September 1, 2004
Articles
Web-based software boosts HazMat security
Web-based verification of worker identity and credentials counters increased security risks in today's workplace. Boris M. Krantz, editorial consultant...
It takes handshakes not e-mails to build a business
Distributors, like other businesses, need to recognize the need for change. But what kind and how much change is the million-dollar question. There is...
Proposed HazMat storage and handling regulations raise concerns
Carl Johnson, CGA President The Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) issued a delay of the Final Rule regarding Applicability of the Hazardous...
Distributors, manufacturer profit from council
For more than 20 yr, ESAB and its distributor council have partnered on policies, training programs, and products. Members of the ESAB Distributor Council...
Thermadyne rebounds
Paul D. Melnuk, chairman and chief executive officer, Thermadyne Holdings Corp. Thermadyne's new logistics center in Roanoke, Tex. will provide a centralized,...
Assemble your roadmap to success
Wally Brant, GAWDA President Imagine you were starting out in your business and someone handed you a roadmap of all the pitfalls and problems you'll face...
GAWDA goes to Las Vegas GAWDA goes to Las Vegas
For the Gases and Welding Distributors Association's (GAWDA) 60th annual convention, President Wally Brant and the organization's convention-planning...
Ion beam-based coating technology offers benefits for performance coatings
Neither chemical nor thermal, the IBED coating process is a physical surface treatment that can be used on any substrate material. No post-coating finishing...
Challenges in the medical-gas business
New regulations impact medical-gas suppliers. Bob Yeoman, B&R Compliance Associates LLC Bob Yeoman, managing director for B&R Compliance, suggests medical-gas...
"Plasma day" boosts equipment sales
To generate plasma-arc equipment sales, distributors can select from three formats or combinations of demos to draw crowds and ring cash registers. Richard...
Cutting through "dirty power"
A Wisconsin manufacturer of farm equipment finds that new plasma cutting technology stays steady even when the power to run it does not. Brian Schmidt,...
