Date of Event: 04/14/2026 Location: 75 Rockwell Street, Newington, CT Number of Attendees: 10 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Santo Pirrotta and Reinaldy Hidajat Event Summary: Our membership was offered the rare opportunity to tour the resistance welding department and metallurgical testing laboratory of Lynn Welding, located in Newington, CT. The “Robot” is the creation of Gregg Morisson, long time Lynn…
Date of Event: 02/17/2026 Location: Trumpf Inc – Building 3.3, Leibinger Way, Farmington, CT 06032 Number of Attendees: 18 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Burke Doar, Executive Vice President, TRUMPF Inc. A presentation of the TRUMPF Facility and the Trumpf TRU-LASER. Event Summary: On February 17th, the Connecticut section held a plant / facility tour hosted by Trumpf Inc. at their…
Date of Event: 01/14/2026 Location: Groton CT Number of Attendees: 22 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Speaker: Donald Blanchette.Mr. Blanchette is a Fellow of ASNT, former Chairman of theASNT Connecticut Yankee Section and former member of the ASNT Board of Directors. Subject: The Integration of NDE and Welding Technologies Event Summary: A joint AWS Connecticut Section and ASNT Connecticut Yankee Section…
Date of Event: 11/13/2025 Location: 21 Lordship Rd, East Granby, CT Number of Attendees: 13 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Vincent Smith, President of Acceleron, Inc. Event Summary: Vincent Smith gave a 45 minute presentation on the principles and operations of an electron beam welding system. The presentation was followed by a 45 minute tour of Acceleron’s facilities and showed examples…
Date of Event: 05/21/2025 Location: Groton Elks, Lodge, 700 Shennecossett Road Groton, CT. 06340 Number of Attendees: 20 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Greg Burdick, Magnaflux Northeast Regional Manager. Event Summary: A joint technical meeting of the AWS Connecticut Section and the ASNT Connecticut Yankee Section was held on May 21st at the Groton Elks Lodge in Groton, CT. Greg Burdick,…
Date of Event: 05/03/2025 Location: Concord, NH Number of Attendees: 23 Event Summary: District One held their District Conference on the weekend of May 2nd to may 4th, 2025 at the Grappone conference center in Concord, N.H. There were 23 district one section officers, leaders, and guests present for the meeting on Saturday, the 3rd of May.…
Date of Event: 03/19/2025 Location: Hosted by Burt Processing. Presentation by Theo Number of Attendees: 12 members and several guests Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Jonathan Proctor Sales Manager for Theo Event Summary: Jonathan provided a short lecture and demonstration on the mechanics of the hand-held laser torch and than gave the opportunity for each attendee an opportunity to try their…
Date of Event: 03/12/2025 Location: Gronton Elks Lodge, Groton, Connecticut Number of Attendees: 22 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Speakers / presenters. Dave Waitkus from Accu Weld Technologies, Inc. and Xuriah Harbaugh from Doncasters Structural Castings. Event Summary: A joint meeting of the AWS district one Connecticut, CMRI, and Boston sections and the ASNT Connecticut Yankee and Narragansett Bay sections, was…
Date of Event: 01/15/2025 Location: Groton Elks, Lodge, 700 Shennecossett Road Groton, CT. 06340 Number of Attendees: 34 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Notable guest, Jay Jones AWS VP Event Summary: On January 15th, 2025, thirty-four ASNT and AWS members and guests attended the Joint Meeting of ASNT Connecticut Yankee Section and American Welding Society District One Connecticut, CM/RI, and…
Date of Event: 08/13/2024 Location: Hamden, CT Number of Attendees: 23 members and guest Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Tim Lucas, Luke Bonvouloir, and Rob Hansen Event Summary: The tour included a discussion of the products fabricated by Bert Process Equipment and a tour of their facility with a discussion on welding of plastic with welded samples and the equipment used…