Kemppi Celebrates Sixtieth Birthday
This year, Kemppi Oy celebrates its sixtieth anniversary. The company has given the world many pioneering applications of welding technology. Again this year it is launching new, innovative welding solutions, and, furthermore, it has renewed its company image, includng a new droplet-like logo.
The Finnish Kemppi Oy is well-known in the world welding market for its many pioneering products that have revolutionized the whole arc welding industry. In 1977, the company introduced the first welding power sources to utilize inverter technology. They were a great turning point in the welding industry, as this technology, based on increasing frequency, allowed the manufacture of welding machines that were considerably more lightweight and environmentally friendly while at the same time providing more output and more versatile operation.
Digital Welding
With the introduction of the Kemppi Pro product family to the market in 1993, the world witnessed the transition from analogue to digital in welding machine control. It allowed for accurate adjustment of welding parameters and also the use of software components. This started the development of welding machines toward today’s high-tech devices, in which electronics and information technology can be used to make huge improvements to work productivity and weld quality.
With the aid of the most modern research methods, such as the super-fast high-speed camera, Kemppi has in recent years succeeded in developing several software products that improve the effectiveness and quality of arc welding – among them modified welding processes such as WiseRoot, WiseThin, WisePenetration, and WiseFusion.
Today, the Kemppi Arc System, a comprehensive solution for welding data collection and analysis, and Kemppi’s customer-specific tailored software products are pacesetters of the welding industry. This year, to celebrate its jubilee, Kemppi launches new welding equipment with exceptional customizability that takes yet another new approach to arc welding.
Of the new products presented in Kemppi’s Essen 2009 novelty brochure, the FitWeld and the SuperSnake have already been granted honourable mentions in the red dot industrial design competition, held earlier this year.
Droplet
Also Kemppi’s company image has undergone a major renovation. The familiar Kemppi orange colour has not been dropped, but the colour scheme is now much lighter and fresher. The previously angular logo has rounded out into a droplet, communicating a more versatile attitude to the development of arc welding industry and solutions. It expresses the modern and up to date attitude of this company that is always ready to respond to challenges.
The new logo’s round, droplet-like shape was carefully thought out. The droplet is the most energy-efficient form of liquid in the nature. When water vapour condenses in clouds, the liquid becomes a spherical droplet, because it has the smallest surface area. This is the same reason why the molten metal born out of a welding arc takes on a round form and is transferred to the welding pool as small droplets.
For example, in pulsed MIG/MAG welding, the molten filler material forms a large droplet, which the current pulse transfers across the arc to the weld pool. Here the correctly timed release of the droplet from the end of the filler wire is critical to a successful weld.
Thus, the round, droplet-like shape of Kemppi’s new logo stresses the fundamental arc transfer of filler material to the weld pool. The controlled execution of this process in varied environments and with different filler materials, defines the expertise that Kemppi offers, not only in welding equipment, but also in advanced new welding solutions and consultation.