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SAIW Member profile: Hydra-Arc
August 2015 AFRICAN FUSION 1
Published four times a year and
mailed out together with
Mechanical Technology by:
Crown Publications cc
Crown House
Cnr Theunis and Sovereign Streets
Bedford Gardens 2007
PO Box 140
Bedfordview 2008
Tel: (011) 622 4770
Fax: (011) 615 6108
Editor: Peter Middleton
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Advertising: Norman Welthagen
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Publisher: Karen Grant
Director: Jenny Warwick
Cover design: Yaskawa
Production & layout: Darryl James
Circulation: Karen Pearson
Subscriptions: Wendy Charles
Printed by: Tandym Print
August 2015
Contents
African Fusion talks to Yaskawa
Southern Africa’s Terry Rosen-
berg about the manufacturing
challenges in South Africa and
how the growth of robotic
automation can help to im-
prove global competitiveness,
economic growth and employ-
ment prospects.
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SAIW executive director, Sean Blake, talks about
fabrication in South Africa compared to other
countries of the world and makes some suggestions
as to how we can do better.
African Fusion visits the Sky-Hill fabrication facilities
of Hydra-Arc and talks to Riaan Kruger, Ewan
Huisamen and Jacek Matyja.
This paper by Mvola, Kah, Martikainen and Suoranta
describes the challenges of welding new high-
strength steels to conventional steels and the
development of suitable welding procedure
specifications.
African Fusion talks to Alexander Kistler, CEO of
Kistler Cutting and Welding Techniques, about its
manipulators andwind tower automation expertise.
To help overcome skills shortages in the welding
industry, Afrox has adopted a long-term approach.
African Fusion talks to Johan Pieterse.
Cosmo Industrial has been an accredited industrial
and specialty gas distributor for Air Products South
Africa for the Tshwane and greater Pretoria area since
1996. African Fusion pays Cosmo a visit.
Starweld Automation, a proudly South African
welding equipment and automation OEM, has
completed the design and manufacture of two 600 t
rotators for fabricating five LPG storage bullets
required for the new R1.3-billion Sunrise Terminal,
currently under construction in Saldanha Bay.
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