Kobelco Welding Today Archives with highlights　Welding

2021

Preface
  • New 2021 Year's greeting from the Head of the Welding Business
Products Spotlight
  • New line-up in the ARCMAN™ welding robot series
Technical Highlight
  • The new SAW FAMILIARC™ US-29HK /TRUSTARC™ PF-H55LT-N, for Offshore Wind Power Generators
Bulletin
  • The Welding Business's 115th International QC-Circle Conference

2020

Technical Highlight
  • FAMILIARC™ MIX-1TR: the solid wire for GMAW to improve electrodeposition coating property
Products Spotlight
  • FAMILIARC™ OW-S50P (E71T-8-H16): Self-shielded flux cored wire for overseas markets
Bulletin
  • KOBELCO technical seminar in Saudi Arabia in 2020
  • Video courses on fundamentals of welding uploaded to YouTube and KOBELCO's Global Website
Products Spotlight
  • ARCMAN™ A40: The new robot for overhead welding systems
Technical Highlight
  • A new function for the ARCMAN™ robotic welding system: root gap detection by laser sensor
Bulletin
  • Your best partner KOBELCO brings Total Welding Solutions to FABTECH 2019

2019

Products Spotlight
  • PREMIARC™ DW-N609SV: Ni-based alloy welding consumable for fuel tanks on LNG-powered ships and ship exhaust scrubbers
Preface
  • KOBELCO's spirit for service, contribution, cooperation and hospitality
Technical Highlight
  • Technology to prevent end cracking in one-side submerged arc welding
Bulletin
  • A great KOBELCO event combining the ASEAN Shin-Yo-Kai meeting with the celebration of KWAP's 40th anniversary
  • Beijing Essen Welding & Cutting Fair 2019, focused on robotic welding and IoT related technology
  • KOBELCO Global Website is smartphone friendly now
Products Spotlight
  • PREMIARC™MX-A430M / PREMIARC™MX-T430Nb / Ferritic stainless steel welding consumables for automotive exhaust systems
Preface
  • Quality management is in progress in the Welding Business as well as KOBE STEEL
Technical Highlight
  • Solid wires for thin steel sheets : TRUSTARC™MG-S120T for ultra-high tensile strength and, FAMILIARC™MG-1T(F) for wire feeding control
Bulletin
  • Chinese Shin-Yo-Kai : KOBE STEEL’ s welding distribution network in China
Bulletin
  • The Welding Business holds its 114th QC circle conference
Products Spotlight
  • SG-2Z-CE / Equipment for the SEGARC™ process in EU Highly efficient electro-gas arc welding process
Preface
  • New Year’ s greeting from the Head of the Welding Business
Technical Highlight
  • Flux cored wires for heat resistant steels that conform to AWS specications
Bulletin
  • 10th year anniversary of KOBE WELDING OF QINGDAO, China KWAI at FABTECH 2018: KOBELCO-Your Best Partner on display

2018

Products Spotlight
  • FAMILIARC™ MG-1T(F) controls wire feeding in high speed welding of thin steel plates
Preface
  • KOBELCO's pioneer and leader of overseas business: TKW in Thailand
Technical Highlight
  • "1Z Series" welding consumables for galvanized steel sheets
Bulletin
  • TKW's 50th and KMWT's 30th anniversaries in Thailand
Preface
  • Inaugural address by Akira Yamamoto, new Head of the Welding Business!
  • Welding automation with ISHIMATSU, the portable robot, and PLM
Technical Highlight
  • B91 Series welding consumables for Grade 91 Steels
Products Spotlight
  • PF-N5/US-609S for SAW on 9%Ni steels: Excellent solution in horizontal and flat positions
Bulletin
  • "KOBELCO-Your Best Partner" highlighted at JIWS 2018
Products Spotlight
  • PREMIARC™ NI-C6J for 9%Ni steel: Excellent porosity and hot crack resistance.
Preface
  • Year 2018: Enhancing Marketing Capabilities and Facing New Challenges!
Technical Highlight
  • Hybrid Tandem MAG Welding Process: An effective porosity-reduction method for welding primer-coated steel plates.
Bulletin
  • With the new slogan "Together We Are Strong," INTIWI celebrated its 40th anniversary.
  • Welcoming visitors with "Say Hi to the Original!" at the 2017 Schweissen & Schneiden Düsseldorf.
  • KOBELCO participates at FABTECH 2017, under the slogan "Your Best Partner KOBELCO".

