 Welding is a process that joins metals with each other under heat and with the use of welding consumables. There is virtually no alternative to welding in industrial applications, especially where high standards for safety and working stress are involved. This is generally true for the industrial sectors that are supplied by the Group with welding consumables. The Welding Consumables Division has positioned itself as a universal provider of welding materials for joining, repair and cladding. The most important products include solid wire, filler wire, stick electrodes as well as brazing and soldering materials.
The Welding Consumables Division operates manufacturing facilities in Austria, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, Brazil and Mexico. Avesta Welding AB (Sweden), which was acquired in 2005, was integrated into the division as planned during the 2006 Business Year. The division also runs a network of sales subsidiaries that are responsible for both the marketing of welding consumables and customer care throughout the world. With a 13.4% share of total sales, Welding Consumables is the second largest division in the BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Group.
The most important customer branches for welding consumables are the petrochemical and chemical industries, power station and plant construction, offshore (crude oil and natural gas exploration), the manufacture of liquid natural gas (LNG) tanks, pipeline construction, automobile manufacture and shipbuilding, the food industry and sugar processing as well as steel and apparatus construction. Medium and high-alloy welding consumables generate approximately two-thirds of division sales. The Group is the market leader for rust, acid and heat-resistant welding materials in many West European and South American countries.
Main markets:
Europe, North America, Asia, South America
Further information is available in the Annual Report 2006 in chapter "Welding Consumables Division" (as PDF file for download)
Companies of the division:
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Böhler Welding Holding GmbH