Tag: welding

Nitric acid-free pickling helps keg maker improve quality

Based in Spain, Envases Técnicos Zaragoza S.L. (Entinox), is a leading manufacturer of stainless steel beer barrels/kegs. Henkel has helped it to set up an innovative pickling and passivating line using a nitric acid-free process. Benefits include superior HSE performance and bath life over traditional mixed acid pickling systems as well as outstanding corrosion resistance.

The Duplex Dragon

Deep within the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China, pipelines transport natural gas as it is extracted and refined for distribution throughout the country. However, gas leakage has been a recurrent issue as a result of pipeline corrosion. Enter the ‘Pipeline Dragon’: constructed entirely of molybdenum-containing 2205 duplex stainless steel, a new pipeline promises to reduce gas leakage, preventing environmental disaster while conserving resources.

Water delivery efficiency with stainless steel

Stainless steel is playing an important role in delivering effective infrastructure to achieve water savings, securing a sustainable environment and future for irrigation communities in Australia.

Carsten Trentau is new Head of Sales OEM at KEMPER

KEMPER GmbH is intensifying its activities in the OEM sector. As the new Head of Sales OEM, Carsten Trentau is now responsible for the Automation sector at the extraction technology specialist from Germany.

NIMAK supplies manual welding guns for Russia

Mercedes-Benz also relies on resistance welding technology from NIMAK at its new plant in Russia. NIMAK supplies manual welding guns for the required spot welds.

New DNV GL RP on subsea welding to improve quality

A new recommended practice (RP) to standardize operator requirements for welding and inspection of subsea equipment, has been published by DNV GL.

Galling is serious…but there are solutions

Galling is a form of wear that is caused by metal surfaces in gliding contact with one other, such as the potentially hundreds of stainless steel bolts and fasteners holding production equipment and its moving parts together. With potentially disastrous effects resulting from galled fasteners seizing or even being subject to a fatigue breakage, industry players are advised to counter this threat.

Solution treatment: a heat treatment process

Solution treatment refers to a heat treatment process in which the alloy is heated to a high temperature single-phase zone to maintain the temperature, and the excess phase is sufficiently dissolved in the solid solution and then rapidly cooled to obtain a supersaturated solid solution.

Xiris releases next-generation weld camera: XVC-700

Xiris Automation Inc. announced the release of its revolutionary next-generation weld camera, the XVC-700. The lightweight, slimline XVC-700 camera is specifically designed for integration with welding automation in spaces too small for traditional welding cameras.

Introducing HighLightTM FL-ARM with Fiber-Fiber-Switch

The new Coherent HighLightTM FL-ARM with Fiber-Fiber-Switch is a high-power (2 8 kW), dual fiber output laser that can sequentially power two separate workstations or processes.