2017

Special Message
  • Head of the Welding Business reflects upon the publication of KWT’s 20th anniversary special issue
Feature Article
  • THE KOBELCO ARC over the Last Decade
Feature Article (System)
  • THE KOBELCO ARC over the Last Decade: Welding systems and equipment
Bulletin
  • Welding Business to make organizational changes
Preface
  • Another year of progress in welding automation
Products Spotlight
  • ARCMAN™ Robotic Welding System for Hull Assembly in Shipbuilding
Bulletin
  • FABTECH2016 in Las Vegas: A special exhibition for KOBELCO
  • KWE’s social and educational activities
  • Metaltech Malaysia 2016
Bulletin
  • Round Robin Test Reports：Analysis of trace elements in Cr-Mo-V steel weld metal at IIW/C-II/SC-E
Preface
  • Three“M”s：Marketing, Monodzukuri and Manpower
Products Spotlight
  • TRUSTARC™ DW-A62LSR(A5.29 E91T1-GM)improves notch toughness of HSLA weld metal after PWHT
Bulletin
  • The 7th India Essen 2016 in Mumbai
  • WELDEX 2016：Welding Exhibition in Moscow

2016

New Business
  • ARCMAN™ robotic welding system business in North America
Preface
  • Focus on welding system business and human resource development
Technical Highlight
  • The new “CB type” controller for the ARCMAN™ robotic welding system
Bulletin
  • KOBELCO Technical Seminar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • The 2016 Beijing Essen Fair
  • Metaltech Malaysia 2016
Bulletin
  • Round Robin Test：Analysis of trace components in 2.25Cr-1Mo steel weld metal IIW/C-II/SC-E
Technical Highlight
  • Recent developments of AWS specifications
Bulletin
  • AWF meeting in Osaka, Japan
  • 2016 Japan International Welding Show, Osaka
  • QC circle assembly in the Welding Business Group
Glossary
  • What is PWHT?
Technical Highlight
  • Welding duplex stainless steels
Bulletin
  • Introducing the Asian Welding Federation(AWF)
  • Cheerful and friendly, Brazilians, think positively about their economic future

2015

Glossary
  • What is a Creep Test or Creep Rupture Test?
Technical Highlight
  • CM-95B91 (E9015-B91) and CM-96B91 (E9016-B91) applied to ASTM T91/P91 heat resistant steels for fossil-fuel thermal power generation
Glossary
  • What is CTOD?
Technical Highlight
  • TIG welding consumables for 490 MPa high tensile strength steels
Products Spotlight
  • MG-S430NbS for car exhaust systems: Strong and corrosion resistant
Technical Highlight
  • Supply and demand for LNG and implications for 7% Ni TMCP steel and welding consumables

2014

Products Spotlight
  • Study to further improve creep rupture and temper embrittlement properties of weld metal for 2.25Cr-1Mo-V steel
Technical Highlight
  • A robotic welding system equipped with the REGARC™ process for architectural steel frames
Products Spotlight
  • Welding consumables for power boilers that match with AWS standards
Technical Highlight
  • Submerged arc welding consumables produced exclusively for use with direct current
  • The SEGARC™ process: achieving efficiency by combining exclusive equipment and flux cored wire
Technical Highlight
  • Total welding solutions: Integrating Kobelco's comprehensive technologies

