Welding Journal

Many metalworkers use oxyfuel processes to fabricate, cut, dismantle, maintain, repair, preheat, temper, anneal, bend, and shape products that are part of our daily lives. Despite this, some school administrations are considering removing oxyfuel processes from their curricula because they believe it is an archaic process. However, instructors and industry professionals understand that oxyfuel processes have been essential to the domestic fabrication industry since 1907 when the Brooklyn Navy Yard used oxyacetylene..