Successful OPEN HOUSE at Böhler Schweisstechnik Deutschland GmbH in Hamm
The first international “OPEN HOUSE” event took place on our premises in Hamm from June 27th to July 1st, 2011.
During the entire "Open House" event, we were able to welcome more than 1700 guests on our premises, both national and international. As our business partner, customer or colleague, you played a significant part in this success by participating in the activities.
With the realization of the first “OPEN HOUSE” event in 2011, we were able to fill the time gap between the participation at the leading trade fair “Welding & Cutting” that takes place every four years.
The worldwide distribution of welding products and services presents particular challenges to our company. Thus, the “Böhler Schweißtechnik Deutschland GmbH” constantly has to adapt to the changes of the markets. We hope that, by presenting the specialized brands of the Böhler Welding Group at the event, namely Böhler, T-PUT, UTP, Fontargen, Soudokay and Avesta, we were able to convince you, our most important partners, of our technological lead.
Our worldwide success is very closely linked with our business partners, customers and colleagues. With the recent "OPEN HOUSE" event, we wanted to say “THANK YOU” to you and your companies for your loyalty and good collaboration over the past years. 
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Two honorary certificates for Böhler Schweißtechnik
During a celebration at the 17th world fair “SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN” in Essen, Germany, Jan Hilkes, CEO of Böhler Schweisstechnik Deutschland GmbH, was pleased to accept not one but two certificates.
The company was honoured for 50 years of exhibitions at this fair and in addition the Brand of UTP was honoured for 25 years of exhibitions.
This year’s event made clear once again the benefits and relevance in maintaining a high profile image relating to the marketing instrument this trade fair can offer to the world’s biggest suppliers of welding consumables with a focus on demanding industry segments. The company presented itself with a stand which was not only the biggest – 1530 sqm with a height of 12 m – but certainly also the most inventive. It was designed to profile an offshore platform with 28 stacked containers serving our individual brands on three levels. In addition just to ensure our presence was not overlooked a real helicopter as an eye catcher was positioned on its own helipad complete with our company livery. How could anyone overlook Böhler Welding Group!
This expenditure paid off. On each day of the fair, the many specialists of the Böhler Welding Group had innumerable technical and sales conversations with visitors from all over the world of welding.
CEO Jan Hilkes is pleased to receive the two honorary certificates.
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Addition to capacity in middle alloyed welding wires.
Middle alloyed wires for GMAW and for SAW welding contribute essentially to the volume of business of the Böhler Schweisstechnik Deutschland GmbH.
These welding filler metals are used for fabricating high tensile steels for use in high strength applications such as crane construction, additionally they are ideal for use in thermal applications involving high temperature such as the Power Generation Industry sector.
The steadily growing demand for these products made it increasingly necessary to seriously increase our manufacturing capacity. After initial planning in 2007, the new facility was put into operation in August of 2009. Despite the world financial and market crisis, this project was considered too important to postpone and with a capital expenditure of more than 5 Mio EUR, it was crucial that any demand in middle alloyed welding wires would meet the usual Böhler Welding Group high quality standards.
The principal benefit of this extension to the production plant are two new wire drawing lines equipped with state of the art mechanical surface treatment detectors, in addition this new equipment can undertake inline copper coating and in addition offers fully automated hydrogen batch annealing.
A new factory building was erected for this production facility complete with two annealing bell furnaces of more than 5 m diameter and with an overall height of 5.60 m when in operation. The height of the production building is almost 20 metres in order to house a 20 t overhead crane with an impressive 11 m hook clearance. This investment significantly reduces the routes between the production steps of pre-drawing, annealing, and final drawing.
In addition the new equipment affords the advantage that the heating hood and the cooling hood can quickly interchange their places according to the respective heat cycle.
With this investment in both capital and plant the result is the best possible conditions for optimum manufacturing resulting in the strengthening of Böhler Welding’s leading position in this important global market segment.