2013

Products Spotlight
  • A new Ultra High Current MAG welding process allows for highly efficient and extremely low spatter welding
Technical Highlight
  • Kobelco flux cored wires for stainless steels :
    meeting diverse market needs with a wide range of products
Products Spotlight
  • New process for car industry welding:
    MX-MIG with pure Ar gas and special metal-type flux cored wires
Technical Highlight
  • Meeting the requirements of offshore structures that operate in ever deeper and colder waters
Products Spotlight
  • PREMIARC™ TG-Super304H: austenitic stainless steel TIG wire for coal-fired steam boilers
Technical Highlight
  • Pipeline Girth Welding: Kobe Steel's up-to-date welding consumables meet diverse requirements

2012

Products Spotlight
  • PREMIARC™ DW-410NiMo: the best choice for welding hydraulic turbine components
Technical Highlight
  • Using ARCMAN™ Robot Welding Systems for Railroad Car and Bridge Applications
Spotlight
  • REGARC™ process offers low spatter and fumes even at high current in CO2-shielded arc welding.
  • Typical Applications of ARCMAN™ Robot
Technical Highlight
  • Welding Systems for Construction Machinery
Products Spotlight
  • FAMILIARC™ MX-Z200MP provides uniform weld toes in multi-layer fillet welding
Technical Highlight
  • Kobelco's ARCMAN™ welding robots and SENSARC™ power sources: unsurpassed performance across many applications

2011

Products Spotlight
  • PREMIARC DW-308L-XR, DW-316L-XR
    Helping Workplaces Comply with New OSHA Standards by Reducing Cr(VI) Emissions
Technical Highlight
  • Advanced MAG and MIG Welding Wires : Meeting Car Manufacturing Requirements for Fast and Efficient Welding
Products Spotlight
  • TRUSTARC LB-67LJ
    It meets all of the recent requirements for offshore structures. It features low hydrogen and no molybdenum content in the deposited metal.
Technical Highlight
  • Welding Consumables for LNG Storage Tanks Made of 9% Ni Steel
  • Specifications and features of 9% Ni steel
  • Welding procedures and control
  • Tips for better welding results on 9% Ni steel
Technical Highlight
  • State-of-the-art automatic arc welding processes meet the latest shipbuilding requirements

2010

Products Spotlight
  • Superior Welding Consumables for Super Duplex Stainless Steels PREMIARC NC-2594,DW-2594,TG-S2594
Technical Highlight
  • Unrivaled KOBELCO Filler Metals Match New Developments in Hydropower Penstocks
Products Spotlight
  • A Hastelloy-type flux cored wire for welding 9% Ni steel in all positions, reducing hot crack susceptibility PREMIARC DW-N709SP
Technical Highlight
  • Designing High Quality Welding Consumables for Nuclear Power Reactors

2009

Spotlight
  • Shining in the Welding of Super and Ultra Super Critical Pressure Boilers
  • TRUSTARC CR-12S & TG-S12CRS
Technical Highlight
  • Heat-Resistant High-Cr Ferritic Steel Filler Metals for Thermal Electric Power Boilers

2008

Products Spotlight
  • TRUSTARC LB-80L
    Ultra-Low Hydrogen Covered Electrode Excellent in DCEP Welding of 780-MPa High Tensile Strength Steel
Technical Highlight
  • Offshore Structures Exploring Deeper Seas Demand Higher Quality Filler Metals
Technical Terms
  • Transition Temperature for Toughness
Bulletin
  • Technical Services for Customers in USA
Products Spotlight
  • FAMILIARC MIX-50FS & FAMILIARC SE-A50FS
    Advanced Solid Wires for Sheet Metal Welding
Technical Highlight
  • Recent International Trends in Filler Metal Standards
Bulletin
  • Winner of the foreign expert honorary awards of Liaoning provincial government(Mr. Maruyama)
Products Spotlight
  • FAMILIARC DW-100E & FAMILIARC MX-200E
    Unsurpassed Flux-Cored Wires in E- and EH-Grade Steel Hulls
Technical Highlight
  • Shipbuilding Increasingly Demands High-Efficient Welding Processes
  • Question and Answer
  • Did you know why FCWs are used in large quantities in shipbuilding?
Bulletin
  • New Product Designation System FAMILIARC TRUSTARC PREMIARC
Products Spotlight
  • LB-52U Excels in Melt-Through Root-Pass Welding
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of Heat Exchangers
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Cold Cracks in Fillet Welds
Bulletin
  • Nace Spec. to prevent SSC
  • Technical Service for Customers in Europe & Russia

