Murex Consumables Play Critical Role in Boat Building Business
Parkol Marine Engineering Limited is a family run business offering a full range of marine engineering, repairs and new build capabilities from its boat yard in Whitby. Largely as a result of the quality of its work, the yard has doubled its turnover in a period of just five years. Parkol has two work sheds (40m x 20m and 20m x 7m) as well as a berth for building new boats up to 25m long x 8m beam, plus a dry dock with a capacity of up to 5m draught x 42m long x 10.5m beam.

Steel, aluminium and timber boats are constructed, and the yard also produces stainless steel fabrications when required.

Most new builds are constructed mainly from steel plate 6-8mm thick, for which Murex Corofil R56XL is the only welding wire used.

This all-positional rutile flux-cored wire gives spray transfer characteristics in the vertical and overhead positions, as well as being suitable for horizontal/vertical fillet welds and downhand butt work.

Hundreds of reels of this wire are consumed each year by Parkol, such is the volume of work undertaken.

Where stick welding is called for, Murex Vodex electrodes are employed.

These high-quality rutile electrodes are specially designed for horizontal, vertical and overhead welding.

In most applications Parkol uses 3.2mm electrodes, though 4mm electrodes are used on heavier plates and 2.5mm electrodes are used for pipework.

For welding stainless steel, electrodes are purchased from Murex's sister company ESAB.

OK 63.30 is an extra-low-carbon, LMA electrode that produces excellent results on 316 grade stainless steel.

In addition to working almost exclusively with Murex and ESAB consumables, Parkol also makes extensive use of ESAB arc welding machines.

Jim Morrison, Managing Director of Parkol Marine Engineering, comments: 'We have been using Murex and ESAB welding wire and electrodes for around ten years and have never had a problem with them'.

'Our welders reckon these are the best for the work we do, and I have no reason to disagree'.

'The people are also first-class, right from the representative we see here in the yard, to the sales office staff and the technical experts.' He concludes: 'Welding is absolutely core to our business, so it is very important that we have a supplier in which we have complete trust'.

'Murex has proved itself to be 100 per cent reliable year after year.'