IWDC Hires Hardgoods Product Manager

The Independent Welding Distributors Cooperative (IWDC; Indianapolis, IN) is pleased to announce that Sean Norton has joined the cooperative as their hardgoods product manager. In this role, he will be responsible for driving profitable growth of key programs, vendor partner brands and Weldmark® brand.

Norton comes to the IWDC from ESAB Victor, where he spent 15 years as a district manager for Victor Technologies, primarily in the Midwest region of the United States. He also worked ten years at two leading independent welding and gas distributors. He began his career with AGA Gas and later worked for Air Liquide. Norton and his family are longtime residents of Indianapolis.

The IWDC is a cooperative that was formed in 1994 to leverage the strengths of its independent welding distributor members across North America. Member companies collectively represent over $2.2 billion in sales, serving a wide range of industries. The common denominator is that these industries look to them for industrial, specialty, and medical gases, as well as related equipment, hard goods, and consumables. End-use customers served by members benefit from having the unparalleled expertise of a local member distributor who has access to national-scale purchasing and marketing programs.

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