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INSIDE
NEWS
4 Welding World Awards 2018
And the winners are . . . the awards evening
at the Hilton Metropole in Birmingham will
see the winners receive their awards
4 Calendar
make sure you don’t miss . . .
6 COVER STORY – Health and Safety in
Welding
Looking at the processes and procedures
in today’s manufacturing
08 OH2018
Inspirational speakers to ignite your
imagination
08 UA Certificate for JASIC from TÜV
10 Dove Engineering Centre
New apprentice centre can play lead role
for industry
10 Transformer Car
Exciting welding project is exhibit at new
gallery opening
11 OBE awarded to BOHS past president
11 Automotive Confidence
International confidence in the UK’s
automotive sector was bolstered in March
14 WIN Eurasia 2018
Istanbul became the meeting point of
industrial giants
15 Women in Engineering
LTi Metaltech calls for more women to enter
engineering workforce
EDITOR’S NOTE
Welcome to this edition of Welding World.
And things don’t get much more exciting for this publication as we have the second Welding
World Awards now very close at hand.
The shortlist of businesses in the running for our categories has now been announced and
this in itself is a cause for celebration as it shows all of the hard work which is going on in our
industry.
There are so many diversions at the moment for business in general and not just in our own
sector. The awards are a timely reminder that there can be no substitute for rolling up our
sleeves and getting on with the task in hand. The rewards for those who do this are there for
all to see and we look forward to naming the very best at the event in Birmingham.
Our special guest and host for the evening is Eamonn Holmes so if you haven’t booked tickets
already please do so now as we are sure it will be a special night.
And of course for those who are in the running for an award the marketing and promotion
of your success should already be underway. Use our links and our logo and make sure that
clients and customers are aware how brilliant your business is.
Among a host of great articles and features in this edition we are also delighted to run a special
on the workshop environment - we will be spotlighting many more in issues to come.
Enjoy all the best features, reviews and regular columns that Welding World provides, keeping
you in touch with all the news that matters in the industry.
Darren Isted,
Editor, Welding World
editor@welding-world.com
15 ULT LLC cooperates with GulfTech
16 Power Tool Inventor talks mag drills
18 Welding engineers
18 Core innovation hub
Innovate UK has up to £72 million to invest
18 Metaltech
calling for increased industry-wide efforts to
help resolve the severe skills shortage
19 UK Steel Industry
Britain’s steel industry is vulnerable
19 Brooker Award
For Dr Isabel Hadley – TWI Industrial
Research Fellow
22 President’s Hall of fame
Looking back at some brave and sometimes
eccentric people who shaped this Industry
NEW PRODUCTS
26 A guide to some of the latest technologies
FEATURES
34 Job Knowledge
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24 President’s Message
25 The Board
30 SifTips
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31 And Finally
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NEWS
AND
THE
WINNERS ARE . . .
Voting has closed, the judging has taken
place and our successful Finalists have
been notified. All that is left to do is to
announce the winners and to celebrate
the best of the Welding Industry’s
Businesses and people at The Welding
World 2018 Awards Ceremony on
Wednesday 11th April.
The process began last summer with
nominations and votes being completely
controlled by the general public.
Companies shortlisted as a finalist should
be immensely proud at getting this far
and we look forward to highlighting
their success at the gala dinner.
Returning for our 2nd year at the
Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel and
hosted, this time, by popular broadcaster
and television personality, Eamon
Holmes OBE, the evening promises to be
a great night out for all, with an exciting
array of entertainment including a live
modern Jazz band, close-up Magician,
Roulette and Blackjack Casino Tables
and a Dance Floor. We will also be
holding a Silent Auction and tombolastyle
donation envelope draw with some
amazing Prizes up for grabs in support of
our chosen Charity – Kidney Cancer UK.
Kidney Cancer UK is a charity which
aims to maintain the highest standard
of support for kidney cancer patients,
carers and their family across the UK
throughout their kidney cancer journey.
They have two main events coming up,
on April 23 they will host the inaugural
St Georges’ Day Supper at the Victory
Services Club, London and are raising
funds to directly increase the number of
Kidney Cancer UK Health Professional
Nurses working within communities
across the country. May 1 Kidney Cancer
UK and sister charity, Kidney Cancer
Scotland, are delighted to invite you to
take part in Walk For A Cure during May
2018 (if you can’t do it in May, then you
can walk when you can) to help raise
CALENDAR – MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS...
April 9 -13 2018
MACH Exhibition
The MACH exhibition is a biennial
showcase held at NEC, Birmingham,
exclusively intended for UK
Manufacturing Technology and
Innovation.
NEC Birmingham - National Exhibition
Centre, United Kingdom
April 10-13 2018
Welding and Cutting
This event showcases products like
Materials, Equipment and technologies
for welding, surfacing & brazing/
soldering, Power sources and welding
equipment control systems, Automated
complex systems and aggregates for
welding and cutting, Automation of
welding industrial etc. in the Welding &
Cutting industry.
Belarus Exhibition Center in Minsk,
Belarus.
April 15-18 2018
International Brazing and Soldering
Conference (IBSC) 2018
The IBSC remains the premier event for
the brazing and soldering community.
For years, the IBSC has provided
professionals, scientists and engineers
involved in the research, development
and application of brazing and soldering,
a unique networking and idea-exchange
forum.
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
May 23-25 2018
Welding Korea
Welding Korea is a strong informative
and technological center and a meeting
spot of experts and businessmen that
will be given the opportunity to exchange
experience and put on show the latest
procedures and technologies in the field
of welding.
Incheon Korea
June 5-8 2018
Welding Exhibition
This event showcases products like
Electron beam welding stations;
Devices for gas welding and cutting;
Devices for metal spraying; Welders
and welding mandrel machines;
Refrigerations and radiators; and
stations, devices and accessories
for brazing and soldering etc. in the
Welding & Cutting industry.
Poznan Congress Center in
Poznan, Poland
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THE CATEGORIES
NEWS 5
BEST GAS AGENT
Sponsored by
The winner of this award will be aware of the latest technology and works within
current legislation as well as being aware of future changes and how they will
embrace them.
BEST NEW WELDING PRODUCT SUPPLIER Sponsored by
The winner of this award is ahead of the game when it comes to understanding
the industry, their customers and the future.
BEST SAFETY PRODUCT SUPPLIER
The winner of this award will be an expert in the field with a passion for ensuring
our industry is as safe as it can be.
Winners from the 2016 Welding World Awards
funds for research and to support kidney
cancer patients, carers and their families
across the UK.
Tickets are available to book via the
Welding World Awards Website www.
welding-world-awards.com. They are
available in any number but full tables
of 10 are available at a discount should
they wish to bring along their partners
and valued employees. Included in
this is a sparkling drinks reception and
3-Course meal with wine, tea’s and
coffee included in the Ticket price. It is
of course a Black Tie event and guests
should ‘Dress to Impress’
Bedrooms at the Hilton Birmingham
Metropole are available to book at
a discounted rate and guests should
contact the Welding World Secretariat to
discuss / book
There are also three awards categories
which are still available to sponsor (Best
Safety Product Supplier, Best Surface
Finishing and Best Welding Industry
Training Provider). The Main Sponsor
is also available as is sponsorship for/
towards the Drinks Reception and
Programme.
Finalists are reminded that you should
also take this opportunity to advise your
customers of your success as a Finalist
and show the Welding Industry how
well you have done by using this logo
and incorporating it within your Social
Media activity. Fans and users of Twitter,
please include us in your tweets about
the Awards using @WeldingWorld1
#WWA2018 and our marketing team will
look to acknowledge and/or retweet, at
the earliest.
BEST SURFACE FINISHING
The winner of this award has been deemed by a panel of judges to be the best
surface finishing business.
BEST WELDING DISTRIBUTOR Sponsored by
The winner of this award has excellent knowledge of the products they are
responsible for, is trusted for their knowledge as well as delivering excellent
customer service.
BEST WELDING INDUSTRY TRAINING PROVIDER
The winner of this award delivers excellent training programmes using the latest
technology and current legislation. They are fully aware of future changes which
are highlighted to their client base to ensure they are always ahead of the game.
BEST E-COMMERCE WEBSITE
ORGANISATION Sponsored by
The winner of this award has engineered a website which is easy to navigate, has
up to date information and is trusted.
It has a search engine which takes the user, within seconds, to exactly what they
are looking for, ensuring the website is always the first port of call.
BEST WELDING MACHINE SUPPLIER Sponsored by
The winner of this award has excellent knowledge of the machines they are
supplying as well as an understand of the requirements of the customer, ensuring
sound advice is given. They are recognised as having excellent customer service as
well as a strong client base of satisfied, returning customers.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
The winner of this award is for someone who the judging panel feel has dedicated
their working life to the welding industry.
WELDING WORLD AWARD 2018
The winner of this award is for someone who has unselfishly given their time and
experience to the AWD and the welding industry over many years.
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NEWS-COVER STORY
HEALTH AND SAFETY IN WELDING
In most countries there is extensive legislation
assigning responsibilities to employers to take
reasonable care of the health and safety at work of
their employees (e.g. in the UK the primary legislation
is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974).
Welding is associated with several hazards to health
and safety, and the employer needs to be able to ask
informed questions:
Pictures supplied by kind permission of Channel 4 and JCB
THE WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENT
The employer needs to ensure that the
lighting conditions are adequate for the
work undertaken – giving extra lighting
where necessary. Welders stand for long
periods of time, since they must keep
a very steady hand position, and this
means that they can become quite cold
if the workshop is not sufficiently well
heated. Conversely in hot weather, the
environment can become unbearably hot,
and the welder has not got the option of
removing clothing. Both overheating and
underheating can cause fall in comfort,
efficiency and productivity.
