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New packaging PurgEye® 100 Sensor

The PurgEye® 100 Sensors are being shipped in new packaging. This is a way to increase the sensor life significantly with this new storage method. Spare sensors are packed at source by HFT® inside a small sealed compartment to prevent oxygen from entering. Once the tiny amount of oxygen inside the sealed volume, has been […]

Flux methods of welding verses weld purging

A comment from a member of our “Weld Purging Best Practices” group on LinkedIn, reads as follows: “I have used solar flux in place of purging where purging was too difficult and the weld quality was not high purity. The result was Ok at best and only good for one pass. Once the second pass was produced the […]

The PurgEye® 500 Weld Purge Monitor®

Weld Purging gas pressure is a subject that raises its head fairly frequently. Welders are used to lowering the weld purge flow rates in pipe purging when they are approaching the end of a weld, to avoid blowing out the root as the weld closes and to avoid concavity as another problem. The PurgEye® 500 Weld […]

HFT® Sponsorship

Huntingdon Fusion Techniques has sponsored Burry Port RFC “The Black" for 3 years in a row. The HFT® Sponsorship covers the cost of the first team kit. Pictures show the 2013/4 season shirts being sported by some top models. We wish them a lot of success this season.

Significant purchase from Norway

After a significant purchase order today, Friday 13 September, from our Exclusive Norwegian Distributors, we had a very pleasant accolade from them. The Purchasing Manager, Mr Paal Roald Bjellande, said to Georgia Gascony our CEO, that: " We are doing our best to sell your products, because they are of good quality and our customers are […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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