A HUGE Well done to Debs Knight, Nicky Green & Rapid’s own Marianne Edwards for completing the 20 mile Night to Remember Midnight Walk in 5 hours and 5 minutes, helping raise over £143000,00 for St Barnabas House.
Well, the Chelsea flower Show 2014 got underway in London’s Royal Hospital gardens yesterday. Attended by 157,000 visitors each year, it is probably one of the most famous venues in the world for horticultural displays and inspiration. I hear even the Queen is a fan! This year, the event is running from the 20th…
Every now and again we like to bring you something a little different that isn’t welding related, and when a member of the Rapid team gets up to something a bit special out of hours, we feel it is only right to share – with their permission, of course. This weekend, our lovely…
We were very kindly sent this picture of our stand at MACH 2014. Stephen McPartland, MP for Stevenage (second on left), accompanied by Phil Tranter, AWD National Chairman (far right), stopped by for a visit ahead of the AGM.
The SkillWeld 2014 event took place on the 8th May in Northern Ireland at the Ballymena Campus, and we were very pleased to be sent this picture of one of the semi finalists who, we think, looks very happy with his prize. The Save Phace welding helmets – as sponsored by Air Products and with the…
This rechargeable cordless welder is now available from Rapid. For those of you out in the field, welding in remote locations and struggling with generator or mains power sources, here’s a good one for you. AccuPocket is a worlds first, providing answers to common mobile welding issues with its built in power…
The new Minarc 180 is on its way from Kemppi and should be available from Rapid by Easter. This is good news for all you welders out there who are constantly on the go, working from different and often remote locations and need a portable unit. Mains or generator power supplied, the…
‘Rugged and Reliable’ – We like the sound of that! This is the claim made by Hypertherm about the new Powermax30 XP, set to be formally introduced on February 3rd, 2014. With that date just over a week away, Hypertherm has taken pity on us and released some information about this highly anticipated high-performance plasma-cutting…