Housekeeping is extremely important
to avoid slips, trips and falls, damage to
equipment and fire.
ELECTRICAL SAFETY
Clearly, the employer needs to
establish the level of competence of
the electrician who is given the task of
wiring the installation, and the type of
maintenance which the installation and
the equipment will subsequently need.
In the UK there is a requirement for
periodic electrical checks to be done on
power sources. The design of welding
power sources themselves has gone
through a number of changes, and for
each, there are different standards of
safety. The employer must ensure that
his installation is correctly matched to
the type he is using - for instance double
insulated power sources should not be
used with a separate earth lead to the
workpiece.
FUME
Welding vapourises metals, and anything
which is resting on the surface. This
gives rise to fume, which is condensed
fine particulate material. The fume is
mostly oxides of the metals, including any
alloying elements, but it also contains
gases produced in the arc, such as ozone
or oxides of nitrogen, and decomposition
products from any paint or coating which
was on the metal surface. The nature and
quantity of this fume depends critically
upon the welding process, the materials
and the welding parameters. Some is
harmful to health, for instance stainless
steel fume contains chromium, and
welding galvanised steel produces zinc
fume.
Effects can vary from a bout of ‘metal
fume fever’ to longer term, more serious
problems if suitable fume removal is not
carried out. There is guidance literature
which may be consulted regarding the
safe levels for each constituent, and the
employer needs to be aware that for
some fume constituents, there may be
no safe level, and a statutory exposure
limit may be imposed. Nickel, cobalt
and stainless steel welding fume are
the subject of statutory limits in the UK.
Highly efficient exhaust apparatus is
available. Some health surveillance may
be necessary.
NOISE
Welding environments are frequently
noisy as other operations such as
grinding, etc. may also be taking place.
Some operations, such a de-slagging may
take the noise up to such a level where
it will damage workers’ hearing. In such
cases this would mean that hearing
protection is almost certainly required if
the noise cannot be controlled by other
means. Some health surveillance may also
be necessary. To protect UK workers new
noise exposure limits became law during
2006 that represented a significant
lowering of statutory noise action levels
from 85 dB(A) and 90dB(A) to 80 dB(A)
and 85 dB(A) respectively.
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NEWS- COVER STORY 7
OPTICAL RADIATION
The welding process produces a large
quantity of visible light, ultraviolet and
infrared. Exposure to the radiation from an
arc causes burns to the skin, and damage to
the eyes. For this reason, welders need to
wear clothing to protect their bodies and
arms, regardless of the weather conditions.
They also need efficient eye protection,
which is usually supplied in the form of
a protective shield. The precise choice of
the shade of glass filter in these shields
depends on the type of welding operation,
since they vary in their light output.
Welders assistants’ also need protective
clothing and eye protection. Passers-by
should be protected by placing opaque
or properly filtered screens around the
work area.
BURNS AND MECHANICAL
HAZARDS
Welders need good quality gloves,
preferably leather gauntlets, safety boots
or shoes and good quality cap and overalls.
A leather apron may also be needed.
Welding produces quantities of molten
droplets of metal which are scattered in
all directions. It is essential that the welder
wears clothing which will not burn or
melt, and which is stout enough to provide
adequate protection.
In a workshop environment, suitable
safety footwear is essential.
GAS BOTTLES
Gas bottles need to be stored to conform
with the regulations, and the welders need
to be aware of the safety rules - such as the
use of the correct regulator, tethering the
cylinder so that it does not fall, keeping the
outlets free from contamination such as oil
or grease.
WELDING IN DIFFICULT
SITUATIONS – OUTDOORS,
CONFINED SPACES ETC.
There are many work situations which
add to the hazards of welding. Each must
be assessed carefully, since there may be
added hazards such as falls or asphyxiation.
This is particularly true of work in confined
spaces, where there is a very real risk of
death, and the employer should make a
critical assessment of the work to be done,
and how it may be carried out safely.
EXTRACTION
FUME EXTRACTION INSTALLATIONS
GAIN FROM WELDING REFURBISHMENT
EXPERTISE AT WESTERMANS
INTERNATIONAL
All operators of welding equipment
will be well aware of the inevitable
creation of gases and fumes as a result
of the process. Clearly central to the
commitment to optimise conditions
both for welding operatives and the
broader workshop environment,
solutions to this key issue can range
from personal protective equipment to
built-in exhaust systems and, according
to Westermans International Ltd., the
latter – fixed installations – need not be
cost prohibitive.
“We have a well-established,
international reputation for the supply
of a vast range of refurbished welding
equipment,” says Claire Spillane,
Company Secretary at the organisation’s
East Midlands head office and factory.
“Our ability to source, regenerate,
commission and provide support for
facilities that range from MIG welding
units to advanced orbital welders
invariably enables our customers to
gain from proven, highly advanced
equipment very cost effectively.”
The same advantages, she says,
also extend to a long list of ancillary
equipment, with fume extraction systems
high on the list.
“Fumes and gases can arise not only
from welding and cutting operations
but also from processes such as abrasive
blasting or from the application of
substances that include lubricants,
degreasing fluids and pickling pastes,”
adds Technical Director, Mark Reaney.
“The fact that the process often takes
place in a small, enclosed space can add
to an issue that must be addressed with
each installation.”
Westermans International has built
its leading reputation on both its ability
to identify and source used systems,
and also its belief in undertaking
refurbishment operations to meet
exact customer needs. The company
typically retains in excess of 300 units for
refurbishment at its Leicester premises,
while also acting as a distributor of
selected new equipment – such as
that manufactured by Extractability –
and can point to a customer list that
covers a wide range of industries and
geographical locations.
In all cases the organisation ensures
that the equipment it supplies, including
fume extraction systems, takes full
account of appropriate health and safety
obligations, such as those defined by
COSHH.
“We take the view that clean air
is effectively a human right and this
principle should fully extend to the
workplace,” continues Claire Spillane.
“The list of potential health issues
associated with welding activities is wellknown
so all measures that companies
can take to offset these factors is both
desirable and, in many cases, subject to
regulatory and legal obligations.
“Our supply of welding systems
and ancillary equipment has helped a
growing list of companies to benefit
from technology that reflects the most
appropriate and effective health and
safety needs. From both a performance
and cost perspective, we believe that
all aspects of welding operations – not
least fume extraction – can gain from our
proven approach,” she concludes.
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NEWS
INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKERS TO IGNITE
YOUR IMAGINATION AT OH2018
BOHS, The Chartered Society for Worker
Health Protection, has announced details
of the inspirational programme for
its annual conference – Occupational
Hygiene 2018 (OH2018). OH2018 will take
place in Stratford-upon-Avon from 16 –
19 April 2018: the leading international
conference in the field of worker health
protection in the UK, this event focusses on
occupational hygiene and the prevention
of occupational ill-health and disease.
The conference programme will
commence with the prestigious Warner
Lecture. Sponsored by Shell, the Warner
Lecture is given in honour of Dr. Clifford G.
Warner – one of the founder members of
BOHS.
This year’s Warner Lecture, entitled
‘From Trauma to Triumph’ will be delivered
by Simon Harmer. In 1997, Simon joined
the British Army as a combat medic, but his
life changed dramatically in 2009 when he
received injuries from an explosion whilst
on tour in Afghanistan. Simon is now a
volunteer ambassador for several charities,
and capitalises on his experiences by
speaking about his journey and its learning
outcomes – inspiring audiences by talking
about what resilience looks like; how to
overcome adversity; and how to realise
potential.
Other keynote sessions include:
• Gerard Hand – ‘Please Come In’: involved
in health and safety for nearly 30 years,
Gerard has a Masters degree in health
and safety management, and is vastly
experienced in delivering training, and
implementing safety management systems
to a wide range of companies in various
sectors, including: local authorities; police
forces; retailers; and manufacturers.
• Dr. Andrew Hatch – ‘Workplace
Wellness: Lifestyle Versus Chronic Disease
Focus’: the subject of Andrew’s lecture
is ‘How much is back pain costing my
company and what can we do about it?’.
• Philip Baker – ‘Preventing Ill Health
in Construction Through Design’: Philip
is Chair of the London Region of the
Association for Project Safety, and also the
London Metropolitan Branch of IOSH’s
Construction Section.
• Stewart Cruikshank – ‘Manual Handling
– a Different Approach’: Stewart was
previously a competitive weightlifter, and
set British records at his weight - records
which still stand today.
Other programme highlights include
current campaign updates, and hot topics –
so make a calendar note of the following:
• Breathe Freely: Mike Slater, past
president of BOHS, talks about the next
steps in this campaign, launched 3 years
ago, which aims to control exposures to
prevent occupational lung disease in the
construction industry.
• Mates in Mind: Mates in Mind aims to
improve positive mental wellbeing in the
UK construction industry – a particularly
pertinent campaign, given that more
construction workers are killed by suicide,
than falls.
• Asbestos: Martin Stear, Registrar of
FAAM, is conducting this session on BOHS’
recently launched Faculty of Asbestos
Assessment and Management – the
association for professionals in the asbestos
industry, which aims to raise standards and
reduce risks.
UA CERTIFICATE FOR JASIC FROM TÜV
TÜV Rheinland Group have awarded the laboratory of Shenzhen Jasic Technology
Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen Jasic) the Welder Laboratory UA Certificate. As the first UA
certificate awarded by TÜV Rheinland to a Chinese welding machine manufacturer,
the certificate is not only a symbol of in-depth cooperation between the two parties,
but also a milestone achievement of Shenzhen Jasic towards the establishment of
standardised and international lab procedure.
