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Manufacturing companies have to face an increasing shortage of welding specialists. In order to counteract this, well thought-out technologies are needed to avoid interfering with the production conditions and at the same time relieve the welding specialists employed. ABICOR BINZEL now offers such technology solutions with robust, reliable robot welding torches and an extensive knowledge of products, processes and applications in joining technology together with the Danish company Inrotech A/S, a company which develops intelligent, adaptive and sensor-supported robot technology. With this cooperation, both companies are pooling their specialist knowledge and offer innovative automation solutions, especially to production companies where robot welding has not yet been a topic.

Everyone at ABICOR BINZEL has worked hard this year. However, this additional effort cannot be taken for granted. A big thank you!

Those who are lucky enough to have qualified welders in their company should nevertheless think about automating welding processes, because it is always a question of relieving the workload and the targeted use of welders, where robots have their limits. An increase in volume that simply cannot be handled by the existing team of manual welders could be another starting point. This is what happened at Sächsische Bewehrungsstahl (SBS), one of the largest manufacturers of structural steel in Germany.

Professionally qualified welders are hard to find, production has to cut down on costs and the quantities to be manufactured are skyrocketing. Small and medium-sized manufacturing companies that previously only employed manual welders are no longer questioning whether they should invest in automation, but rather how they can get started.

Every four years, the time usually has come: The world's leading trade fair SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN attracts international trade visitors to the halls of Messe Essen again. But this year everything was different: Due to the current overall situation, the doors of Messe Essen will not open again until September 11 to 15, 2023, for the leading trade fair for all matters relating to cutting, joining and coating.

Despite or perhaps because of the tough corona months, we are particularly proud to welcome eight new apprentices this year.

Winter is over and the sun is shining more and more every day. Apart from giving us warmer and longer days, this also marks the beginning of the new phase of the bee year. In ABICOR BINZEL's own bee colony, activity is now back in full swing. With spring, the new annual cycle of the busy bees begins.

The ABICOR BINZEL bee colony has come through last winter in good shape. The small animals were already busy, so that honey production is in full swing. But how can you tell after the winter that the bees are doing well?

System solutions for shipyards and offshore

Wherever thousands of tons of steel are processed into floating giants or wind rotor beams that are firmly anchored in the seabed, every move has to be perfect. Individual parts must be delivered just in time, delays in the individual trades are a no-go. The welders are at the forefront. Welcome to the forward business of shipyards and offshore.

Packed with news, innovations and the popular user tips

Clearly divided into the areas of News, Leading Practice, Innovations, Communication and Company, you can quickly find the individually interesting topics in and about welding technology. In this issue, the focus of the News is on the prevention of health problems caused by the dangerous welding fumes that welders and all people in the immediate environment are exposed to. They report on the new welding fume extraction devices of the xFUME VAC series from ABICOR BINZEL with the appropriate welding torches for fume extraction at the source, on the possibilities of fume extraction for robot torches and on fume extraction units with W3 approval especially for welding chrome-nickel alloys. Good to know: ABICOR BINZEL welding fume extraction solutions meet the strict regulations of the German BGHM wood and metal trade association.