Petrus Pretorius of the Cosmo Group highlights the key features of the ACME LP-3015D laser cutting solution that the company has recently launched into the South African fabrication industry.

AWC has the ability to combine packaged gas products with multi-brand consumable and welding and cutting equipment into customised best-fit solutions for industry, while offering an added-value Safety Advisory Service to customers. Johann Pieterse explains.

African Fusion visits the Randburg manufacturing facilities of Reeflex Welding (Pty) Ltd and talks to the company’s founder and managing director, Dr Philip Theron, and marketing manager, Mike van den Berg, about this pioneering local manufacturer of IGBT-based inverter welding machines.

South Africa’s largest independent distributor of gas and welding products, Unique Welding has grown exponentially since its inception, not only through sheer scale but also through innovation and quality. Director, Gaetano Perillo, highlight the company’s achievements.

Bolt And Engineering Distributors (B.E.D.), a leading supplier of engineering products and services, proudly announces a significant B.E.D. CMT win with a surface engineering customer, one of South Africa’s leading providers of thermal spraying and coating technology.

Gavin Walter, director of D&L Engineering Solutions, and Rudi von Fintel, branch manager for Yaskawa Southern Africa’s Durban branch, talk about their collaboration and the delivery of state-of-the-art robotic welding solutions for South Africa’s automotive industry.

Wire-based additive manufacturing is an arc-based 3D printing method that builds-up a component in layers of weld metal, allowing for a high degree of flexibility in component geometry. The new CMT Pro Additive from Fronius fulfils the key quality requirements of components produced using this additive process.

Air Products welding specialist, Sean Young, outlines the extended range of welding, cutting and purging gases available to the welding and metal fabrication industries to better meet niche fabrication needs.

African Fusion talks to Renttech Product manager, Johan Bester, and the company’s specialist application engineer for orbital welding, Melvin Gibbs, about the Polysoude orbital TIG welding range, the modern automation benchmark for consistency and control in high integrity tube-to-tube, tube-to-tubesheet and pipe welding applications.

Enrico Zuin, Nazmi Adams and Herbert Abbott of voestalpine Böhler Welding present their company’s welding solutions in support of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).

Sassda hosted an enlightening Laser Welding Workshop at the Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW) last year, bringing together experts, industry professionals, and welding enthusiasts to explore cutting-edge advancements in laser welding technology.

African Fusion meets Lizane Espach – a director at ABLE Synergy, a leading provider of piping, structural engineering, maintenance services, and ISO 3834-2 certified fabrication solutions – to discuss the company’s recent successes and its vision to expand into a comprehensive turnkey EPCM solutions provider.

African Fusion talks to Confidence Lekoane, currently acting Executive Director of the SAIW, about her history and hopes for the Institute’s future.

Kevin Xaba, product manager for filler metals at ESAB Southern Africa, presents the case for adopting the “remarkable” OK 55.00/OK 55.00L low moisture absorption (LMA) electrode range, which stand out as a testament to ESAB’s commitment to excellence.

As announced last year, we have been taking a very thorough look at all operational aspects of the SAIW’s business with a view to mapping out a long-term and sustainable recovery plan. We are pleased to announce the Section 189 process of the South African Labour Law has now been concluded.

Steinmüller Africa is to make its welding expertise accessible via a 5-day online training course that is scheduled for the week of March 10 to March 14, 2025.

The Steinmüller Africa Kendal Boilerserve team has been awarded the Eskom Kendal Power Station Contractor of the Year Award 2024, demonstrating the company’s continued leadership in steam generation plant services.

Steinmüller Africa, a leader in high-pressure steam generation equipment, Along with eNtsa engineering consultants, has successfully used rotary friction welding for fabricating four headers the for the high-pressure water heater boiler units on the Tutuka power station in Mpumalanga.

At Electra Mining Africa earlier this year, Renttech unveiled its latest high-end welding power source, the Kemppi X3 FastMig, a robust high-end welding solution built for difficult jobs in challenging conditions.

At an event at its Boksburg facility in Gauteng in early November, Unique welding launched its locally-manufactured Thermamax Vulcan 1200A Dual multi-function engine-driven onsite welding solution. Thomas Taljaard, Head of Sales and Marketing, outlines some key features and advantages.