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Welding technology
78 January 2015
Welding electrodes and machines
GEDIK Welding is owned by Gedik
Holding and was established in 1963.
It manufactures 90,000 tons per year of
covered welding electrodes, gas metal
arc, submerged arc, flux cored type
welding wires, rectifiers, gas metal
arc, submerged arc welding machines,
inverter-type welding machines and
welding generators. The company
manufactures and sells equipment both
domestically and overseas in the field of
welding automations. Gedik Welding is
one of the leading companies in Turkey
in the field of welding.
The company manufactures a wide
range of products, which include welding
consumables that have the trademark
Geka and welding machines that have
the trademark GeKaMac. These are its
international and registered trademarks
produced at the company’s plants
that are set up in an 75,000m2 area in
Istanbul, Turkey.
Gedik Welding invests heavily in
training, spare parts and after-sales
services both inside and outside the
country along with its welding materials
and manufacturing activities. Gedik
Welding has the ability to manufacture
special products using alternative
solutions along the lines of customers’
requests and delivering these products
rapidly.
R&D efforts are conducted by its
expert teams in modern and fully
equipped laboratories, which has led to
a number of innovations.
Gedik Welding generates robotic
solutions for automation in welding and
other processes while keeping close
track of international technological
developments. Automation is seen as
the top factor for helping to reduce costs
in welding and Gedik can generate
special robotic solution scenarios for
its customers using modern simulation
programs.
The company keeps close track of all
developments in the field of welding and
supports Turkish industry and industries
of other countries with its trademarks
developed by its own R&D technology
and expert personnel.
Gedik Welding has also been
attending welding-related scientific and
technological conferences and fairs
both in Turkey and around the world.
Gedik Holding established the Gedik
Education Foundation in 1994 with
the aim of contributing to its country’s
education system and improving
Turkey’s welding technology. Gedik
Holding provides the opportunity for
the foundation to use the educational
institutions, research and material
examination laboratories and the
educational workshops as well as the
financial aids provided.
Gedik Education Foundation provides
educational opportunities through
the IIW (International Institute of
Welding) and the diplomas it grants are
not accepted just in Turkey, but across
the whole world. Welding engineers
educated in GEV gain intense industrial
experiences besides being equipped
with theoretical knowledge. This way,
they acquire the ability of solving
problems in the engineering field.
GEV’s activities in the field of non-
destructive inspection are carried out
by Turkish Non-destructive Inspection
Training, Certification and Industrial
Service Center (TTM), which is a
subsidiary of GEV. It offers modern
laboratories that meet international
standards, education classes, superior
devices, equipment and technical and
academic personnel who are leading
specialists in their fields.
Gedik Welding – Turkey
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High-performance, flexible arc
INFOCUS by Kjellberg is a new high-
performance technology for TIG
welding and brazing which creates new
possibilities for automated production
processes and expands the range of
applications considerably.
The InFocus torch as technology
carrier generates an extremely
concentrated, stable and powerful arc
which leads to a multiplied welding
speed, improved process reliability and
an excellent seam. Thus, InFocus offers
the potential to increase the efficiency
of existing applications considerably,
especially as an alternative to
conventional TIG welding, plasma or
laser welding. Furthermore, InFocus
extends the range of thicknesses which
are typically covered by TIG welding
regarding foils and thin sheets as well
as thick sheets.
The wide range of industrial
applications clearly shows the flexibility
of the InFocus technology: welding of
high-alloyed sheets with a thickness
between 0.5 mm and 1mm; longitudinal
welding of profiles with a speed of up to
15 m/min; keyhole welding of CrNi steels
with a thickness of up to 10mm; keyhole
welding of mild steel with a thickness
of up to 8mm; welding of non-ferrous
metals without pre-heating; and brazing
of galvanised sheets with a speed of up
to 4m/min with minimum impact on the
zinc layer in the surrounding areas and
on the opposite side.
Kjellberg Finsterwalde offers
InFocus systems in the following
power classes: InFocus 500, InFocus
750 and InFocus 1000. InFocus 1000
operates with welding currents of up to
1,000A – suitable for quick, continuous
longitudinal welding. For welding tasks
with limited accessibility Kjellberg offers
the InFocus 500 with a particularly small
torch. The InFocus 500 torch looks more
like a pen than a high-performance
torch.
Kjellberg – Germany
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