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From the Executive Director
Welcome to GAWDA's Members Only Buyers Guide
After a diffi cult 2020, 2021 felt like a return to normalcy for GAWDA and our members. We returned to in-person national and regional meetings, while incorporating the virtual webinars that people had grown accustomed to during COVID that made it easier for a larger audience to participate in. For more than 75 years, that has been a bedrock foundation for GAWDA: ensuring participation and bringing value to the full membership. We’re stronger as an association and as an industry when our members are connected.
That is the primary aim of the print and online GAWDA Buyers Guide: to facilitate GAWDA members doing business with other members. The Buyer’s Guide is a single-source reference of essential information about the leading manufacturers suppliers and service providers in the welding and gases supply channel.
GAWDA prides itself on having the best of the best distributors and suppliers in the gases and welding industry among its members. And those members have thrived, in large part, by doing business with one another. When a customer has the best service AND the best products in the industry, everybody wins.
This Buyers Guide aims to enhance communication among members, to make sure all members have the latest possible information and to provide you the utmost value for your membership.
The Buyer’s Guide is an excellent resource to enhance your business and improve and facilitate your relationships throughout the year. It contains relevant contact information and product data for every GAWDA manufacturer, supplier and service provider. To make the directory as easy and convenient to use as possible, the information has been sorted by company name and product category.
A free copy of the GAWDA MembersOnly Buyers Guide is distributed to all those who receive copies of our acclaimed journal, Welding & Gases Today. GAWDA also has a limited inventory of the printed Buyers Guides available for purchase at a nominal cost, in case more printed copies are needed at your company. Your employees can also access an online version of the Buyers Guide by visiting buyersguide. gawdamedia.com. The online Guide has all of the same information as the print guide plus is updated throughout the year with supplier news, new products, videos, product catalogs, and informative articles.
We think you’ll immediately recognize the worth of this publication, just as all of us in GAWDA value the partnerships our independent distributor members have with their suppliers. We hope you enjoy it and we look forward to building on the milestone year that we had in 2021 into an even better 2022.
John Ospina is GAWDA’s executive director. He can be reached at GAWDA Headquarters in Hollywood, Fla., via telephone at 844-251-3219 or via email at jospina@gawda.org.
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CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . .
From the Executive Director . . . . . . . 3 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Thank You Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Member Benefi ts Chart . . . . . . . . . . 11 Platinum Sponsor Profi les. . . . . . . . . . 12 Alphabetical Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Category Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Category Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
GAWDA 2021 Buyers Guide (ISSN 1558-5344) is published by Data Key Communications, Inc. on behalf of the Gases and Welding Distributors Association, One Oakwood Boulevard, Suite 195, Hollywood, FL 33020, 877-382-6440 • Periodicals postage paid at Fort Lauderdale, FL, and at additional mailing offi ces (ISSN 1558-5344). • Contents are copyright © Data Key Communications, Inc. 9 Albany St., Suite 2E, Cazenovia, NY 13035, telephone 315-445-2347, fax 315-422-1721 • Copyright © 2021 • All rights reserved. • Nothing in this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission of the publisher. • Questions and comments can be sent to GAWDA Headquarters at gawda@gawda.org or by calling 877-382-6440.
CONTACTING GAWDA BUYERS GUIDE COMPANIES
It’s easy to get in touch with the companies listed in the GAWDA Buyers Guide to obtain additional product information . You can call company contacts directly using the telephone numbers listed . Be sure to mention The GAWDA Buyers Guide when you call . The listings also provide email and internet addresses for direct web access .
UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION
It’s easy to update your company’s information for the next print edition . Contact Tim Hudson at GAWDA Media, 315-930-1945 x201, or via email at timh@gawdamedia .com . Products, services, phone numbers, email and web addresses can be updated at any time .
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