CWA News
The voice of the welding industry in Canada
October 2007
SPECIAL NOTICE
This year, the Canadian Welding Association’s upcoming Annual General Meeting and Awards Dinner have special importance. There will be a report on the status of the merger between the CWA and CWB Group. Members will be asked to approve the action plan for CWA’s future.
The Awards Dinner is a unique opportunity for the welding industry to honour its own. Again this year, two deserving welding professionals will be honored with the Robert J. Jacobson Memorial Award and the Michael N. Vuchnich Award. Scholarships will be awarded to several students from some of Canada’s leading welding-education institutions.
Register now! Don’t miss these two important welding industry events.
CWA’s ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Canadian Welding Association’s 2007 Annual General Meeting will be held at 4:30 pm on Monday, October 15, 2007, at the Renaissance Toronto Airport Hotel. Besides the chapter, committee and function reports, we will review the merger with CWB Group and provide you with information about our next steps.
The Agenda is as follows:
- Welcome
- Approval of the AGM minutes of September 25, 2006
- Ratification of acts
- Update on the merger with CWB Group and approval of an initial action plan
- Summary of chapter reports
- Suppliers committee report
- Journal committee report
- Treasurer’s report
- President’s report
- Executive director’s report
- Other business
- Adjournment
By now, you should have received formal notification of the Annual General Meeting by mail.
The Renaissance Toronto Airport Hotel is at 801 Dixon Road, Toronto, just west of the Highway 27–Dixon Road intersection and just east of Toronto’s international airport.
CANADIAN WELDING ASSOCIATION AWARDS
The 2007 Awards Dinner will also be held at the Renaissance Toronto Airport Hotel on Monday, October 15, 2007, with a reception at 5:30 pm followed by the dinner and awards at 6:30 pm.
The Robert J. Jacobson Memorial Award will be presented this year to Don Gemmell of CWA’s Hamilton & Region Chapter. Don is being honored not only for his many years of work with the chapter but also for his work in the chapter’s fund-raising efforts and his support of education in the region. In the past three years, Don has been one of the leaders in the chapter’s efforts that raised over $300,000 in equipment, consumables and funds for the region’s high schools. He supports local welding education and students in 25 high-schools in the region. Quite a few students qualified for CWB tickets in their Grade 12 program. He participates on the advisory board for Mohawk College’s successful pre-apprenticeship program.
Ken Kerluke is this year’s awardee for the Michael N. Vuchnich Award. One of his nominators stated: “As to Ken Kerluke I can't overstate my endorsement for his candidacy. In addition to being an overall great guy, he contributes more than most by his clear communication of welding principles to welding engineers and to welders alike. He communicates the reality of the SCIENCE of welding which is that there are real and measurable variables that have predictable consequences. His courses take the art out of welding and put the science back in. After seven years in the field, I sat through one of his courses on the MIG welding of steel and learned a ton in one day.”
CWA JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Several employment opportunities for practitioners, sales and engineers have been posted to our website. Check them out.
HOBART BROTHERS COMPANY CELEBRATES ITS 90th ANNIVERSARY
Hobart Brothers Company celebrated its 90th anniversary in a company-wide event at its headquarters in Troy, Ohio, on August 29. Since Charles Clarence Hobart founded the business in 1917, Hobart Brothers has become a provider of quality welding filler metals. It has maintained operations in Troy since its inception. In 1996, it was acquired by ITW, parent company of Miller Electric Mfg. Co., Bernard, Smith Equipment and Weldcraft.
BOC CANADA LIMITED IS A MEMBER OF THE LINDE GROUP
BOC Canada Limited is now a member of The Linde Group. As a result of Linde AG’s acquisition of The BOC Group, Inc. in September 2006, the Canadian operation will change its brand name from BOC to Linde, effective January 2008.