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What industry requires today

What industry will need tomorrow

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Tesol Group. Robotics and automatedsystems for the welding industry

Tesol, operating in several countries as a distributorof the top worldwide welding material brands, hasdeveloped its own high-technology equipment to caterfor the needs of large industrial sectors: automotive,naval, wind farm, hydrocarbon, hydroelectric, etc.

Welding and cutting equipment

Welding consumables

Safety equipment

Spare parts

Training

Coated electrode weldingSemi-automatic MAG-MIG weldingTIG weldingFCAW weldingPlasma and micro-plasma weldingElectrofusion weldingSubmerged arc weldingAutomated weldingOscillators

SMAW welding equipmentTIG welding equipmentMIG/MAG welding equipmentPAW welding equipmentSAW welding equipmentArc Gouging equipmentPlasma cutting and gouging equipmentOxifuel welding and cutting equipmentResistance welding equipmentStud welding equipmentWelding automationTIG, MIG/MAG and Plasma welding torch

Coated electrodesTIG wireMIG/MAG welding wireFlux cored wireWire and Flux for submerged arc weldingARC gouging electrodesCeramic backing stripsTungsten electrodes

Centralized Fume extractionMobile fume extractionHigh vacuum fume extractionSafety garmentsWelding helmets

Tig torch sparesMIG/MAG torch sparesSAW sparesPlasma cuting torch spares

RoboticsTIG welding of Yorcalabro and Cunifer pipesCourse made up by colour lines, interpretationof plans (boilermaking and piping)Ceramic supportMIG welding for thin materials and aluminiumWelding defectsCapillary weldingResistant welding

Abrasives

Cutting and grinding discsFlaps discsUnified DiscsTough tungsten carbide bursAbrasive WheelsTechnical abrasives

What industry requires today

What industry will needtomorrow

Tesol Group is not a conventional industrialcompany. It is a company dedicated toimproving the technological future of thewelding industry globally. Our companyinvests most of its resources in creatingtechnology to respond to the technicalproblems of productive industries. But TesolGroup also dedicates part of its efforts toresearching questions, anticipating what

Research offers answers;Innovation asks questions aboutthe future

industry is going to need in the future. Forthis purpose, it developsprototypes–automated systems and robots- that set the trend for technology that is goingto be used in the next few years. And tocomplete the circle, every year our trainingdivision prepares thousands of techniciansto handle welding equipment.

Technology must be eminently practical forcompanies. Tesol installs its equipment inthe clients’ companies and trains the workers.Our company offers an integral technologicaladvance and maintenance service for itsequipment in all the sectors where itoperates, from assembling a large ship in ashipyard, to the construction of a hydroelectricpower station.

Technology must be usefuland practical for companies

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Tesol’s robots and automated systemsmultiply the productivity of each worker,enabling our clients to be competitiveanywhere in the world. The benefits of automated systems are notonly visible in the short term; they also reducework accidents and expenditure on safety toa minimum. One of the latest automated systems designedby Tesol is the Autocompat Tes8, a remotecontrolled machine with real time vision ofthe work area on a monitor. This modelreduces the space occupied by traditionalequipment, eliminating hazards for theworker and carries out uninterrupted welding.Model Tes9 is even more compact, with acontrol cabinet that enables the entireprocess to be remote controlled.

Fasterand safer

Tesol technicians are finalising the design of the Tes10, a modeladaptable to different equipment with Inverter technology andincorporating a wire feeder. The latest technical breakthrough is apiece of equipment with digital communication to improve automation.

Welding is one of the elementary actions ofany industry, one of the technical processesthat all sectors have in common, fromconstruction of an immense wind turbine toan oil rig in the North Sea, an automobile ora luxury cruise liner. Welding technology iseverywhere and its innovative progress setsthe pace for the development of our society.

Activities of the Tesol Group by industry sectors(measured in percentage of our business volume)

31%Automotive

29%Naval

15%Wind energy,renewable energy

12%Aeronautics

8%Metalstructures/Industrialinstalations

5%Petrochemicaland Hydrocarbonindustry

You don’t see it, but it is everywhere.Welding is an indispensabletechnical process for the advancementof industry in the world

The data show Tesol’s investment in researchand the growing demand in companies forautomated systems and robots. Today,regarding sales of equipment and materials,one in every three Euros revenue comes fromthe commercialisation of robots andautomated equipment. This is the future;therefore, this is why training specialisedpersonnel is so important for this type ofstate of the art machinery. As well as their own equipment and thepresentation of new prototypes every year,Tesol Group distributes top global weldingmaterials brands: The Esab Group, Bug-oSystems, Lorch, Hypertherm, Starweld,Nederman...

The creation of technology,motor of the Tesol Group’s business

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Technology does not replace man; rather itincreases man’s productivity andcompetitiveness extraordinarily. Thus, for thelast thirty years Tesol has been strengtheningits subsidiary Formavigo, dedicated tospecialising workers in the different fields ofwelding and handling automated devices. Inaddition to its centres in Galicia, our companyhelps factories all over the world to trainworkers on-site and guarantee optimumequipment operation and maintenance.

There is always a man behind the machine.Training centre

Formavigo’s syllabuses are inspired by the realneeds of industry. More than 60 percent of itsstudents are active workers.

One in every four Formavigo coursesis related to state of the art automatedequipment. The professional studycentre has trained more than 10,000workers from several countries todate.

Formavigo is the first trainingcentre in Spain and one of the mostimportant in the world in the fieldof welding automation and roboticsnot related to mass production.

Tesol Group comprises a collection ofcompanies related to welding, frommanufacturing equipment to the distributionof special gases. This Spanish firm is directedby Fernando Couñago, a pioneer in practicalresearch into automated welding systems.This is a technology that increases workers’productivity and helps companies competewith other countries that have lower labourcosts. “It’s not so important to compete withlabour costs –says Couñago-, what is vital isto increase the worker’s productive capacityand safety”.

Tesol, a group integratingthe universe of welding

Fernando Couñago president of Tesol Group

Tesol. Founded thirty years ago to supplywelding equipment to the Spanish naval andindustrial sector, from the beginning thecompany decided to create a researchlaboratory that was soon to bring out ownproducts for all industrial sectors. Tesoldistributes top world brands of weldingequipment, safety material and spare parts,in addition to offering technical adviceservices so that the clients’ investment inprocesses is most profitable. Formavigo is the Group’s training division.In addition to catering for current companyneeds, its pupils are trained on usage of theprototypes designed by Tesol, which soonend up in the country’s main factories.

This is Tesol Group

Special Welding. This company hasspecialised in the supply of non-conventionalor  technically demanding welding, requiringhighly specialised personnel or exclusivematerials that are not commonly used. Tesol Gases. The Gases subsidiary is incharge of commercialising all types of gasesfor the welding and cutting industry:compressing, cryogenic, liquefied, etc.