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Radnor, PA August 26, 2025
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Boost Your Bottom Line: Airgas Unlocks Welding Productivity & Automation at FABTECH 2025

Optimizing welding processes is more crucial than ever for achieving success. Airgas, an Air Liquide company, will showcase its latest innovations and expertise at this year’s FABTECH Expo, from September 8 through September 11 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, Exhibit #B29015.

Airgas will feature an interactive experience showcasing the Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding™ (UHCW) proprietary program, a 5-step systematic approach to optimizing welding processes and enhancing productivity designed to help fabricators identify and reduce hidden costs, leading to significant savings and increased throughput. Interactive welding and analysis stations will allow attendees to personally experience and immediately quantify the efficiency gains from variable inputs such as weld wire selection, travel speed and ARCAL™ shielding gases. Hosted by Airgas Weld Process Specialists, these experts will be providing real-time data on deposition rates and cost per foot of weld.

Airgas is also a key supporter of this year’s 3M™ "Clash of the Grinders" competition. This event brings together welding students from across the country to compete in real-world metalworking challenges. Participants will showcase their grinding expertise using best-in-class 3M™ abrasive solutions, with a portion of the contest taking place at the Airgas exhibit on Monday morning.

Revolutionizing the Advanced Manufacturing Shop Floor: New Product Highlights

  • Yaskawa ArcWorld® Hinged Station (HS) Compact Workcell: Offers unprecedented ease of integration, slashing setup time for complex welding jobs. Engineered for diverse welding and Additive Manufacturing, it features intuitive controls, simple installation, and robust internal cable management. See it in action with ADAXIS 3D printing software for robotic hybrid manufacturing.
  • BotX™ Plasma Cutter Cobot: Achieve superior cut quality and streamlined production affordably and safely with Red-D-Arc's new, user-friendly plasma cutting cobot. Its ability to handle 2D and 3D shapes, combined with an optional magnetic base for enhanced mobility, makes it an indispensable tool for manufacturers across all sectors.
  • RADNOR™ Women’s PPE: Airgas introduces a new standard in workplace safety, inclusivity and comfort with the RADNOR Women’s PPE collection. Explore gloves and welding jackets thoughtfully designed to meet the specific needs of women in the welding industry.
  • Airgas launches its exclusive RADNOR™ by Flextur™ new line of industrial welding tables, built for unmatched durability, precision, and versatility. Featuring a robust metal pegboard system and available in multiple sizes, these tables excel in production, cobot integration, and prototyping. An optional Nitride+ surface treatment delivers superior hardness, corrosion resistance, minimized weld spatter adhesion, and lasting flatness—reducing cleanup time and extending service life in even the harshest environments.

Matt Williams, Vice President Advanced Fabrication Markets — Business Development, commented, “Airgas recognizes the challenges faced by fabricators, including skilled labor shortages, the need for affordable automation and productivity demands. Our forward-thinking solutions on display at FABTECH are specifically engineered to provide manufacturers with efficient, integrated, and technologically advanced approaches that directly enhance overall performance. They also address skilled labor shortages and deliver affordable automation solutions, which often lead to 20% to 40% productivity gains with little to no capital investment.”

Airgas, Inc.

Airgas®, an Air Liquide company, is a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products; and a leading U.S. supplier of ammonia products and process chemicals.

Airgas helps its more than 1 million customers advance their business performance and reach their full potential with reliable products, services and expertise used to create, build, care, serve and sustain. With nearly 18,000 associates, over 1,400 locations, a robust eBusiness platform, and Airgas Total Access® telesales channel, Airgas is ready to help customers fill their potential, every day.

As an Air Liquide company, a world leader in gases, technology and services for Industry and Health, Airgas offers customers an unrivaled global footprint and industry-leading technology and innovations.

For more information, please visit www.airgas.com.

CONTACTS

Airgas Communications
Marysa Mazanek
610-230-3213
mediasupport@airgas.com



Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Present in 60 countries with approximately 66,500 employees, the Group serves more than 4 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the Group’s activities since its creation in 1902.

Taking action today while preparing the future is at the heart of Air Liquide’s strategy. With ADVANCE, its strategic plan, Air Liquide is targeting a global performance, combining financial and extra-financial dimensions. Positioned on new markets, the Group benefits from major assets such as its business model combining resilience and strength, its ability to innovate and its technological expertise. The Group develops solutions contributing to climate and the energy transition — particularly with hydrogen — and takes action to progress in areas of healthcare, electronics and high technologies.

Air Liquide’s revenue amounted to more than 27 billion euros in 2024. Air Liquide is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (compartment A) and belongs to the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, EURO STOXX 50, FTSE4Good and DJSI Europe indexes.