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# World's Largest Linear Welder Arrives In Detroit
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/worlds-largest-linear-welder-arrives-in-detroit/
- Published: 2018-10-09T20:34:24.000Z
- Updated: 2018-10-09T20:34:24.000Z
- Author: Sven Gustafson
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12

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.

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/47/f5/47f528d4-7214-4519-b2b2-26249e48460d/content/images/wordpress/2018/10/linear-welder-3-1024x768.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/47/f5/47f528d4-7214-4519-b2b2-26249e48460d/content/images/wordpress/2018/10/linear-welder-3.jpg?ref=dailydetroit.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/47/f5/47f528d4-7214-4519-b2b2-26249e48460d/content/images/wordpress/2018/10/linear-welder-2-1024x576.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/47/f5/47f528d4-7214-4519-b2b2-26249e48460d/content/images/wordpress/2018/10/linear-welder-2.jpg?ref=dailydetroit.com)