TPT July 2013

Industry News

Sales engineer for Arc Energy WELD overlay cladding and fabrication specialist Arc Energy Resources has appointed Cliff Hall as sales engineer. Mr Hall, who has more than ten years’ engineering experience in the machine tool and laser profiling industries, will initially focus on developing Arc Energy’s close relationships with existing customers in the oil and gas, nuclear, marine and process industries. Mr Hall is also tasked with building new associations in growing sectors such as wind and wave energy, where the benefits of corrosion resistant alloy cladding has the potential to extend the life of plant and equipment, and reduce maintenance downtime. protection against corrosion and wear for a variety of process and pipeline equipment for use in any hostile environment. The company recently made a major investment in two new rotating head welding machines costing £500,000. This has increased productivity and extended the size and scope of work it can handle, which now includes complicated component geometries for the full or partial cladding and fabrication of a wide range of component sizes weighing up to 15 tonnes. Cliff Hall

ISO 3834-2 fusion welding of metallic materials, and the internationally renowned ASME U and R Stamps, as well as ISO 14001:2004 environment management, Investors in People and OHSAS 18001:2007 Health & Safety management system.

The company’s in-house designed cladding workstations feature state-of- the-art control systems developed to suit its customers’ specialised engineering requirements, and can clad bores up to four metres in diameter and areas of restricted access within bores as small as 20mm diameter. Arc Energy also offers in-house test weld, heat treatment, PMI and NDT facilities. Industry certifications include ISO 9001:2008 quality management,

Commenting on the appointment, managing director Alan Robinson said, “We are delighted to welcome Cliff to the team where his experience will be invaluable in ensuring that Arc Energy remains the partner of choice for the supply of weld overlay cladding and complex weld fabrications.” Arc Energy’s expertise provides

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