Li Yonggang (General Manager of Electric and Gardening Tool) extended
congratulations to Shenzhen Jasic: “I would like to congratulate Shenzhen Jasic on
obtaining the first Welding Machine Laboratory UA Certificate in China. It is a great
honour to witness Shenzhen Jasic marching towards the global market. I believe what
the company has achieved underpins the further in-depth cooperation between us.”
It has been 16 years since TÜV Rheinland awarded GS certificate to the first welding
machine in China in 2002. For years, TÜV Rheinland committed itself to growing
together with Chinese welding machine manufacturers by providing high-quality
services. The Welding Machine Laboratory UA Certificate awarded to Shenzhen
Jasic underlines that Chinese enterprises are geared to the global leading quality
management system in terms of quality management, lab testing and other capacities.
Wang Ying, Vice President of Operations of Shenzhen Jasic, expressed gratitude
to TÜV Rheinland on behalf of his company for the support and assistance along
the way on the ceremony. Shenzhen Jasic, as a nationwide bellwether, strives to “go
global”. Shenzhen Jasic enjoys the cooperation with TÜV Rheinland, one of the world’s
leading testing service providers. He firmly believes that the cooperation will facilitate
Shenzhen Jasic in reaching new heights.
Luo Weihong, Vice President of Marketing of Shenzhen Jasic, said on the ceremony:
“I have been working in welding machine manufacturing for decades and I always
believe that only quality ensures the long-term development of enterprises. We
sincerely appreciate the support and assistance of TÜV Rheinland in our product
development, lab testing, and enhancement of competitiveness. In the future, we will
be much stricter about quality control to improve the competitiveness of products and
to provide the best products for customers.”
If you would like more information please contact Darren at 0161 793 8127 or email
tina@wilkinsonstar.com.
About Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co., Ltd.
With the registered capital of over RMB 500 million, Shenzhen Jasic is a national hi-tech
enterprise specialising in the integrated businesses of R&D, manufacturing and sales of
welding and cutting equipment. The main products of Shenzhen Jasic include inverter
welding machine, engine-driven welding machine, and other welding and cutting
equipment. With multiple R&D centres, Shenzhen Jasic excels in R&D capacity and owns
more than 70 national patents including the pending ones. It has set up three modern
manufacturing bases in Shenzhen, Chongqing, and Chengdu. Shenzhen Jasic’s products
have been exported to a number of countries and regions across Europe, Americas,
Oceania, Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Wilkinson Star are the exclusive importer and distributor of Jasic Equipment in the
UK and Eire.
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NEWS
DOVE ENGINEERING CENTRE
New apprentice centre can play lead role for industry
A unique ‘hi-tech’ training facility is
expected to play a key role in bridging a
skills gap within the engineering industry.
The £1.2 million Dove Engineering Centre
delivers top-quality apprenticeship
training for leading businesses.
More than 160 students made up the
initial intake in September at the new
facility, which is part of the successful
JCB Academy.
And director of apprenticeships Jim
Bailey is convinced it can help to address a
shortage of skilled technicians across the
UK.
He said: “There’s a massive skills gap
within the engineering sector in this
country and it has left businesses in all
kinds of industries struggling to recruit
properly-trained staff.
“There’s a real lack of people coming
through with the depth of knowledge
of modern techniques and practices that
companies in all sorts of sectors need.
“One of the reasons the Centre was set
up was to help to address that situation by
providing a clear link between education
and the world of employment.”
Helping the entire engineering sector
was the over-riding vision of JCB Chairman
Lord Anthony Bamford, who formally
opened the Centre – housed in the former
Dove First School in Rocester, Staffordshire
– in September.
The school closed in July last year and
the building, along with associated land,
was purchased by JCB.
An extension was added as part
of conversion work funded by the
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local
Enterprise Partnership and the building
was transformed into a dedicated and
purpose-designed amenity featuring
modern facilities and cutting-edge
technology.
A mechatronics suite features a hi-tech
rig that replicates an entire manufacturing
system along with a host of hydraulic and
pneumatic equipment while, in another
area, students undertake projects using
computer aided design.
The metrology department houses a coordinate
measurement machine alongside
a range of other industrial measuring
tools, while there’s also a drafting room
containing 15 drawing stations and a
science lab geared towards the study of
engineering principles.
The Centre, which has also been fitted
out with its own canteen, delivers largely
academic education for young engineers,
while apprentices receive technical tuition
in workshops at the main Academy site
nearby.
The facility has its own fitting room
alongside machine, welding and electrical
workshops – each featuring the latest
equipment.
Employers use the Centre to equip
their own apprentices with the latest
skills and the facility, which has a capacity
to admit 200 students over the age of 16
a year, welcomed an initial intake of 161
– with an average age of 22.
Almost 50 per cent come from
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire
and 32 per cent from Derbyshire or
Nottinghamshire.
Each apprentice, recruited by
employers themselves, will attend four
days a week for the first 12 months of
apprentice programmes which could last
three years, depending on which course
they take.
Craft courses, including welding and
fabrication, last for 18 months while
the Technician pathway, for potential
electrical and mechanical engineers and
those aiming for roles in design, quality
or maintenance for example, is a threeyear
cycle.
TRANSFORMER CAR
Exciting welding project is exhibit at new gallery opening
An artist who learned how to weld in
order to complete a work with his father
has seen his piece go on show recently at
the opening of a gallery.
Hetain Patel created
Fiesta Transformer using as
inspiration his first car, a
1988 Ford Fiesta gifted
to him by his father as
he turned 17.
Born in the UK to
immigrant Indian
parents, the
passing of a car
between generations provided him with
his first taste of independence. In this work,
Patel turned his hand to a newly acquired
1988 Ford Fiesta of the same specifications
as the original car to create his
first sculpture. Manufactured
in England, this car stands as a
symbol of working class Britain,
a native body, albeit here a car
body.
“I made the sculpture with
my dad over a period of three
or four months. I was really
keen to spend time with
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OBE AWARDED TO
BOHS PAST PRESIDENT
BOHS, The Chartered Society for Worker
Health Protection, has celebrated after
Trevor Ogden, a past president, was
awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s
Honours list, for services to occupational
hygiene and workplace air quality.
Trevor was president of BOHS in 1991,
and has enjoyed a long and distinguished
career in occupational hygiene,
accomplishing numerous, pre-eminent
achievements including:
Chief Editor of the Annals of Work
Exposures and Health, from 1997 – 2012
Developed a method of measuring the
inhalation hazard of radon progeny in
flammable atmospheres, which became a
standard method for these measurements
in British coalmines
Developed the Regulatory
Interlaboratory Counting Exchanges
(RICE) quality assurance scheme and
methods of internal quality control: 35
years later these are still used by the
HSE publication HSG248 “The Analysts’
Guide”, and UKAS guidance for asbestos
counting accreditation
Trevor’s award means he is now part
of another select group i.e. BOHS past
presidents who have been honoured with
an OBE: Michael Molyneux (president
him in his world, learning from him. So
our building process felt a bit like my
taking an apprenticeship in cutting and
welding metal and learning about cars. It
was definitely a bonding experience, said
Hetain.
“Another significant influence for
me and this work are Transformers, an
American film and toy franchise since 1984,
and a widely recognisable pop culture
reference that reaches far back in my
memory. In this new sculpture, Transformers
have been made manifest, physically, in a
literal transformation of a Ford Fiesta car
into a large-scale squatting human-like
figure. For me, these ‘robots in disguise’ (as
per the cartoon’s theme tune) stand as a
metaphor for the other, in a fantasy world
where they can transform out of a marginal
in 1979); Charles Veys (1989); and Bob
Sithamparandarajah (Bob Rajan, 2012).
Simon Festing, CEO of BOHS, said:
“BOHS offers sincere congratulations
to Trevor, in being recognised for the
considerable contributions he’s made
to occupational hygiene over the years.
His award coincides with a noteworthy
year for BOHS, as we mark our 65th
anniversary – a timely opportunity to
reflect on our achievements, and the
impact made by occupational hygiene
to improving worker health protection.”
Simon added: “In order to continue to
make an impact, it is critical to ensure
that we – along with our stakeholders –
maintain our efforts to achieve our vision
of a healthy working environment for
everyone.”
Trevor continues to make contributions
to the world of worker health protection:
recently he has been a British delegate
and BOHS nominee to the European
Committee for Standardization (CEN),
which has revised EN689, on measuring
compliance with Occupational Exposure
Limit (OELs). Forty three years after his
first presentation at a BOHS conference,
he will present on this latest work at
OH2018 in April, in Stratford-upon-Avon.
position into one of empowerment.
“Importantly, I created this sculpture
together with my father, with additional
help from my engineer brother and fellow
Transformers enthusiast, Pritum Patel. My
father, whose day job is to convert cars into
hearses and limousines for funerals, has
carried out all the fabrication and structural
work with me.”
Unlike the popular toys and films,
however, the car here is not a highpowered
sports car or truck transformed
into a powerful warrior, but rather a small
inexpensive Ford Fiesta transformed into a
human-like figure calmly squatting.
Fiesta Transformer was at Studio 144
John Hansard Gallery in Guildhall Square,
Southampton.
AUTOMOTIVE CONFIDENCE
International confidence in the UK’s
automotive sector was bolstered in
March as Toyota announced it will build
its new generation Auris model at its
Burnaston factory in Derbyshire.
In a further vote of confidence for UK
engineering expertise, the majority of
engines for the new model will be sourced
from the company’s Deeside factory in north
Wales, helping secure 3,000 jobs across the
2 sites.
