Special Purpose Machinery

Special purpose machinery is the equipment that works around the welding power source and does the moving: turning the job, carrying the torch along a seam or holding the welding head in position. In manual welding the welder has to keep travel speed and torch angle steady by hand. Mechanising those movements gives repeatable welds, less rework and less operator fatigue on long or repetitive joints, from tanks and pressure vessels to high-volume parts such as scaffolding components.

Paragweld's range includes the welding rotator, with payload capacities from 2 MT to 60 MT, and the column and boom manipulator, with strokes from 1 m to 4 m for circumferential and longitudinal seams. There are three carriages: the track-based Universal Carriage for welding and plasma cutting, the Flexible Welding Carriage for MIG/MAG seams on curved or irregular surfaces, and the compact Magnetic Welding Carriage. For scaffolding makers there are dedicated machines for blade and cap lock welding and for ledger systems.