As the world moves towards protecting the environment, the welding industry can not leave behind. However, welding is an energy-intensive process and not so friendly to the environment.  The industrial world needs welding. As the popularity of metal structures and constructions rises, more skilled welders are required. Currently, the metal welding sector accounts also for of part of global carbon emissions. According to experts, this number is expected to increase dramatically by 2030, which leaves a clear incentive for the industry to deliver significant reductions in emissions in the years to come. 

A market that employs over 20.000.000 professionals, with a turnover of over 40 trillion euros, that wants to evolve, innovate and embrace a greener processing policy needs good and efficient solutions.

The welding industry needs to reduce its carbon footprint drastically by reducing the energy they use by making the welding process more efficient and eliminating the use of older energy hungry welding systems. !  Small and big things can help to do this  and there are several eco-friendly practices that welders can engage in to reduce their carbon footprint. 

To do that, welders need to look at the entire welding process to understand which part of the process affects the environment more. From there, the welder can reduce their carbon  footprint by tweaking the:

• Welding speed
• Replace high energy consuming older welding systems with the latest "GREEN" welding systems
• The raw materials
• Reduce the heat input and reduce the HAZ (heat affected zone)
• Processing time
• Reduce the post-processing time
• System costs
• Filler metals, and
• Seam quality
• But mostly look for Energy saving technology in welding like laser welding in general. Our supplementary Ecolener Photon saving technology gives you even a bigger advance in saving energy.

To save the environment, welders around the world need to educate on the above eco-friendly techniques and to replace their energy hungry systems by modern energy saving welding systems like our PhotonWeld Series.

Older systems release huge quantities of gases and fumes that are harmful to the environment. Our PhotonWeld reduces the fume and smoke solution with more than 75%.