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Annapolis Junction, Md. – ESAB Welding & Cutting Products today announced that all HKS brand equipment, which includes the flagship WeldQAS Quality Assurance System for real-time monitoring and recording of arc characteristics, have been have been rebranded as ESAB products. HKS Prozesstechnik GmbH was founded in 1994 in Halle, Germany. ESAB acquired HKS in 2017 to reinforce the company’s strategic focus on automated welding and grow its suite of ESAB Digital Solutions.  “ESAB weld monitoring and analytic equipment can sample and record weld data hundreds of times per second,” says Robert Träger, Global Product Manager for Welding Analytics, ESAB. “We help manufacturers and fabricators ...

ESAB has expanded its Exaton NiCrMo-4 filler metal product line with the introduction of Exaton Ni56 strip electrode for electro-slag cladding (ESW). This nickel-chromium-molybdenum electrode is designed for corrosion resistant weld deposits of Ni6276/UNS N10276 type (“C-276”) and is ideal for chemical or petrochemical industries specifically to protect components made of low-alloy base materials. Exaton Ni56 is available as 30 x 0.5 and 60 x 0.5 mm strips. It is designed for use in combination with Exaton 69S flux, has a particularly high resistance to pitting and stress corrosion cracking and offers excellent slag removal and bead appearance.“Exaton Ni56 strip has an SFA/AWS A5.14 EQNiCrMo-4 ...

Meet show judges David Madero and Stephanie Hoffman at FABTECH 2021 in Chicago.

ESAB is proud to be the sole provider of welding equipment for Season One of Metal Shop Masters, a new Netflix reality TV series premiering globally on Friday, September 10, 2021. The show features seven competitors, five men and two women, who face off in elimination-style fabrication challenges (view series teaser video). At the end of six challenges, the last fabricator standing will have earned the title of Metal Shop Master and win a $50,000 prize. The show is hosted by Jo Koy, an award-winning comedian and star of several Netflix stand-up specials. “Every episode gives these distinguished fabricators, ...

To create a weld metal deposit with the same metallurgy as the filler metal, Exaton, an ESAB brand, has introduced Exaton 79S flux, a neutral, very high basic agglomerated flux for electroslag strip cladding. It was designed especially for use with Exaton Ni60 strip, a nickel-based strip used to produce a weld overlay with good corrosion resistance and high-temperature properties for petrochemical, oil and gas applications. “The formulation of Exaton 79S enables users to complete the cladding process in fewer passes, saving customers approximately one-third of the cost in strip and manpower compared to the other fluxes used with alloy 625-type strips,” says Paolo Torchiana, Global Product Manager, ...