Welding

Welding is moving faster than the standards bodies and the sales literature can track. Handheld laser tools are already running production welds that used to take a TIG welder years of practice to match on cosmetics. Additive processes that sat in university labs five years ago are showing up on real production floors now, and plenty of textbook weld prep still assumes equipment most shops replaced a while back.

Between us, we were among the first to bring wire arc and plasma arc additive manufacturing to US shops, electron beam welding with them, backed by years running sales and marketing for major welding-equipment makers. We still walk the leading EU welding shows every year, scouting what's coming before it reaches the US. That's the bar for what runs here, whether it's laser welding, additive deposition, or a weld prep method the textbook hasn't caught up to yet.

When a process claim looks interesting, we run it down and report what actually holds up.