We decided to check out the website of our friends at UMI Performance, and were treated to the delightful image above. This certainly caught our attention, because you just don’t see many welders dressed like this. The MIG process can leave bare skin a little pockmarked with welding slag burns, and the TIG welding process can leave a pretty harsh sunburn. The thought of either of those things happening to this lovely Rosie the Welder made us cringe. So we decided to take a look at UMI Performance’s Facebook fan page for the real welding story.

If you are not yet familiar with UMI Performance, you soon will be. Located in the small town of Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, big things come out of the company’s facility. MIG and TIG welding is a small part of the company’s manufacturing process. UMI’s skilled technicians and machinists cover all aspects of race component fabrication. From CNC machining – both milling and turning – band sawing, press brake, sand blasting, plasma cutting and powder-coating. All under one roof!

While we are not sure if the beauty pictured in the lead photo is one of the UMI employees, but we do know that the company’s 35,000 square-foot facility staffed with 30 highly-skilled employees, including the owner, Ryan Kirkwood, who still works on the shop floor TIG welding A-arms from time-to-time. Our inside source tells us that Ryan would rather weld than do paperwork.

These B-body boxed control arms are a great example of the detail work that goes into each component. From welding and sanding, the work that goes into these components is amazing.

For a company that manufactures 99.9 percent of their product under the roof of their single facility, we are amazed that raw material arrives in the front door and quality racing components get shipped out the back of the facility on demand, like clockwork, for over nine years.

If you want to know more about UMI Performance or check out their quality line of racing components, visit them at www.umiperformance.com