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 ...

Sparks ricocheted off various pieces of metal in the welding shop at Chico High School one recent morning, when about a dozen students worked busily on their projects. Teacher Kevin Payne hurried from ...

Using grant money, Barton Community College will purchase a truck from Marmie Motors and create a mobile welding rig for use ...

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 ...

Merrillville High junior Nasir Christion sounds almost rhapsodic as he describes gripping a torch gun and fabricating molten hot metal into a solid weld. “You look at that pool and the different ...

When Superior School Shop Teacher Jeff Schultz sends out his annual call for project requests, he never quite knows what will ...

Brandon Stankiewicz will be paying extra-close attention when he sees a semitruck on the road. After all, he and his peers in the welding program at Northern Westmoreland Career and Technology Center ...