Archive for January, 2007

Hobart Brothers and Hobart Food Equipment Group Receive Grant to Help Lincoln Community Center

Monday, January 15th, 2007

TROY, Ohio. January 13, 2007—Today, Hobart Brothers and Hobart Food Equipment Group announced they have received a $150,000 grant from their parent company ITW (Illinois Tool Works) to help renovate portions of the Lincoln Community Center (LCC) in Troy. The LCC will use the grant to purchase and install a new floor for its basketball court and to remodel its existing restroom facilities. Renovations will begin mid-January and will last six to eight weeks. […]

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Hobart Brothers and Hobart Food Equipment Group Donation Helps Achieve Record Fundraising for United Way

Monday, January 15th, 2007

TROY, Ohio. January 5, 2007—Hobart Brothers and Hobart Food Equipment Group, both Illinois Tool Works, Inc. (ITW) companies, have completed their 2006 United Way collection campaign. As part of the companies’ charitable giving and community-focused initiatives, employees raised a combined $357,942, which helped the Troy United Way yield a record $770,408 in donations. […]

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Metalloy Vantage D2 Metal-Cored Wire Reduces Welding Costs, Improves Productivity

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

TROY, Ohio. January 3, 2007–Based on the highly successful introduction of its Tri-Mark® Metalloy® Vantage™ , Hobart Brothers is now offering Metalloy Vantage D2 (AWS E90C-D2) gas-shielded metal-cored wire for high strength, low alloy steels. Metalloy Vantage D2 helps improve productivity and reduce end-users’ welding costs by providing higher deposition rates and faster travel speeds than equivalent ER80S-D2 solid wires for greater overall throughput. […]

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