Welding

Welders often face weld purging difficulties when working under the conditions experienced on-site, including exposure to extremes of heat and cold, harmful sand and dust and even hazardous fumes, where an expensive Weld Purge Monitor® may not always be ideal.

ESAB Welding & Cutting Products has globally introduced Cryo-Shield Ni9, a Ni Cr Mo alloy flux cored wire used for all-position welding of 9% Ni steel LNG fuel and storage tanks with 100% CO2 shielding gas.

Coherent, a California-based company, will soon present its Profile Welding System (PWS), a turnkey solution for tube and profile laser welding with an integrated process sensor for welding gap detection and intelligent seam tracking.

NASA flight engineer Andrew Morgan and the commander of the space station's Expedition 61, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, conducted their fourth spacewalk and completed leak checks on their installation of a new cooling system meant to extend the lifespan of the externally attached Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer dark matter and antimatter detector (the AMS).

The new Snap-On MIG225Ai is designed to help technicians weld aluminum and steel easily, and to deliver more control, accuracy, and efficiency with shorter set up and post-weld finishing times.

DeWys Manufacturing Inc., a metal solutions company – has added a new business unit solely dedicated to the production of stainless steel and aluminum parts.

Welding under site conditions introduces problems that are not found in normal factory environments. Exposure to heat and cold, sand and dust, damp and wet atmospheres place demands on standard Weld Purge Monitors®, for which they are not designed to meetThe PurgEye® Site, available from Huntingdon Fusion Techniques (HFT®), is protected inside a secure, safe, waterproof, and dustproof, tough carry case, perfect for field welding.“Field welding does not eliminate the need to measure oxygen levels when welding metals such as stainless steel, zirconium and titanium.

Lincoln Electric has upgraded its VRTEX virtual reality arc welding simulator and introduced new products, which include two new welders and new stainless steel wires.The VRTEX simulator is said to provide a cutting-edge solution for cultivation welding talent quickly and resourcefully.

Radius Aerospace, Inc. has announced it has acquired Doncasters Group Limited’s Aerospace Forming and Fabricating Business in Sheffield and Shrewsbury, located in the United Kingdom (U.K.).The new division will be renamed Radius Aerospace UK Ltd., but will also trade under its historical Bramah and Shrewsbury names, according to a company release.Radius Aerospace specializes in forming methods including titanium sol-gel coating, metal bonding, specialty alloy welding, stretch forming, hydroforming, welding, brazing, processing, titanium SPF forming, and aluminum and titanium chemical milling.

Weld Purging is the act of removing oxygen from the vicinity of a joint before, during and after welding. Metals that require weld purging include stainless steels, titanium, and zirconium.