Business Secretary Greg Clark welcomed
the decision during a visit to the Burnaston
factory , where he met teams who will
be working on the new model. The
decision was helped in part by government
investment of more than £20 million
announced last year to support the upgrade
of the facility and the installation of a new
production platform to make the plant more
competitive and enable it to build more
advanced vehicles.
The investment follows the publication
of last month’s landmark sector deal
between government and the automotive
sector, a vital moment in establishing the
UK’s leadership in meeting the Future
of Mobility and Clean Growth Grand
Challenges.
Business Secretary Greg Clark said: “We
have been clear in our commitment to
ensuring the automotive sector continues
to go from strength to strength which
is why, through the Industrial Strategy,
we established a landmark Automotive
Sector Deal that will see us working with
industry to put the UK at the forefront of
new technologies and future investment
decisions.
“Toyota’s decision to build its new Auris
model in Burnaston is testament to the
highly-skilled and committed workforce that
helps make the UK’s automotive sector one
of the most productive in the world, and this
government will continue work to create the
best possible environment to maintain this
fruitful relationship.”
The UK’s automotive sector continues to
thrive with the UK currently the third largest
European car producer with the highest
productivity among Europe’s automotive
producing nations. The sector generates
£14.6 billion, representing 8.2% of the UK’s
total manufacturing gross value added.
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NEWS
ISTANBUL BECAME THE MEETING
POINT OF INDUSTRIAL GIANTS WITH
WIN EURASIA 2018.
Organised by one of the world’s biggest
exhibition companies, Deutsche Messe’s
subsidiary; Hannover Fairs Turkey, WIN
Eurasia 2018 led the way in many areas in
its 25th anniversary and brought together
the leading national and international
companies of the sector last month.
With the support of Ministry of
Economy, Ministry of Science and
Technology and KOSGEB, the 4 day event
occupied 34.615 net m2, brought together
1813 exhibitors from 22 countries with
75.368 visitors from 146 countries with an
enormous international visitor increase
representing 51.2 % compared with
the 2017 WIN Eurasia editions. Top 10
visiting countries were Turkey, Iran,
Ukraine, Germany, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia.
Moreover, there was significant visitor
increase from Italy, United Kingdom,
Poland, Russian Federation, South Africa,
U.A.E and U.S.A compared with the
previous years which was one of the most
remarkable records of the WIN Eurasia
2018.
Exhibitors had the opportunity to
introduce their advanced technology
products to the whole industry at one
venue. Over all halls, the backbone of the
future, Industry 4.0, was shown in a huge
variety and proved once again that WIN
Eurasia is the only event in Turkey where
the future of the industry can be seen.
The entire eco-system needed for
the factories of the future, from sheet
processing to metal working technologies,
automation services to electrical and
electronic equipment and hydraulic -
pneumatic services to intralogistics came
together under a single roof after 10
years.
General Manager of Hannover Fairs
Turkey, Mr. Alexander Kühnel said: “We
organised the most business volume
generating gathering in the industrial
sector with WIN EURASIA. This is the
result of the most professional visitor
promotion you can get in Turkey. In
its 25th year, Metalworking EURASIA,
SurfaceTechnology EURASIA, Welding
EURASIA, IAMD EURASIA, Electrotech
EURASIA and CeMAT EURASIA fairs are
back again under one roof.
“Our visitors had the opportunity to
closely experience the technological
developments under the Industry
4.0 umbrella, such as automation,
digitalisation, IoT, augmented reality
and layered productions. At the end of
the 4 days, and during the show, all the
feedback we had from our exhibitors
was very positive, the show was much
more successful than their expectations,
they had many orders and signed very
important contracts not only from Turkey,
also from all over the world.”
The event for next year, WIN 2019 will
take place on 14 – 17 March 2019.
Mo Rami from publishers TRMG Ltd meets up
with David McFadden from JEI Solutions
at the show in Istanbul
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ULT LLC COOPERATES WITH GULFTECH
Fume extraction vendor ULT LLC and
Florida based GulfTech Enterprises –
Casiba Group have commenced a
partnership. Since March 2018,
GulfTech has focused on sales
and service of ULT’s air treatment
solutions in the US states of Florida
and Southern Georgia.
They will be providing extraction
and filtration technology
equipment for laser
and welding fumes,
also addressing additive
manufacturing industries.
GulfTech’s focus of activity
will be mainly placed on
manufacturing industries in
Florida, particularly medical
manufacturing, electronics
industries, aerospace and defence
industries.
“ULT offers excellent product
technology for fume, dust and smoke
extraction product lines”, explained
Ron Beadenkopf, Project Manager
and Technical Sales with GulfTech. He
added: “Gulftech is looking forward to a
strong partnership with ULT to broaden
our market share in the dust and fume
extraction market through proven
expertise and over a decade of experience
in the industrial filtration market in
Southeast United States.”
Gulftech is a market leader in
consulting, design and installation of
dust collection, air filtration systems and
aftermarket components in Florida and
Southeast U.S. Gulftech is rapidly growing
to meet market demand, with over a
dozen ongoing projects, installations and
design efforts with satisfied clients in
various manufacturing sectors.
LTI METALTECH CALLS FOR MORE WOMEN
TO ENTER ENGINEERING WORKFORCE
An award-winning Oxfordshire
engineering company specialising in the
green energy sector is calling for more
women to enter into a career in British
engineering and to sign up for the huge
opportunities open to them in the sector.
The UK currently has the worst percentage
in Europe of women employed as
engineers, languishing at less than ten per
cent; something that urgently needs to be
addressed, says LTI, if UK manufacturing is
to remain competitive and more women
are to be encouraged to join the industry.
World leaders in advanced fabrication
and welding techniques, Abingdon-based
LTi Metaltech appreciates all too well the
barriers many women endure when trying
to break into traditionally male-dominated
industries, such as discrimination and lack
of resources. However, as an enterprising
engineering company specialising in the
precision fabrication of high performance
vessels and structures, the company actively
seeks employment of and supports both
men and women, but the company’s
Technical Director Edgar Rayner is still
frustrated at the small number of female
applicants wishing to embark on a career
in the sector.
Says Edgar Rayner, “At LTi, we
actively encourage women to join our
engineering team, and yet we are barely
making in-roads, despite excellent
opportunities and a recognition that
women can bring unique skills to an
industry still dominated by men. We
need more women in engineering so
younger generations have role models to
look up to and to know that a career in
engineering is possible for them.”
At present, women make up only 19
percent of senior roles in the UK, and an
even smaller number of women (11%)
make up the country’s engineering
workforce, despite 15 per cent of UK
engineering graduates being women.
Stevie Clayton, 34, graduated with
a BEng in Manufacturing Engineering
from The University of Nottingham in
2017, and began work in the engineering
industry, firstly as a Process Engineer.
With hard work and perseverance, she
worked her way up to her former role
as Senior Quality Engineer at LTi, and
after a recent promotion, became the
company’s Quality Manager, living proof
that women can compete and overcome
stereotypical barriers to achieve career
success.
“Being a female in a male-dominated
role has its own challenges. Women
often need to work harder just to prove
themselves and have their voices heard.
But, if you walk in ready to get your
hands dirty, have an open mind and
communicate well, you can be successful
in an Engineering Career. Working for a
company that treats genders as equals
is essential for this.” said Stevie Clayton,
Quality Manager, LTi Metaltech
For more information about LTi
Metaltech’s work with women in
engineering, visit:
http://lti-metaltech.com
or contact 01235 827 060.
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NEWS
POWER TOOL INVENTOR
Part 1 of 2
TALKS MAG DRILLS
Nathan Ford, Area Sales Manager for Fein
Power Tools in the UK, discusses what you
should look for when purchasing a mag
drill and the applications some can now
achieve. He will also briefly cover the new
cordless/compact mag drills new into the
UK market.
Magnetic core drills or “Magdrills”
for short are an essential tool for
anyone involved in the production and
installation of structural steel. They
can also be a handy addition to the
tool kit of anybody looking to drill
larger diameter holes. Core drilling is
an extremely efficient process which is
faster, quieter and more accurate than
twist drilling. Core drilling requires no
predrilling or switching over of the
tooling, and so drilling times can be
reduced by over 50%, with minimal
physical effort by the user.
CHOOSING YOUR DRILL
The first decisions to be made when
buying a Magdrill is the capacity of the
machine and what size hole are you
likely to be drilling? Next, consider what
thickness material you will be drilling?
An obvious question yet if you are
buying a drill with a 30mm max capacity
and on your next job you need to drill a
35mm hole it may have been worthwhile
buying the model up from the original
machine. Fein currently offers a large
range of Magdrills from 30-80mm
capacity, the new cordless Magdrill
starting at 35mm.
When it comes to depth of cut, most
machines will be able to handle a
cutter with a depth of 25mm. For most
applications this will suffice but if you
have an application which requires either
the cutting of thicker material, or the
drilling of box sections, or step drilling, it
is worth looking for a drill with as large
a stroke range as possible. Ranges can
vary from 65mm to 315mm so it worth
taking this into consideration.
APPLICATIONS
What is the machine going to be
used for? You just want to drill a hole
into a piece of steel, right? You have
chosen your drill based on the size of
hole and material thickness, but there
may be some other criterias to look
at. Most Magdrills are fixed speed and
manufactured so in order to keep costs
down; designed to drill a hole into
steel. Fein invests more into most of its
mag drills allowing the motor to deliver
variable speed (except the KBB range).
This variable speed, and in addition
reverse functions are important if you
have varying diameter holes to drill or
are looking for a Magdrill which can tap,
ream or countersink.
