Venice aviation-repair firm expands, will buy $1M X-ray machine

A rapidly growing aviation-related company in Venice, Turbine Weld Industries, is expanding — both in physical space and employees.

At the moment, the company’s 52 employees are “packed in” to about 20,000 square feet on Substation Road off US 41, Turbine Weld General Manager Bill Heydet says on a recent tour of the facility. For example, its machine shop is splintered across three different parts of the building because there is no single space large enough to put it.