Arc Engineering, ESAB's southern African distributor, has entered 2007 dedicated to supplying immediate, short-term and long term solutions for the welding industry as a whole

Dr Tony Paterson of the Aluminium Federation of South Africa tells African Fusion how aluminium welders can often make worse problems for themselves by being conservative

This paper, which was presented by ALSOM John Thompson's plant metallurgist, Keith McIntyre, at last years International Institute of Welding Congress (IIW) in Stellenbosch, highlights the problems of maintaining and repairing boiler pressure parts in remote locations in Africa

This paper, presented by C Robson and T Agosthino, Air Liquide Welding, at the IIW conference, looks at factors that increasingly make automatic plasma welding a competitive option

Transwerk's Wagon Build in Bloemfontein is currently installing a new facility to build its coal wagons. The system will include the largest ever robot gantry system sold in the Southern Hemisphere. African Fusion speaks to Mr Terry Rosenberg of MOTOMAN to find out more