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High turnover for HFT®

February has traditionally been a high turnover month for Huntingdon Fusion Techniques, HFT®, surprisingly when it is a short month, without any obvious reason for good figures. Even more strangely the figures have consistently been higher each year, than the last year and consistently above budget. 2014 is no exception. Having started the year with […]

Weld Purge Results

Companies who have to measure their weld purge results at a distance, may be experiencing unnecessarily excessive waiting periods to obtain a reading and may then be wasting more time and more expensive Argon because the readings will appear to be worse than they actually are in the weld zone. The further away the monitor […]

Visting Leeden Distribution Pte, Ltd.

During a visit to Leeden Distribution Pte Ltd, HFT® Exclusive Distributors in Singapore by the HFT®, CEO Georgia Gascoyne and a technical engineer, a comprehensive training course was given about the Company’s products, to all of the sales people throughout the organisation. At the same time the engineer trained Leeden’s Electronic Engineers in the service, […]

HFT® visits Partners in the Far East

Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT® Visits Close Partners Our CEO being welcomed by 3 of the Executives at our South East Asian Distributor based in Singapore. Photograph, from left to right, we can see Jason Tan, Adrian Hong, Georgia Gascoyne and Vincent Seow. Georgia will be travelling onto China to make a number of site visits […]

HotPurge® Pipe Purging Systems for Pre-Heated Pipe Welding

Thick wall chrome steel pipe joints, as used in the power industry for high pressure high strength pipe work, need to be pre-heated for welding and probably need a post weld heat treatment too. Weld joints of this nature need to be purged of oxygen and welded in an inert gas atmosphere, to prevent oxidation, […]

Participating the Technishow in Holland

New Distributors for HFT® in Benelux, Pipeq, are following up their amazing successes in their first six months of trading, by taking a stand at the Technishow in Holland from 11 - 14 March 2014 at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. An advertisement is being placed showing the Company’s Weld Purge Monitors® and QuickPurge®II Pipe Purging […]

Influence of Shielding Gases on the Quality of Welds

Although the article is more than 15 years old, I must commend “Influence of Shielding Gases on the Quality of Welds”to our group members and anybody else that you would like to read it. The article was written by Nils E.Larson of Compressed Gas Industries, Inc, USA. This is an extremely well written and explanatory […]

New article published in the technical journal "world pipelines"

A new article has been published in this month’s issue of the technical journal “World Pipelines” by Dr Michael Fletcher of Delta Consultants, entitled “Major Advances in Weld Purge Technology” Click here to read the article This is worth a read, having been written by a major independent technical consultant. If you would like to […]

Weld Purging of Nickel Alloys

It is reported by TWI (The Welding Institute) that Nickel alloys can suffer with porosity if Nitrogen is present in the purge environment with a concentration of as little as 0.025% (250 ppm). As a result, it is necessary to back purge Nickel alloy joints to better than 80 ppm Oxygen. For this purpose, it […]

Burry Port Rugby Club on TV

Last Tuesday the TV cameras came to Burry Port Football Club. The ‘Jonathan’ programme’ that is broadcast prior to the 6 nations games, are doing a profile of our club and filmed the team training etc.. This will be Broadcast on S4C at 9 pm Friday the 31st prior to the Wales v Italy game […]

Definition of Weld Purge Gases

Information taken from the Airgas web site that might be of interest to readers: “The name of the purge gas does not indicate its true purity level. Differing manufacturers and use similar names to one another but these names do not help in knowing the purity. The true way to find a Purge Gases true […]

New Training Courses

Weld Purging Best Practices for the Nuclear Industry. With the growth of Nuclear Power activities around the world, there will be a large volume of stainless steel pipework that will need to be welded. The pipe joints will need to be started with a much higher weld purge quality than many operators are familiar with […]

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