Cover story: Böhler Welding
CORE MMA expands Böhler’s extensive equipment portfolio AF talks to Keith Saunders, Equipment Business Development Manager for the MEA region of voestalpine Böhler Welding, about the company’s expanded welding equipment range which, as well as the premium Uranos and heavy-duty Terra ranges, now includes the CORE MMA range of modern single-phase MMA and lift-TIG welding power sources, built for the most demanding environments. ing the company’s extensive portfolio of premium welding consumables.
T o appreciate the strong foundation of voestalpine Bohler Welding’s current range of state-of-the-art in- verter-based welding equipment, we must go back to 1979 – the year Selco, a proud family-owned manufacturer of arc welding equipment for 40 years, was established. With a passion and focus on innovative solutions, the company was among the pioneers of portable inverter-based tech- nology in the design and manufacture of welding power sources, which is now the industry standard. In June 2019, Voestalpine acquired Selco and shortly thereafter introduced the Terra and Uranos ranges of high-end welding equipment to the market, complement-
RapiDeep, PulsDrive, and QuickPulse for PULSE MIG/MAG machines; and DcDrive, DcPulse, FastPulse and EasyArc for the TIG DC HF units. “The TERRA NX is our industrial work- horse: a robust, reliable and economical machine for heavy industry, making it our fastest mover and ideal for the demanding South African work environment,” he adds. “Within voestalpine Böhler, we talk about a Böhler arc and a Universal arc. Our Böhler arc programmes have been meticulously developed to suit specific Böhler Welding consumables, delivering optimum ma- chine and wire performance,” continues Saunders. URANOS NX welding systems are devel- oped with this whole solution philosophy in mind. They offer all the features of the TERRA platform, but with increased memory, faster communication capacity and enhanced integration between weld- ing consumables and machine parameters. This focus on specific welding requirements makes it the ideal solution for welding jobs involving complex alloys and the highest levels of weld quality. URANOS NX for optimised performance URANOS NX welding systems use a high- speed CANBUS internal communication system, which is totally immune to elec- tromagnetic noise, minimising deviation at the arc and enabling the system to respond much more quickly. They are delivered with customer- specific job applications in mind, featuring more than 600 welding programs tailored for various applications and industry The CORE 210 MMA features Advanced Pulsed MMA for better out-of-position, thin plate and pipe welding applications; TIG LIFT and TIG LIFT Spot Welding, a cost-effective solution where space is limited and frequency-sensitive devices are present; and Welding Parameter Storage.
The introduction of the next-generation product, URANOS NX, was launched in Oc- tober 2021 as a premium welding machine, built to optimise welding performance for the full range of materials and con- sumables, with synergistic programmes customised for welding applications using Böhler consumables. The TERRA NX followed in 2023, a ro- bust, reliable, productive and easy-to-use welding machine for heavy-duty applica- tions in the metal fabrication and mechani- cal industries. Built to ‘Get the job done’, the TERRA NX is optimised for steel welding to make ‘perfect weld seams’ easy to achieve. TERRA NX: ensures productivity while maintaining quality The TERRA NX range is designed for in- dustrial applications, with reliability and productivity in mind. “The focus has been to make the machines easier for a welder to use, to help them achieve the quality needed for every job. The machines have a full colour display, with an interface that is intuitive and easy for a welder to use,” says Keith Saunders. TERRA machines produce a reactive and dynamic arc that is optimised for heavy- duty steel welding. The units are reliable and robust, and the welding programs are all upgradable, which means that each machine can be customised to an indi- vidual welder’s needs and preferences, he continues. There are 13 different TERRA options in the range: five standard MIG/MAG options and five PULSE MIG/MAG options with out- put capacity ranging from 320 A to 500 A and three TIG DC HF machines ranging from 270 A to 400 A. From a welding characteris- tic perspective, each machine offers various options designed to optimise welding char- acteristics and performance: ArcDrive and RapiDeep for MIG/MAG machines; ArcDrive,
Voestalpine Böhler Welding has launched the CORE MMA range of modern single-phase MMA and lift-TIG welding power sources, built for the most demanding onsite and workshop environments.
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