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Plastic welding is the process of making a molecular bond between two thermoplastics that are compatible, which when cooled return to a solid form.

One straight forward process for doing this is ultrasonic plastic welding. Whatever the specifics of a particular application, ultrasonic welding's fundamentals always remain the same, employing sound waves that are ultra-high in frequency, plastic can be heated with the ensuing friction, creating a strong bond.

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. 

At X Furth, we like to share the work that we have done for our customers. This latest piece was for a set of LH & RH ultrasonic welding sonotrodes and nests for one of our customers in Mexico.

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.