The gloves allow dexterity in handling tools while blocking heat from the hands.
Welding gloves are a crucial part of welding equipment and provide protection against thermal, chemical, and mechanical hazards during the welding process
This subcategory of gloves is specifically designed to ensure the safety and comfort of welders and other workers involved in welding operations.
Welding gloves are made from high-quality materials that offer resistance to high temperatures, sparks, molten metals, and other risks associated with welding. Their special design enables excellent thermal insulation while maintaining finger dexterity and sensitivity, which is crucial for precise welding work.
Welding gloves are used in various industries, including construction, automotive, energy, metallurgy, and others where welding is an essential part of the manufacturing processes. These gloves are indispensable for different types of welding, such as TIG, MIG/MAG, and plasma welding.
Pharsol Protect offers a diverse range of welding gloves designed to meet high standards of safety, comfort, and performance. There are different types of gloves available, including heat-resistant materials, reinforced palms and fingers, and additional protection against sparks and molten metals.
Different welding gloves are used for welding processes. Welding is a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing fusion. Welding is distinct from lower temperature metal-joining techniques such as soldering and brazing, which do not melt the base metal.
Different types of welding processes include:
- Arc welding: The most common type of welding, it uses a power supply to create an electric arc between a metal stick ("electrode") and the material to be welded.
- MIG (Metal Inert Gas) or GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding): This process uses a wire feeding gun that feeds wire at an adjustable speed and flows an inert gas over the weld to protect it from contamination.
- TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) or GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding): It uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode to produce the weld. The weld area is protected from atmospheric contamination by an inert shielding gas (argon or helium), and a filler metal is normally used, though some welds, known as autogenous welds, do not require it.
- Flux-Cored Arc Welding (FCAW): An alternative to shield welding, it's a semi-automatic or automatic arc welding process. FCAW requires a continuously-fed consumable tubular electrode containing a flux and a constant-voltage or, less commonly, a constant-current welding power supply.
- Submerged Arc Welding (SAW): It's a common arc welding process that involves the formation of an arc between a continuously-fed bare wire electrode and the workpiece. The process uses a flux to generate protective gases and slag, and to add alloying elements to the weld pool.
- Resistance welding: This is a welding technology widely used in manufacturing, it involves the generation of heat by passing current through the resistance caused by the contact between two or more metal surfaces.
- Each welding process has its strengths and weaknesses, and the choice of which to use depends on the specific job at hand, the materials involved, the desired properties of the finished weld, and the skill and experience of the welder.