Welding

Spot Welding:

We use spot welding machines for some of our customers’ products. It is a technique to bond pieces of metal together. They are joined by heat obtained from resistance to electric current.

For the different metal thicknesses used, we use different current amplitudes, electrodes and time intervals.

We have two spot welding machines.

TIG Welding:

TIG welding is short for tungsten inert gas. This is a process of blending together reactive metals such as aluminium. During the process an arc is formed between a pointed tungsten electrode to the arc to be welded. As a result of the gas shield a clean weld is formed. This prevents oxidization from occurring. This can also be used with many other materials such as stainless steel, mild steel and cromweld.

We have highly trained welders at our company and we use migatronic welders with a 250 amp capacity.

MIG Welding:

MIG welding is short for metal inert gas. It can also be known as gas metal arc welding (GMAW) which is a process for welding aluminium and non-ferrous metals. MIG welding is an automatic or semi-automatic process in which a wire connected to a source of direct current acts as an electrode to join two pieces of metal as it is continuously passed through a welding gun. A flow of inert gas, originally argon is also passed through the welding gun at the same time as the wire electrode. The inert gas acts as a shield, keeping airborne contaminants away from the weld zone.

We have highly trained welders at our company and we use a variety of welders.

Stud Welding:

Stud welding is a process that involves welding a metal fastener to another metal part using an arc of electricity to heat both parts. This technique of welding is like flash welding where a fastener or formed nut is welded onto another metal part using a stud gun. The fasteners can be of anything but they mainly have threads, un-threaded or are internally tapped then studded onto the product.

Studding is a quick way of welding parts onto the product. The studs and bolts are manually fed into the stud welder. We typically use M3 – M8 size studs and they are studded with specialised gun attachments.