Advanced welding

The Advanced Welding Facility is an installation with advanced welding techniques such as Brazing and Electron Beam Welding. Strategically located in the center of 9 cities in the north of Spain, with a large group of nearby suppliers, it can provide coverage to the industry that needs our services to carry out turnkey projects, with experience in international scientific technology projects such as CERN or ITER.

  • Welding dissimilar materials.
  • Possibility of welding with no access via any other method.
  • Ceramic material welding.
  • 1.5m3 furnace capacity and 1200ºC maximum temperature.
  • e-05 vacuum working zone.

EBW (Electron Beam Welding)

Capabilities

  • Copper < 60mm.
  • Aluminium < 100mm (depending on alloy).
  • Steel < 110mm.
  • Stainless Steel < 110mm.
  • Titanium < 110mm.

Advanced Welding materials

Characteristics

  • Beam Power:  up to 30 kW.
  • High Voltage: Beam generator fixed.
  • Max linear Weld dim: 2200 x 1000 mm.
  • Max height: 950 mm.
  • Max load: 2500 kg.
  • CNC programming.

EBW characteristics

  • Temperature verification.
  • Large thicknesses.
  • Capillary.
  • Diverse materials (Cu, SS, Al, Inconel, Niobium…).
  • Finished BPM (ESS-AB).

Advanced Welding

Type of welds

Rotary Device 
  • Circular Welds.
  • 1 chuck.
  • Position to 0 or 90° (ref. beam).
  • Big parts welding:
    • Plate diameter= 600 mm.
    • Centre Height= 405 mm.
  • Heavy pieces welding:
    • Vertical position< 1500 kg.
    • Horizontal position (no tailstock) < 1000 kg.
  • CNC controlled rotation.

Advanced Welding

Rotary device + tailstock
8 fold rotary device
  • Circular Welds.
  • 8 chucks → higher production rate.
  • Tilting: 0 ≤ x ≤ 90° → more welding posibilities.
  • Small/Medium pieces welding:
    • 4 loaded pieces → ømáx = 300 mm.
    • 8 loaded pieces → ømáx = 150 mm.
  • Small/Medium weight pieces welding:
    • 4 loaded pieces → Mmáx = 35 kg.
    • 8 loaded pieces → Mmáx = 22 kg.
  • CNC controlled rotations.

Advanced Welding

Rotary devices
Table
  • Linear welds.
  • Table dimensiones: 2300 x 500 mm.
  • Table travel: 2200 x 1000 mm.
  • Max admisible load: 2500 kg.
  • CNC controlled movement.

Advanced Welding

Table

BRAZING

Advantages

  • Cheap process for the manufacturing of complex and multiple joins.
  • Good ditribution for strenghs and heat transfer.
  • It’s posible to preserve the platings.
  • Posibility of join metals and no metals.
  • Different thickness materials.
  • Porous materials.
  • Maintain of the metal bases characteristics.
  • It allow the join of material compounds.
  • The process can be automated.

Brazing

Characteristics

  • Useful dimensions.
  • Charge.
  • Temperature.
  • Vacuum.
  • Furnace performances (empty furnace).
  • Weight.

Brazing

vacuum furnace

Materials

  • Inconel – Alúmina.
  • W – SS – Cu.
  • Inconel – Panal de abeja.
  • Acoplador MEBT (ESS-AB).

Honeycomb