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World’s Largest Linear Welder Arrives In Detroit

Oct 9, 2018 by Sven Gustafson

Detroit is now home to the world’s largest linear friction welder after it was delivered on Tuesday to Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, a public-private advanced-manufacturing partnership down on Rosa Parks Boulevard in Corktown.

The linear friction welder weighs about as much as a Boeing 737, and has the “largest tooling envelope of any linear friction welder in the world,” allowing for the production of full-size parts.

I thought it looks kind of like a pilot house of a tugboat, personally. Here are some photos.

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