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Text 3. Welding Forges into the Future
Answers from a survey of industry leaders give valuable feeedback on the
state of welding for the year 2000 and beyond.
By Andrew Cullision and Mary Ruth Johnson
The pulse of the welding community beats strongly heading into the
21st century and overall projections for the future are generally optimistic,
but a few gray clouds roam the horizon. Those sentiments were expressed by
respondents to a recent Welding Journal survey. To get a firm feel for that
pulse of present and future conditions in the world of welding, the Editors
queried AWS Sustaining Member companies, which include producers of a
variety of welded products, providers of research and design services and
manufacturers of welding equipment, consumables and accessories.
The Editors would like to thank all those who took the time to put
down their thoughts and ideas on paper. The responses were diverse, direct
and, most of all, very interesting. Those questions and a summary of their
answers are presented below.
- Do you believe welding will be used more or less in the next
decade? If more, where do you see the growth? If less, why do you
believe so?
The majority of respondents feel welding is here to stay and will be
used more in the future, although many qualified their answers, and there
were a few dissenting voices as well. Steve Sumner, manager marketing
product development, Lincoln Electric Co., replied positively, "Welding will
continue to be used more in the future because it has proven to be a
productive and cost-effective way to join metals." He went on to speculate
that "the consumer welding market will continue to provide opportunities for
growth," with home improvement and the retail infrastructure to support it
becoming a "burgeoning market." One respondent felt that for cost-
competitive reasons industry will continue to replace mechanical joining with
semiautomatic and automatic joining processes, giving a definite boost to
welding. David Landon, corporate welding engineer, Vermeer Manufacturing
Co., said, "More, because welding is the most effective way to join materials
for structural integrity. Growth will be in alternative materials such as
plastics, composites and new alloys." Phil Plotica, senior V.P., sales and
marketing North America, ESAB Welding and Cutting Products, replied,

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