Hobart Brothers

Metal-Cored Improves Travel Speed 40 Percent in Sub-Arc Bridge Fabrication Application

IMI — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:43:29 +0000

Fought & Company's 340,000 square-foot facility in Tigard, Oregon is the birthplace of many recognizable structural steel and bridge projects in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1949, Fought is responsible for portions of the retractable roof on Safeco Field in Seattle, a 120,000-sq. ft. steel and glass canopy at Portland International (more…)

New Hobart Brothers Flux-Cored Wire Designed for Welding High-Strength Steels

IMI — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:04:07 +0000

TROY, Ohio. February 10, 2010-Hobart Brothers introduced a new welding wire designed for welding high strength steels that require good low temperature impact toughness. The new Hobart^® FabCO^® 107G all-position, gas-shielded flux-cored wire offers a tensile strength in the 100 to 110 ksi range in the as-welded or the post-weld heat-treated (more…)

Hobart Brothers Offers New Submerged Arc Welding Brochure

IMI — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:56:47 +0000

TROY, Ohio. January 27, 2010-Hobart Brothers has a new resource to assist customers with their submerged arc welding wire and flux selection. Its new brochure, Metal Core Wires & Fluxes for Submerged Arc Welding provides information on the company's available Tri-Mark^® and Hobart^® brand products, as well as details on the (more…)

Tips for Improving Robotic Welding Performance Through Wire, Gun and Consumables Selection

IMI — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:29:19 +0000

Robotic MIG welding can provide companies with very significant gains in productivity and excellent return on investment - when done right. Unfortunately, companies often make the mistake of focusing too much on big picture items like the power source and robotic arm, neglecting the small but equally important details like the welding wire, MIG gun and consumables. (more…)

Combining Advanced Technologies Can Improve Pipeline Welding Performance

IMI — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:48:27 +0000

With the demand for energy growing worldwide, contracting companies responsible for constructing transmission pipelines are beginning to face some real obstacles-not the least of which is meeting increasingly tighter project deadlines. To help, welding equipment and filler metal manufacturing companies have begun developing advanced (more…)

Hard Surfacing Tips to Make Your Equipment Repairs Faster, Easier and More Efficient

IMI — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:51:35 +0000

Whether you hard surface old equipment or new, when completed properly the result is the same: less downtime for replacing worn or broken components, fewer spare parts to inventory and longer equipment life. In short, hard surfacing is a fast, easy and efficient way to make your equipment more wear resistant and keep it in the field (more…)

Busting Myths About Flux-Cored Wires

IMI — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:41:37 +0000

At first glance, gas-shielded flux-cored welding might seem like the most troublesome filler metal to use. On the one hand, you have to deal with the headaches of chipping slag. On the other, you have to contend with the portability and location limitations of using an external shielding gas. Still, there are very good reasons for using gas-shielded (more…)

New XLNT-6 Welding Wire Offers High Impact Strength at Low Temperatures

IMI — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:45:06 +0000

TROY, Ohio. December 8, 2009-As a complement to its premier Fabshield^® XLR-8 ^TMall-position welding wire, Hobart Brothers now offers the Fabshield XLNT-6^TM self-shielded flux-cored wire for flat and horizontal welding applications that require impact toughness properties. Designed for use on structural steel weldments and bridge (more…)

New Flux-Cored Wires for Chrome-Moly Offer Excellent Low Temperature Impacts

IMI — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:16:34 +0000

TROY, Ohio. November 11, 2009-Hobart Brothers introduced a new patent-pending family of flux-cored welding wires designed to provide superior low temperature impacts and improve productivity on chrome-moly welding applications. The new Hobart ^®FabCO^® XTREME B2, XTREME B3 and XTREME 120 (more…)

Hobart Brothers’ Metal-Cored Wire Offers High Impacts at Sub-Zero Temperatures

IMI — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:31 +0000

TROY, Ohio. October 28, 2009-For welding on nickel-molybdenum steel applications that require high impact toughness at sub-zero temperatures, Hobart Brothers offers its Tri-Mark^® Metalloy^® 80N1 metal-cored welding wire. This gas-shielded wire has been specifically designed for both single- and multi-pass welding on 1/2 Ni-1/4 Mo, 1 Ni-1/4 (more…)