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

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 remarkably helpful condition effectively 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.

Air Force / AF-Weld is comprised of an automatic refilling station, a reusable aluminum bottle and a 10L 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.

Previously, use of the aerosol cans made it impossible to completely empty the sprayer containers, resulting in an estimated wastage of 10 per cent per aerosol can plus the cost of hauling away the mountains of spent empties, which is estimated to be 15 per cent of the purchase price. 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 L (2.64 gals) bag-in-box of AF-Weld can replac 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.

Air Force is a core member of J. Walter Ltd and its growing Bio-Circle Division, which focuses on environmental solutions. Privately held, with headquarters in Pointe-Claire, QC, Walter has served the metal fabricating and related industries throughout the Americas and Europe for over fifty years.

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