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Ultrasonic welding offers your company a fast, reliable way to join many materials. This process has many advantages over other bonding methods, and is extremely safe. At Xfurth we have decades of experience with state of the art welding technologies. We want to share some of the advantages that ultrasonic welding can give you, so you can decide if it is the right plastics welding technology for your company to invest in. Let’s have a look at some of the ways that ultrasonic welding can offer you manufacturing advantages, and the applications where it performs well. 

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Ultrasonic welding is a great form of bonding technology that can streamline your manufacturing process. At Xfurth we have decades of experience manufacturing high tech welding equipment, and we want to share some of the advantages and disadvantages of ultrasonic welding with you. For many companies it represents a great way to join various different plastics, with some advantages that are hard to replicate. 

Rather than using a bench mounted or special purpose ultrasonic welding machine, ultrasonic hand welding can offer great flexibility, portability and a low cost solution to your joining requirement, with only a basic level of skill required for repeatable results.

Let’s discuss hand welding in further detail and examine the main benefits of this method.

Ultrasonic plastic welding is a straightforward process that can take on many unique forms. Regardless of the specific application, the fundamentals of ultrasonic welding are the same. By using ultra high frequency sound waves, plastic is heated locally via friction, and deformed to meet specifications.

This process is extremely precise, and can be applied to many kinds of plastic. The materials are bonded without adhesives or the application of heat. While there is a very small amount of heat generated by the process, the equipment relies on sound waves, not direct heating, to create the weld.