ClassNK Approves New Super-Efficient Fillet Welding Consumable
Noboru Ueda, Chairman and President of ClassNK announced that it has granted type approval for the new MX-200F welding consumable, developed by Kobe Steel Co., Ltd. (KOBELCO) to greatly improve welding efficiency and coating quality in commercial vessels. Up until now, shipbuilders using conventional fillet welding consumables had to make two welding passes for the required weld leg lengths of around 8mm or above. As the IACS Common Structural Rules (CSR) require the use of 8mm leg lengths in some structural members, this has meant that the relevant welding time for oil tanker
RS at SEA JAPAN 2014
, hi-tech energy saving devices and technologies such as air lubrication systems for ship hulls, solar batteries for ships and ecologically clean coatings. RS experts held meetings with a broad range of representatives from the major Japanese marine equipment and service suppliers, YANMAR, DAIHATSU, KOBE STEEL, NIIGATA POWER SYSTEMS to name a few, as well as a number of ship repair yards. During the exhibition, the RS stand was visited by Naoto Nakagawa, a representative of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan. According to him, the high quality of products and services
February 2025
