Hitting the seam.

When an overseas shipbuilder ran into difficulty welding panel sections with ever-increasing longitudinal dimensionss it turned to Pandjiris Inc. The company created a seamer for the shipbuilder based upon one it built for a similar application a certain quantity of years earlier. The more new seamer accommodates panels of just above 32-ft wide and continuously joins them to the desired panel extent

Panels, which are all of similar thicknesses, are either carbonized iron or aluminum and range from 016 to 0.62-in. thick. The seamer can join panels of unequal thickness with the flat side down, using a single-sided