From ship-building to household repairs, from individual craftsmen to multinational companies, welding is essential in many industrial sectors.

Air Liquide is a pioneer in this field, since its subsidiary SAF designed and built the first blowpipe welding process. Since then, its three subsidiaries, FRO, Oerlikon and SAF, have united under the common Air Liquide Welding brand name, and continuously improve their technology so that Air Liquide can offer its customers the best possible products.

Serving a Wide Variety of Markets

The main markets for our products are:

• Tradespeople
• Welded metal fabrication
• Pipe and tube manufacture
• Metal construction
• Automobile, railroad and earth-moving equipment
• Construction
• Ship building
• Offshore platform construction
• In-plant maintenance shops

Process Expertise

All welding processes are continuously improved by the CTAS, Air Liquide's welding applications research centre, which is over 25 years old.

Air Liquide has developed its welding business by mastering the welding and cutting processes most commonly used in industry. These include:

• Coated electrode arc welding
• AC and DC TIG welding
• MIG and MAG
• Plasma welding
• Submerged arc welding
• Plasma cutting for manual or automatic applications
• Oxy-acetylene cutting and welding
• Laser
• Electron beam welding

The Market's Largest Line of Welding Products and Services

Air Liquide in Australia offers via SAF the most comprehensive range of welding services and products on the market.

• Filler metals for welding unalloyed, low-alloy, stainless and compound steels, cast irons, aluminium alloys, etc:
• Coated electrodes
• Solid wire
• Flux-cored wire
• Wire/flux combinations for submerged arc welding
• Filler metal rods for TIG welding or for oxy-acetylene welding (brazing, braze welding and welding)
• Equipment for manual welding applications (welding set):
• Transformers, rectifiers and inverters for coated electrode welding
• AC and DC TIG welding systems
• MIG/MAG welding sets
• Compressed air arc plasma cutting sets
• Automatic welding and cutting systems for:
• Plasma and oxy-acetylene cutting
• TIG, plasma or tricathode welding
• Submerged arc welding
• Rotators, positioners and manipulators
• Welder tools and protective gear:
• Torches for MIG/MAG welding and for TIG
• Blowpipes, pressure-regulators and related equipment for flame welding and cutting
• Protective gear (face shields, helmets, curtain, leather clothing, air suction and treatment systems for welding and cutting)
• Services:
• Maintenance
• Training
• Documentation
• Welding metallurgy
• Feasibility studies
• Prototypes