WCN Spring 2012

Plasma heat and surface treatment trial facility for welding wire applications industry

S S Plasmait’s new testing facility in Lebring, Austria

mechanical, automotive, marine, aerospace and energy sectors. Other welding wire manufacturers may want to consider plasma annealing to reduce energy use, purging gas consumption or replace chemical surface treatments with dry, chemical-free degreasing, surface cleaning or deoxidation. Manufacturers of coated products may find plasma surface preparation prior to coating or metallic plating also an area of potential interest. Since the introduction of plasma heat and surface treatment process in the wire industry in 2003, Plasmait has continuously improved the process and widened the application scope to include annealing and surface treatment of tubes and flat products.

Plasmait GmbH, a supplier of plasma heat and surface treatment lines for wire, tube and strip production, has opened a dedicated test facility for continuous annealing and degreasing of welding wires. Welding manufacturers are welcome to test plasma heat and surface treatment on their materials at Plasmait’s facility in Lebring, Austria. The welding wire facility has been designed to perform heat treatment, degreasing and deoxidation on the wide range of ferrous and non-ferrous materials with diameters between 0.8mm and 3.5mm. The annealing and degreasing trials can be performed on copper, copper alloys, aluminium, various stainless steels and nickel alloys and other materials. Flux cored wires can also be tested. According to Plasmait’s R&D Director, Peter Ziger, the welding wire trial facility is now available to all welding wire manufacturers who require improving the quality of their welding wire products. Applications with demanding surface or challenging annealing requirements will benefit most from plasma treatment. Such applications are usually found in sectors such as medical, precision

Plasmait GmbH – Austria Fax: +43 318 252 4754 Email: info@plasmait.com Website: www.plasmait.com

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Don’t miss out

S S A packed conference room for a non-ferrous session at CabWire on 7 November 2011

The price for non-IWMA members is US$120 and there is a discount of 10% for members. Any organisation taking out membership of the IWMA before 30 th March 2012 will receive a free copy of the CD. For information on the papers presented at CabWire please visit the dedicated conference website: www.cabwire-duesseldorf.com To secure a copy of the CD please contact the IWMA Secretariat.

If you missed out on the CabWire World Conference 2011 in Düsseldorf on 7 th November 2011 why not buy the conference CD or join the IWMA and receive a free copy? The recent technical conference organised by the IWMA in Düsseldorf saw a large number of technical and market overview papers presented to a sell out audience. Any industry colleague who could not attend but is interested in purchasing the conference CD of these papers can now do so from the IWMA Secretariat.

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