June 2009
Afrox's welding consumable factory - originally built in 1971 to manufacture welding electrodes - has installed a new R85-million facility to produce MIG-wire to best international standards. African Fusion talks to Steve Fleetwood, the MIG unit manger in Brits.
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FEATURESCompany profile: VBV Holdings VBV Holdings is the holding company for three of South Africa's key vessel-building facilities - Stainless Fabricators, Carbon Steel Fabricators and Tank End Engineering. African Fusion talks to Peter Viljoen, the managing director Non-Destructive Evaluation - challenges and solutions This paper, presented by Professor Luisa Quintino at the 60th annual conference of the SAIW, outlines four advanced ultrasonic techniques: ToFD, EMAT, Guided Waves and Phased Array, which provide solutions for four different inspection challenges Improving quality and productivity in welding In the light of the tougher economic times, John du Plessis of the SAIW talks about the productivity gains that can be achieved by reviewing welding operations Robot Vision System MOTOMAN is achieving exceptional success with a vision-based system capable of automatically capturing all the data required to program welding robots TAWERS from Panasonic Peter Hall outlines the advantages of Panasonic's TAWERS dedicated arc welding robot system Cosmo's superstore opening Cosmo Industrial has now opened its new R31-million non-stop welding and industrial supserstore in Silverton, Pretoria
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