Montreal's Walter Surface Technologies has created the new Air Force/AF-Weld, a system to reduce the costs of welding operations while simultaneously minimizing the environmental impact. It provides a “hassle-free” welding experience with its anti-spatter formula that inhibits corrosion, allows for immediate painting, and helps prevent weld porosity.

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Thanks to the addition of special and natural ingredients, the new AF-Weld anti-spatter emulsion retracts in the presence of heat leaving the immediate welding area clean and void of liquid. This prevents anti-spatter liquid from chemically interacting with the metal during fusion and thus minimizes impurities and porosity in the weld. This aids welders in making “clean” welds and increases both the quality and productivity of their work.

AF-Weld is composed of an automatic refilling station, a reusable aluminum bottle and a 10-litre bag-in-box of AF-Weld anti-spatter product. This Air Force system immediately reduces environmental impact by using compressed air as a propellant and by eliminating the need to dispose of empty aerosol cans of anti-spatter.

With this new system, since no useful liquid is discarded, the empty bottle is simply refilled over and over. Empirical tests demonstrate that a 10 liter (2.64 gals) bag-in-box of AF-Weld can replace as many as 36 aerosol cans of anti-spatter, so the system also significantly reduces costs of storage, handling, and disposal. Also, imagine that hundreds of thousands of out-moded aerosol cans will no longer find permanent resting places in landfills or other parts of our environment.
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