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WELDING AUTOMATION

Mechanized Orbital Welding

Open-frame OSW weld head
Industries
Innovative, Practical, Affordable  Pharmaceutical

Orbital TIG Welding Systems  Biotechnology
Chemical
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 Food & Dairy
Orbital TIG welding systems from Praxair can save  Semiconductor
you time and money—while producing top-quality  Aerospace
welds on tubing and pipe  Petrochemical
 Offshore & Nuclear

Simple to use, supported by a wide range of specialized equipment

Orbital welding is a mechanized edges of the weld joint are heated by
APPLICATIONS version of the Gas Tungsten Arc the arc and fused together without
 Sanitary Tubing Welding (GTAW) process and is used the addition of fi ller material to the
 Process Piping to weld stationary tube or pipe; the weld pool. Alternatively, the GTAW
 Specialty Applications tungsten electrode contained in the process can make use of solid wire
 Gas Managment & Eqpt.
weld head rotor rotates or “orbits” fi ller. Alternately, the welding process
around the weld joint circumference. can include the use of a cold wire
The GTAW process can either be a feed system with ProStar spooled
autogenous process, in which the welding wires.

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