Roger Neveu, a skilled pipefitter-welder for an industrial boiler service company, founded Notch Welding as a sole proprietorship. Leveraging this experience, Roger focused his new business on the industrial heating and piping market. The company consisted of only three employees and operated out of Roger’s home near the Amherst-Granby notch in the Holyoke Range (the origin of the company’s name).

Notch built its current 15,000 square foot office and fabrication shop in Chicopee, MA to accommodate the growing staff, expand its pre-fabrication capabilities and access to both major Western Massachusetts’ highways.

The second generation of the Neveu family purchased the company from Roger. Five of his seven children formed the new ownership team, which would carry the company into the future.

Notch opened a satellite office in Hudson, Massachusetts to better service its eastern New England clients in MA, RI, and NH.