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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Deep Tig Welding

There is a really interesting article in the TPJ journal this month. The title is “Improving GTAW for Producers, Fabricators” The article covers the use of special metal oxides to increase weld penetration and the process has been named “EWI Deep Tig.” The article claims a 300% increase in penetration. This leads to reduced welding times […]

Argweld® Weld Backing Tape

Extract of a message from one of our potential customers: " Ron, I read about that backup tape, and that is fascinating. I look back at the company I used to work at, and no one took the time to purge anything! We were welding stainless steel lines that carried liquefied paper pulp. Having smooth […]

New Power Point Presentation - Argweld® PurgElite® Inflatable pipe purging systems.

A new Power Point Presentation is available showing the Mark II PurgElite® pipe purging systems with a number of updates over the previous models. The Intacal® special low profile is featured, explaining how it eliminates the old fashioned high profile valves that need setting up. The old valves can scratch the surfaces of polished stainless […]

Certificate of Registration for Huntingdon Fusion Techniques®

After almost 40 years of successful innovation of new products for weld purging, Huntingdon Fusion Techniques has been awarded a certificate of Registration by the European Economic Community. Huntingdon Fusion Techniques® is now a recognised and Registered brand name. blog.huntingdonfusion.com

Weld Purge Monitor®

In 1975, Huntingdon Fusion Techniques® (HFT™) was approached by British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) to provide them with an oxygen monitor that was more suitable for the welding industry. Until that time, oxygen monitors were large, expensive and unwieldy instruments, especially those that would give a reading that would be adequate for joining the new ranges […]

Top 10 Best Weld Purging Practices

Weld Purging Techniques are really varied from the very crude to the ingenious. Some are straight forward using products made especially for the application while some are adapted to suit the job in hand. As long as the top 10 Weld Purging Best Practices are carried out then such adapted solutions are extremely valid. The attached […]

Why should you use Inert Gas Purging when welding Stainless Steel, Titanium and Nickel Alloys?

Why should you use Inert Gas Purging when welding Stainless Steel, Titanium and Nickel Alloys? Preventing oxidation and thus avoiding discolouration and weld underbead discontinuities in tubes and pipes can be achieved readily by purging the inside with inert gas. This simple procedure saves both time and cost, both of which can be considerable. Consider […]

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