2007

Special Message
  • Big changes in the welding industry this decade
  • Feature Article
  • 75 years of the KOBELCO Arc
Products Spotlight
  • DW-309MoL & DW-309MoLP
    The Indispensable FCWs for Dissimilar Metal Welding in Desalination Plants, Chemical Tankers and Plats, and Paper Mills
Technical Highlight
  • Types of Wear and Suitable Hardfacing Filler Metals
  • Question and Answer
  • Welding of 13%Mn Steel
Bulletin
  • Technical Services for Customers in Thailand and Singapore
Products Spotlight
  • MIX-1TS Shines in Auto Parts Fabrication
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of LPG Storage tanks
    Part.2: Essential Factors in Controlling Welding Procedures
  • Question and Answer
  • Welding of Galvanized Steel Sheets
Bulletin
  • Revisions in AWS A5.20 & A5.29
Products Spotlight
  • LB-7018-1 Shines as a Versatile Electrode in a Low-Temperature Service Offshore Structures
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of LPG Storage tanks
    Part 1: How to Select Filler Metals
Technical Terms
  • Carbon Equivalent

2006

Products Spotlight
  • The Best for SAW of Thin Steels <G-50/US-36>
  • A More Versatile SAW Flux/Wire <G-60/US-36>
Technical Highlight
  • SMAW Electrode coverings
Bulletin
  • Kobelco GMAW wires for auto parts
Products Spotlight
  • Special Solid Wire for Ar-CO2 Mixture Shielding <MIX-50>
Technical Highlight
  • Atmospheric Corrosion-Resistant Steels and Suitable Welding Consumables
The ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Weld Distortion
Products Spotlight
  • New DW-50 Offers Superior Impact Toughness for Flux Cored Arc Welding
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of Crude Oil Storage tanks
    Part 2: Welding Procedure Controls
The ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Diffusible Hydrogen
Bulletin
  • The H-series DW stainless steel flux-cored wires shine in high-temperature applications
New Products
  • New ZERODE-44: A Leading Electrode for General Applications in Japan
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of Crude Oil Storage tanks
    Part 1: How to Select Filler Metals
Technical Terms
  • SR Cracking

2005

Products Spotlight
  • DC-spec High-Strength 2.25Cr-1Mo-V Filler Metals for Reactor Vessels: <CMA-106HD, PF500D/US-521HD>
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of Chemical tankers
    Part 2: Essential Factors in Welding Procedure Controls
Technical Terms
  • Yield Point and 0.2% Offset Yield Strength
Products Spotlight
  • MXA-430M: Unsurpassed Flux-Cored Wire for Cr Stainless Steel Welding
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of Chemical tankers
    Part 1: How to Select Stainless Filler Metals
  • Q & A
  • How to prevent stainless steel welds from rusting
Technical Highlight
  • How Electric Polarity Affects Welding Quality in Arc Welding
Technical Terms
  • Band-Overlaying: What Overlaying with Strip Electrode Offers
Products Spotlight
  • Duplex Stainless Steel Flux Cored Wires, DW-329A and DW-329AP, are Now Spotlighted in the Technologically Demanding Fields
Products Spotlight
  • DWA-55L for better CTOD
Technical Highlight
  • GTAW of Stainless Steel Piping
  • Technical Terms Explanation
  • CTOD

2004

New Product
  • A breakthrough in stainless steel sheet metal welding <DW-T308L, DW-T309L, DW-T316L>
Technical Highlight
  • FILLER METAL STANDARDS
    Part 2: AWS and EN STANDARDS
Q & A in Arc Welding
  • What causes porosity and how can it be Prevented in arc welding?
Technical Highlight
  • FILLER METAL STANDARDS
    Part 1: AWS STANDARD
New product
  • Stricter Quality Requirements Increasingly Demanded for DC-spec. Cr-Mo Filler Metals
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of Power Generation Boilers
    Part 2: Essential factors in welding procedure Controls
Q & A in Arc Welding
  • Is there any convenient way to estimate quickly the approximate consumption of welding consumables for a particular welding joint?
Bulletin
  • Excellent Tack Welding Performances in All Positions <LB-52T>
New products
  • DW-62L, DWA-62L
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of Power Generation Boilers
    Part 1: How to Select Filler Metals
Q & A in Arc Welding
  • In automatic GMAW the arc sometimes becomes unstable, though the wire is smoothly delivered. How can it be prevented?

