Tuttle Inc., has added orbital tube welding capabilities to its already power packed line up of professional design, fabrication, installation, and project management services. Tuttle has a self-contained Gas Tungsten Arc Orbital Welding System. With the orbital welder the applications are endless, but this system is especially designed for sanitary welds and product piping ideal for the pharmaceutical and food process industries that require sanitary welds. The orbital welding system assures conformance of pharmaceutical piping system installations to Good Manufacturing Practices.

Orbital welding technology has played a vital role in improving piping system quality because of the smoothness of the inner weld bead and the repeatability of the process. These properties of orbital welds are critical for assuring clean and sterile pipe systems essential in the pharmaceutical and food industries.

The orbital welder is very small in size which makes it especially useful in field applications where portability is a must. This system allows for totally automatic fusion welding of tube, pipe, and fittings. Multi-level pulsed current, torch rotation speed and timing controls allow the establishment of optimum welding schedules on a large variety of materials, sizes and wall thicknesses from 16 guage up to schedule 40 pipe.