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About Linweld: Company History
 

David Breslow founded Linweld in 1945 as the Lincoln Welding Supply Company with the purpose of providing welding supplies and industrial gases to customers in Lincoln, Nebraska and the surrounding rural communities. From its modest beginnings with five employees and one truck, Linweld has expanded to a company with multiple sales, service and manufacturing locations. Throughout its history, the company has always taken pride in offering the most current technology, competitive prices and knowledgeable sales people in the markets it serves.
 
Continually exceeding customers' expectations has allowed Linweld to become one of the largest welding supply distributors and independent processors of industrial, medical and specialty gases in the United States. Since 1945, the company has opened store and plant locations in over twenty cities. Today, the company has a fleet of transport and delivery vehicles as well as over four hundred employees who are dedicated to serving welding and gas markets in eight midwest and mountain states.
 
In addition to its sales and service locations, Linweld operates its own distribution center, air separation plant, acetylene plant, specialty gas department, and state-of-the-art training and automation center. Linweld is also one of the few distributors in the country able to produce oxygen, nitrogen and argon via its own air seperation plant. The acetylene plant converts over 40,000 pounds of calcium carbide each week in supplying cylinder acetylene to all Linweld locations and customers.
 
Linweld's Specialty Gas Division features staff chemical engineers who are available to work with customers on specific applications and purity requirements. Once again, Linweld's production capabilities allow the company to maintain strict control of quality and costs.
 
The David Breslow Training Center was designed with an emphasis on the training, safety and continual education of Linweld employees and customers. The tiered auditorium and welding laboratory offer a great environment for learning. The recent addition of the Automation Center, at the same facility, reflects the company's continued dedication to welding and cutting automation.
 
Linweld is proud to be a leader in the welding and compressed gas industry and continues to look for new markets and areas of expansion. The company's success and growth is attributable to employees who believe in earning their customers business.....every day.