Employee-Generated Ideas drive distributor's growth.
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Featured in Fall 2012 issue of Welding and Gases Today, GAWDA member Haun Welding Supply promises its customers The Haun Edge, a mission that suggests sharpness and precision and keeps employees on top of their game. Headquartered in Syracuse, NY, with 17 additional locations throughout New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, Haun has 185 employees who have contributed some of company's most successful ideas.
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Employee-Generated Ideas Drive Distributor's Growth
GAWDA member Haun Welding Supply calls on employees to provide sales, operational edge.
Dewitt, NY – Headquartered in Syracuse, NY, with 17 additional locations throughout the New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont, Haun Welding Supply promises its customers The Haun Edge, a mission that suggests sharpness and precision and keeps employees on top of their game. The company aims to deliver on this mission to a variety of industries, including construction, fabrication, manufacturing, commercial, medical, laboratories, education and homeowners. Haun Welding Supply is featured in the Fall 2012 issue of Welding Gases Today, the leading magazine for the gases and welding equipment industry.
With 185 employees spread across 17 locations, Haun Welding Supply President Mark Haun is adamant about his reliance on the people of Haun. “I communicate the message throughout the organization that taking care of customers is our primary mission.” And then he expects employees to take ownership and be responsible. “I can’t take credit for our success,” he says. “There are 185 people here who are making it work.”
Haun Welding Supply’s employees have contributed some of the company’s most successful ideas in recent memory. At the urging of the company’s director of finance, store sales are measured on a budget of what the store is expected to do, rather than a comparison of previous years. Credit Manager Josh Haun is responsible for inspiring a series of free welding training classes that have generated several repeat customers.
On the operations side of the business, The Haun Edge is made possible by efficient fill plant operations. Haun Welding Supply is home to the longest cylinder filling island in the U.S. at 120 feet long and 20 feet wide. The fill plant supplies high-pressure industrial and medical gases, as well as high-purity specialty gases. The gases are distributed in either liquid form or as a high-pressure gas through more than 100,000 cylinders and dewars in the Haun system.
To learn more about how Haun Welding Supply gives its customers an edge, read the GAWDA member profile “Haun Welding Supply” (http://www.weldingandgasestoday.org/index.php/2012/08/haun-welding-supply/), at Welding Gases Today Online. For more information, contact Carole Jesiolowski, senior editor at Welding & Gases Today at carole@weldingandgasestoday.org or 315-445-2347.
About GAWDA
Founded in 1945, the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) is the premier source for manufacturing knowledge, education and networking. Through its member journals (www.weldingandgasestoday.org), e-magazines, newsletters and industry wiki (www.gawdawiki.org), GAWDA connects suppliers of gases and manufacturers of related equipment as well as manufacturers of welding equipment and distribution leaders, for the purpose of safely delivering optimal solutions to the users of those products. GAWDA publications are the industry’s voice for all matters related to the latest technology and the most up-to-date processes spanning welding equipment and products and services related to industrial, medical, specialty and cryogenic gases. A 501(c)3 organization, GAWDA members are located throughout North America.
