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THE ART OF WELDING
Caliber TS 8/75
2, rue Paul Beaupère - 44300 Nantes - FRANCE
Tel. +33 (0) 2 40 68 11 00
The UlTimaTe
TUbe / TUbesheeT
welding gUn
Orbital welding bY POlYsOude
Two Out of Three Welding Guns sold World Wide
are from Polysoude
Compact: Significant reduction in size and
weight
Ergonomic: Build-in remote control,
Pneumatic self holding device,
On-board wire feeder
Easy: Simplified and repeatable
mechanical adjustements,
Endless rotating torch -
no cable wrap-up,
Build in AVC control
Cutting with oxygen,
plasma, laser or water
ECKERT, Germany, produces cutting machines operating in four
main thermal technologies, and complete robotic workstations.
Cutting can be performed by oxygen, plasma, laser or
water. This year the latest technology has been successfully
implemented – fibre laser in the Diamond Fiber cutting machine.
This ‘green technology’ significantly reduces consumption of
electric power and additional gases.
Currently, worldwide there are more than 800 Eckert cutters,
and customers include Daimler Chrysler Rail Systems, Rolls-
Royce, Becker Warkop, Manesmann – Siegen, Siemens –
Chemnitz, and GEA.
The company’s Opal Waterjet Combo water and plasma
cutting machine is a patented solution that allows the user
to automatically cut out the edges of one element with two
technologies, resulting in large time savings. Eckert Company
made the assumption that not all edges of a detail must be made
in the most expensive and slowest water technology. Some of the
edges – selected by the technologist – can be cut with plasma,
which is many times faster and cheaper than water.
Support 3D, which allows cutting and bevelling of plates,
tubes and profiles, has a unique mechanical construction with
the RACT system (Real Adjusted Cutting Trace). With the
availability of all thermal and water cut technologies, and a large
park of demonstration machines, Eckert can fit the best possible
technology to the needs of a customer. In addition, machines
are built in a way to be suited to the realities of a customer’s
production hall.
Eckert Cutting Technology GmbH – Germany
Fax: +49 375 27 47 355
Email:
Website:
Flying shear
cutoff installation
THERMATOOL has announced the shipment of another high
speed Alpha flying shear cutoff to a major conduit and mechanical
tube producer in Brazil.
The Alpha shear will double cut, dimple free, steel tubing 25 to
125mm in diameter, in 3m lengths, at 150 MPM. The Alpha high
performance flying shear is described by the company as the
fastest and most reliable tube cutting system in the world.
Thermatool Alpha cutoffs will cut tubes and profiles at speeds
from 15 to 305 MPM, distortion free, in-line and in diameters from
9 to 168.3mm (3/8" to 65/8"), and wall thicknesses from 0.8 to
6.4mm (0.03" to 0.25").
Thermatool Corp – USA
Fax: +1 203 468 4281
Email:
Thermatool IHWT – UK
Fax: +44 1256 467 224
Email:
Website: