Industrial Plant & Equipment

Tools in demand

At MACH 2010 the versatile Nine9 Series of
cutting tools from Advanced Carbide
Tooling (ACT) proved a hit as the company
took numerous credit cards sales at the show.

The Nine9 ranges of indexable cutting tools
allow t

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Chance to win a welding unit

ESAB is offering IPE readers another
chance to win a Caddy Mig C200i
portable Mig/Mag welding unit (list
price £1388).

Caddy Mig C200i is compact and
lightweight and has a built-in wire
feeder that accepts 200mm spool

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Change of name

The AWD has been the voice of the
welding distribution industry for
more than 35 year. At this years AGM
it was agreed by the membership that
the name of the Association should be
changed to the Association of
Welding D

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Single source

Formed from Wholesale Welding
Supplies (WWS) and SIF (Suffolk
Iron Foundry) Bronze,Weldability-
SIF operates from purpose built
facilities in Hertfordshire supplying
MIG, TIG, MMA, Spot and Oxy/Fuel
welding and Plasma c

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Welding technology

In 2009 GYS, a French welding
equipment and battery charger
manufacturer, opened a new
R&D Centre. A major
development has been the
introduction of Power Factor
Correction (PFC) and
Flexible Voltage technology
across

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Handbook as CD

ESAB has produced a CD
version of its technical
handbook – Submerged
Arc Welding.

The A4 printed
document contains almost
100 pages.While this is
suitable as a library copy,
the CD format is, for
many, easier to tr

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Welding equipment helps to float boats

Kemppi OY, Finland and its
UK subsidiary Kemppi (UK)
supply welding equipment to
shipyards, with welding
technology and process
interchange between Kemppi
and the yards playing a major
role in the design and
developme

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Portable MIG/MAG welding

ESAB has added to its Caddy family
of welding machines with the Caddy
Mig C160i, which has been
optimised for welding mild steel with
0.8mm wire. Suitable for assembly,
maintenance and repair operations
in fabrication o

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Ease of programming

Subcontract business, C J
Engineering, first invested in
a CNC/manual mill in 2000.

This was to be the first of
several CNC machine tools
supplied by XYZ Machine
Tools and would have a
significant impact on the
comp

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Measure of force

High-precision measurement of
compressive and tensile forces is
possible with the new S9M force
transducer from HBM. The
transducer works with strain gages
and attributes its accuracy to its
S-type geometry. The S9M has

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