Welding technologies and tools presented in St. Petersburg

More than 150 companies from Belgium, Hungary, Germany, India, China, USA, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, and 56 regions of Russia have demonstrated innovative design, equipment and materials for all types of welding, cutting, surfacing on the 17-th International exhibition "Svarka/Welding", which was held from 17 to 20 may in the Congress - exhibition centre "Expoforum".

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Deputy Director of the Department of machine tools and investment machine building of the Ministry of industry and trade of the Government of Russia Oleg Tokarev noted that the welding industry in Russia is now actively developing, and the indicator of this – the interest shown to the exhibition and the relevant companies, and potential consumers of the equipment: “the Exhibition fully demonstrates innovative technologies, focused on an industry on a global level”.

This year on an area of over 9 thousand square meters presented their products such leaders in the manufacture of welding equipment and materials, as “uraltermosvar”, the Ryazan State instrument plant, "Lincoln electric”, “Kemppi”, ESAB, Kemppi, DWT GmbH. In the segment of tools for cleaning of welded seam the posetiley was presented abrasive tools Tigarbo, Klingspor, Debever, cleaning brush and Lessmann. Special attention was paid to Russian companies and import substitution.

So, specialists NTO "IRE-Polus" demonstrated at its booth the use of powerful industrial fiber lasers for welding, cutting, surfacing. In conjunction with the company “uraltermosvar” designed equipment for laser welding of large diameter pipes that do not have analogues in the world.

Russia's Largest producer – ZAO NPF “its” – introduced welding equipment, allowing to make large amounts of the same type of work. New modern digital welding equipment showed domestic company “SELMA”. Actively working on implementing the import substitution program in oil and gas sector and the TKS. “Our experts have developed high-tech equipment for non-destructive testing and automatic welding, which completely replaces foreign counterparts», – said the representative of TKS Roman Valitov.

The key event of the business program was the plenary session “Actual problems of increasing of welding efficiency", which was supported by the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation and the National Agency of welding control. Experts and authorities discussed the main problems and ways of increase of efficiency of welding production in the new economic realities. “the Share of export of equipment in some segments of the industry reaches 100%, many Russian companies and research institutions require financial and legislative support. At the initiative of the Ministry of industry and trade is implementing a number of programs for welding companies to launch new lines and re-equipment and development of welding production in accordance with the needs of Russian industry in the new materials and equipment" of − noted in his speech at the plenary session Oleg Tokarev.

About the current state of Affairs in the industry and plans up to 2020 for the transition to independent foreign suppliers manufacture said Nikolai Alyoshin, the President of SRO NP " National Agency of welding control”. According to him, up to 90% of the equipment purchased abroad – and if before the main suppliers were the United States and Europe, now the share of Asian importers. «Russia in the last time there was competitive counterparts, and many enterprises have significant potential – capacity, quality of development design Bureau, etc. For example, until recently the country did not exist equipment for rotary welding now underway testing the first samples that were taken by the center "welding and control" in collaboration with the Chelyabinsk plant for the ordering of plant "Saturn" − said the speaker.

During the International scientific-practical conference " Modern welding technology, equipment and materials for construction of the main pipeline”, organized with the assistance of JSC «Gazprom», chief welders and heads of the respective divisions of oil and gas companies presented projects for the effective implementation of innovations in welding production and new domestic solutions, confidently competing with the world's leading companies.

The exhibition also hosted the IV Youth Forum of welders, a Competition of diploma projects of graduates of St. Petersburg universities and the all-Russian final contest of professional skills of students in the specialty of secondary vocational education " welding fabrication”.

"Welding” – a leading forum of advanced welding technologies in Russia and the largest industry platform for constructive dialogue between government, business and academia on the development of the welding industry. This year's exhibition was held in the new Congress - exhibition center "Expoforum", it was attended by about 6 thousand specialists of the industry.