There are many standard providers of
mag drill in the market and Fein itself
offers Economical models. Its premium
models offer variable speeds and the
programmes discussed (universal), or
automated drill feeds (automatic). Fein
was proud to launch two new classes
of mag drill in late 2017, ‘Cordless’ and
‘Compact’. The brand new AKBU 35
(cordless) helps end-users who lack mains
power on-site or who need to work at
heights. If working in confined spaces a
specialist right angled Magdrill would be
needed, with a minimum head clearance
of 169mm. The new ‘compact’ KBC 35
would assist, small enough to help get
into tight spots.
Find out more about Fein’s mag drill
range including these new machines:
https://fein.com/en_uk/drilling/metalcore-drilling/
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NEWS
WELDING
ENGINEERS
Welding Engineers, which has a
production facility in Sunderland, has
won a contract to work with up to 1,400
high street stores across the country.
The engineering company makes
industrial doors, security gates and
fencing, shutters, and aluminium shop
door systems and has been enlisted to
work with Superdrug, Savers and The
Perfume Shop on sites throughout the
UK.
The contract, won via a facilities
management partner, will involve
Welding Engineers offering a repair
and installation service in the event of
break-ins, breakdowns and upgrades
at the stores. It comes during a period
of sustained growth for the plant on
Washington’s Parsons Industrial Estate.
Welding Engineers, a national business
headquartered in Glasgow, opened its
North East operation in 2009 and this
year expects it to generate £2m in sales
– up from £1.5m in 2016 and £1.75m last
year.
It will add a handful of new staff to
its current 24-strong Sunderland team
this year, and has also launched a new
apprentice scheme to bring fresh talent
into the business.
North East area manager Michael
Binnie said: “We have always aimed for
controlled growth rather than rapid
expansion and this approach seems to
have paid off.
“We see lots of opportunities in
the retail sector, despite its current
challenges, and are also investing in new
equipment to step up our capabilities in
steel fabrication – an area of growing
demand.”
The growth of Welding Engineers’
North East operation has been supported
by Sunderland City Council’s business
investment team.
Councillor Henry Trueman, deputy
leader of Sunderland City Council,
said: “Welding Engineers is a great
manufacturing success story that has
managed to achieve continual growth
since its move to Sunderland in 2009.”
INNOVATE UK FUND
Innovate UK has up to £72 million to
invest in establishing a core innovation
hub to support collaboration between
industry and academia and transform
the construction sector.
The funding is for UK-based research
and technology organisations that
already have substantive existing
facilities and expertise to work with
others in the construction sector, such as
businesses, the research base or public
sector organisations.
The way we create buildings has not
changed in 40 years, and construction
has not seen the same increases in
productivity as other industries. The
sector is also facing a skills crisis due to
an ageing workforce. This competition
aims to fund a single, core innovation
hub that will develop and commercialise
new digital and manufacturing
technologies for construction. The hub
should focus on how to: create better
performing built assets increase the
METALTECH
LTi Metaltech, a world leader
in precision fabrication and
welding in the fluid controls,
healthcare and green
energy sectors is calling for
increased industry-wide
efforts to help resolve
the severe skills shortage
within the UK’s engineering
sector. Given the CBI’s latest
announcement that the UK’s
manufacturing industry ended last year
with order books at a thirty-year high,
LTi’s lead and technical director, Edgar
Rayner, believes there’s never been a
more critical moment to address the
skills issue.
“As a growing business operating in
sectors that demand the most rigorous
degree of precision and quality, which
includes the fluid control sector, we at
LTi Metaltech look to hire fabricators
and welders who are at the top of their
game. Our clients require solutions
to sometimes quite challenging
industry-wide adoption of emerging
digital and manufacturing technologies
to design new processes to improve
productivity in construction
To be successful in their application,
the research and technology
organisation will need to demonstrate
there is a commitment from the private
sector to invest and use the hub once it
is complete.
The transforming construction
challenge aims to support the
construction industry to adopt the latest
digital manufacturing technologies to
produce safe, healthy, efficient building.
This will help buildings to be
constructed 50% faster, 33% cheaper
and with half the lifetime carbon
emissions.
It is the part of government’s Industrial
Strategy Challenge Fund, which brings
together world-leading research with
businesses to take on the major societal
and economic challenges of our time.
engineering problems and
that calls on the high end
of engineering skill and
experience.”
LTi Metaltech, based on
Abingdon’s international
business and science park,
has a blue-chip client base
including Siemens and and
Emco Wheaton.
“We’re fortunate to
employ some high calibre engineers
in our team but hiring new people
with the right skills or experience is by
no means straightforward and, and I
know we are not unusual here. Like
many British engineering firms, we’ve
also taken on skilled engineers from
outside the UK, including our quality
engineer who is eastern European. If we
are to continue to grow our country’s
manufacturing capability we need to put
skills development much higher up the
national agenda.”
According to Engineering UK,
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NEWS 19
UK STEEL INDUSTRY VULNERABLE
DESPITE POST-CRISIS RECOVERY -
TATA STEEL
Britain’s steel industry is vulnerable
despite recovering from a 2015 crisis,
with many challenges that led to
thousands of job cuts still not resolved
and risks related to Brexit looming, the
chief executive of Tata Steel UK said
recently.
The UK steel industry is emerging
from a crisis that led to the loss of
about 7,000 steel jobs, about a quarter
of the workforce, between September
2015 and March 2017. Steel prices
in the European Union have nearly
doubled since plunging in early 2016 to
their lowest in about a decade.
Tata Steel UK’s Indian parent, Tata
Steel Ltd, this month reported a fivefold
increase in third-quarter profit,
however, there are signs of
improvement, with a rise in the
number of engineering degrees
awarded and apprenticeships started,
but demand for talent still outstrips
supply. It’s a concern echoed not just
by LTi Metaltech but the National
Apprenticeship Service, who report
being heavily oversubscribed for every
engineering and technology apprentice
place they advertise.
Having progressed through the
apprenticeship route himself, and
worked his way up to Senior Project
Engineer, LTi’s Gary Chamberlain is
passionate about apprenticeships,
believing it’s a model more engineering
businesses need to adopt if the industry
is to meet its skills shortage: “There’s
no substitute for the practical handson
experience you can gain as an
apprentice. It was certainly the ideal
platform for me before I went on to
complete my mechanical engineering
degree at Oxford Brookes.”
boosted by strong volume growth in
India and rising steel prices around the
globe.
But the British steel industry remains
vulnerable, with business rates still about
18 times higher than in neighbouring EU
countries and electricity costs about 50
percent higher, the same issues that hurt
the industry in the crisis.
To protect vulnerable industries from
the effects of Britain’s departure from
BROOKER AWARD
The Welding Institute
has announced that
the winner of this
year’s Brooker Award
for Outstanding
Personal Contribution
is TWI Industrial
Research Fellow, Dr
Isabel Hadley.
Isabel’s work has centred on the
development and application of analytical
flaw assessment techniques (BS 7910, R6,
FITNET, etc) and has seen her chair the
committee that develops and maintains
standard BS7910. She is also a member of
the RS (UK nuclear assessment procedure)
panel and the co-author of the European
FITNET fitness-for-service procedure.
Having joined TWI in 1992, following
work in the nuclear power, offshore
engineering and steel industries, Isabel
went on to manage TWI’s Fracture
Integrity section from 1997 to 2013.
In 2016, Isabel took up an additional
post as Visiting Professor at the University
of Bristol under the Royal Academy of
the European Union, the government
launched an industrial strategy in
November, but it has yet to finalise
details of the deal for the steel
industry.
Britain’s exit from the EU in 2019
could destabilise the steel industry,
particularly if trade defences that
replace those of the EU prove less
effective in stopping dumping or
subsidised steel from entering Britain.
Steel dumping, especially from
China, was a major cause of the 2015
sector crisis. It is the second most used
material in the world after cement,
often makes its way up Britain’s
political agenda because it is seen as
a strategic industry for manufacturing
and because the metal is used in
sensitive military applications.
Engineering scheme.
Her commitment to the assessment
of flaws in metallic structures has seen
the technology move to one that is an
established and routine part of weld
procedure.
Dr Hadley was nominated by her TWI
colleague, Philippa Moore. She is also due
to be honoured at this year’s ceremony.
The award is sponsored by Johnson
Matthey PLC and made in recognition of
a personal contribution to the science,
technology and industrial exploitation of
materials joining.
The award is named in memory of
Harry Brooker, who was instrumental
in introducing low temperature silver
brazing alloys into British industry in 1935.
He went on to become a Chief Executive
and Managing Director of Johnson
Matthey.
The award recognises high industrial,
research or educational responsibility
of a character which has beneficially
influenced the advancement of materials
joining technology.
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NEWS
PRESIDENT’S HALL OF FAME: #1
For us to look forward as a welding Industry, it is not a bad idea
to look back at some of the very brave and sometimes eccentric
people who have shaped this Industry.
With this in mind, I have decided to put together a heroes
hall of fame. Now it’s only my own personal list and I don’t
wish to offend any persons who are not mentioned, or listed.
How far back should we go, to make it interesting? I decided
we would start at the turn of the 20th century and over the
next months, I hope to bring this up to date.
THE HEROES, HALL OF FAME.
Welding is older than we think, our ancestors made a fantastic
job of joining metals by forge welding on the anvil, but not many
of these practices are still commonly used today and a furnace is
not that mobile.
by AWD President Bob Stacey
NILS GUSTAF DALÉN 1869-1937
Here was a man with an
idea of bringing light to
everyone; his idea was to
light some of the major
city streets of Sweden with
acetylene, but to store this
gas and move it about was
highly dangerous. His vision
was also to light lighthouses
up and down the Swedish
coastline so a way of safely
moving acetylene needed to
be found.
