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The Welder - Tube and Pipe Fabrication
Split-frame pipe cutter mounts squarely on tube and pipe OD
- Nov 27, 2023
- Product Release
Esco Tool has introduced the COHOG split-frame, clamshell-style pipe cutting and beveling machine.
High schools equip tomorrow’s fabrication, welding workforce
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Oct 26, 2023
- Article
Two schools in the Midwest, Hartford Union High School in Wisconsin and Cary-Grove High School in Illinois, are doing something about the shortage of skilled manufacturing workers.
TSTC welding technology students learn about job opportunities at Epic Piping
- Oct 4, 2023
- News Release
A group of welding technology students at Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, Texas, recently learned about job opportunities that they might pursue at the Epic Piping fabrication facility in San Marcos, Texas.
- From The Fabricator
Scotchman Industries and Steelmax Tools combine to create SMX Industrial Solutions
- Sep 29, 2023
- News Release
Scotchman Industries and Steelmax Tools, two providers of steel fabrication equipment, have joined forces to form the SMX Industrial Solutions group of companies.
- From The Fabricator
UA and Egan collaborate to develop new national weld procedure
- Sep 20, 2023
- News Release
Shane Shook of Andy J. Egan Co. has developed a time-saving weld procedure in partnership with the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA).
Flange facing tool restores worn gasket seats on-site
- Aug 28, 2023
- Product Release
The FLANGEHOG 110 manually operated hand tool from Esco Tool imparts a phonographic finish on RF and FF gasket seats on-site and can produce a smooth and stock finish per ASME B16.5 standards.
ID clamping machine bevels heavy-wall pipe without chatter
- Aug 1, 2023
- Product Release
Esco Tool offers the Commander MILLHOG ID clamping pipe beveling machine for prepping all schedules of pipe from 3.75 in ID to 14 in. OD using one mandrel and seven sets of clamps.
- From The Fabricator
Pacline acquires Advanced Welding
- May 3, 2023
- News Release
Pacline Conveyors, a manufacturer of overhead and floor chain conveyor systems, has acquired Advanced Welding, a welding and fabrication shop in Franklin, Ohio.
Two-edge cutter blades from Esco Tool provide twice the welding pipe prep cutting
- May 2, 2023
- Product Release
Esco Tool has developed a line of two-edge cutter blades that insert into cartridge holders for use with its MILLHOG line of welding end prep tools.
Esco Tool’s HOG TIE MILLHOG welding alignment tool speeds boiler tube fit-up
- Apr 10, 2023
- Product Release
Esco Tool offers the HOG TIE MILLHOG boiler tube weld alignment clamp.
- From The Fabricator
New welding standards on the way for pipelines and energy distribution?
- By Stephen Barlas
- Oct 11, 2022
- Blog Post
Proposed changes in federal regulations governing welding in pipeline and energy distribution applications could require heavy industrial investment.
- From The Fabricator
How a pipe spool fabricator digitized traceability for welders
- By Tim Heston
- Sep 20, 2022
- Article
An industrial contractor and pipe spool fabricator in Tuscaloosa, Ala., McAbee, builds custom software to digitize its workflow, boost traceability, and increase transparency for fitters and welders. It’s called MATS, the McAbee Automated Tracking System, and it’s changed the way the pipe spool fabricator does business.
- From The Fabricator
The "million dollar off-road diesel truck" from pro racer and welder Robby Woods
- By Josh Welton
- Apr 27, 2022
- Blog Post
Josh Welton meets up with pro racer and fabricator Robby Woods, as he shows off his "million dollar off-road diesel truck" at SEMA 2021. Woods also talks about his aftermarket suspension kits, life, racing, and operating a small shop with family and friends.
- From The Fabricator
Talkin' Shop with Metal Shop Masters: How artist Rae Ripple ended up on Netflix
- By The Fabricator editors
- Feb 5, 2022
- Blog Post
Texas metal sculpture artist and welder Rae Ripple is featured in the first episode of our Talkin' Shop with Metal Shop Masters series, where we speak with contestants from the Netflix show Metal Shop Masters.
- From The Fabricator
Still Building America: Vvolfy Metalworks and the circus, Part II
- By Darla Welton and Josh Welton
- Dec 31, 2021
- Blog Post
In Part II, Mitch Kraemer explains how, despite no experience with working with metal, Tim Omspach partnered with him to start Vvolfy Metalworks, entered the circus industry, and expanded the business to two U.S. locations.
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