African Fusion March 2020

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March 2020

FEATURES 4 World-class excellence with members at the forefront African Fusion talks to SAIW executive director John Tarboton and business development manager Etienne Nell about their vison for a renewed SAIW where members are at its centre and their needs drive SAIW’s evolving service offering. 6 Stanley Inspection SA: a blue ocean service provider. African Fusion talks to ShaunMeerholz of Stanley Inspection about the company’s modern inspection offering and the important role of inspection services in ensuring the integrity, safety, reliability and longevity of critical plant such as those in our power, petrochemical and mining industries. 12 Arc-welding-based additive manufacturing for body reinforcement in automotive engineering This issue’s technical paper describes two possible applications of arc-welding-based additive manufacturing in automotive engineering with the goals of producing vehicles more efficiently and reducing the environmental impact of vehicle production processes and of the vehicles themselves. 18 Simplifying success with ESAB’s latest Aristo MIG system Jannie Bronkhorst, ESAB South Africa’s product manager for welding and automation, talks about the advantages of using the latest Aristo MIG 4004i coupled with the best possible consumable wire for the application. 20 WAAM and Fronius’ CMT solution Harald Maringer of Fronius International talks about the advantages of using Fronius’ Cold Metal Transfer (CMT) welding process for wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) to produce prototypes and high-value small-batch components, as opposed to using themore expensivewire- or powder-based metal additive processes. 23 First Cut ‘strikes a new arc’ with the local manufacture of Messer welding electrodes First Cut, a leading South African distributor and manufacturer of cutting consumables and importer of premium capital equipment for steel processing, has concluded an agreement with leading German company Messer Cutting Systems to take over its South African agency. 24 Miller XMT 350 FieldPro: a process game changer for high integrity welding? Afrox’s Johann Pieterse outlines the potentially game changing features of the Miller XMT 350 FieldPro multi- process welding system, which offers the potential to finally enable semi-automatic welding processes to be adopted for high-integrity root, butt and pipe welding in the petrochemical and power industries. 25 SA’s first validation facility and digital welding technology Renttech South Africa has become the first local validation facility to provide a service to industry validating welding equipment according to ISO 17662 standards. REGULARS 3 A message from John Tarboton 8 Front cover story: Handheld LIBS analysers simplify carbon and carbon equivalent testing for carbon and stainless steels 10 SAIW Bulletin board 26 Welding and cutting forum 28 Today’s technology: LIBS versus X-ray spectroscopy

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Gammatec SciAps Product Specialist for non-destructive testing (NDT), Lyndon Momberg, talks about posi- tive material identification (PMI) for measuring carbon in steels and carbon steels as part of residual ele- ment analysis (RE) in HF alkylation units. He compares the traditional technique that relied on spark OES technology and compares it to the modern much more compact and effective handheld LIBS analysers.

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