Welders Supplies announces name change
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This article was published 22/06/2019 (2475 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A 73-year-old fixture of the Manitoba business scene is changing names.
Winnipeg-based Welders Supplies Limited is going to be known as Innovair Industrial as of July 1. The family-owned business is part of the Innovair Group, which also runs Innovair Automation, Innovair Medical and Medigas Manitoba.
Welders Supplies and Medigas both have locations in Brandon at the same address on 1st Street.
Innovair Industrial’s website describes the company as “Western Canada’s largest independent distributor of industrial gases, welding and cutting systems, filler metals and accessories.” The website lists the Brandon branch as having first opened in 1956.
Innovair Automation designs and installs robotic welding systems. Medigas sells CPAP supplies as well as supplies for respiratory and oxygen therapy.
“Originally, in the 1930s, my grandfather sold oxygen and acetylene out of his radiator repair shop for cutting and welding steel,” owner Grant Cockshott said in a statement.
“But the war had created new technologies for welding that were faster and more efficient, so he started Welders Supplies to bring those processes to local metal fabricators. Ever since, we’ve led our market, bringing innovations to our customers, whether in lasers, telemetry, gas packaging, robotics, or how we hold our employees capable of achieving great results.”
Innovair Industrial vice-president Ed Boulanger said they decided to change their name “… to better represent all that we have to offer.”
» The Brandon Sun