Aluminum Welding with Weldone™:

Weldone™ technology has been demonstrated to produce high speed, high quality and consistent welding in a variety of aluminum alloys. Plasma augmentation of either CO2 or YAG lasers with the PLT process is designed to meet the needs of manufacturers seeking high productivity and low cost solutions to volume production.

The Weldone™-AL integrates in a single torch a laser beam and a high power plasma arc, to achieve unprecedented performance.

Benefits compared to laser alone include:

- Significant quality improvements: zero spatters, no undercut, minimum porosity, no cracks, consistent penetration and weld interface width.

- Welding speed increases of 30-50%.

- Superior gap bridging capabilities – fourfold increase to laser alone.

- Wide welding parameters window – speed, focus position and stand off.

- Capability to join difficult alloys, such as:

- Al 6111, 6013, 6061 alloy with or without filler wire

- 537 T6 casting alloy with filler wire

- Dissimilar alloy welding:

- Al 5182, 5754 to 6111

- Al 6013 to 537 T6

The Weldone™-AL product line includes kit units for integration with most high power lasers allowing existing systems to be upgraded quickly, as well as the fabrication of superior new systems.

Ease of integration and operation is crucial to the market acceptance of a new technology. Accordingly, we have programmed the know-how of our expert process engineers into the Weldone™ controller. The Weldone™-AL system is totally transparent to the operator, who needs only to choose the required program from a list in order to set all parameters. The Weldone™ kits are truly “plug and play” systems, requiring as little as one working day for integration within an operating production line.

Weldone™ can have a significant impact on the economics of aluminum welding.