Increasing safety standards and an obligation to reduce weight and material content have increased the importance of high strength steels for many uses. Because of their structural rigidity more and more professional profiles will be designed as welded “hollow” shapes. For these applications inductions welding offers some very interesting alternatives, with very decisive arguments such as high production speeds and economics.
At Tube 2008 Dreistern will introduce a new weld-table offering significant advantages when working with these materials. The design provides up to 100 kN of press-force, plenty of reserves for practically all profiling demands. Due to its quick-change design all product related components are changed over in a very short time. Individual reproducible settings of all rolls and lateral adjustment guaranty exact alignment of strip edges and profile, consequently increasing the accuracy of the welded shape.
