Solbraze was founded in 1962 by 5 electrical and mechanical engineers who were interested in process heating. Over the following 45 years, the business designed and manufactured the three primary forms of producing heat and its associated complementary systems. These are Induction Heating, Resistance Heating and Precision Flame Heating.
The business developed into a service to the entire spectrum of
industry, providing optimum manufacturing solutions, for
Soldering, Brazing, Heating, and Bonding processes - effectively,
leading edge "Joining Technology” to suit the customers
output requirements. Ultrasonic ”Flux less" Soldering Irons
and Ultrasonic Soldering Systems are a prime example.
Solbraze manufacture a wide and varied range of
brazing and soldering products from small bench mounted
resistance soldering and brazing units including hand tools of
250VA to 1500 VA for Jewellery and small ferrous or nonferrous
components, and up to 35 KVA and beyond for brazing small medium
and large transformers/electric motor windings up to and in
excess of 1 ton.
At the other end of the scale Solbraze manufacture brazing equipment for use in bus bar chambers in power stations and for small medium and large electric motors. These motors can be so large that the equipment is made portable and needs to be taken to the ”job”, rather than the other way round and can be of any size from 1/4 of a ton to 300 tons where you literally walk inside the motor housing to braze the windings.
An example of a Solbraze Precision
Flame Brazing machine can be seen here. These are used to braze
Boron Steel Rings for Oil Wells using a high temperature-brazing
alloy at 1200 degrees C.
Solbraze also manufacture a wide range
of heavy duty soldering irons, solder pots, rotating, dross free
solder pots, automatic linear soldering machines etc etc.
Solbraze also manufacture heavy duty soldering
irons. Our heavy duty irons are used in applications where the
standard 500 Watt Soldering Iron is used for soldering of heavy
copper, brass or steel section, or on battery lugs, or indeed any
heavy cable and/or lug that needs a large heat source.
The heavy-duty irons can also double
up as Branding Irons. With a small change to the cable and a Die
Block in place of the copper bit (ISPM15 Forestry Commission
brand shown)
The Solbraze heavy duty soldering Irons and Resistance
Equipment are Nato Coded and are used by the Army, Navy, and Air
force, to repair equipment. Solbraze has a fully equipped
applications laboratory enabling it to determine from
customers’ drawings, sketches or samples, the most
appropriate controlled manufacturing process commensurate with
their output requirements and provide a quotation for the capital
equipment. Whether the requirement is a simple manual process or
fully automated PLC robotic operation, Solbraze can produce
standard or custom made machines including handling gear and
jigging to suit the applications. Our own design and development
department with its 350 cumulative years of experience dealing
with all forms of industries, has given Solbraze the experience
to produce the most appropriate equipment to suit the
application. At the forefront of development, Solbraze design,
develop and manufacture equipment to suit their customer's
requirements.
A few examples of this are: 1 metre x 1/2 metre hot plate that
was made for Nissan Sunderland for heating pistons on the engine
assembly line. Or the very small very accurate temperature
controlled hotplate 100 mm x 100 mm used for In-vitro
Fertilisation in R&D hospital laboratories; or our ultrasonic
soldering iron used for the ultimate soldered 'Joint Integrity'
in satellites; or the new 'Eco' automotive oil and petrol filter
machines for bonding paper to plastic.
In an increasing wide sector of manufacturing in the UK where
costs can be uncompetitive with Europe, the Far East and China,
Solbraze has the ability with its range of products and processes
to "de-skill" previously skilled tasks, increasing output,
improving quality and dramatically reducing costs in all fields.
