The vast majority of welded joints in Shipbuilding is related to producing stiffened panels, and welding them together. In the production of a panel, the plates are predominantly submerged arc welded (tendency for one-sided welding); the stiffeners can be welded with solid or cored wire, high recovery stick electrodes or submerged arc.

Once the panels have been produced, welding is in all positions. Because of their high deposition rate and ease of welding, rutile flux cored wires are the preferred welding consumables for such application.

The hull structure of a ships generally consists of carbon-manganese steel with a thickness of 8 – 50 mm. Chemical tankers have (duplex) stainless steel cargo tanks, for special applications other high alloyed or non-ferrous materials are applied.

Our experience and knowledge has enabled us to develop a wide range of welding consumables (for all relevant welding processes) and the corresponding welding equipment. Our philosophy is that we supply products is that enable our customers to efficiently build a ship.

Our equipment is therefore rugged and reliable, transportable and allows for increased distances between the equipment and the actual welding spot (remote controls, special light weight wire feeders that can operate at a large distance from the power source).

Our welding consumables are designed to be welder friendly, as in our experience this improves quality and productivity, and reduces repairs.

We supply the full range of consumables (stick electrodes, solid MIG wire, TIG rods, Submerged Arc wire and flux, cored wires) for the materials applied in shipbuilding. Large customers have time after time chosen for the reliability and the welder friendliness of e.g. our stick electrodes, flux cored wires and submerged arc wires & fluxes.

We look forward to demonstrating you how our products, experience and knowledge can support you in optimizing the production process.