Hobart Brothers Adds New Resource to Its Web Site

TROY, Ohio. May 14, 2007—Hobart Brothers has added a new product selection tool to its Web site (Hobartbrothers.com). The Hardfacing Product Cross Reference Guide, found at Hobartbrothers.com/cross-reference, allows visitors to quickly and easily cross-reference competitive hard surfacing stick electrodes and welding wires to find equivalent Hobart Brothers’ products.

“Hobart Brothers offers many quality hard surfacing products for both overlay and build-up,” explains tubular wire product manager, Keith Packard. “With so many companies relying on hard surfacing to protect their equipment, extend parts life and reduce costs, this new resource helps them find the right filler metal for the job.”

Via two simple drop-down menus, visitors can select from one of fifteen competitive filler metal manufacturers and their respective hard surfacing products. In seconds, the Web page provides a recommendation for equivalent Hobart Brothers’ hard surfacing filler metals.

This new product selection tool complements the many other resources on Hobartbrothers.com, including a comprehensive database of filler metals searchable by keyword, AWS classification or part number. The Web site also includes a step-by-step, interactive search that helps visitors identify prospective filler metals according to base metal, welding process and position, and gas or gasless preferences.

Additional resources include spec sheets, educational articles and press releases for Hobart Brothers™ newest products.

Hobart Brothers is dedicated to the highest level of Performance Welding™. For produuct spec sheets or to learn more about Hobart Brothers’ products, visit Hobartbrothers.com, call 1-800-424-1543, fax 1-¨Ï
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Hobart Brothers Company of Troy, Ohio, is a leading manufacturer of welding filler metals marketed under the brand names Hobart, Tri-Mark, McKay and Corex. Hobart Brothers Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Illinois Tool Works, Inc., Glenview, Ill., a diversified multinational manufacturer of highly engineered components, assemblies and systems.

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