Emerging Technology in Metal Fabrication

More than a decade ago Coastal Welding Supply, in Beaumont, TX, had a vision…. to host a one day event that would bring area School Districts and Technical School’s  AG and Welding instructors together to experience new advances in our industry. Coastal created the Emerging Technology in Metal Fabrication at their Corporate location, partnered with national vendors for class information and hands on demos. This event has expanded annually. Most recently, spearheaded by 19 year Coastal Sales Representative and Education Leader, Louis Fontenot, took this event to our newest … [Read more...]

Hypertherm Excellence In Distribution America’s 2020 Awarded to J.C. “Chuck” Mazoch

J.C. “Chuck”  Mazoch, center, receives the Hypertherm Excellence In Distribution America’s Award 2020 at his corporate office in Beaumont, Tx. April 2021. Presenting the honor were left, John Mark Hutchins and right, David Sullins, Hypertherm Distribution Sales Managers. Coastal Welding Supply is a family owned company headquartered in Beaumont, Texas with 11 locations in SETX, SWLA and along the coast of Corpus Christi.  For 58 years, Coastal has provided welding supplies, industrial and specialty gases, industrial equipment, along with PPE/Safety and contractor items to the … [Read more...]

Coastal Welding Supply Receives National Recognition

A Cornerstone of Southeast Texas family owned businesses recently received national recognition for their contributions to the welding industry. Coastal Welding Supply, Beaumont, Texas, was named the recipient of the Excellence in Welding Awards Distributor for 2019 at the annual Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) convention in Washington, DC in October. The award was created by the Welding Equipment Manufacturing Committee (WEMCO). As a Standing Committee of the American Welding Society (AWS), WEMCO created the annual Excellence in Welding Awards 16 years ago, to … [Read more...]

Coastal Receives Texas Treasure Award

Coastal Welding Supply, a Beaumont, Texas, family owned, second generation business was one of the 20 local businesses to receive the Texas Treasure Business Award from Beaumont Main Street. The award recognizes businesses that have been in business for more than 50 years and have played a significant role in the local and state economies. Coastal Welding Supply was established in 1963 by the late Al Mazoch with one location. The welding and safety supplies and industrial and specialty gas company now has nine locations that span Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana. Al Mazoch’s … [Read more...]

AWS Foundation Welder Workforce Grant

The AWS Foundation has been committed to the future of welding through welding education funding. Now, we introduce the latest effort to ensure a skilled workforce is ready when industry calls - the Welder Workforce Grant. This Grant will serve to aid training institutions with funds that can create new welder training programs or improve current facilities. WHAT ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE? The AWS Board of Directors has approved a transfer of funds for the purpose of offering grants to secondary and post-secondary education/training institutions specifically for the purpose of increasing the … [Read more...]

Jersey Hairdresser Trades in Her Scissors for Welding Torch

A young hairdresser from southern New Jersey leaves her family and home to follow her welder boyfriend to a job in Southeast Texas. The relationship doesn’t work out. Now alone, far from her Yankee upbringing, she realizes that a welder’s salary trumps her cosmetology degree. So what does she do? She trades in her scissors for a torch and enrolls in a welding program. Sound like a pitch for a network sitcom? It could be a first-season hit, but this is real life for Michelle Dillon, a 31-year-old welding student at Lamar Institute of Technology. “There was a huge pay difference in … [Read more...]

VICTOR® Inventory Reduction Sale

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DeWALT Power Tools Outfits LONE SURVIVOR FOUNDATION RETREAT FACILITY on Bolivar Peninsula, TX with Workshop for Veterans

Beaumont, Texas March 30, 2016:   Wounded service members and their family members, who participate in future Lone Survivor Foundation (LSF) healing retreats on the Bolivar Peninsula, Texas facility will have access to a fully equipped, wood working shop donated by DEWALT Tools. Members of DEWALT and Coastal Welding Supply of Beaumont, Texas met recently with LSF Executive Director Terry Jung of Houston, TX and the retreat’s builder and facility manager Brian Byrom, of the Bolivar Peninsula firm, Brint Construction, to determine the needs of service members attending the four day retreats … [Read more...]

Coastal Welding Supply Receives National Safety Award

CGA and GAWDA announce Distributor Safety Award Winner Beaumont, Texas [November 4,2015] —The national Compressed Gas Association (CGA) and the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) are pleased to announce Southeast Texas based Coastal Welding Supply as the winner of this prestigious CGA and GAWDA Distributor Safety Award. Established in 2011, the award promotes safety awareness as an extension of the Associations’ missions and recognizes companies that show the greatest improvement in safety performance over a five-year period. Coastal was the inaugural recipient of the award … [Read more...]

Coastal Welding Supply honors fallen officers with donation to 100 Club of Southeast Texas

Coastal Welding Supply honored fallen law enforcement officers Deputy Sheriff Darren H. Goforth of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and Senior Trooper Steven Vincent of the Louisiana State Police on Wednesday, Sept. 9, by presenting a $5,000 Lifetime Membership donation to the 100 Club of Southeast Texas... Read More. Article by Kevin King at the The Examiner. … [Read more...]

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