CONSUMABLES
Welding Consumables
Stick Electrodes
Our modern world would be unimaginable without electric arc welding; it is one of the oldest processes for joining metals. In electric arc welding with stick electrodes, the arc is struck between a flux coated metal rod and the base metal. This welding process is generally known as MMA (manual metal arc welding) or SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding). Today, this process is still indispensable in steel and pipeline constructions and can be used in all weather conditions. Approximately 25 to 30% of the world’s welded products are produced with stick electrodes.
Mild Steel - Rutile
Mild Steel - Basic Low Hydrogen
Mild Steel - High Recovery
Pipeline Steel - Cellulosic
Pipeline Steel - Basic vertical down
Pipeline Steel - Basic Vertical Up
Low Alloy Steel – High Strength
Low Alloy Steel - Low Temperature
Low Alloy Steel - Creep Resistant
Stainless Steel - Austenitic Steels
Stainless Steel - Ferritic Steels
Stainless Steel - Martensitic Steels
Stainless Steel - Duplex
Stainless Steel - Special Applications & Dissimilar Joints
Stainless Steel - Heat Resistant
Multi Purpose
Stick Electrodes - Cast Iron
Stick Electrodes - Copper Alloys
Nickel Base - Pure Nickel
Nickel Base - Nickel Copper
Nickel Base - NiCr
Nickel Base - NiCrMo
Nickel Base - NiCrFe
Wear protection - Multi-purpose
Wear protection - Tool steels
Wear protection - Extreme abrasion
Wear protection - Cobalt alloys
Special Products - Gouging
Special Products - Underwater Welding
TIG Rods
The TIG welding process stands for high quality welding and is used in demanding applications of pipeline welding, food industry, pressure vessels, aviation and many others.
For a perfect GTAW result several parameters need to be considered for the tungsten electrode, like composition of the tungsten based electrode material, diameter, tip angle and shape or thermal load. The setting of welding parameters can be done according to standard tables or by using sophisticated welding machines supporting with intelligent functions such as Böhler Welding EasyArc.
The scope of application stretches from welding of thin sections of non and medium alloyed and stainless steel grades to high-quality root welding in thicker plates and tubes. GMAW is the process of choice for non-ferrous materials as aluminium, magnesium or copper alloys.
Mild Steel
Low Alloy Steel - High Strength
Low Alloy Steel - Creep Resistant
Low Alloy Steel - Low Temperature
Stainless Steel - Martensitic Steels
Stainless Steel - Austenitic Steels
Stainless Steel - Ferritic Steels
Stainless Steel - Low Temperature
Stainless Steel - Special Applications
Stainless Steel - Duplex
Stainless Steel - Martensitic Steels
Stainless Steel - High Temperature
Non-ferrous - Aluminium
Nickel Base - Pure Nickel
Nickel Base - Nickel Copper
Nickel Base - NiCr
Nickel Base - NiCrMo
Nickel Base - NiFe
TIG Rods - Copper Alloys
Wear protection - Tool steels
Wear protection - Extreme abrasion
Wear protection - Cobalt alloys
Solid Wires
Metal shielding gas welding is an economic welding procedure which is well-suited to uniform welding sequences. The weld metal demonstrates good properties, and the method features high productivity, whether applied manually or automatically. The arc burns between the welding wire and the workpiece in gas shielded metal arc welding. The solid wire is automatically fed through the centre of the welding torch. The shielding gas is also passed through the welding torch, and encloses the weld pool during the welding process. The weld seam is therefore shielded from the surroundings.
Mild Steel
Pipeline Steel
Stainless Steel - High Temperature
Stainless Steel - Austenitic Steels
Stainless Steel - Special Applications
Stainless Steel - Duplex
Stainless Steel - Ferritic Steels
Stainless Steel - Low Temperature
Stainless Steel - Martensitic Steels
Low Alloy Steel - High Strength
Low Alloy Steel - Creep Resistant
Non-ferrous - Aluminium
Wire Arc Additive
Solid Wires - Copper Alloys
Nickel Base - Pure Nickel
Nickel Base - Nickel Copper
Nickel Base - NiCr
Nickel Base - NiCrMo
Nickel Base - NiFe
Wear protection - Multi-purpose
Wear protection - Tool steels
Gas-Shielded Flux-Cored Wires
Böhler Welding is the best source for all types of gas-shielded flux-cored wires across all alloy groups: Mild Steel, Low Alloy Steel, Pipeline, Stainless Steel under the diamondspark and FOXcore product portfolios. UTP offers a broad range gas shielded flux cored wires for wear protection applications, produced both in seamless and in folded production technologies.
