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- - By sslynch445 Date 05-12-2016 21:27
Can anyone clue me in to the new FHWA Buy America regs about how this applies to filler metals. We just had a job for Alaska DOT rejected because one of out filler metals wasn't made in in the U.S.. A field inspector clued me in that all federal aided highway projects in the U.S. have to use a melted and made in the U.S. filler metals. Our Airgas rep. is telling me it has to be special ordered.
Parent - By Dreizehn (*) Date 05-12-2016 22:09
I recently had a conversation with a Cal-Trans inspector and was informed there is a difference between "Buy America" and "Buy American". I know this is more of a side-note, it's just something I wanted to throw out there related to the topic. I'm sure many of you knew this already, but I know it threw me for a loop

Buy American = 51% of the final product to be US made
Buy America = 100% of the final product to be US made
- By 803056 (*****) Date 05-13-2016 15:38
The supplier is full of horse crap. There are several American companies making filler metal here in the US. If it is a special order, switch to a supplier that stocks American made products and let him sell his crap back to the Chinese. That's probably who he bought his crap from.

Al
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