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34 AFRICAN FUSION August 2016
Welding and cutting
Robert Richardson appointed
MD of Air Products South Africa
Air Products South Africa’s Board of Directors has announced
the appointment of Robert Richardson as the company’s
new managing director. Richardson succeeds Mike Hellyar who
recently announced his retirement after nine years at the helm
of the industrial gas company.
Richardson has an MSc degree in engineering, and over two
decades of experience in the industrial gases industry. He has
served on Air Products South Africa’s executivemanagement committee for the last eight
years in the position of general manager On-Sites. Prior to this, he held various operations
and project management positions within Air Products and also with the Linde Group.
Richardson is the 4th MD to be appointed in Air Products South Africa’s 47-year history.
Time is money and waiting for pipe
joints to be purged for welding
can take anything up to four hours,
depending on the diameter of the pipe
being welding and the method chosen
for purging.
Huntingdon Fusion Techniques,
HFT®’s innovative QuickPurge® System
dramatically reduceswaiting times, pro-
ducing zero discolour welds and no loss
The 12th September heralds the start
of ElectraMining 2016 and Renttech
South Africa will be exhibiting as they
have done for many years.
The company’s managing director,
Gerrit van Zyl (right) explains: “Electra
Mining provides us with an excellent
platform to showcase our company’s
full welding, power generation, lifting
and rigging product ranges to our min-
ing and manufacturing customers. It is
alsoan important opportunity toengage
with our valued client base, both from
South Africa and the rest of the conti-
nent,” he says.
Offering both sales and rental op-
tions, Renttech is an equipment supplier
to the engineering, industrial, construc-
tion, petrochemical, power generation
and a variety of other sectors across
SouthAfricaand sub-SaharanAfrica. The
company has the largest fleet of rental
welding equipment in southern Africa,
including: Harris, Lincoln andRenttech’s
own UniArc and MultiArc welding and
metalworking product ranges.
When it comes to tools used in braz-
ing, soldering, welding and cutting ap-
plications,welders theworldover relyon
the quality of equipment fromtheHarris
Products Group. Equally synonymous
with quality, Lincoln Electric is a global
manufacturer with an extensive range of
high-qualitywelding, cutting and joining
products, arcwelding equipment, weld-
ing consumables, plasma and oxy-fuel
cutting equipment and robotic welding
systems.
Renttech South Africa also has sev-
eral of its own welding solutions, which
“tick all the operational and energy
efficiency boxes”, according to Johan
Bester, Renttech’s welding product
manager. “For example, the Multiarc
350 Compact multi-process inverter is
a robust, lightweight unit that offers
customers an easy transition between
multiple welding processes, bringing
new levels of versatility to the end-user,
as well as cost-saving advantages,” he
explains.
“In addition, Renttech’s UniArc
Mag200 MC is a multi-process inverter
which is especially versatile, offering
not only gasless flux-core welding but
also able to be used in MIG welding,
stickwelding and TIGwelding,” he adds.
Visitors to the Renttech stand will
also be able to inspect the company’s
versatile twin-pack welder-generator
– equipped with two 300 A/400 A weld-
ing units, a 30 kVA, three-phase 50 Hz
Renttech South Africa at Electra Mining
power output and two 6.0 kVA/230 V
power outlets – which can also be used
for grinding, drilling and lighting. In ad-
dition, the twin-packmodel has a single
30 kVA/380 V power outlet that meets
OHSA specifications.
“We are going to have a strong team
on the Renttech stand, where every
staffmember has high levels of product
knowledge and experience. While stand
space does not allowus to conduct dem-
onstrations at the show this year, should
anyone wish to see and experience our
products in action, we will be delighted
to arrange for a demonstration at their
facilities,” van Zyl advises.
Welding pipes faster using QuickPurge systems
of corrosion resistance caused by high
temperature oxidation during welding.
Ron Sewell, chairman for HFT says:
“A 36-inch diameter stainless steel pipe,
for example, can be purged down to
100 ppmof oxygen in under 32minutes.
Compare this with purging using foam
dams that will outgas heavily into the
weld zone and will take hours, not a few
minutes,” he says.
High speed pipe purging system
QuickPurge® is leading the way in the
field of purging tube, pipe and pipeline
joints in over 6-inch diameter pipe,
where oxygen levels are required to be
as low as 10 ppm or less.
Using IntaCal® combined with
QuickPurge Systems are manufactured for
pipe diameters from 150 to 2 440 mm and
are equipped with a QuickFit coupling for
the purge/inflation hose.
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