Industrial gas manufacturer and welding supply distributor across 100+ retail locations
American Welding & Gas manufactures and distributes industrial, medical, specialty, and food-grade gases alongside welding supplies across the continental U.S. through over 100 retail locations and 22 fill plants. The tech stack is operations-heavy (Samsara for fleet, Fleetio for vehicle management, Workday/ADP for payroll) rather than data-driven, and hiring is accelerating across sales and ops roles — a pattern consistent with post-acquisition integration work: five active projects explicitly name branch and acquisition integration, while pain points cluster around inventory accuracy, system performance, and multi-location operational consistency.
Notable leadership hires: Area Operations Director
American Welding & Gas is a privately held manufacturer and distributor founded in 1949, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, with over 800 employees. The company operates through five divisions—AWG, Silvertip Propane, Axmen Propane, Thoroughbred Industrial Cylinder Exchange, Tier5 Labs, and CO2 Air—serving industrial, medical, and specialty gas customers from Montana to Florida. Growth has come through organic expansion and acquisitions; current work includes integrating newly acquired branches and installing bulk distribution systems. The customer base spans manufacturing, food and beverage, medical, and industrial end-markets.
Core systems: Workday, ADP Workforce Now, UKG, Paycom, Paylocity for HR/payroll; Salesforce for CRM; Samsara and Fleetio for fleet operations; SQL, Excel, Outlook for general operations. No recent adopts or replacements noted.
Raleigh, North Carolina. The company operates over 100 retail locations and 22 fill plants across the continental U.S., from Montana to Pennsylvania and south through Texas and Florida.
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