As Halter Marine prepares for construction of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter, the company is acquiring new technologies such as robotic welding machines and the PythonX plasma cutter.

Plasma cutting – occasionally referred to as ‘plasma arc cutting’ – is a melting process that sees a high-temperature ionized gas jet used to melt the material and expel it from a cut. This ionized ...

Anyone working in a fabricating shop or machining operations comes face to face with a steady stream of science and technology every day. Speeds, feeds, calculations, and reactions — you have to be ...