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Welding Stainless Steel

Avoiding loss of corrosion Many industries rely on the corrosion resistance of stainless steels including the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, petrochemical and nuclear. It has become common practice in some applications to accept discolouration and remove it post-welding, but this can be very expensive. It is time-consuming and, where access is limited, difficult to achieve […]

Special QuickPurge ® Pipe Purging System

Our QuickPurge ® Tube, Pipe and Pipeline Weld Purging Systems help to reduce the volume required to be purged. Time is money and waiting for pipes to be purged ready for welding can take many hours, depending on the diameter of the pipe being welded and the method chosen for purging. We were recently tasked […]

Weld Purging Systems - will not over inflate or burst

Quick Purge Weld Purging Systems for Pipes, Pipelines and Tube Welding We recently had an order from a European customer in the LNG industry who was using a competitive inflatable weld purging system. While welding large diameter stainless steel pipes on site, these competitive systems were bursting due to over inflation, causing the complete loss of valuable […]

French Welding Graduates Visit HFT® Customer

HFT®’s Distributor in France was requested to organise a visit in Scotland for a group of French Welding Graduates who were visiting Aberdeen. Accordingly, we arranged for the group of 15 to visit one of our customers, ITCA Training. On arrival, they had a traditional Scottish welcome with a Piper in full traditional dress, piping […]

HFT® has a can do attitude

At 2 pm UK time we received an order from Finland for 2 x 20" PurgElite® Pipe Purging Systems which must be on site in Helsinki first thing Saturday morning. One of the HFT® team is now on their way to Heathrow for an evening flight in order to meet the customer first thing in […]

May 7, demonstration welding products at EWM High Tech Welding

There is an open day at EWM's facility in Morpeth on Thursday May 7 in conjunction with TWI. There will be presentations by EWM and Huntingdon Fusion Techniques, HFT® throughout the day. HFT® will be demonstrating the New QuickPurge®III system and explaining about the unique features. In addition, the new […]

HFT® Results first month of 2015

Continuing our stunning results month after month, the company registered it’s highest turnover for any January since 2001 when we moved the business to Wales. January 2015 invoiced sales were up 127% over the 2001 figures following a pattern of steady growth year on year. HFT® has seen growth from an increase in […]

ArgWeld QuickPurge®III Tube and Pipe Weld Purge System

Press Release QuickPurge® III Successfully published

HFT® has released it's "Upgraded High Speed Pipe Purge System". The Press Release was sent to International Welding Magazines and Successfully Published in: (click link to read the article) International Metal Tube Magazine Process Industry Match Energy Global My Informs Process Industry Informer TubeFirst Thomasnet Stainless Steel Americas Click on Press Release to read the news on the […]

Argweld QuickPurge® III Tube, Pipe and Pipeline Weld Purge System

QuickPurge®III is ready!

Less than a year since the launch of QuickPurge® II the HFT® development team has introduced the QuickPurge® III System. As well as update suggestions from our QuickPurge® II Customers we have added a couple of additional developments that didn’t quite make it into the previous launch. The production lines are rolling from 5 January 2015, the first […]

HFT® Publicity

Several White Papers, Technical Papers and Press Releases have been published by important magazines in the welding industry in the past few months. Like: Technical Paper - Keeping it Clean - Tubefirst.com Technical Paper - Innovation in Weld Protection - Energy Global.com Technical Paper - High Quality Welds - Welding and Cutting, printed issue White Paper- […]

HFT's - QuickPurge®II - World's Largest Inflatable Pipe Purging System

In May we shipped some really large (80” diameter and the 72” diameter) QuickPurge®II systems to one of our Overseas Distributors. Money and time savings using these QuickPurge®II systems will have paid for the costs of the units in the first weld. After that the savings were very significant. QuickPurge range from 6 to […]

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