The users of orbital welding equipment know the range of closed welding heads from Polysoude type MW for high productivity applications without
filler wire, combining a compact and ergonomic design with high duty cycle. In order to respond to market needs of the food and pharmaceutical
industry, chemical production lines and many other applications where ultra-compact welding heads are required, Polysoude has developed the MW 34 with reduced size and new technological improvements. The MW 34 comes in two versions. Version 2T is the best known and most widely used. It has two sets of inserts. Each set is mounted in the clamps, assuring that the two parts to be assembled are held on both sides of the weld joint. The 1T version allows clamping with a single set of inserts, but the gas shielding around the weld joint is provided by protection flanges. This version is useful for places where restricted space may hinder welding operations. Its range of use from 6 mm to 34 mm makes the tool excellently suited not only to the pharmaceutical, food and traditional chemical industries, but also to aeronautics, biochemistry and micro-electronics. These welding heads have been specifically designed in order to meet the requirements of the high purity markets. The MW 34 bridges the gap between the UHP series, mainly designed for welding of micro-fittings, and the MW series, which is mainly for the agro-food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, among others. The MW 34 offers the size advantage of a UHP 1500 head and the productivity of an MW welding head. It also features the same titanium clamp inserts as the UHP 1500, which have a lifetime guarantee. These clamp inserts adapt to tube dimension tolerance variations while ensuring non contamination. The standards and regulations governing the food and beverage sector are subjecting manufacturers to ever more exacting quality
demands. For this reason, Polysoude has devoted several years to developing orbital welding solutions using the TIG process. Moreover, this process allows us to fully comply with EHEDG recommendations and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standards, and follow their advice. This process is stable and reliable, with or without a filler wire, and can be used on all types of material. It works with a wide variety of welding heads and Polysoude welding power sources, and covers all pipe sectors. It ensures the quality, consistency, and repeatability that manufacturers demand.
For welding applications in a clean room, Polysoude can complete the installation with its P4-3 power source and its optional remote touchscreen. The operator can therefore select the welding mode, then program and monitor the welds without leaving the room. This considerably limits the
risk of contamination. These products are just a small part of Polysoude’s standard orbital equipment. The complete range will be presented at Brau
Beviale 2018 trade show in Nuremberg.

Cadenas, a leading software developer in the areas of strategic parts management and electronic product catalogs, and C3D Labs, the fast-growing provider of 3D software development toolkits, today announced their partnership in technology integration. The Cadenas download portals
PARTcommunity and BIMcatalogs. net provide engineers, architects and planers millions of 3D CAD & 3D BIM CAD models of Electronic Product Catalogs from component manufacturers. Thanks to the partnership of CADENAS and C3D Labs the download portals supports CAD models in the
C3D kernel format developed by C3D Labs, by integrating the C3D Converter data exchange module into CADENAS’ web servers. Designers who use C3D-based CAD software can now access models in native format from PARTcommunity and BIMcatalogs.net, and then integrate them in their projects without data loss. Cadenas hosts certified product catalogs from over 700 renowned manufacturers. CADENAS’ download portals let designers download models and specifications in a variety of exchange and native CAD formats, including now C3D. CAD models in the C3D format
are now available for downloading from the CADENAS sites:
• Renga available on www.BIMcatalogs.net for the architecture and building industries.
• KOMPAS-3D available on www.partcommunity.com for mechanical and electrical design.
“We are very happy that we can provide the C3D kernel format because many engineers and architects requested it because it is included in CAD software like KOMPAS-3D, says Jürgen Heimbach, CEO of CADENAS GmbH.
“Thanks to our collaboration with CADENAS, Renga and KOMPAS-3D users can now download 3D models in the C3D format,” says Oleg Zykov, CEO of C3D Labs. “This move will encourage other developers who use our C3D Toolkit to implement the C3D file format in their products. Not only can designers now get models in C3D format from CADENAS, but they will be able to exchange data accurately with each other.”

BOGE inspires Europe. This was established by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) based in Great Britain. They included us on their list of “1000 Companies to Inspire Europe 2018”. BOGE is therefore one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing companies in Europe – demonstrating the varied and promising potential of the future EU economy, according to the LSEG. With revolutionary ideas and unique concepts for compressed air systems, BOGE is continuously furthering innovation. The LSEG published its report “1000 Companies to Inspire Europe 2018” on 25 September in Brussels, together with the vice president of the European Commission Jyrki Katainen. Inclusion on the list shows once again that BOGE is on the right course for the future with an innovation-driven company culture. BOGE has already received numerous prizes, including the renowned“Diamond Star” prize from the Handelsblatt magazine in 2017, for its groundbreaking high-speed turbo compressor and the unusual continuous improvement programme service concept. In its report, the GB-based stock market and financial information company LSEG identified small and medium companies (SMEs) with an exceptional annual growth rate. They therefore contribute to the transformation of the European economy, create jobs, and give a young generation of Europeans a future in times of high youth unemployment. For its report, the LSEG looks at European SMEs using central financial
performance figures. They compare all companies under consideration in a country with one another, based on their average annual growth rate. Any company that particularly stands out is included on the list – such as BOGE, the inspiring compressed air specialist based in Bielefeld