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Technology Update
SELMERS, a privately owned company
from The Netherlands, specialises in the
manufacture of plants and equipment for
internal and external pipe coating, pipe
cleaning and pipe handling. Established
back in 1966, the company has grown into
a renowned supplier of comprehensive
pipe coating systems, especially of tailor
made equipment for onshore and offshore
pipe coating and pipe handling facilities.
Selmers represents a highly educated
and experienced team of engineers,
perfectly skilled to provide innovative and
reliable custom-made equipment solutions.
Selmers can design and engineer in-
house, having short communication lines
and optimum interfacing for individual
equipment parts.
This enables Selmers to produce
reliable and efficient pipe coating plants
at a competitive price level and optimum
support to their customers.
The Selmers product range comprises an
extensive external multi-layer and internal
lining pipe coating plant programme, with
AO abrasive blasting equipment, ovens,
chromate and acid wash units, liquid and
powder epoxy equipment and in-house
made extruders.
Selmers also features an offshore
programme aimed at pipe handling/firing
line equipment for pipe lay barges, field-
joint blasting and coating systems (hot
mastic, FBE, 3-layer PE) and multi-jointing
facilities for pipe spool bases (rollers, line-
up systems, pipe pushers).
In addition to these programmes, Selmers
offers concrete weight and cement mortar
coating equipment, rebar powder coating
lines, in-situ equipment, containerised
configurations, quality control equipment and
specials on customer specs.
Last but not least in the programmes are
self-propelled coating removal and re-lining
machines for in-situ pipeline rehabilitation
purposes. Selmers’ product range is
compliant with all necessary international
standards, supported by a highly qualified
engineering department (utilising CAD/
INVENTOR) and a state-of-the-art quality
management system.
Equipment is offered with full project
support from first design, engineering,
construction, manufacturing up to installation,
commissioning and after sales.
Selmers BV – The Netherlands
Fax: +31 2512 20777
Email:
Website:
Coating systems and pipe handling
EFD Induction introduced a new range of its
Weldac solid-state welders at the Fabtech
event in Chicago. The range features
Weldacs in the 50-225kW power range at
frequencies of 150-500kHz.
“The big news is that all the benefits
of existing high-power Weldacs are now
available from a smaller, lower-powered
system,” said Peter Runeborg of EFD
Induction. “These benefits include the
unrivalled uptime made possible by Weldac’s
patented switching technology and its use of
rugged IGBT transistors.”
The new Weldac 50-225kW range
is in production, with systems already
ordered in Europe and the USA. “These
smaller Weldacs are especially attractive
to fabricators for whom welding is an
important element in a larger manufacturing
process,” said Mr Runeborg. “Such
customers need reliable, easy-to-operate
and cost-effective welding solutions that
can also meet stringent quality and safety
standards.”
The range is covered by EFD Induction’s
five-year warranty on inverter modules, which
covers all Weldac inverter modules, driver
cards included.
EFD Induction – Norway
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Website:
New solid-state welder range
A model from the new Weldac 50-225kW range
Selmers produces efficient
pipe coating plants