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Industry News FLSmidth to acquire German TEUTRINE GmbH Industrie Technik reuters.com The company predominantly carries out maintenance and repair services at site where they offer mobile solutions within repair (welding), refurbishment (machining, grinding, hard facing and overhauling), replacement...

Wartsila opens new Propeller Repair Facility in Colombo sundaytimes.lk The new repair facility enables Wartsila Sri Lanka to offer a wide range of services with rapid response times.

General Dynamics to buy ship repair company businessweek.com The acquisition will become part of the shipbuilding, maintenance and repair operations of San Diego-based General Dynamics NASSCO.

Peak Hydro Services and Voith Hydro's After Market Business Division Combine to Create Voith Hydro Services marketwatch.com Voith Hydro Services will be a one-stop shop and full-service provider for turbine and generator parts and repair... field machining, and site maintenance.


Repair Technology: Laser welding process devised for large-area protective layers industrial-lasers.com ... this new process could be used in a number of other applications: protective layers on shafts, rollers, and clamping devices; repairs on transport systems; or adding protective layers onto stressed areas of oil drilling shafts.

Shermco To Roll Out Caterpillar's Advanced Coating Product nawindpower.com ... the laser process, which creates a full metallurgical bond with the shaft substrate, can be used to repair damage to the coupling area in shrink disk designs, where previously the shaft would be scrapped...

Rolls-Royce granted patent for laser-brazing BLISKs industrial-lasers.com Brazing powder is jetted into the laser beam and shields the blade, so that only the brazing metal is heated and melted.

Aerospace Brazing Today, Tomorrow onlineamd.com Inside turbines, the use of pre-sintered preforms (PSPs) are to repair vanes that are breaking down due to excessive heat and wear.

The Value of 3-D CAD in Ship Repair marinelink.com ...A recent ship repair project where a ship had crashed into a pier and experienced bow damage above and below the waterline illustrates the value of 3-D CAD in repair operations.



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Featured Articles

Shaft Straightening Tips
Bent shafting can sometimes be salvaged by the proper use of straightening techniques.

Thread Repair Tips
This in-depth, illustrated article provides detailed thread repair procedures including welding, epoxy repair, thread inserts. Decision flowchart to help determine the best technique.

Cavitation Causes and Effects
This is an overview of cavitation failures in industrial machinery. It includes links to related repair news articles, video, and animation illustrating the cavitation process.