Electron Beam Welding (EBW)
Electron Beam Technologies touch our lives in ways that few people realize. Electron Beam lithography is used to manufacture the semiconductor devices we use every day. Electron microscopes produce the high magnification images that have advanced science. Electron Beams are even being used to cure the ink printed on packaging materials and sterilize medical devices. Electron beams produced the pictures on tube type televisions.
High power electron beam systems for welding and drilling are used in the aerospace, automotive, defense, food processing, medical, nuclear, petrochemical, power generation, and a variety of other industries. Today's aircraft have components that were manufactured using Electron Beam Welding. Around the world, automobiles on the road have components that were manufactured using EB Welding. The fiberglass that insulates homes was produced on machines with precision electron beam drilled holes. PTR and its affiliate companies in the Global Beam Technologies Group manufacture these electron beam welding and drilling systems.
Electron Beam Welding (EBW) is chosen as the method of joining components for several important reasons. The most important being; higher beam energy density, welding with a deflection pattern, no significant beam reflectivity from any metal surface, and closed loop power control from low to high powers. While the process is similar to laser welding in several respects, these unique capabilities give EB Welding many advantages. As a result, Electron Beam Welding is one of the best controlled, most robust welding processes which produces the highest quality welds.
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