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Transporting Water via Pipeline

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Could piping in water be the solution to California’s drought? Credit: The remains of Cachuma Lake, the main water source for 200,000 people in southern Santa Barbara County, motherjones.com When it rains, it pours In the midst of an epic drought and with an estimated one year’s worth of water remaining in its reservoirs, California just enacted…

Int’l Trade in Okla.

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Sawyer Vice President Dave Hembree was invited by the Nigh’s to accompany them to the ceremony where George Nigh received the Global Vision Award. Exporter of the Year Sawyer’s recent distinction as the 2015 National Exporter of the Year is the first time this honor has been bestowed upon an Oklahoma company. Sawyer is fully…

Sawyer Goes to Washington

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Live Streaming of the National Small Business Week Celebration Clear your calendar! Set your alarms! Prepare your recording devices! Friday, May 8, the SBA awards will be presented at the White House beginning at 2 p.m. EDT, and the entire event will be live streamed here. The ceremony will include all the honors listed in…

Insider Exclusive: Exporter of the Year

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A look inside the 2015 Exporter of the Year We’ve spent some time lately discussing Small Business Week and detailing Sawyer’s National Exporter of the Year honor, but today, let’s take a deeper look inside Sawyer Mfg. and examine how its culture that emphasizes people first attitudes and creative solutions makes it a unique and…

Big Honor for Small Business

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2015 Exporter of the Year In case you missed it, Sawyer Mfg. was fortunate enough to be featured in the Tulsa World this past week after winning the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Exporter of the Year award, which company representatives will be receiving in Washington D.C this Friday. The article is certainly worth reading and…

National Small Business Week Kicks Off

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Celebrating America’s Entrepreneurs The U.S. Small Business Administration kicks off Small Business Week today with the theme “SBA: Dream Big, Start Small.” This event has been held annually since 1963 to recognize the nation’s top small businesses, entrepreneurs, small business advocates and champions. According to the SBA, this event serves to “highlight the impact of…

Rosie the Riveter: Enduring Emblem

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The iconic “We Can Do It” poster became the most recognizable image of Rosie because the original was copyrighted by Norman Rockwell. Mary Keefe, the subject of Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie the Riveter” painting, died this past week at the age of 92. The iconic portrait appeared on the cover of the Memorial Day 1943 issue…

Welding: A brief history

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In a field where technology plays a large role, such as welding, one might be surprised to learn just how far back the history goes. Did you know that there have actually been welding processes used for at least 5000 years? 3000-2000 BCE Some of the earliest instances of what can be…

Welding Careers

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April is National Welding Month, and as the first in an upcoming series of welding-focused posts, I thought I would discuss just a few of the specialized occupations within the welding field. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were more than 350,000 jobs classified within the area of welding careers including…

Natural Gas Pipelines

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There are more than 2.6 million miles of pipeline in the United States, and there is a constant stream of new construction within the pipeline industry. Sawyer Manufacturing is proud to be at the heart of every phase in that construction process. When a pipeline is built, pipe is bent, beveled, welded, tested, and finally…