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Fabrication and Welded Metal Products

Precision Fabrication Company

Hydram Sheet Metalwork provides welding of stainless steel, mild steel and aluminium products, components and custom precision sheet metal fabrications.  Hydram offers both robotic and manual MIG welding and TIG welding, together with comprehensive metal dressing as part of its precision sheet metal fabrication business.

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Robotic Welding

Hydram Sheet Metalwork employs three Panasonic PerformArc robot welding cells to ensure consistency and economy on longer production runs of custom sheet metal fabrications and metal products.  All three cells are equipped with electric turntables allowing maximum productivity.  The largest system has rotary manipulators allowing workpieces to be turned independently of the robot position.

Maximum welding robot capacity for components is 150kg, 2200mm long.

Welding Standards

Hydram achieved ISO 3834-2 in May 2016.

  • ISO 3834-2:2005 defines comprehensive quality requirements for fusion welding of metallic materials both in workshops and at field installation sites.

Hydram achieved BS EN 15085-2 Class 2 in June 2017, and BS EN 15085-2 Class 1 in August 2018.

  • BS EN 15085-2 CL1 demonstrates a manufacturer’s competence for control of welding quality in production of railway vehicles and components.  Certification for Welding of Railway Vehicles and Components (CWRVC) is being increasingly specified by rail industry customers buying components, sub-assemblies and complete vehicles.

Hydram is also certified to the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Standard, the ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Standard and has ISO 45001:2018 Health and Safety certification.

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Quality certification

Hydram is certified to the following quality standards:

  • ISO 9001:2015 Quality Standard
  • ISO 3834-2 Welding Standard
  • BS EN 15085-2 CL1 CWRVC Welding Standard
  • DIN 6701 standard for adhesive bonding in rail industry
  • ISO 14001 Environmental Standard

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The Dynamic Metals Group

Hydram works closely with associate companies within the Dynamic Metals Group accessing knowledge and expertise across a wide range of industrial sectors.  Dynamic is a privately-owned business with its main headquarters in Michigan USA, comprising of a group of companies based in the US mid-west and the UK, having an established reputation specialising in the supply of precision metal components for the aerospace, defence, automotive and rail sectors.