1. Boiler making By Johannes Stefanus Petrus

2. History What Is A Boilermaker? Boilermakers are metal working artisan that are are involved in building very large tanks, heavy pipe work and pressure vessels for nuclear power plants, refineries, and chemical manufacturers. As a Boilermaker, one assembles, erects and maintains boilers, tanks pressure vessels, heat exchangers, pollution control systems, furnaces, condensers, water towers, penstocks and scroll casings using hoisting, rigging, welding equipment, tools and hardware as required by drawings, specifications and the applicable codes and safety standards. It was founded by an Italian man who stated it with a three leg pot in 1806 and there after they find out that metal can not all be welded with one electrode and that is where they come up with the different electrodes for welding different metals.

3. Key figures International Brotherhood Boiler makers The NTA The industries

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5. Recent innovations The Boilermaker Apprenticeship Program consists of on-the-job and classroom training. You earn while you learn and are paid by the hour while you are working on the job site. Apprentice wages start below the journeypersons hourly rate of pay and periodically increases until it reach the full journeypersons rate. The Construction Boilermakers Program involves 6000 hour (3 to 4 years) of on-site training

6. Future challenges Salaries Quality training Job for apprentice More training institute needed