We’re a small welding and fabrication shop that works in various industries. We mostly use gas metal arc welding (GMAW) and flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) to weld carbon steel. We recently started a ...

U.S. Steel’s notoriously outdated Edgar Thomson Works handles the molten substance left behind by smelting iron ore the same way it did 150 years ago: by dumping it into slag pits. They’re as low-tech ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Welding leaves behind more than just a strong joint — it also leaves a lot of mess. To clean it up, many welders reach for a chipping hammer ...

ESAB has launched OK Autrod 42 LSW, a copper-coated ER70S-9 solid wire with a chemistry engineered to create minimal slag and silica islands on the weld bead. The wire is available in diameters of ...

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Samples from slag cliffs in England reveal industrial waste products can turn into rock in less than four decades, challenging assumptions about how rocks form. When you purchase through links on our ...

When they replaced 20-40% of the slag with dehydrated sludge in a cement mixture, they found that the resultant material had over a 50% higher compressive strength than cements using only GGBS as an ...

Spurred on by the colossal shortage of welders in manufacturing and other sectors, robotic welding has gained enormous ground since it was introduced in 2017. Now, with AI growing in power, both the ...

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