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Company History

CIGWELD/ESAB are market leaders of cutting and welding products around the world, and are part of a historic company which was first founded in Australia in 1922.

The CIGWELD brand was introduced in 1985 and has become one of the most significant and respected brands in cutting and welding throughout Australasia.

JOURNEY THROUGH OUR HISTORY…

1922
JB Arnold was established on 1st June, 1922. Specialising in the manufacturing of gas welding and spray painting equipment.
1922
1923
EMF Electric established in 1923. Manufacturers of arc welding machines and electrodes.
1923
1935
JB Arnold became apart of Commonwealth Industrial Gases (CIG).
1935
1939
CIG acquires EMF Electric.
1939
1946
CIG equipment factory is formed.
1946
1957
The COMET 1 Torch was released, reinvented as a brass handled product.
1967: COMET 2 launched
1975: COMET 3 launched
1957
1962
CIG Equipment Division was formed. Incorporating the equipment factory of JB Arnold’s Carlton and West Melbourne plants, and EMF’s North Carlton Arc Equipment plant and Abbotsford Electrode and Wires plant. All were relocated to Preston, VIC.
1962
1985
With a focus on welding and gas equipment, CIG Equipment division formed CIGWELD.
1985
1989
CIGWELD sold to Investment Group and Snr. Management Consortium.
1989
1996
CIGWELD acquired by Thermadyne. Thermadyne was originally founded in 1987, and brought with it an impressive portfolio of other welding and cutting brands.
Stoody, Thermal Dynamics, Tweco, Arcair and Victor.
1996
1999
CIGWELD moves gas equipment manufacturing warehouse and administration office to premises in Gower Street, and opens new distribution warehouses in QLD, WA and SA.
1999
2005
In China, CIGWELD establishes Fluida gas equipment manufacturing facility, and Thermadyne WFOE in Ningbo. Sales office opened in Shanghai.
2005
2010
Thermadyne, including CIGWELD, acquired by IPC Irving Place Capital.
2010
2012
CIGWELD parent company, Thermadyne changed to Victor Technologies. CIGWELD Pty Ltd continue to operate in Australia as the trading entity throughout the Asia Pacific market.
2012
2014
Victor Technologies and the brands of CIGWELD, Stoody, Tweco, Arcair, Comweld Medical and Thermal Dynamics are acquired by ESAB, a world leader in the production of Welding and Cutting Equipment, and Consumables.
The parent company of ESAB is Colfax. A multi-platform industrial enterprise providing solutions that ‘make the world work’.
2014

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