Cronatron / Certanium Welding Systems

[Chipuc]

I am interviewing for a job with Cronatron / Certanium Welding Systems.

would any of you have any insight to the company of the products? I have googled them many different way and have yet to find anything bad about them or their parent company Lawson Products Inc.

Any comments would be appreciated.

 

[unclesyd]

I've got hammered for this before but I have to state these are very good maintenance welding consumables. Realizing this I still have state we used their products over the years with great success even though they are a little overpriced. People seem to forget that on maintenance job the electrode is a very small part of the cost and if it works it is even cheaper.

We had great confidence in Cronatron Cast Iron electrodes 211 for dirty and 222 for relatively clean CI. For a while were they only one to produce a TIG wire for CI. We got great milage from this wire. We did use Certanium 889 for CI.

We used several of their alloy rods, both 3880 and 3990, for repair of SS where the added elongation of the material was beneficial.

We used a considerable number of the 300 series Carbon Steel
Electrodes. We could keep them around as they ran so well on "Cracker boxes". They were an excellent rod for maintenance people as they were essentially immune to mishandling.

Their gouging electrode is one of the best around.

I was involved while the companies were separate entities and favored Cronatron due to the service we received and I knew the chief metallurgist. He started his career at Certanium. The best selling point at the time was the fluxes used by Cronatron on their electrodes

 

[Rich2001]

I agree with unclesyd, though we can not use them for our fabrications, there are very handy for maintenance projects. I am very much impressed with the gouging rods and have used to chase cracks and bust rivets.

 

[Chipuc]

wow.. thanks y'all... that imput does help. It's nice to know that they are at least a decent company, and did provide some worthwile service.

 

[pipewelder1999]

I have a friend I welded with while in the Navy years ago that became a salesman for them years ago. He is no longer with them but I just saw him a month or two ago. If you like, I may be able to put you in touch with him.

Gerald Austin
Iuka, Mississippi

http://www.weldinginspectionsvcs.com

 

[Chipuc]

Gerald,

If that is no trouble, I sure would like to speak with a former employee, I do know that they are revamping the training and set up they have for their sales force in this area of the country so that interesting to me.
Thanks for your help, I've had a couple of awful sales jobs in my life and though I can tell this is a pretty good one, you are never told about the negatives of the daily job when you are interviewing.

 

[pipewelder1999]

My email address is gerald at the domain listed at bottom of the message. Send me yours.

I welded with some of there rods you could weld throughmud/water with very neat!



Gerald Austin
Iuka, Mississippi

http://www.weldinginspectionsvcs.com

 

[Timurlane]

Chipuc,

Did you take the job?