This first issue of African Fusion for 2025 features ESAB on the front cover, with the cover story, presenting the company’s low moisture electrode range.

ON THE COVER: Factory fresh electrodes straight from the pack

Kevin Xaba, product manager for filler metals at ESAB Southern Africa, presents the case for adopting ESAB’s “remarkable” OK 55.00/OK 55.00L low moisture absorption (LMA) electrode range. Read more...

This final issue of AF for 2024 features voestAlpine Böhler welding and its reduced fume GUARD range of seamless-cored wires on the cover. The SAIW 2024 Awards is the lead story from the Institute, and we feature industry articles from Kelvion. New Age Engineering Solutions and Steinmuller, along with news from many of SA’s leading welding industry suppliers.

ON THE COVER: Seamless-cored wires that reduce manganese exposure

Nazmi Adams of voestalpine Böhler Welding introduces the new diamondspark GUARD range of seamless flux-cored welding wires, which have been designed to reduce exposure to manganese welding fumes.  Read more…

Our mid-year issue of African Fusion features Air Liquide on the front cover. For the cover story, AF talks to a global team of Air Liquide technical specialists about recent research into welding fume generation for GMAW and the importance of shielding gas and metal transfer mode choices in reducing fume.

ON THE COVER

Optimising welding fume generation without comprising safety and weld quality

AF talks to members of Air Liquide’s Welding and Cutting team about the effects of welding fumes, the influence of shielding gas, welding process choices, safety knowledge and practices.  Read more...

This issue of African Fusion features ESAB South Africa on the front cover, and the cover story feature highlights three new cost effective product families being introduced into South Africa to help fabricators achieve better results.

COVER STORY

ESAB’s new innovations for fabricators

Keith Saunders of ESAB South Africa, introduces three new product lines now available to South African fabricators: the Renegade eVolt battery powered welder; the Swift-Cut Pro CNC plasma cutting system; and the Cutmaster+ family of plasma cutting machines.  Read more…

This issue of African Fusion features voestAlpine Böhler Welding on the front cover. The cover story feature is taken from a white paper by Nicola Faraone, who introduces the company’s recently developed welding solutions for hydrogen storage and transportation.

COVER STORY

Welding solutions for the transportation and storage of hydrogen

International Welding Engineer for voestalpine Böhler Welding, Nicola Faraone, who has responsibility for welding consumables for the power and process industries, introduces the company’s welding solutions for hydrogen storage and transportation.  Read more...