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Observations from China’s Welding Trade Show By Graham Fry for technoweld.com.au After recently returning from a major welding trade show in China, I’ve had time to reflect on some pressing global trends in the metal fabrication and welding sectors. As someone who's...

Do you know what is required of you?   Whenever a company starts a new project, whether as a subcontractor or a direct vendor (manufacturer), it is essential that they understand what they are required to have for compliance prior to taking on the project. It is...

Skills shortage is real, but is it as big an issue as companies think?   Organisations often struggle to get additional staff, yet don’t consider ‘do I actually need them’. Most fabrication and welding shops have not refined their welding operations in years and...

Structural welding requires meticulous planning, execution, and adherence to industry standards to ensure the safety and quality of the final outcome. In Australia, one such significant standard that businesses must comply with is AS/NZS5131. This article will delve...

Fatigue life is the number of loading (stress or strain) cycles a component can withstand before failure occurs. For some metals, i.e. steels, there is a theoretical number of cycles for a given stress range. If kept below this number of cycles, there is a confidence...

Ultrasonic Peening is a mechanical method that can be applied to a weld to reduce tensile residual stresses and improve fatigue life. Learn more about this technique in our blog.

The Advantages and Disadvantages In the modern day many welders prefer to walk the cup over freehand as it saves them burning their hands, provides better control and a more consistent finish to the weld when the technique has been mastered, but with most things...

Why do I need a Welding Supervisor? Welding Supervisors play an integral part in the hierarchy of welding projects to ensure the quality, compliance, and success of the build. Typically, they are the first port of call in the technical management of the project and...

WQT – what is it and why do we need it? A Welder Qualification Test (WQT) is a qualification certificate that verifies that a welder has successfully completed the verification of competence test using a specific welding process, in a particular welding position and...