GLOBAL LEADER IN WELDING AND CUTTING
ESAB is one of the world’s largest and most experienced manufacturers of welding and cutting equipment and welding filler metals, with a history dating back to 1904. Recognized as the technological leader in the industry, ESAB is committed to providing cost effective solutions for its customers.
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ollowing his invention of the covered welding electrode back in 1904, Oscar Kjellberg founded ESAB in Sweden. Since then, the company has constantly improved on existing methods and materials. At the same time, ESAB has developed new methods to meet the challenge presented by technological progress. More than 100 years of continuous research, development and manufacture have made ESAB a world leader in welding, cutting and also an international supplier of products, know-how and services that none can match. Today the company produces consumables and equipment for virtually every welding and cutting process and application in countries across the world.
ESAB serves a global market. The group is organised in the regions Europe, North America, South America, Asia/Pacific and India. It is represented in almost every country by subsidiaries or agents. Sales and support is established in 80 countries and there are 26 manufacturing plants across four continents. The ESAB brand is synonymous with world leading expertise in the following key areas: manual welding and cutting equipment, welding consumables, welding automation and mechanized cutting systems. For each discipline, continuous development of methods, materials and know-how is being directed to meet the challenges posed by a diversity of industry sectors. ESAB serves global customers in industries such as auto-
motive, general fabrication & civil construction, pipelines, pipe mills, power generation, process industry, repair & maintenance, shipbuilding & offshore, transport & mobile machinery.
Global expansion Throughout the last decade ESAB has continued to expand its global operations. In 2005 it acquired the majority of the shares in the South American joint venture Conarco and opened a new cutting factory in China. In the following year it opened a consumables factory in Zhangjiagang, China, and, as the first global company in the steel and welding industries, it implemented and achieved global ISO 14001 certification of a global Environmental Management System.