In 1912 Mr Dalen was
presented with the Nobel
Prize in Physics for his
invention, the automatic
regulation in conjunction
with gas accumulators.
Acetylene cannot just be
compressed like any other
gas, at high pressure it
becomes unstable and would
explode.
Gustaf Dalen invented the
agamassan, (MASSAN) is
Swedish for compound this
was made up of asbestos
and diatomaceous earth, this
is a fine powdery type of
limestone.
So if you were to
fill a cylinder with this
agamassan,and wet it
down with acetone, you
can introduce the acetylene
under pressure and it will
dissolve in the acetone
and fill up the pores of the
agamassan.
Now we have the
beginnings of a more
safe way of transporting
acetylene, but it was not
without its problems, as
Gustaf was experimenting
with all these solutions, an
explosion took the sight of
Gustaf, and blinded him.
But that didn’t stop him
developing the AGA cooker
which at the time must
have been a revolution,
his legacy is still used
today. All modern day
acetylene cylinders have a
modern equivalent to the
agamassan, that’s why its
called dissolved acetylene
and there must be millions
of homes across the globe
with an AGA cooker.
Where did the name AGA
come from? It stands for
Acetylene Gas Accumulator.
This was a principal of
manufacturing acetylene; it
was originally made from
dissolving calcium carbide
into water. After this is
complete, you are left with a
lime residue, at the bottom
of the tank, this would be
of interest to another
fellow Swedish citizen,
and fellow hall of fame hero,
but that will be in the next
instalment.
I do not think we would
have been able to cut or
weld with oxy acetylene, if it
was not for Gustaf Dalen, so
a true Hero of the welding
hall of fame.
THE TECHNICAL PART
To weld with oxygen, and acetylene you
have to be able to understand the type of
flame to use.
For steel welding and general preheating
a neutral flame must be used, this
is observed by a clear cut blue inner cone
with no white fringe to the flame.
For hardfacing a carburising flame
can be used, this will produce a large
undefined inercone and a more yellow
feather edged flame.
For brazing or bronze welding, you can
use a more oxidizing flame, this will show
a very small blue inner cone with the outer
flame being more streaky .
Gas welding is not as popular as it
used to be and to do it properly it’s quite
difficult to master, there are different
techniques, to weld different material
thicknesses.
Leftward or forward welding, this is
used for thin gauge steel maximum 3mm.
Rightward welding, this is used for
welding steel 5mm and over, (this is
difficult to master).
Vertical welding, with gas welding is not
for the faint-hearted, and in most cases
not many welders, are left who can do this
successfully in all material thickness.
I hope you have enjoyed our trip into
the past, and from this point, we will start
moving towards the present day.
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NEWS
Lo-Res
AD
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
I hope all our members are keeping well and that you
have all experienced some growth, and increased market
share for 2018.
The economy is not in bad shape considering its less than a
year till we leave Europe, but I am noticing a distinct reduction
in confidence in the general marketplace.
It is not appropriate for me to share political views but if
anybody who reads this, is in a position to pull their finger out
regarding getting on and telling Industry what is happening,
how and when, it may hopefully go some way to re-building
some confidence.
There are a number of welding shows listed in most of the
trade magazines, starting with our MACH exhibition in April.
If you have the inclination to travel there are a number of
shows across Europe that would be well worth a visit. And
that is the key point, we all
have to support these venues
by visiting, as the cost to exhibit
can be very high so they require
a large amount of footfall to
make things viable.
I hope we have a good
turnout for the MACH show
and I look forward to meeting
as many of our members then.
Bob Stacey
President AWD
AWD CUFFLINKS
As part of The Association of
Welding Distribution official
merchandise, AWD cufflinks
are available for members
to purchase at £20.00 per pair
(P&P £5.00). Payment may be
made by debit/credit card –
telephone the AWD secretariat
on +44 (0)1952 290 036 or
email: secretariat@awd.org.uk

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THE BOARD
Adrian Hawkins
Managing Director
Tel:
01462 482200
07793 220800
E-mail:
adrian@welding-world.com
Dave P. Ellwood
Director & Company Secretary
Tel:
01252 333661
07860 258309
E-mail:
dave@weldingworld.com
Lee Darton
Finance Director
Tel:
01462 482200
07734 857044
E-mail:
lee@weldingworld.com
AWD National Council
PRESIDENT
Harry Reade – Membership Manager
Bob Stacey
AWD
Tel: +44 (0)7584 088061
Tel: T +44 (0) 5600 494 599
E-mail: harryreade@aol.com
E-mail: president@awd.org.uk
PAST PRESIDENT
John Wilkinson OBE
Tel: +44 (0)1952 290036
REGIONAL OFFICERS
North
Iain Pickles – Regional Officer
Welding Alloys Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 1763 207568
07826 546797
E-mail:
iain.pickles@welding-alloys.com
Central
South East
Gareth Hawkins – Regional Officer
Weldability-Sif
Tel: +44 (0)1462 482200
0797 6830017
E-mail:
gareth@weldability-sif.com
South West
Caretaker of Region – Robert Pullen
(Regional Officer)
Tel: +44 (0)1639 777012
Mob: +44 (0)7807 275089
E-mail: Rob@mhmplant.com
WORK GROUPS
Product Safety and Quality
(PSQ) Committee
Chairman: Nigel Hasted, BOC
Education and Training
Committee
Chairman: Dave Ellwood,
Britannia Welding
Membership Committee
Chairman: James Westhorp, Welding
Engineering Services
Personnel Safety and
Occupational
Health (PSOH)
Chairman: Tony Ashall, Plymovent
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PRODUCT NEWS
NEW PRODUCTS
Your
THE PATH TO REVOLUTION
EWM accompanies customers on the path towards Industry 4.0
guide to the latest
welding technologies
on the market
The fourth industrial revolution is in full swing: many companies
are facing the challenge of equipping their operations for
the future with an intelligent man-machine network that
increases productivity. EWM has been driving the development
of innovative technology solutions in the field of welding
production for years. ewm Xnet is one example: the Welding
4.0 welding management system ensures real added value in
welding-related production. The latest evolution of the software
assists with the organisation of production, planning, quality
management, and welding coordination personnel in one
coherent system. Welding companies of all sizes and orientations
benefit from the numerous advantages that Industry 4.0 is
already offering today.
As a technology driver, EWM is constantly working on new productsand solutions that
meet the complex requiments of networkedwelding production. The new Titan XQ
multi-process MIG/MAG machine series is seamlessly integrated into this concept
Titan XQ is the new flagship of MIG/MAG multiprocess welding
machines from EWM and is seamlessly integrated into this
concept. With wide-ranging network capabilities, the welding
machine is part of the Internet-of-Things (IoT). The machine
provides welding data via the ewm Xnet management system
interfaces. It recognises potential for optimisation and allows
for the advancement of individual components, processes, and
entire company departments. Big Data becomes a reality with the
automatic documentation and evaluation of welding parameters.
With the welding 4.0 solutions from EWM, the customer’s facility
becomes a Smart Factory.
For all new developments, the welding technology
manufacturer relies on intuitive, self-explanatory controls to
efficiently design the man-machine interface. Use of the new,
intelligent PM welding torch, for example, brings this interface
directly into the welder’s hand and, therefore, even closer to
the weld seam. This means that the user always has an eye on
important parameters such as gas or wire supply while welding.
With the digitisation of all welding machines with highly
intelligent microprocessors, interfaces, and network connections,
EWM meets all the
requirements for Big Data
process data collection. This
information can be displayed
in the user’s primary systems
via standardised industrial
interfaces, such as OPC-UA. This
allows for machine efficiency
analyses and preventative
maintenance.
The latest evolution of the software assists with the organisation ofproduction, planning,
quality management, and welding coordination personnel in one coherent system.
Big Data becomes a reality with the automatic documentation and evaluation of welding
parameters. With the Welding 4.0 solutions from EWM, the customer’s facility becomes a
Smart Factory
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Sales | Service | Validation
Premier Welding Ltd
Unit 5, Carberry Court, 28 Queen Elizabeth Avenue, Hillington Park, Glasgow G52 4NQ
Tel: 0141-882 4514 Fax: 0141-810 4659
sales@premierwelding.com
www.premierwelding.com
Premier Welding Ltd is a Family run business
established in 1969. We are a leading supplier of
welding equipment, consumables, associated spares and accessories.
WHY CHOOSE US:
Products to suit all budgets and needs
Supplier of world leading brands
Full back-up with our engineers
Expert knowledge and advice.
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PRODUCT NEWS
NO RISK OF LOST WELDS WITH WELD PURGE FILM ®
Low cost weld purging can prove complex, with many welders
making savings by constructing their own foam or paper dams in
order to reduce the purge volume, making weld purging
times shorter.
Such improvised purge dams have severe technical limitations
that can lead to loss of welds when they leak or slip from position
thus flooding the welding zone with oxygen.
To overcome these challenges Huntingdon Fusion Techniques
HFT® have designed and developed the Argweld ® Weld Purge
Film® Kits to make weld purging affordable and successful.
Ron Sewell, Chairman for HFT ® said: “With the use of our low
cost Weld Purge Film®, welders can ensure that their dams do not
come loose during welding, thus, no more lost welds!”
Weld Purge Film® Kits can be
used on pipe diameters up to 900 mm (36”) and
for temperatures up to 300ºC (572ºF) without the
material burning, coming loose and losing
the weld purge.
