Precision Welding & Joining
Quality. Skill. Reliability.
Imperial Machine & Tool Co. has built its reputation by providing comprehensive Advanced Manufacturing solutions. A highly skilled welding & joining department is a core part of this service offering. Thanks to our balance of skilled personnel, state-of-the-art equipment, and decades of experience, Imperial is well suited to handle the most challenging welding, brazing and joining applications.
Precision Welding
Imperial specializes in challenging welding applications, and has so for decades. We commonly take on projects involving difficult-to-weld alloys, complex geometries, or weldments requiring high levels of precision.
Welding Technology offered includes:
TIG Welding
MIG Welding
SMAW Welding
Spot Welding
EB Welding
Vacuum Purge Chamber Welding
Our welding department has particular skill in precision TIG welding. We regularly process all weldable grades of Aluminum, various Stainless and Carbon Steels, Nickel Alloys, and Titanium. We’re well versed in welding MIL-Spec Armor Plate.
Titanium TIG Weld, carried out in our Vacuum Purge Chamber
Precision TIG welding
Spot Welding
Beyond “traditional” applications, Imperial has years of experience welding Metal 3D Printed components together. This enables our customers to create precision structures larger than the build envelope of current Additive Manufacturing machines.
Exotic Alloys
Imperial has particular skill welding Refractory and Near-Refractory Alloys. These alloys must be processed in an inert environment.
We employ a Vacuum Purge Chamber to maintain the compositional integrity of these alloys during welding.
Exotic alloys we process include:
Titanium
Tantalum
Molybdenum
More
Vacuum Purge Chamber
Our Titanium machining and welding expertise grew from our military experience. We started welding Titanium for the military in the late 1940s. We expanded into many other initiatives from there, including fabrication of Titanium components for the M777 Howitzer Program.
Certification, Inspection, and Testing
Imperial is highly experienced welding to Military and Commercial weld specifications.
We weld to a wide variety of specifications including multiple AWS and ASME designations.
Our welders are tested & certified to the following AWS standards:
AWS D1.1
AWS D1.2
AWS D1.9
AWS D17.1
These standards certify Imperial to weld the following alloys:
Titanium
Aluminum
(Including 5083-H131 Armor Plate)Stainless Steel
Steel
(Including MIL-DTL-46100E Armor Plate)
Aluminum 5083-H131 - Armor Plate Weldment
Our Weld department regularly welds to vacuum and pressure standards for multiple Tech, Military and Energy related applications.
Many if not most of our welds must undergo further testing prior to further integration or shipment. It is very common for Imperial to provide full radiograph, dye penetrant, and/or any destructive or non-destructive testing required by customer specification.
Imperial is well versed in managing all aspects of inspection & testing to ensure customers’ requirements are met.
Brazed Component - Metal 3D Printed, Precision CNC Machined, and then Brazed
Precision Joining & Bonding
In addition to our capabilities in welding, we also offer other joining technologies such as vacuum furnace brazing, high temperature soldering, and precision epoxy/bonding.
We have a broad familiarization with joining the following:
Stainless Steels
Nickel Alloys
Copper Alloys
Mild Steel Alloys
Refractory Alloys
Ceramic to Metal
Our Joining department also has extensive capabilities in precision bonding of structures and assemblies. We have many years of experience meeting customer mandated bonding specifications. This includes the precision bonding of custom laminated structures, engineered plastics, as well as metals.
To learn more about Imperial’s Precision Welding capabilities, contact us:
