Orbital Welding
High-Purity Orbital Welding Services
Orbital welding is widely regarded as the cleanest and most efficient method for joining tubes, flanges, elbows, joints, and more, across any application or industry. Teknokrat specializes in cleanroom orbital welding for high-purity stainless steel, Inconel, and titanium. To ensure the highest level of cleanliness, all tubes and fittings are welded in a controlled, contaminant-free environment.
Teknokrat offers cleanroom orbital welding services and vacuum manifold fabrication for tubing ranging from ⅛-inch to 4 inches in diameter. We use argon gas for both internal and external purging, keeping welds exceptionally clean. Our orbital welding process achieves 100% penetration, ensuring every weld meets your specifications and industry standards.
We utilize advanced computerized orbital welding technology, enabling us to pre-program welding schedules based on the specific metal type. This automation optimizes precision, consistency, and significantly reduces lead times.
Orbital welding consistently delivers high-purity, high-quality, and uniform welds — making it the preferred choice for many of Teknokrat’s projects.
Let Us Handle the Welding
At Teknokrat, we introduced our orbital welding program years ago to give customers an extra layer of support. Our in-house team of factory-trained, ASME IX–certified weld operators and inspectors has experience welding stainless steel tubing systems for a wide range of applications — from basic weldments to complex spool pieces, serving industries from general manufacturing to sanitary and high-purity environments.
Why Choose Our Orbital Welding Services:
- Specialized Expertise – Our orbital weld operators are true fluid system specialists.
- Strict Quality Standards – We adhere to precise concavity and convexity tolerances.
- Helium Leak Testing – Every weld assembly is tested to guarantee safety and quality.
- No Scrap, No Rework – We deliver a finished component ready for direct installation.
- Material Excellence – Our products maintain a consistent chromium, nickel, and sulfur balance to ensure weld integrity and quality, which is especially critical for high-purity applications.
Benefits of Orbital Welding
Clean Process:
Keeping contaminants away from metal tubing during welding is critical, as trapped impurities can compromise the entire operation, leading to costly delays and waste. Orbital welding is often carried out in a cleanroom, where tubes and fittings are joined in a controlled, contaminant-free environment. Most of our orbital welding takes place in a Class 100 Cleanroom to ensure the highest purity.
Efficiency:
With its ability to produce consistent, clean welds, orbital welding streamlines the entire process. When combined with computerized systems, it can be pre-programmed, fully documented, and completed faster — cutting both production time and costs.
Higher Productivity:
Since the equipment handles most of the work, orbital welding allows for a more efficient use of labor. While there’s an initial investment in the machinery, it reduces manpower needs and shortens lead times over time.
Superior Quality:
Even though skilled manual welders can produce excellent results, orbital welding — when done with the right equipment and settings — delivers unmatched quality. This is especially vital in industries like semiconductor and pharmaceuticals, where strict standards must be met.
Consistent Results:
Orbital welding delivers unmatched consistency by using programmed settings that allow the machine to repeat identical welds with precision, eliminating errors or defects.
No Certification Needed:
With the shortage of certified manual welders, finding qualified talent can be challenging. Orbital welding bypasses this hurdle — it can be operated by skilled technicians trained in the process, without requiring traditional welding certifications.
Ideal for Complex Situations:
While perfect for standard components, orbital welding also excels in challenging scenarios — such as when rotating a pipe or tube isn’t possible, or when welding must be done in confined spaces that manual methods can’t reach.
Faster Turnaround:
For projects requiring multiple identical welds, only a sample weld needs to be tested. Since the machine repeats the weld exactly, the quality of the sample ensures the same integrity across all welds, reducing overall lead times.
Orbital welding is a highly-pure, contaminant-free and extremely-efficient welding solution for your stainless steel or precious metal products.
High-Purity Welding in a Cleanroom
Teknokrat recognizes the critical need to keep harmful corrosives away from metal tubing. Impurities trapped inside can jeopardize an entire project, leading to costly delays and potential system failure. To address this, Teknokrat has developed precise cleanroom orbital welding techniques for applications such as high-purity gas boxes, as well as gas and fluid handling systems.
High-purity welding is essential for keeping components clean throughout manufacturing. Contaminants — particularly corrosive or oxidizing agents — can severely damage metal tubing over time, compromising the structural integrity of the system.
A weld that is dirty or highly oxidized can allow impurities to spread through the tubing, potentially resulting in a complete system breakdown.
Ongoing Commitment
Our operators complete thousands of welds each year, offering vital support to companies facing workforce shortages. To maintain this value, we continually invest in enhancing our team’s skills and advancing the quality of our welding work.
Argon Purge System
We installed a central argon gas system to yield greater efficiencies of scale and higher quality, cleaner welds.
Scotchman Circular Cold Saw
Full automation capability to produce precise, repeatable stainless steel tube cuts.
Precision Fixtures
Reduces weld variability; streamlines set up and inspection
Digital Industrial Endoscope
Enables inspection of tubing and provides visible proof of internal weld quality.
Clean Room
Enables us to perform welds for ultra high purity applications.
High-Purity Applications
While orbital welding is suitable for many industries, certain fields — such as semiconductor manufacturing, medical device production, and aerospace — demand exceptionally pure welds.
At Teknokrat, all high-purity orbital welding is performed in a cleanroom with a controlled environment to minimize contaminants in the weld area. This level of control is crucial because the gases or fluids passing through the tubing must remain uncontaminated.
For large-scale projects requiring multiple identical welds, orbital welding offers a major advantage. It dramatically reduces production time, lowers overhead costs, delivers superior weld quality, and shortens lead times — giving you both confidence and value in your investment.
Equipment We Offer for Purchase or Rental
For use with our complete line of tubing, weld fittings and valves:
- Tube Saw
- M200 Orbital Power Supplies
- Weld Heads ranging from micro to 40 head (for tubing with outside diameters of 1/16″ to 4″)
- Wide range of collet sizes for all weld heads
- Facing Tools and their respective collets
Purge Kits and Systems
Gas purge is a critical process for welding, but one where vital equipment is often overlooked. Teknokrat offers pre-built gas purge package accessories that ensure your weld operators have everything they need on Day 1 of the project.
In addition to UHP purge kits, We provides individual UHP purge equipment and complete gas delivery systems:
- Distribution Manifold
- Purge Panel
- Purge Tree
- Gas Stick
- Purge Stick
Each of these pieces come in standardized designs, with BOMs and part numbers for straightforward ordering, but are easily customizable to the demands of your project.