Mild Steel - Rutile
Mild Steel - Basic
Mild steel - Metal cored
Pipeline - Rutile
Low Alloy Steel - Creep Resistant
Low Alloy Steel - High Strength
Low Alloy Steel - Low Temperature
Low Alloy Steel - Weather Resistant
Stainless Steel - Austenitic Steel
Stainless Steel - Duplex
Stainless Steel - Ferritic Steels
Stainless - Heat & Creep Resistant
Stainless - Low Temperature
Stainless - Martensitic Steels
Special Applications & Dissimilar Joints
FCAW-G - Multi-Purpose
Nickel Base FCW
FCW - Cast Iron
Wear protection - Cobalt alloys
Wear protection - Extreme abrasion
Wear protection - Multi-purpose
Wear protection - Martensitic steels
Wear protection - Tool steels
Self-Shielded Flux-Cored Wires
Böhler Welding offers self-shielded flux-cored wires (FCAW-S) with specific solutions for Mild steel, Pipeline steel under the diamondspark and BÖHLER Pipeshield portfolios. For wear protection applications UTP offers self-shielded flux-cored wires (FCAW-S), produced both in seamless and in folded production technologies.
Mild Steel
Pipeline Steel
Special FCW - Multi-Purpose
Wear protection - Extreme abrasion
Wear protection - Martensitic steels
Wear protection - Multi-purpose
Submerged Arc Wires & Fluxes
Böhler Welding offers a vast range of filler materials for submerged arc welding, which uses a metallic filler metal (wire) and a non-metallic consumable, the welding flux. The product range comprises over 120 wire/flux combinations covering non-alloyed, weather resisting, high strength, low-temperature and creep resistant steel, all types of stainless steel, as well as nickel-base alloys.
Solid Wires
Flux Cored Wires
Fluxes
Seamless Wire/Flux Combinations
Combinations Seamless
Strip Cladding
For weld overlay experts, among all processes, submerged arc (SASC) and moreover electroslag strip cladding (ESSC) offer the highest deposition rates with trouble free operation and lowest dilution. Together RECORD® and SOUDOTAPE are the references to clad sophisticated material to imparts surface properties such as pressure vessels corrosion resistance in petrochemical, oil & gas, power generation and also rollers wear resistance in minerals processing, mining or steel industry.
Stainless Steel - Austenitic
Stainless Steel - Duplex Stainless
Stainless Steel - Super Austenitic
Stainless Steel - Austenitic Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel - Duplex Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel - Super Austenitic Stainless Steel
Nickel Base - Nickel-Fe-Cr
Nickel Base - Nickel-Cr-Fe_Nickel-Cr-Mo
Nickel Base - Nickel-Cr-Mo-W
Nickel Base - Nickel & Nickel Copper
Nickel Base - Nickel-Cr-Fe_Nickel-Cr-Mo
Nickel Base - Nickel-Fe-Cr
Nickel Base - Nickel-Mo-W
Wear Protection - Cobalt Alloys
Wear Protection - Ferritic Stainless Steel
Wear Protection - Martensitic Stainless Steel
Wear Protection - Mild Steel & Low Alloys
Wear Protection - Mild Steel & Low Alloys
Wear Protection - Ferritic Stainless Steel
Wear Protection - Martensitic Stainless Steel
Wear Protection - Copper Alloys
Special Alloy - Copper Alloys
Special Alloy - Copper Alloys
Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
Wire arc additive manufacturing enables fast and highly efficient production processes replacing conventional technologies as casting and forging. The machining effort like milling and drilling is reduced to a minimum due to a near-netshape using WAAM. Lead times can be reduced dramatically by high utilization of the wire consumables and by simplification of the production process in general.
Especially as the Wire arc additive manufacturing is based on the well-known technology of joining and cladding materials with a wide range of commercialy available wire consumables from unalloyed, mid- and high alloyed steels. But also nickel- and cobalt base alloys can be used and combined, if metallurgical reasonable, to gradient structured parts.
Metal Powders
We offer a wide range of metal powders for various spraying and welding processes. UTP has specialized in the task of developing suitable protective coatings, depending on the load profile, on mostly inexpensive base materials and suitable wire and powder materials for contemporary coating processes.
The metal powders based on nickel, cobalt and iron are supplemented on a customer-specific basis by mixed powders with special and outstanding properties in terms of wear and corrosion behavior, even in wide temperature ranges. In addition to the classic flame spraying processes and the tried and tested plasma powder deposition welding, new methods are being introduced at voestalpine Böhler welding UTP with laser surfacing.
Flame-spraying Powders for Simultaneous Melting
Flame-spraying Powders for Subsequent Melting
Flame-spraying Powders without Melting (Cold Process)
Metal Powders for PTA and Laser Surfacing
PTA & Laser Powders for Hardfacing
Arc Spraying Cored Wires
UTP offers a wide range of cored wires exclusively for thermal arc spraying. These spraying consumables are available as cored wires for flame or arc spraying and allow the production of coatings with a very high deposition rate both in simple spraying (wires with suffix -M) and in spraying with subsequent fusion (wires with suffix -MF).
