Objectives of TEMPERATE WELDING: To develop a complete, highly efficient MIG-MAG welding equipment (600 A, 30 kW) with unity duty cycle factor, entirely designed to fulfill the needs in the automotive, naval and metalmechanical sectors. Additionally it offers considerable advantages in automated applications. A ground-breaking power supply technology developed by DEGIMA in collaboration with the Universidad de Cantabria will be at the foundation of this new equipment.
DEGIMA has developed and patented a new technology on welding equipment that significantly reduces power use and CO2 emissions, keeps heat input to the workpieces to a minimum, provides full control of the welding parameters and avoids sparking and projections producing a weld line that is completely steady. This results in a faster welding process that yields a longer weld per unit of time and per volt-ampere used.
The adventages of this technology are the next:
• smaller weight and volume.
• unity duty cycle factor.
• More efficient, allowing greater productivity.
• Increased stability of arc welding.
• Lower consumption of volti-amps.
• Improved control of heat supplied to the workpiece.
• Better performance in energy conversion.
• Very good characteristics for robotics.
The project is developed in collaboration with GALA GAR, who is one of two manufacturers of welding equipment that remain in Spain that also has an extensive international distribution network, which will allow the industrialization and commercialization of new equipment to a competitive cost.
The equipments to be sold may be used in manual and robotic applications, will have monitoring systems in real time to optimize its performance and prevent the occurrence of faults.
With this project, DEGIMA can deepen his strategic positioning as a company linked to environmental improvement and the fight against climate change, because on the one hand its main objective is the development of renewable marine energy, and the other has the patent resulting in this new welding technology that aims at saving energy and decreasing CO2 emissions. It also wants to use this technology in the development of welding procedures of Wave Energy Converters, which are key for the development of renewable marine energy.
