Hobart Brothers — Performance Welding.™

Alloy Cladding Company, LLC of Fort Myers, Fla. is the world’s oldest running company in the business - that is, the business of overlay welding and rebuilding pressure vessels used in the paper, pulp and chemical industries. True to the company’s name, Alloy Cladding specializes in cladding or rebuilding the interior of these structures using custom-made submerged arc welding (SAW) platforms. […]

Mike Bokulic Jr. is the kind of guy who likes to think big. The excavation buckets they make at his father’s company, Mike’s Welding, Inc. of Fontana, Calif., can top 45,000 pounds and take weeks to fabricate. They’re the kind of buckets that contractors ask for when standard production ones just won’t cut it. […]

It can be difficult to be both “artistic” and “cost effective” in the high skill trade of metalworking. Just don’t tell that to Douglas Banks. As the owner of Banks Welding & Fabrication (headquartered in Inglewood, CA), he has built an empire of twisted steel and eccentric clientele through hard work and a keen business sense. Specializing in both structural and architectural steel design, Banks has spent the last 12 years perfecting his business: an intriguing mix of art and metal that is both eye-catching and structurally flawless. […]

Welding rolled pipe in the 1G position is standard practice in industries that require endless lengths of pipe for pumping large amounts of liquid (petrochemical plants, high-rise buildings, etc.). Using solid wire in this […]

By definition, hard surfacing "is the deposition of a special alloy material on a metallic part, by various welding processes, to obtain more desirable wear properties and/or dimensions." More importantly, for those of you who are new to the idea, hard surfacing is a welding technique that can help you save time and money. By hard surfacing your new and worn equipment, you can increase your equipment's resistance to abrasion and impact to provide it with a longer life. […]