Cladding - Nickel Based
Wear Protection - Multi-Purpose
Wear Protection - Extreme Abrasion
Ceramic Weld Backing
Ceramic weld backings are made of sealed, high temperature resistant ceramic, from different mineral mixes (e.g. Al2O3, SiO2, Fe2O3, TiO2). When they melt, they produce a glassy slag that forms the underside of the weld seam and seals it against air entering. They are chemically neutral in the weld pool.
Ceramic backings are available as ceramic blocks (~2 cm long) on a flexible aluminum foil with an adhesive edge that can be stuck to the underside of the weld seam. They are also available as single ceramic segments (~10 to 15 cm long) for placement in metallic rails that are then attached to the work piece with magnets or other fixtures.
Brazing Consumables
Brazing Rods (Blank & Flux Coated)
Brazing Rods (Blank & Flux Coated) by Fontargen Brazing with environment friendly coating. Available in different diameters, and coating thicknesses, as well as different shapes and finishing.
Our Fontargen Brazing blank and flux-coated brazing rods are perfectly suitable and highly efficient for your brazing application. Flux-coated rods are available in different diameters and coating thicknesses. Blank rods are available in different shapes (square, round, flat) with matt or shiny finishing. Copper-phosphorus blank rods can also be supplied for narrow gaps and/or large surfaces (FreeFlow). EasyForm-quality is best suited for bigger gaps and/or modelling brazing jobs.
Brazing Preforms
Brazing Preform Parts by Fontargen Brazing, discover our preforms for efficient brazing processes where exact and reprodusicble brazing results are mandatory.
Brazing with a ring or preform part ensures an accurate control over filler metal volume and improves the brazing process.
- Many HVAC+R and HVAC-Automotive manufacturers will use this technology (instead of manual feeding) in future, e.g. for flame brazing
- Preform parts are required to cover a high variety of shapes and become thus more and more challenging.
Brazing Foils
Silver and copper phosporus brazing foil strips and cuts. Our silver and copper phosphorus brazing foils have a high quality surface with thickness tolerances below the standard requirements.
The use of silver foil for joining tungsten carbides to steel is very common. Especially manganese and nickel containing alloys are very popular due to their positive wetting and strength properties, e.g. in the saw blade industry.
Many of our customers are using the advantages of our A 338 F, which is a nickel and manganese containing foil according to ISO 3677 standard. That foil has comparable properties in terms of melting range, strength and wetting combined with a lower silver content. It is a common alternative for the standard A 324 F.
Brazing Fluxes
Fontargen Brazing provides a huge variety of different flux types for brazing of copper and copper alloys, aluminum alloys, carbide to steel base materials, alloyed and unalloyed steel. The fluxes are available in different viscosities ( easy to spread liquid, oil and paste) or for automatic dispensing processes.
The F 300 H ULTRA BF (FH10/ F-SH1/ AWS FB3-A) is our universal white and non-toxic flux paste especially for silver brazing alloys with the following benefits:
- Boric acid free
- Borax free
- Activation at lower temperatures
- Homogeneous structure
- Better application properties
F 300 DS 12 (FH 12 equivalent to DIN EN 1045/ AWS FB3-M) is a brown flux paste, developed for the use in automated brazing machines for tungsten carbides with steel brazing. It is dispensable until the last drop.
Brazing Pastes
Fontargen Brazing Pastes. Discover our portfolio of copper and nickel based brazing pastes, aluminum and silver based brazing pastes and soldering pastes.
Take advantage of technical proven and customized products. Europe, Asian as well as North, Central and South America are the main markets for brazing. As a competent partner for brazing applications voestalpine Böhler Welding take care upon others for customers from the automotive industry. The following Industry trends flow into product selection and development:
- High-pressure direct fuel systems
- Emission-reducing components with a high efficiency and economical fuel consumption in car engines
- New EGR/AGR cooler systems for the reduction of emissions
- Torque converter for modern transmissions
- Soft solder and brazing pastes for battery and thermal-management components of electrical vehicles
Brazing Wires
Fontargen Brazing wires are characterized by an especially high process stability, enabling the user to braze manually or automatically. The pure and smooth wire surface leads to longer service intervals of the wire feeding system. Typical applications are MIG-brazing of zinc plated or uncoated steel sheets in the automotive industry, solenoids, air condition & container building.
Wire Benefits
- Narrow tolerance of the chemical analysis
- High quality wire surface
- Fully recyclable Eco drum
- Brazing with copper alloys:
- Optimal gap bridging
- Low joining temperatures
- No galvanizing of the joining seam required
- Low distortion of the base material due to low heat input
Finishing Chemicals
Böhler Welding offers a wide range of finishing chemicals like pickling gels, pastes, sprays, liquids and cleaning agents. We help you restore stainless steel. Stainless steel retains its beautiful finish thanks to a protective layer that forms on the surface. Our products help customers around the word in their daily work of creating a superior stainless steel surface. Pickling of stainless steel is the technically superior method to obtain the best corrosion resistance. Our pickling pastes and sprays are highly effective and can be used in thinner coats than many other pickling products.