voestalpine Böhler Welding names Solvator Award winners
Günter Neureiter, CEO of voestalpine Böhler Welding, addresses attendees at the Solvator Awards ceremony.
Filler metal provider voestalpine Böhler Welding held an event Sept. 26 at Schweißen & Schneiden 2017 for 350 invited customers to present the first Solvator Awards. The company gave out nine awards in four categories, recognizing projects by fabricators who collaborated with the company’s application services.
The Golden Solvator Award for best technical solution was granted to the French military shipyard Naval Group for the joint development and qualification of a flux-cored wire for the welding of submarines in high-strength steel. Voestalpine Böhler Welding application services advised on the type of cored wire to use and further improved it after testing by the yard’s R&D department.
The Golden Solvator Award for most efficient solution was earned by Felguera Calderia Pesada in Spain for the high-deposition electro slag strip cladding of Alloy 825 in two thin layers onto heavy-wall-thickness reactor steel. For this application, voestalpine tested an overalloyed 825 grade strip with a newly developed high-speed flux and offered support in the qualification and implementation of welding procedures.
The Golden Solvator Award for most environmentally friendly solution was given to the Moroccan constructor Prominox for its contribution to the Moroccan Noor solar power project: three unalloyed steel tanks and one tank in AISI 347H stainless steel. Voestalpine supported the company in the selection of the welding consumables, the establishment of welding procedure qualifications, and the on-site training of the welders.
The Golden Solvator Award for the best value package was granted to General Electric India for the fabrication of locomotive truck frames (bogies), involving the joining of IS 2062 grade cast to forged steel. The metal-cored wire suggested by voestalpine passed all destructive and nondestructive test requirements.
For more information on the awards, visit www.voestalpine.com/welding/.
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