Doosan Babcock, part of
Doosan Power Systems, is
one of the world’s leading
providers of services and
technologies to power
utilities.Welding plays a key
role in its manufacturing
facilities in Scotland and
Welding Skill Centre in
Tipton,West Midlands, and
on power stations and
construction sites that it
services around the country.

The company has its own
electrode manufacturing
facilities in Renfrew. Doosan
Babcock uses a number of
processes in its welding
operations including: TIG,
MMA, flux cored and solid
wire MIG/MAG, as well as
oxy-acetylene for brazing
applications. Submerged arc
welding is also used.

Since 1996, Kemppi has
been Doosan Babcock’s
preferred supplier of MIG,
MMA and TIG welding
equipment, supplying more
than 1000 power sources, 350
MIG welding wire feed units,
20 Synergic MIG welding
systems and 650 TIG HF
units, including PRO pulsed
MIG and PROTIG 410 power
sources with wire feed units.

Much of the original
equipment supplied is still
going strong today.

Martyn Fletcher, chief
welding engineer, says:
“Kemppi’s equipment has
helped to keep repair rates at
Doosan Babcock consistently
below 2%, much lower than
the UK average of about 5%.

We train and test roughly 800
welders a year on Babcock
welding consumables and
Kemppi welding equipment
meaning that the quality of
welding is consistently high
right from the Welding Skill
Centre through to all site
operations.”