St. Louis, MO – ILMO Products Company announced today that it has acquired Smitty’s Welding Supply Company to broaden its delivery of medical, industrial, beverage, and laboratory gases, as well as gas and welding equipment, in the metro St. Louis area. This acquisition expands ILMO’s current St. Louis footprint and total service area while improving the options consumers have in choosing their gas, gas equipment, and welding supply providers.
(original post by KING 5 News) Posted on July 4, 2010 at 10:56 AM
KIRKLAND, Wash. – Homemade fireworks caused an explosion inside a vehicle on Interstate 405 in Kirkland on Saturday.
The Washington State Patrol says a man filled some balloons with welding gas – a combination of oxygen and acetylene gas – which is normally stored in steel cylinders.
They rubbed together, causing static electricity, and exploded. Troopers say the blast blew out the back window of the pickup truck.
They say the man, woman and 3-year-old girl in the vehicle are lucky they were not injured or even killed in the blast.
(from Millerwelds.com) Welding, by its very nature, is a very heat-intensive job. On a daily basis, your company’s welders face a variety of heat-related hazards, including heat stroke, cramps, fainting and a diminished ability to identify and respond to physical dangers in the workplace.
In this exclusive online webinar, Miller Electric Mfg. Co. Product Manager Bill Gardner and industrial heat stress specialist Dennis Vaccaro of NJ Associates, Inc. will discuss the dangers of heat stress in a welding environment and how to mitigate them through the use of heat stress control plans and proper cooling equipment. This webinar is a must-attend for any company that has welding in their operations.
What you will learn:
- Common symptoms and dangers of heat stress in a welding environment
- How to properly monitor employees exposure to heat stress
- Solutions to reducing heat stress injuries
Click here to register on Miller’s site, or here to email an ILMO rep with any welding questions of your own.
Click here or on the banner to the left to check out WCIA’s news story about the Viper Mine Rescue team.
If you watch closely (about 1:23 minutes in to be exact), you’ll see ILMO’s 2010 Mining Safety banner in one of the shots. The Viper Mine in Williamsville, IL was one of nine ILMO gas customers to receive this year’s Safety Banner featuring the mine’s name, an MSHA safety slogan, and logos from ILMO and various Thermadyne product lines used in mine welding. (Video and article credit to www.illinoishomepage.net)
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Tube City, in Granite City, IL, is a leading provider of outsourced steel services, including raw materials procurement, scrap management, raw materials optimization, slag processing, metal recovery and surface conditioning services to integrated steel mills, mini-mills and foundries. Like many companies with a heavy use of gases for cutting metals, they quickly found themselves overwhelmed with inefficiencies of time and money while catering to their gas supply.
In December 2008, Tube City had enough of these frustrations, peaking with troubles moving 18-packs of oxygen cylinders into and around various fields to cut steel. Adding more cylinders wasn’t the solution, as freight charges to get them there were growing, and just “making due” was no longer an option, as often two or more hours were lost in the moving of cylinder packs and safety was compromised. Read the rest of this entry »
While welding helmets are designed to protect you from the visible and invisible (ultraviolet and infrared) rays a welding arc emits, not all helmets are created equal. There are numerous options: passive or auto-darkening lens, fixed or variable shade, two, three or four sensors, viewing size. Taking the time to find the right helmet for your needs can increase your productivity and weld quality, as well as your comfort.
First, any helmet you choose should meet ANSI Z87.1 – 2003 (also referred to as ANSI Z87+) standards, which ensure that… Read the rest of this entry »
PEORIA, IL – Health care conversations are popping up everywhere, whether it’s in line at the checkout, over a break at the office, or discussing options with family and friends. And with no exception, the topic has made its way to the liquid oxygen van-filling station at ILMO Products Company in Peoria.
“We’re hearing that reimbursement rates for respiratory oxygen are constantly being tightened,” says Jeff Elliott, ILMO District Sales Manager in Greater Peoria. “This makes it critical for us to distribute oxygen more efficiently to our home healthcare customers so they keep their medical end-users’ costs as low as possible. These users are oxygen patients at home, in medical facilities, in nursing homes, and elsewhere.”
So, where does ILMO, an atmospheric gas company, fit in? Local Homecare Respiratory Care (HRC) providers can now drive right up to ILMO’s facility (1025 W. Olympia, Peoria), where a technician will fill their van or truck from a liquid oxygen bulk tank so they are quickly on their way to deliver this vital medical gas to their patients. With convenient filling hours, these drivers can often avoid daunting lines, increasing their route efficiency and delivery flexibility. Read the rest of this entry »
(Photo at Right) Chris Poe, left, and Matt Magruder move bottles of medical oxygen off a filling station Friday at the ILMO Products Co. facility in Jacksonville. ILMO moved into the building, which houses administrative offices and the fill plant, in 2001.
JACKSONVILLE — Industrial gases used for processes from welding to steel production remain a major piece of the ILMO Products Co. market as the business nears its 100th anniversary in Jacksonville.
But as with any number of industries, the growth of late is in healthcare.
A just-completed seven-year agreement to provide bulk liquid oxygen— used to produce medical oxygen for a variety of treatments — to St. John’s Hospital adds to a network of medical customers that already includes hospitals, laboratories, nursing homes and universities across central and southern Illinois and northeast Missouri. Read the rest of this entry »
We’re excited to be partnered with the University of Illinois and their Illinois Business Consulting department this semester, and have a great team leading our project. The members visited our ISO 17025 gas lab on Friday (February 19) to learn more about us, and drill us with great questions about the gas industry, specifcially as it relates to Specialy Gases, laboratories, customers, distribution, cylinder options, calibrations, and beyond. They did their homework before arriving, and had many great questions for our lab team and directors, and we managed to squeeze in a few fun aspects of the business, too.
To say that Gailyn -Gay- Cornell can take control a room would be an understatement. She’s a firecracker, a pioneer in the welding field for women and all welding trainers, and she didn’t get that reputation by being satisfied with just a roomful of attention – she wants to speak to the world. Gay is the Branch Services Director at ILMO Products Company, an industrial, medical and specialty gases distributor in Illinois and Missouri, with roots in supplying gases, equipment, and supplies to the welding industry. She got her start with Lincoln Electric in the 1970’s in their welding program and has been a highly-involved advocate for the trade, and the American Welding Society, ever since.
In late 2009, Gay’s niece was sharing her plans to take part in her second medical mission trip to a remote mountainous area of Haiti – Calebasse – where the year before she saw first-hand the vibrant energy and desperate need of the people there. Her niece identified the potential for a drastic lifestyle improvement for the community if they could only manage their own metal work repairs, and Gay instantly joined the trip to teach them how to weld.
First, any helmet you choose should meet ANSI Z87.1 – 2003 (also referred to as ANSI Z87+) standards, which ensure that… 
Chris Poe, left, and Matt Magruder move bottles of medical oxygen off a filling station Friday at the ILMO Products Co. facility in Jacksonville. ILMO moved into the building, which houses administrative offices and the fill plant, in 2001.
