Winter Issue 2016［VOL.20 No.72］
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What Does 2016 Hold for
the Japan’s Welding Industry?

WELDING CONSUMABLES

The Domestic Welding Consumables Gross Demand Quantity Of Welding Consumables In 2016 Is Forecast To Be 292,650 Tons Up By 1% In The Previous Year Cross-product Ratio.

By Swiftly Responding To The Userﾕs Needs And By Exerting The Technical Sales Force Toward The Problem Solutions, Our Industry Is Intended To Further Solidify The Reliable Relationships With The Customers!

　The last yearﾕs welding industry is seen to have undergone a transition in a different condition depending on the lines of business when looking at with the demand volume of the welding consumables by industry such that steel fra-mes/bridges marked by approximately 5% up from the previous year, by approximately 3% up in shipbuilding, by approximately a little under 3% down in automo-tive/vehicles, by approximately 12% down in industrial machines including construction machines, and by approximately 23.5% down in pipes/steel pipes.
Looking at the welding consumables, the flux cored wires increased the demand volume by approximately a little over 4% compared with the previous year keeping steady sales for shipbuilding and steel frames/bridges, but the other industries resulted in falling under the previous year in all sectors. cities.

(Announced by the sponsor).

・ARC WELDING ROBOT
　The Shipment Of The Arc Welding Robots In 2016 Is Forecast To Be 21,200 Units (Up by 5.1% In The Previous Year Cross-product Ratio) Amounting To 54.7 Billion Yen
(By 3% Up)!

・Kobe Steel, Ltd.
Welding Business Unit
　KOBELCO, as most reliable welding solution provider, keep on developing Welding products and service to solve the problems which customers are facing all over the world, together with partners region by region.

・Also Inputs Our Energy Into The Overseas Business Together With DENGENSHA MFG.CO.,LTD,
The Parent Company!
　NAS TOA
WELDING TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

・The Thermal Conductivity Ratio Measuring Device
Responded to A New Joint Material In Addition to Soldering Goes Into Full Swing!
　Rhesca Coporation

・The U.S. Largest Welding Related Exhibition
“FABTECH 2015”Was Held!
Proposals For A Total “Automation” Solutions Including Pre-Post Process Increased!

【Interviews at FABTECH 2015】
・LINCOLN ELECTRIC
　CHRISTOPHER L. MAPES Chairman & CEO
・ESAB AB,Ken Konopa
　Vice President Marketing & Engineering
・TRUMPF Inc.
　BURKE DOAR Senior Vice President
　Reinhold GroB Geschaftsfuhrer 　Vertrieb&Services (right)
・MESSER Cutting Systems
　Scott C. Kessler Vice President 　Sales,NAFTA
・HYPERTHERM
　Anial Sepuveda Marketing Manager
　(North America)
・IPG PHOTONICS
　Trevor Ness Senior Vice President 　Global Sales and Marketing (left)　
　Mr. Atsushi Kikuchi, General Manager of 　Japanese subsidiary (right)
・ROFIN-SINAR INC
　 Molnar President
・Fronius USA
　Wolfgang Niedrist Managing
　Director / CEO
・ABB Inc.
　Erwin DiMalanta Sr. Manager
　 ( Welding and Cutting )