The water-soluble Weld Purge Film ® allows dams
to be cut easily with the safety knife provided and
once they are fixed into position using the watersoluble
Weld Purge Super Adhesive ® provided,
produce an impenetrable purge barrier that can
easily be washed away during hydrostatic testing
of the pipe or just by normal wash-out.”
These affordable Kits will save operators
high costs by minimising gas usage dramatically
reducing purge time and eliminating the
need to clean or even a failed weld. Weld Purge
Film® Kits have been designed and developed by HFT ® , containing
product accessories needed to manufacture dams that will not
come loose
during welding.
Other technical advantages of using water-soluble film instead
of other materials include:
• The total transparency of the film dams, allows the welder to see
the weld root as it is being laid.
• Vapour pressure of the film
is very low and does not outgas harmful elements during welding
that can mix with the hot metal and cause metallurgical defects.
• The Argweld ® Film does not contain water, like paper and sponge
products do.
After welding, the water-soluble film is simply washed away and
dissolved down to molecular level, leaving no trace.
Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT® have a worldwide Exclusive
Distributor network, which can be found at
www.huntingdonfusion.com
Weld Purge Film ® Video is available on YouTube at:
https://youtu.be/SbR5W18bzVU
“
With the use of our low cost Weld Purge
Film®, welders can ensure that their
dams do not come loose during welding,
thus, no more lost welds!
”
DO YOU HAVE ANY NEWS OR PRODUCT INFORMATION?
If you have a news story or some product information you would
like to add in the magazine and you are a member of the AWD,
then please send this, for consideration, to Darren Isted via email:
editor@welding-world.com
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Esprit Arrow CNC Plasma Profile
Cutting Machine with Hypertherm
PowerMax 45 3.0m cutting length,
1.5m cutting width
Good luck to all Finalists in the Welding World Awards 2018
t Polysoude P6 Orbital
TIG PowerSource
package with Tube to
Sheet welding head
TS8/75 Fully working
with warranty
Gullco GBM 28U Heavy q
Duty Weld Joint Beveler
Bevels stainless steel,
aluminium and mild steel
ranging from 6mm to
50mm
Gullco KAT GK-200-RMB-L Linear Weld
Oscillation Automation Carriage
Carriage complete with heavy-duty
self-aligning wheel assemblies
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PRODUCT NEWS
THE PROTECTOXTRACT JUST GOT BIGGER
A classic mobile filter from the Extractability range, the
ProtectoXtract unit now comes with a series of accessories to
help with your extraction needs, ensuring that your workplace
stays within HSE provisions.
The first essential is the ProtectoXtracTop, a retro-fit-able
top that enables the ProtectoXtract to be used for grinding
applications. Extraction of particles takes place through a
perforated plate within the supporting surface.
The ProtectoBench meanwhile guarantees a maintenance-free
operation under the hardest of operating conditions. With a baffle
plate at the rear, the ProtectoBench is made of stable steel sheet
construction and gives total necessary suction performance.
Another exciting add on is Extractability’s wall mounting system,
which enables your unit and arm to be easily retro-fitted to the
walls in your workspace. Made up of wall brackets for the filter
and extraction arm, it’s a simple fitting solution with high load
capacity.
The package comes rounded off by a flexible hose kit, with
a 5m portable suction hose and filter. For the uninitiated, the
ProtectoXtract itself is a BGIA approved mobile high-vacuum
extraction system for filtration of particulate fumes, dusts and
some gases. It uses a 5-stage filtration system with replaceable
filters, and is quiet in operation to 68dBA. The mobile filter
provides air movement of 2500 m3/h, is suitable for category W3
stainless welding fumes 30 NiCr, and comes available for 110v or
230v mains input supply.
Weighing only 80kg and supplied on swivel casters for
manoeuvrability, it’s easy to see why the ProtectoXtract makes
for an essential filter in the welding bay. The latest accessory
package demonstrates Extractability’s high-quality solution range
of extraction solutions, a catalogue that combines care for the
environment and employee health by improving work efficiency
and production economy. Learn more at extractability.eu or call
08458 622620 to buy a ProtectoXtract package today. You can also
email sales@extractability.eu
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Translas expands with a new limited entity in England
Nieuwegein, NL, march 2018 – From 1st March 2018, Translas is
expanding to the United Kingdom, where we have established
Translas UK Limited.
Translas UK Limited is based in Preston, North-Western England. It
is a fully independent entity with own stock position. The company
has to offer all Translas products as well as a complete range of fume
extraction equipment for different production environments. Next to
the Translas torches, you will be able to see mobile extraction units,
purification systems and quality extraction arms – everything you
need for your welding workshop.
Exclusive Dealer
Translas UK and Translas B.V. are now also exclusive European
resellers of the products from RoboVent Solution Group, which
specializes in clean air solutions.
“The full-line of dust collection equipment by RoboVent fits nicely
with our existing product line and we’re excited to begin offering
more integrated solutions to our respective customers. This new
direction aligns well with our existing growth plans, especially in the
UK.” - Jeroen Boer, Managing Director Translas.
The UK Team
The team in Preston can give you complete customer support, from
advice for your workshop to turnkey installations. Contact them with
all of your questions via the local office line (+44) 1772 626323 or
with an email to info-UK@translas.com.
About Translas
Translas is a Dutch manufacturer of welding torches with 58 years of
experience in the development and manufacture of products for the
welding process.
www.translas.co.uk.
For more information:
Lora Zayn
Head of Marketing & Communications
Translas B.V.
lzayn@translas.com
+31 (0) 30 604 73 73
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PRODUCT NEWS
TOMORROWS WELD
The digitalisation of manufacturing is here to stay and with it
comes a multitude of potential benefits for manufacturers large
and small – from greater efficiency and productivity, to enhanced
sustainability.
But recent research suggests that many manufacturers
don’t fully understand the connectivity requirements of smart
manufacturing, nor do they feel equipped to collect, manage
and analyse the high quality data which can be made available
to them. This is concerning and highlights the need for better
relationships across the supply chain to ensure that Industry
4.0 moves from concept to reality and therefore productivity is
maximised. The supply of weld process gas is a case in point.
Weld process gas is often wasted as a result of leaks, preweld
surge and excessive flow rates. This in turn impacts weld
quality through porosity, excess oxidation and spatter, which
correspondingly, increases rejects.
At Air Products, it was the recognition of this issue that
resulted in the creation of our GastrakSM service. Rather than
focusing on a transactional relationship with manufacturers
where we simply supply the gas and leave welders to do
their job, this service instead recognises that by working in
collaboration, we can reduce costs, improve quality and ensure
optimum gas usage.
Regardless of whether the manufacturer uses individual cylinders
or has a piped distribution system, our application specialists work
with them to assess welding operations, check equipment for gas
leaks and recommend the most appropriate weld process gases and
optimum weld parameters. As part of the service they also supply
and install our Gastrak® economisers which typically reduce weld
process gas consumption by up to 65%.
But what
does all of this
have to do with
Industry
4.0? The
fact is that by
working closely with
manufacturers and
their welders, we have identified an opportunity to combine
the benefits of the GastrakSM service with unique Air Products
technology. This allows those businesses using gas pipelines
instant digital access to data that can help deliver groundbreaking
efficiencies and enhanced safety to boot.
Due to launch to market this April at Mach 2018 at the NEC,
Birmingham, the GastrakSM e2 service uses a master digital
unit and display units, alongside Gastrak® e2 meters to give
manufacturers a ‘real-time’ insight into the gases used in their
welding processes. Specifically, this allows them to check for
leaks on-demand and detect deviations in gas composition
during a shift operation where the gas comes into the
workshop and at use point. The potential for this to have a
major impact on both productivity and efficiency, but also
sustainability is huge.
What is perhaps key, is that the development of this additional
digital offer is an evolution rather than a revolution in thinking.
It came about from close cooperation with manufacturing
businesses and a genuine insight into the challenges and
opportunities they face. It is working like this, across the supply
chain, that will remove the mystery and complexity that seems
to surround data capture and connectivity and ultimately ensure
Industry 4.0 is a tangible reality rather than a distant goal.
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JOB KNOWLEDGE
NACE TM0177 –
1 NACE TM0177 – “Laboratory Testing of Metals for Resistance to Sulfide Stress
Cracking and Stress Corrosion Cracking in H2S Environments
NACE TM0177 is probably one of the most
referenced sour testing standards, and it is
the source of the original ‘NACE solution,’
which is now NACE TM0177 Solution A. It
covers four SSC/SCC test methods, namely
A; Tensile, B; Bent-Beam, C; C-ring, and
D; Double Cantilever Beam, and it details
environments and procedures. It does not
give acceptance levels or pass:fail criteria.
It covers solution chemistries, solution
volume: surface area ratio, test duration,
specimen geometry and loading, amongst
other testing details for the four different
methods, see below.
UNIAXIAL TENSILE TESTING
The smooth uniaxial tensile test is Method
A in NACE TM0177. Dead weight, proof
ring or hydraulic loading may be applied.
The specimens are fully machined and,
because of the waisted geometry, cannot
sample weld surface details or near surface
microstructures. There is a standard and
a subsize geometry in TM0177 ( 0.25”
(6.35mm) diameter, 1” (25.4mm) gauge
length and 0.15” (3.81mm) diameter, 0.6”
(15mm) gauge length respectively). The
standard warns that subsize specimens
can result in shorter failure times than
full size specimens, but does not suggest
that the threshold stress will be lower.
The shoulder radius is specified as 15mm
minimum, but 20mm minimum is advised
for CRAs in EFC 17, to avoid “unwanted
preferential cracking at these locations”.
