ENFIELD — PTR-Precision Technologies Inc. has built its business on the versatility and efficiency of a slim, high-energy electronic beam that travels through a vacuum to fuse metals together. It’s ...

A skilled welder began the tedious task of repairing three tiny fuel line cracks aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on Friday, an operation crucial to lifting NASA's summer-long ban on shuttle launches ...

Shoddy welding maintenance work at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture will push back moves to bring the facility back online by many months, perhaps longer. The No. 7 ...

The amount of exposure to individuals can depend upon work practices, ventilation, and location. Will the work be done in wide open areas, inside a building adjacent to other work processes and people ...

The role: Welders are experts at fusing together metals for construction and manufacturing projects. There are a wide variety of methods, materials, tools and applications for welding, and the role of ...

The American Welding Society has named Lake Erie College Welding Instructor Bill Miller Cleveland Region District 10’s Instructor of the Year for his work at the Eastern Lake County Welding Hub, ...

WHAT COULD TAKE A THADDEUS STEVENS WELDING STUDENT FOUR HOURS TO DO BY HAND? THIS MACHINE COULD DO IN LESS THAN FOUR MINUTES, AND WHILE SOME STUDENTS COULD BE CONCERNED THAT AUTOMATION LIKE THIS COULD ...

Have you ever visited a smoky, air-polluted welding shop? Or, worse yet, worked in one? Welding and cutting activities produce harmful fumes and particles from manual and robotic welding, arc gouging, ...

NEWPORT NEWS — The Navy is embarking on a large-scale investigation to determine the scope of the problems with welding performed at Newport News Shipbuilding, according to a letter to federal ...

AVON — It's the high-pitched hum of a band saw as it slices through metal rods. The sizzle and crackling of heated metal being fused together. The soft sounds of a local country music station playing ...

A new study has found 90 per cent of welders surveyed are being exposed to carcinogenic welding fumes. A public health expert says the issue needs to be taken as seriously as silica and asbestos ...