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Our UTP-Portfolio – Proven under the toughest conditions

2 September 2024 | 

As part of our UTP brand update, we have also revised our product portfolio to meet the needs of our customers. Our products protect metal surfaces from wear and corrosion and with 70 years of experience we deliver what we promise: Surface Protection tailored to your needs.

To understand why we have adjusted the UTP portfolio, it is worth looking at the big picture within our voestalpine group. A clear and unambiguous link between category brands and product programs offers our partners and customers an important advantage, namely a simple and comprehensible selection of the right product depending on the application.

With our product policy, we pursue the goal of bringing together the most important areas of competence represented by individual category brands for the benefit of our customers. 

With regard to our UTP brand, we would like to give you a quick overview of all product categories and the new naming structure within the portfolio so that you can find the right products for your specific applications and requirements.

The following products are combined under the UTP brand

  • Consumables for Surface Protection
    • WEAR
    • Corrosion
  • Nickel based filler materials for cladding
  • Special alloys for surfacing copper and cast iron
  • Filler metals for electroslag cladding (ESSC) and submerged arc strip cladding and cladding heads

Thanks to the sharpening of the product groups, there is no longer any overlap in the portfolios of the brands “Böhler Welding” and “UTP”.

The naming structure for products around Surface Protection

The product names in the Surface Protection area will be given a new and unambiguous name structure assigned to the process. The new name structure is intended to simplify product selection and will replace the old name structure. The so-called surface protection product family will receive a new and unique name positioning.

The new WEAR protection family

The naming system for Surface Protection

WEARstick
  • All covered electrodes for wear protection
WEARtig
  • All TIG rods for wear protection
WEARmig
  • All Solid Wires for wear protection
WEARcore
  • All gas folded flux-cored wires for wear protection
WEARcore x-O
  • All self-shielded folded flux-cored wires for wear protection 
WEARcore x-M
  • All self-shielded folded flux-cored spraying wires (spraying without fusion) for wear & corrosion protection
WEARcore x-MF
  • All cored wires for arc spraying with subsequent melting wear and corrosion protection
WEARmig x-S
  • All submerged arc solid wires for wear protection
WEARcore x-S
  • All submerged arc cored wires for wear protection

Additional name abbreviations indicate the area of application

Multi-purpose Dur
  • The name addition DUR stands for standard wear protection products
Extreme abrasion XD
  • The name addition XD stands for products for extreme wear protection
Tool steels Tool
  • The name addition Tool stands for products for tool steel applications
Cobalt alloys Co
  • The name addition Co stands for products for cobalt alloys applications
Self-shielded O
  • The name addtition O stands for self-shielding products
Spraying M
  • The name addition M stands for products for spraying without melting
MF
  • The name addition MF stands for products for spraying with subsequent melting
SAW S
  • The name addition S stands for solid and cored wires for submerged arc welding

The following product groups will not receive a name change for the time being:

  • Submerged arc welding fluxes
  • Strips and fluxes for Strip Cladding
  • Seamless cored wires of the UTP robotic range
  • Powders for thermal spraying

The new approach for corrosion protection and special applications

The corrosion protection family includes two main areas which are the products for nickel cladding and the second area is strip cladding. The nickel cladding products are a comprehensive portfolio of products for different cladding processes SMAW, GMAW, GTAW, FCAW and also SAW for corrosion protection of different components. Here the known product names from UTP and Thermanit remain unchanged.

The second big area is strip cladding with our well known portfolio of strips and fluxes for electroslag strip cladding.

For more information regarding our UTP-portfolio check out our welding consumables catalogue or contact us directly. 

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