Loading has to be by ‘sustained load’ or
‘constant load’ devices, where ‘sustained
load’ refers to a spring loaded device such
as a proof ring, and ‘sustained load’ refers
to dead weight or hydraulic loading. The
standard warns that slight load relaxation
in a sustained load device may mean that
the specimen cracks, without failing, and
therefore stipulates visual examination
of the specimens after test. Although
the standard requires load to be ‘applied
carefully to avoid exceeding the desired
value’, there is no warning against
inadvertent torsion or bending (non-axial
loading) which can affect results. In order
to generate a threshold stress, specimens
are tested at a range of loads for up to
720 hours each.
This test can result in SOHIC (stressoriented
hydrogen-induced cracking)
in susceptible materials, and thresholds
of around 50% yield stress have been
recorded in materials which had survived
up to around 100% yield stress in a bend
test on a welded sample at TWI (Pargeter
1986).
BENT BEAM TESTING
The bent beam tests are NACE TM0177
Method B. These specimens are very small
– 4.5mm wide, 1.5mm thick, with two
0.7mm diameter drilled holes, and the
results are difficult to interpret. This test
method is not often used.
C-RING TESTING
The C-ring test is NACE TM0177 method
C, and there is also guidance given in
EFC 16 and EFC 17. It is effectively a bend
test, suitable for relatively small tubular
material, producing stress in the hoop
direction. If the ring is compressed, a
tensile stress is generated on the outside
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SOUR TEST METHODS
but, as pipes usually carry the environment
of concern on the inside, it is more usual
to expand the ring, as sketched.
DOUBLE CANTILEVER BEAM
(DCB) TEST
The longest standing fixed displacement
fracture mechanics test for sour service
is the double cantilever beam (DCB) test,
which is also NACE TM0177 method D.
The specimen geometry is as shown. Load
is applied axially via free-rotating pins
through the pin holes, and a wedge is
inserted to maintain the displacement.
The specimen is then exposed to the
environment for 14 days, following which
it is unloaded, again using the pin holes.
A discontinuity in the load:displacement
curve indicates the remaining load on
the specimen. This, along with the crack
dimensions measured on the broken
open specimen, allows the K at the end
of the test to be calculated. It should be
noted that all fixed displacement fracture
mechanics tests are crack arrest tests. As
the crack grows, the load relaxes, and
this wins over the effect of increasing
crack length, so that the stress intensity
decreases.
If the correct initial load is selected,
the DCB test has the potential for giving
an answer in one test, which is quite an
advantage over a series of fixed load tests
to define a threshold. This only works,
however, if the correct load is selected –
high enough to get a crack moving, but
not so high that the crack runs too far,
and the test becomes invalid.
Test durations using DCB tests are also
reduced compared to other methods
because the standard test duration is half
that of fixed load tests in TM0177. That is,
however, a slight concern as, if the crack
has not arrested at 14 days, then the result
will be un-conservative.
FOUR POINT BEND TESTING
Although it is not uncommon to come
across company specifications for four
point bend testing ‘according to NACE
TM0177’, this method is not in that
standard. There has been guidance given
in EFC 16 and 17, and also in ISO 7539-2,
for some time, and there is now a NACE
standard; TM0316. Tests may be on fully
machined specimens or with, for example,
weld details intact. If this type of test is
specified, check which test method the
client really intends.
REFERENCES
EFC 16: ‘Guidelines on Materials Requirements for
Carbon and Low Alloy Steels for H2S-Containing
Environments in Oil and Gas Production’ (EFC
16, 3rd Edition) Edited by Svein Eliassen and
Liane Smith, Maney Publishing, July 2009, 56pp
paperback, ISBN 978 1 90654 033 3
EFC 17: ‘Corrosion Resistant Alloys for Oil and Gas
Production: Guidance on General Requirements
and Test Methods for H2S Service’, (EFC 17, 2nd
Edition), Maney Publishing, May 2002, 96pp, ISBN
978 1 902653 556
ISO 7539-2 ‘Corrosion of metals and alloys - Stress
corrosion testing - Part 2: Preparation and use of
bent-beam specimens’
NACE TM0316, 2016: ‘Four-point bend testing of
materials for oil and gas applications’
Pargeter, R J, “Hydrogen-induced stress corrosion
cracking and hardness of welded structural and
pipeline steels – Final contract report” TWI GSP
report 5537/29/86 May 1986 (TWI report archive)
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SIFTIPS
DISCOVER EDUCATION OPTIONS
IN WELDING
Taking your first step into welding
requires practice and dedication; and,
once qualified, there are a surprising
number of further skills with which
you can advance your welding career,
many of which won’t break either your
patience or your bank balance.
LEARN TO WELD
A hub of further welding education
options is Learn to Weld. This division of
Weldability Sif is built around a team of
dedicated, experienced, qualified welding
instructors and industry professionals,
providing training courses designed to
teach you quickly and efficiently. Most of
their training courses take place in their
Technology & Training Centre, which is
an EAL-approved qualification centre in
Letchworth, Herts. This fully equipped
training facility creates the perfect
learning environment for mixed groups
to train in a comfortable, modern setting.
GAS EQUIPMENT INSPECTION
Learn to Weld provide a popular 2-day
BCGA CP7 Gas Equipment Inspection
Course. It enables those with a
fundamental understanding of the Oxy/
Fuel Gas Welding process to inspect
portable Oxy/Fuel cutting and welding
gas equipment in accordance with the
Provision & Use of Work Equipment
Regulations 1998 and the British
Compressed Gases Association Code of
Practice 7 (BCGA CP7). For any user or
reseller, CP7 inspection and certification
is a valuable skillset to call upon, and can
prevent serious safety risks.
Unlike other training providers, whose
courses have to be refreshed annually,
this course will certify you for 3 years.
If you are already certified, the oneday
Refresher Course covers those who
have been certified to other schemes
within the last 3 years, looking to renew
their certification and convert to the
Weldability Sif Scheme.
WELDING COORDINATOR COURSES
Learn to Weld also regularly deliver a
recognised, professional Responsible
Welding Coordinator training course,
providing a Level 4 Award and Certificate
of Verifiable Achievement from EAL,
who are the awarding body operated
by SEMTA (The Sector Skills Council
for Engineering and Manufacturing).
This 1-week course, which is available
throughout 2018, is suitable for welders,
managers, supervisors, inspectors and
quality-control personnel in the structural
fabrication sector who are looking to
improve their technical knowledge in
welding practices, welding inspection,
metallurgy, compliance and quality
control, in order to serve as Responsible
Welding Coordinator or as Welding
Coordinator, operating to ISO 3834.
A WORLD OF TRAINING, FROM
LEARN TO WELD
For resellers’ commercial staff, an
Introduction to Welding Processes,
Equipment & Consumables course is
provided. This one-day intensive course
explains the basic process principles,
equipment and consumables for all the
main welding and cutting processes.
The course attendees will use each
of the processes to understand their
functionality and applications, to help
engage with their clients with greater
understanding. Processes include MIG,
TIG, MMA, FCAW, Plasma and Oxy/Fuel.
Learn To Weld’s main weekly
programme delivers the Level 1 Award
Welding Qualification Suite.
A series of intensive, hands-on welding
process qualifications, developed to
train proficiency in the practices and
techniques of welding. Learners can
choose from MIG, TIG, MMA, Oxy/Fuel
Brazing & Soldering and Thermal Cutting.
These programs can be delivered
modularly, and as an employer-led
framework, to enable flexible training
around candidates’ work commitments.
All of the above courses are available in
2018 over various dates or on
demand – to find out more visit
www.learn-to-weld.com
or call 0845 130 7757 today.
Technical advice in the original SifTips style was started in 1932. ‘Sifbronzing’ is an almost
universally recognised way of describing the low temperature bronze welding of sheet steel,
cast iron and other metals. This explains why Sifbronze, the company which first developed and
promoted the technique, is generally considered to be a supplier of high quality welding rods,
wires, fluxes and equipment.
‘Will the Welder’ was a SifTips magazine that was produced in the early 1930s. The aim
was to provide users with ideas and tips on how to get the most out of their
welding equipment.
Sif is renowned for its UK manufacturing heritage
as well as its complete range of quality welding
consumables used globally for almost a century.
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WHEN SOLD
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ISSUE 02
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The Welding World Awards 2018 are in the final stages of preparation for the Gala
evening on the 11th April at the Metroplole Hilton Hotel, NEC, Birmingham.
In recent weeks the task of judging has been completed by several members of the
industry and once again it has been a particularly tough task.
Like all Awards programmes you have to be in it to win it and the Welding World
Board consider this huge networking opportunity to be of real benefit to its Members in
lifting the visibility of the industry and its participants.
Some past winners are keen to retain their titles and there are a number of new
contestants some with an international competence, others closer to home .
It has been fascinating to hear how so many companies have developed their
strategies for success and deployed their unique features and benefits to garner
increasing support and commitment from their customers.
I am reminded how my elderly work colleagues back in the late 1970’s, referred to the
welding industry as a dying industry. The Welding industry is very much alive today and
there are many nominees of the 2018 Welding World Awards Programme, who have a
great story to tell and prove it.
We encourage you to book your Gala evening tickets and enjoy a unique occasion to
celebrate the success of the Welding Industry and those that make it happen in 2018.
Tickets can be purchased here
www.welding-world-awards.com/events/booking-requests/new
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• WELDING WORLD AWARDS 2018
•JOB KNOWLEDGE • SIFTIPS
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PRODUCT REVIEWS • WELDING NEWS • AND MUCH MORE
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