2003

Technical Highlight
  • Kobelco SAW Fluxes/Wires Cover a Wide Scope of Heavy Fabrication Industries
Bulletin
  • DWA-81Ni1
Technical Highlight
  • Kobelco Flux-Cored Wires Shine in Various Applications
Bulletin
  • DWA-81B2, DWA-91B3
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of offshore structures
    Part 2: Essential Factors in Welding Procedure Controls
Q & A in Arc Welding
  • What advantages are there in downhill welding and how should it be used, compared with uphill welding in GMAW and FCAW?
Bulletin
  • DWA-65L, TGS-80B2, TGS-90B3
Technical Highlight
  • Welding of offshore structures
    Part 1: How to Select Welding Consumables
Q & A in Arc Welding
  • ow to Carry Out Tack Welding

2002

Technical Report
  • Essential Factors in Selecting Heat-Resistant Low Alloy Filler Metals for High-Temperature, High-Pressure Services in the Power Generation, Oil Refining, and Petrochemical Industries
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Preheating and Postheating: The Purposes and Procedures
Technical Report
  • CM-9, CM-9CB, CM-96B9

TGS-9CM, TGS-9Cb, TGS-90B9

Technical Report
  • CMA-106H, PFH-500/US-521H, TGS-2CMH
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • How Polarity Affects Electrode Performance In Arc Welding
Technical Report
  • CMA-106, CMA-106N, TGS-2CM, TGS-2CML
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Hot Crack: How It Occurs and How It Can Be Prevented

2001

Technical Report
  • CMA-96, CMA-96MB, TGS-1CM, TGS-1CML
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Cold Cracks: Causes and Cures
Technical Report
  • Shielded Metal Arc Welding in Transportation Pipelines
Technical Report
  • DW-55LSR, TGX-308L, TGX-309L, TGX-316L
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • PWHT Determines the Quality of Weldments
  • Feature Articles
  • DW-81B2, DW-91B3
Technical Report
  • DW-55L, NB-1SJ
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • How Interpass Temperature Affects the Quality of Welds

2000

Technical Report
  • DW-55E, MG-60
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • What Is Heat Input, and How Does It Affect the Quality of Welds?
Technical Report
  • MG-50, MG-51T, LB-62L
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Spray Transfer Arc :Advantages and limitations
Technical Report
  • DW-100E, LB-52NS
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • What Is Low-Temperature Notch Toughness and How Is It Determined?
Technical Report
  • DW-200, LB-62
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Fillet Weld Legs Determine Size and Throat of Fillet Welds

1999

Technical Report
  • LB-52A, NC-37L
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Weld Decay: Its Cause and Cure
Technical Report
  • DW-100V, NC-39L
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • What is the Ferrite Contained in Austenitic Stainless Weld Metals, and How Is It Measured?
Technical Report
  • B-14, DW-309L, DW-309LP
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • Why Dissimilar Metal Welding is Needed, and How to Select Proper Filler Metals
Technical Report
  • DWA-50, NC-36L
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • What the Ar/CO2-Mixture Shielding Offers

1998

Technical Report
  • LB-52U, DW-316L, DW-316LP
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • What is "Uranami", and How Useful is it?
Technical Report
  • MX-100T, LB-52-18, DW-308L, DW-308LP
ABC' s of Arc Welding
  • What is Short Circuiting Transfer, and What is it Used for?
Technical Report
  • MX-200, LB-52, NC-38L
Technical Report
  • DW-100, RB-26, DW Stainless Series
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