Mark Elender is the senior vice president of North American sales at ESAB Welding & Cutting Products, PO Box 100545, 411 South Ebenezer Road, Florence, SC 29501, 843-664-5503, Fax: 843-664-5607, melender@esab.com, www.esabna.com.
As automation and technology advance to make shops more competitive, they also make a higher skilled workforce more critical than ever before. With opportunities rising in the energy, power generation and infrastructure markets, Mark Elender of ESAB examines why the ongoing challenge is to find adequately trained workers that can get the job done.