Construction company uses orbital welding on underground pipeline

Article From arcmachines.com
08/15/2007

Brief Summary:

• Using orbital welding equipment led to productivity gains in one of the nation's first fusion-welded underground pipelines.
  A completely penetrating fusion weld with no interior reinforcement was necessary
• Using manual gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) would have escalated the cost and made it impossible to meet the client's deadline.
• Used orbital welding, in which a welding head rotor completes the joint by revolving around the pipe's circumference.
•  The use of orbital welding was critical to winning this job and completing it to the customer's satisfaction
• We believe this process has enormous potential and plan to use it on future projects
• In the oil and gas, food and beverage, water supply, wastewater, and other industries
  

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