Are you a welder by choice or necessity? Would you still be a welder if you won the lottery? Read about one welder’s stroke of luck and more in this week’s roundup. Enjoy!
Special News
Welder wins large lottery
A man recently laid off from his welding job is the winner of the $41.7 million Lotto Max jackpot, the largest single claim in Alberta's history.
Industry News – Supplies, Tools, Welding Processes
ESI Reinforces Welding Simulation Suite with Visual-WELD (Overseas news)
Visual-WELD is a workflow-based software user interface for modeling welding fabrication processes including all manufacturing details. It reinforces ESI’s Welding Simulation Suite by facilitating fast and accurate distortion and weld quality virtual engineering at any stage of product design and manufacturing. Simplicity is indeed the key of this new interface.
Vitronic to Display Welding Seam Inspections System at Automatica (Overseas news)
VITRONIC will exhibit the welding seam inspection system VIROwsi at this year's AUTOMATICA that takes place in Munich June 8-11, 2010. The new generation of the system with a completely reengineered sensor and new. . .
Schools/Programs and Students
EMCC Welding Test Center
The standards are set high for folks looking to enter the welding field.
Those who attend Eastern Maine Community College may have a leg up in the field.
TNCC opens expanded welding center, offers subsidized training
Thomas Nelson Community College will open its upgraded welding center and offer cost-subsidized training in May, which will feed a field experiencing a nationwide shortage of workers.
NPC/NAVIT welders take honors at SkillsUSA competition
Welding students from Northland Pioneer College and the Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology (NAVIT) all placed in the top 25 percentile, with six of the 11 competitors finishing in the top 10 at the recent Arizona SkillsUSA competition.
Welding Gone Wrong
Fire season sparks to life
Fire crews will be on their second day today of battling a wind-stoked wildfire that has burned at least 550 acres 9 miles north of Flagstaff near Timberline.