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Weld Purging and Insert Rings

Very Best Way To Make A Weld Joint Between Two Tubes or Pipes In certain industries, it is still believed that the use of insert rings is perhaps the very best way to make a weld joint between two tubes or pipes. Welding procedures to make critical tube and pipe joints, were developed in the […]
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Weld Purging in the Bio/ Pharm/ Semi-conductor and other process industries

In a Technical Paper Written by Dr Barbara K Henon of AMI Arc Machines Inc
, entitled “Orbital Welding of Corrosion Resistant Materials” Section 3.5 Discolouration/Heat Tint, 

she laid out details of standards relating to weld purging in the Bio/Pharm/semi-conductor Industries. She states that “Proper inert gas purging to prevent the formation of heat tint during […]
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Visit of our Norwegian Distributor

On a recent visit to HQ, our Exclusive Stocking Norwegian Distributor was shown all of the updates to the HFT® Product Range over the last year or so. He was particularly impressed with the QuickPurge® II systems fitted with PurgeGate™ and he remarked, “This is just what my customers have been looking for”. Once the […]
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Customer's question...

“Can I use the Argweld® HotPurge® System to purge down to 20 parts per million?” There will be no problem purging the HotPurge™ systems, nor any other of the Argweld® Pipe Purging Systems down well below 20 ppm. The end value is a function of the amount of oxygen in: the interspace between the purge […]
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PurgeGate™

PurgeGate™ is an exceptional development from Huntingdon Fusion Techniques, that prevents inflatable tube and pipe weld purging systems from bursting, even though the pressure can be turned up as high as the operator likes and the flow   rate can be controlled to whatever level the operator would select. Ray Abbott quotes: “When working for Heerema […]
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Release of the PurgElite® in The Fabricator

July 25 Edition of The Fabricator, showed the PurgElite® series of inflatable Pipe Purge Systems that has now been increased to purge pipes up to 24” diameter. The PurgElite® series allows customers who don’t want to pay the higher prices of the Argweld® QuickPurge® II systems or any of the competitors units. Although it will […]
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HFT® Technicians visit

One of our Technicians recently visited one of the LNG regasification sites in the Southern half of the UK. The Welding and Quality staff had been having difficulties with purging products supplied by other people for the weld purging of 12”, 14” and 36” pipes. Having contacted the other company, the customer called HFT® to […]
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Square / Rectangular Inflatable Stoppers

The Company’s Pipestoppers® department, manufactures cylindrical and spherical inflatable stoppers to compliment its range of round mechanical pipe plugs. We were contacted recently to supply some Square stoppers urgently to a renovation company, moving an old historic Chimney from inside a museum. It was necessary to place 15” Square Stoppers at the top and bottom […]
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Reason for Excellence in Weld purging of Duplex Stainless Steel tubing and piping systems

If Duplex Stainless Steel does not have a really excellent weld purge, the relatively high chromium content and the relatively low thermal expansion of a Duplex Stainless Steel, make the resulting oxide scale very thin and highly resistant to removal. It is desirable to remove this heat tint to obtain maximum corrosion resistance and in […]
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Company Visits

During the last month our technicians have made several customer support visits to leading Distributors and their customers. Customer visits were made in Scotland with our very loyal and long term Distributors Weld-Tec in Glasgow and with our Exclusive Distributors in the Aberdeen and Inverness areas. One of our technicians went offshore on a separate […]
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Company gets Registration award

Huntingdon Fusion Techniques® is now a ' Brand ' Following 38 years of successful and profitable trading, the European Economic Community Registrations Committee has awarded Huntingdon Fusion Techniques® a certificate of Registration to allow the Company to show and display the ® mark after its name. This ensures that customers requiring the high quality, leading products in the […]
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Financial Year

End of financial year: June 30 saw the end of the Company’s 38th successive trading year with further continuing growth, through improvement in turnover. The shareholders report showed consistent profit margins allowing reinvestment for the next financial year. The Directors reported a positive outlook for the following years with the introduction of new products and […]
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