Hobart Brothers

Metal-Cored Wire Helps Arizona-Based Company Repeat Welds and Gain Consistent Performance

IMI — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:35:30 +0000

Standardization and repeatability have become popular buzz-words in the welding industry as it continues to adapt itself to lean business models. These practices have focused in part on establishing protocols that create uniformity of quality and appearance for every product (more…)

Hobart Brothers Offers the Cure to Common Stick Welding Troubles

IMI — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:52:41 +0000

TROY, Ohio. May 9, 2008-Hobart Brothers has created the fourth in an ongoing series of free educational welding posters, addressing the 10 most common welding problems and their likely causes and solutions. Using color diagrams and concisely written explanations, the poster is (more…)

Hobart Filler Metals Help Make Heavy Equipment Big, Strong and Reliable

IMI — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:02:29 +0000

Bucyrus International Inc.’s 8750 walking dragline weighs nearly 15-million pounds and features a 400-foot welded-construction boom. It can swing a 120-cubic-yard bucket and move 360,000 pounds of overburden 600 feet from one point to another and cycle back to do it again within 90 seconds. Bucyrus’ 495 high performance electric rope shovel has a working weight of nearly three-million pounds and (more…)

Low Hydrogen Stick Electrode Improves Productivity, Reduces Rework

IMI — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:34:18 +0000

TROY, Ohio. March 25, 2008-For general purpose, low-hydrogen welding applications, Hobart Brothers offers the Hobart^® 418 (AWS E7018-1 H4R), a stick electrode with several distinct features that will help improve weld quality and productivity. The Hobart 418 electrode provides excellent arc (more…)

Factors for Selecting the Right Stick Electrode

IMI — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:57:15 +0000

Stick welding is a skill that takes much practice to master, and selecting the correct electrode for the job can be equally challenging. Stick electrodes are available in a wide range of types, each of which provides different mechanical properties and operates with a specific type of welding power (more…)

Online Product Approval Guide Eases Filler Metal Selection

IMI — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:13:50 +0000

TROY, Ohio. February 12, 2008-A new interactive Product Approval Guide on at www.hobartbrothers.com offers visitors a quick and easy way to locate filler metals that have been approved by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Lloyd’s Register, the Canadian Welding (more…)

New 900-LB. Recyclable Drum Minimizes Downtime, Costs

IMI — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:49:55 +0000

TROY, Ohio. January 7, 2008-To reduce downtime and costs associated with drum changeovers, Hobart Brothers introduces its new 900-lb. recyclable X-Pak for metal-cored welding wire. The new X-Pak measures 35-inches tall, 23 inches in diameter and is comprised of 100-percent recyclable (more…)

Bringing Hope and Bridging the Gap: A New Opportunity to Weld

IMI — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:27:23 +0000

Located at the confluence of the Rio Grande River and the Gulf of Mexico and at the United States and Mexico border, the city of Brownsville, Texas is in the midst of one of the poorest regions of the country. Los Fresnos High School, situated just outside of Brownsville has not been exempt from (more…)

From Metal Electrodes to Metal-Cored, A Brief History of Filler Metals

IMI — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:45:13 +0000

History is a vague and mysterious thing. Its events are undeniably the result of the economic, political and social factors of the time, but our modern understanding of these events depends wholly on the individuals who have taken the time to record them and on what they’ve recorded. Looking at (more…)

Hobart Brothers Employee Honored by LeTourneau University

IMI — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:14:37 +0000

TROY, Ohio. December 19, 2007-Dean Phillips, manager of welding engineering at Hobart Brothers Company, has been named Alumnus of the Year by the Materials Joining Engineering department at LeTourneau University. Phillips, who has worked for Hobart Brothers since December 1989, was (more…)