Tag: welding

Serpentine to acquire Keyhole TIG Limited

Serpentine Technologies Limited (Serpentine) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a non-binding term sheet to acquire 100% of Keyhole TIG Limited (K - TIG).

Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing

Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system, in a breakthrough for the manufacturing industry.

Coherent creates a Center of Excellence

Coherent Inc. has significantly expanded its Gilching, Germany micromachining, and sub-system facility, and completed the relocation of the company’s laser marking group from nearby Gunding.

Safer seas with stainless steel

Chemical tankers are specialized ships carrying liquid cargoes that may be environmentally hazardous, flammable or highly reactive. They are designed and operated under special rules, and increasingly have built-in molybdenum-containing stainless steel tanks. Sailing around the world, they transport liquid goods safely over long distances. They also represent a significant market for duplex stainless steels and molybdenum.

A new portable machine for stainless steel branching

The T-DRILL process is a patented method of producing outlets for branch connections directly from the run material. Pipe branching by T-DRILL method is also called collaring, mechanical tee forming or simply T-DRILL tees.

High-precision laser-based measurement

The new laser-based gauge developed by Dango & Dienenthal Umformtechnik measures the internal contour of tubes and pipes contact-free and with the highest precision.

The welding of SAF 2507 steel for nuclear power plants

Most nuclear power plants in the world use sea water as its cooling medium; seawater is the most corrosive medium in the natural environment which are prone to produce pitting for common stainless steel materials.

Induction annealed stainless steel tubes

Schoeller Werk is expanding its inline induction annealing capacities for laser welding. In this way, the specialist for longitudinally welded stainless steel tubes aims to satisfy the continually rising demand for induction annealed stainless steel tubes for supply lines in the industrial and automotive sector.

Secondment to develop welding of new Duplex SS

Following a series of interactions with Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC), TWI is pleased to announce the secondment of Mr Kenta Yamada, at TWI laboratories in Cambridge.

Long distance weld purge monitoring

Often when welding lengths of tubes and pipework fabrications of 20 metres or more, measuring the purge gas might not always be easy.