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Palatine Welding Company    10/2012

Is conveniently located approximately 30 miles N.W. of Chicago, IL. Near the intersection of Northwest Hwy. (Rt.14) and Rte. 53, alongside of the NW Commuter Train tracks.

Beautiful Arlington Park Race Track sits just east of us, on the other side of Rte. 53.

Rolling Meadows, the Town we are actually in is on our South side, and Palatine, as per our name, is across Rte. 14 on our North Side.

The story here is that we didn’t move to a new town. We are where we always have been for more than 50 yrs. The town border moved, which placed us into Rolling Meadows some time ago.

Carl, one of the current owner was selling Steel, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, & Alloy Steel for a major Chicago area Metals supplier, and was selling it to the Berdnick’s of which were the original owners of Palatine Welding. The street we are on is currently named for the family that originally owned the business.

The Berdnick’s, of whom were up in age at the time, and needing a way out of the business, recognized Carl as being the type of person that would do well with this type of business.

Welding and Metal Fabricating is not the easiest business to get involved with, but Carl was well suited to it. He already had a thorough knowledge of Metals, and their properties.  He was a hard working industries type of individual, being the son of a brick layer, and having helped his dad with the back breaking work of his father’s trade for many of his younger years.

The Berdnick’s arranged a meeting with Carl & Dana Piacenza about buying the business. They agreed, but thought it was something they would do in the future. Nick Berdnick, unfortunately, soon after had a fatal heart attack. Irene Berdnick offered Carl & Dana a loan to buy the business. Irene Berdnick also stayed on to help them get organized, and gave lots of good advise. The Piacenza’s say thank you to Irene for your faith in us.

In 1973, Carl & Dana took over the reins of this Metal Fabrication Job Shop, which at the time looked a bit like “Sanford & Sons Garage”. You might need to be a little up in age to know about that place. He grew it into what it is today. A well respected Industrial Manufacturing Service business.

Carl, and His wife Dana share the responsibility of running the company, and the rest of the family has joined the crew as well. Carl and Dana look at the entire crew as an extension of their own family, and treat every person in the organization with the respect that they would give to one of their own.

Please keep an eye on our new Blog. We intend to enrich, educate, and entertain with the stories of the Manufacturing World of which we exist.

Don Ellis – Sales Manager