Sawyer Spotlight

Welding Grasshopper Despite a robust lineup of products worthy of praise and admiration, from internal and external clamps to weld testing and beveling equipment, Sawyer is constantly seeking new and innovative product designs along with updates to current products. This innovation and improvement is done, in part, through quality communication and collaboration with customers and…

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Pipeline Pigging Robot

The crawler pig enters a pipeline at Pump Station 9 near Delta Junction for an inspection in May, 2015. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. [photo credit: Alaska Dispatch News, adn.com] Pipeline Pigging Just a few weeks ago, we discussed the wonders of pipeline pigs and smart pigs and how they help prevent accidents in conjunction with quality…

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Transporting Water via Pipeline

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…

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Int’l Trade in Okla.

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…

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Big Honor for Small Business

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…

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Rosie the Riveter: Enduring Emblem

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…

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Welding: A brief history

  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…

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Natural Gas Pipelines

Natural Gas, what is it good for?

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…

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Oil and Gas Industry Streams

What Streams May Come: An Overview of the Oil and Gas Industry’s Streams “Azure Midstream Announces Completion of Acquisition of Marlin Midstream” “Houston Midstream Companies Close Major Acquisitions” “Magellan Midstream Launches $500 Million Debt Offering” These are just a few headlines that have appeared in the news over the past couple weeks. It doesn’t take long…

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Cranes, Chains and Right-of-Ways: Danger on the Pipeline

Newsflash: Working near a pipeline during the construction process can be dangerous.   As occupations go, it might not present quite the level of danger that crab fisherman, logger, ice road trucker, or apparently any non-Kardashian-related job with a reality TV series does, but there are, unfortunately, still a vast number of ways to be…

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