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Aluminum Friction Stir Welding
I need wide aluminum panel welded without the distortion and property loss of fusion welding. Who has the bed length?
What it is
Joining in the solid state by traversing a rotating shouldered pin along the joint, plasticising rather than melting the metal. Avoids the porosity, distortion and property loss of fusion welding in aluminum, which is why it is used to build wide panels from narrow extrusions.
Suppliers
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Companies that perform this process on customer material.
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Taber Extrusions VerifiedAS9100NADCAP Heat TreatingNADCAP Nondestructive TestingUp to 65 ft, single or double sided
Friction stir welding to 65 feet in length, single or double sided. This is how wide aluminum panel is built up from narrower extrusions without the distortion and property loss of fusion welding. Re-confirmed 2026-07-30: the extrusion envelope stands, and Taber's own cast house producing ITAR and BABA compliant billet was added to the record this pass. BABA is Build America Buy America, an infrastructure procurement rule, not DFARS specialty metals and not the Berry Amendment.
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Input material
Forms this process takes in.