the industry learn the skills.
Booming business: Man uses cannons to teach welding
It’s highly doubtful that Lamar’s Clifford Russell would be in violation of Missouri’s concealed carry gun laws, because his personal firearm weighs nearly 100 pounds and fires a projectile a half-mile downrange in a cloud of sooty smoke.
Robots, Woodworking, Welding & Fire-Eating: Somerville’s Craziest Coworking Space, Artisan’s Asylum
Once the largest employer in the city of Somerville, the old Ames Safety Envelope Factory in Somerville is long shutdown, no longer churning out volumes of paper. But there’s still a fury of activity happening in the old warehouse on Tyler Street.
Welding Events
Turn metallic dreams into reality at NPC welding class
Here's a chance to turn your metallic dreams into reality. Northland Pioneer College is offering a noncredit welding fabrication class on Thursday evenings, 5 to 9, this spring at their welding classroom facility in the Show Low Industrial Park.
Welding Jobs
Demand for welders grows in Valley
Demand — always strong through the years — is heating up for welders in the Tuscarawas Valley region, with the latest push coming from the oil and gas industry.
Women recruited for non-traditional jobs
Western Star Career and Technology Center Director Pat Hatlestad wants to recruit more women to programs offered at the center, located at Williston State College.
Welding Health
Increased clumsiness in former welders
Welders who are exposed to manganese from welding fumes, risk developing increased clumsiness – and the result may remain decades after exposure has ceased. This is the finding of a study of former shipyard workers in Gothenburg.
Welding Schools/Programs
What's happening at Sussex Tech?
The welding manufacturing technology program is one of 21 programs available at the school.
Students in this program get the basic knowledge and skill level used in welding manufacturing technologies today.
On trip to Mitchell, Daugaard touts his proposal for teachers, students
Daugaard touched on the South Dakota WINS initiative, which puts emphasis on promoting rural health occupations, drawing people back and to South Dakota and preparing youth and the workforce for skilled positions.
A part of that initiative includes adding a welding program at Mitchell Technical Institute, which will be done with $500,000 in one-time money, Daugaard said.
Welding Students
Robstown student welders take future in their own hands
One of the first contests at the Nueces County Junior Livestock Show is the welding event. Unlike county fairs where competitors are judged on the best hat rack or barbecue pit, students competing in the NCJLS participate in real world testing, which mirrors skills employers will be looking for.
Welding Gone Wrong
Welding work ignites fire aboard vessel
A fire in the fish hold of a Fairhaven scalloper sent a plume of dense black smoke into the frigid air above Union Wharf late Saturday afternoon.
Men uninjured in massive explosion
Eddie Dean is a welder by trade. He says it's not typically very dangerous work. But Dean had a front row seat to a massive explosion on Friday the 13. "I just remember looking around and things were just cars were blown up and buildings were blown apart. And I was just like wow," said Dean.