Supersnakes onboard for welding work

In 2010 Cammell Laird received a £44m contract to build two 12m high sections of the middle and aft flight deck for HMS Queen Elizabeth, a 65,000t aircraft carrier being built by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance for the Royal Navy.

It was for the carrier contract that Cammell Laird turned to their local Kemppi dealer, General Welding Supplies (NW) and bought 12 Kemppi Supersnake GT02S air cooled ultra long 25m welding systems for distance wire feeding and restricted access MIG/MAG welding and which now play a key role in the fabrication of the giant 800t sections.

Supersnake GT02S comes as either an air or water cooled system in lengths of 10, 15, 20 and 25m. Connected to Eur MIG welding guns it can provide a maximum 30m gun reach from the wire feed unit. It provides a deck-based or boom delivery wire feed system, feeding a range of filler wires including ferrous, stainless and aluminium wires. The longest and heaviest 25m water-cooled version weighs just 37kg.