TIG Welding
Southern Steel Engineering are a specialised pipe welding company who can offer highly skilled TIG welders for either manual, semi or full automated TIG welding applications.
In piping applications that demand repeatability and outstanding quality automated orbital systems are best, either with or with out wire feed options, material thickness dependent.
TIG stands for Tungsten Inert Gas and is technically called Gas Tungsten Arc Welding, one of the most common welding processes used in quality pipe welding.
For more precise, clean welds with no inter-pass cleaning and very low heat inputs an automated pipe welding tractor (BUG) is the ultimate set up. This can be used to weld all types of piping systems on site and on all material types such as Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel, Duplex and Super Duplex Stainless Steels, Inconel, Titanium, Aluminium, Hastelloy, Copper Nickel, Nickel Chrome Alloys and many others.
Our team of skilled pipe welders/operators and welding inspectors have the experience to offer expectational quality and service to you pipe welding requirements .
TIG welding is the superior welding process for pipe welded components and with wire feed options our clients are completing their projects to the highest quality within very quick time frames.
Hot wire feed manaul TIG welding
TIG welding can be used to weld almost all metals and metal alloys in use today.
It is a particularly effective and economic way for welding light gauge metals (under 3mm thickness) and for welding metals difficult to weld with the conventional welding process. TIG welding is not limited to piping application either and can be used in structural steel to produce very high quality welds normally in thin wall sections.
Due to its high quality and low defect rate TIG welding finds its use also in thick structural components that require strict NDT (Non Destructive Testing). Commonly used as a root and fill pass in difficult or very thick >19mm sections, or where there is no access to the back size of the weld.
TIG welding has zero inter-pass cleaning requirements and only basic surface cleaning is required of finished welds. TIG welds do not require grinding this results in a huge time saving, meaning lower cost for clients.