ILMO Products Company

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…   (more…)

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.

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