Magnificent Metal Monday – MBMA Safety Winners Announced

As announced by DesignandBuildwithMetal.com, “The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) annually honors member companies that demonstrate exceptional performance in maintaining workplace safety. These awards are given to Building Systems members as well as Associate members for their performance during the previous calendar year. Safety awards for the 2019 year were presented during the 2020 MBMA …

Throwback Thursdays – Rewind

So yes we missed Throwback Thursdays yesterday so we are doing a rewind on it. Today we have a photo from probably 1983, just kidding looks to be mid 1990’s with the hair and bangs. You’ll recognize a few faces here, both past and present METALCON staff, Claire Kilcoyne, Suzanne Maher, Paula Parker, and Andrea Nenopoulos. …

Register for METALCON

Registration for METALCON is now open.  You can register by clicking here and I know you are saying didn’t he just talk about this Friday? Yes I did but I wanted to bring it up again obviously. With the early numbers we are seeing 

85 Days Until METALCON

Since we love new features here at METALCON, we are going to start a new one beginning tomorrow. We are going to profile an exhibitor each day until day 1 of METALCON. Who we profile and 

More Metal Theft

I know about a month or two ago I was on a big kick on metal theft and I stopped blogging about it. So since I was feeling bit nostalgic here is a video from a theft last month. I am amazed these people are still getting away with things like this.  

This guy puts the Metal in Construction

Saw this video this morning and it looks like it is starting to go viral, well maybe not. So this construction worker who is very handy in many trades looks like he literally put the Metal right into Construction with his skills combined with some Slayer music. I have to say I never listened to …

Happy 4th of July from METALCON

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Welding Professionals – How they started

So earlier this week I had posted a video about welder’ careers and then I ran into this video today. While some of this is not construction related you have to believe that these welding professionals can quickly adapt to any type of industry and job. Take a look at how they started and what …

#ThrowbackThursdays

Yes going to try to do another one today and in the spirit of July 4th let’s talk about our friend “ME.” Me was born back in 2013 and has grown up quickly to travel the world. Take a look at the photos through the years 

Welder: A Look into Construction Careers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLJrNy44e9M The response on the post I did previously has been outstanding so I wanted to include another one. Again these videos are not mine but you can get more information once you get to the YouTube site. These videos are great for our future tradesmen, tradeswomen, and students to watch.