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T-PUT – Your specialist for welding solutions in power station construction!
The worldwide growing demand for energy is shifting the focus continuously on new developed base materials and the corresponding welding metals for fossil-fuel power station technologies.
This issue was the subject of a German conference organized jointly by Böhler Schweisstechnik Deutschland GmbH and Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes (V&M) in June 2007.
In January 2008, Böhler once again demonstrated its global expertise and service capability for the power generation sector by presenting its premium T-PUT brand.
The aim of the customer conference was to introduce the materials for new-generation power stations and present information and the best advice how to process them.
Same conference was repeated in German language in July 2008. This time a group of 20 Czech technicians were invited, because in Czechia there is planned an extensive rebuilding and construction program until 2015, which T-PUT will support with their technical Know-how.
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Power Conference for European manufactures of components for fossil fired power stations
24th January 2008 in Balve-Eisborn, Germany
The following subjects have been treated:
- Requirements on pipe- und tube-steels and the fabrication of components for new generation of high efficient power stations
- Limits and state of the art of the new creep resistant steels for new power plants
- Welding of the new bainitic steels T/P23 und T/P24
- Welding of the new martensitic steels T/P92 und VM12-SHC
- Hot cracking phenomena in submerged arc welds of the martensitic steel P92
- Welding of dissimilar joints of new steel grades
- Application and experience of new steel grades
- Welding of austenitic creep resistant steels
Power Conference for European manufactures of components for fossil fired power stations
3th – 4th July 2008 in Hamm, Germany
The following subjects have been treated:
- T-PUT at a Glance
- Welding of the bainitic steels T/P23 and T/P24
- Welding of the martensitic steels T/P 91 and T/P92
- Welding of the new martensitic steel VM12-SHC
- Welding of dissimilar joints of new power generation plant steels
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ThyssenKrupp's new Furnace 8 – an Example of brilliant Welding Engineering
Following only two years of construction, ThyssenKrupp's gigantic furnace no. 8 in Duisburg-Hamborn was put into operation, after it was finished in December 2007: It will produce two million tons of raw iron per year to satisfy the worldwide increased demand for steel.
Altogether, some 10,000 tons of steel were used for the construction of this modern blast furnace. At peak times more than 1,000 trained builders of all trades were working on the project, with 300 of them being welders. As the main supplier of welding fillers, the Böhler Welding Group met all of the high quality demands with their T-PUT product range, technical welding know-how, and intensive on-site support.
ThyssenKrupp's new blast furnace 8, shortly before completion. 10,000 tons of steel were used in its construction. Pipe systems as far as one can see - a real challenge for welding engineers. | Photo: ThyssenKrupp
Due to the unusually high variety of single building parts of the blast furnace construction, a corresponding variety of welding tasks had to be met. Their only similarity: Everything was welded manually. Different temperatures, different requirements on stretching and on corrosion resistance, aggressiveness of media, and different materials like high-temperature steels, fine grain steels, and stainless steels had to be taken into account.
The heart of the construction, the stove tank with a height of 40.5 m and a diameter 16 m, where operating temperatures may reach up to 2,000° degrees Celsius, was welded using the metal powder welding rod Union MV Mo. Laypeople will find the mind-boggling maze of pipes especially impressive: They are used for all kinds of different media like, e.g. natural gas, oxygen, nitrogen, blast furnace gas, carbon monoxide, steam, cooling water, waste water, etc..
Among other fillers, Phoenix K 50 R and Phoenix Black 3K were used as welding fillers for the pipe construction, while Phoenix CEL 70 was used as filler for process gas pipes with diameters of up to 3,200 mm. The numerous stainless steel parts, where corrosion protection and thermal stability are the major concern, were welded using fillers from Thermanit A to Nickel based materials.
All these various welding tasks in the construction of the blast furnace 8 pursued one single aim: The on-schedule construction of an exemplary modern, safe, economic, and environment-friendly plant.
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