Award for the best Application Solutions 2021

12 January 2022 |

Solvator 2021 – the third edition of the welding solutions award by voestalpine Böhler Welding once again honors the most remarkable application solutions and those who develop outstanding solutions with and for our customers.

We offer our customers far more than simply outstanding welding consumables. With our one-on-one expert support, the outstanding expertise of our application engineers and the unique Full Welding Solutions for each industry, we stand by our well recognized high standards throughout the industry.

To honor those behind this successful outcome and to showcase the most appealing results, we introduced the Solvator Award in 2017.

Restricted by the current situation, the Solvator Award 2021 Ceremony was included in a Global Online Sales Conference of voestalpine Böhler Welding on December 15th 2021.

The awards were granted in the categories “Best Productivity Solution”, “Exceptional Technical Solution” and “Sustainability Solution”. In each category, winners were selected by a jury of internal and external experts from 2 technical universities, using a set of criteria to assess challenge, difficulty, innovation and customer benefits.

In the categories:

"Best Productivity Solution"

Bronze

Robert Halle, Produktionsoptimierung durch ESC Bandplattieren

Mazet GmbH Maschinenbau & Zerspannungstechnik from Germany

Silver

Sunil Varghese, Etihad Rail Project Package 2C

Phoenix PMT Co LLC and Galadari Engineering Works Limited Company LLC from Middle East

Gold

Gerhard Kosic, diamondspark seamless sub arc wires for high strength materials

Mississippi Tank from USA

"Exceptional Technical Solution"

Bronze

Stuart Thomas, Weld Repair of Cast Iron Steam Turbine Casings

RWE Generation from UK

Silver

Abhishek Vyas, Development and Implementation of WAAM to manufacture components of AlSi7Mg (T6) to substitute 356.0 T6 castings

L&T Defence from India

Gold

David Le Cointre, Implementation of diamondspark 52 MC for both manual and SAW welding (with flux UV 306) aboard cruise ships

Chantiers De l'Atlantique from France

"Sustainable Solution"

Gold	Torstein Haugo, Operation Deep Clean Cleaning of a Plattform Vessel with Zewo Chemicals and Operator Moldskred Renovasjon from Norway