Electroslag Technology

Dr. Boris Medovar, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, is a promi­ nent member of the E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kiev, one of the pre-eminent institutes of the USSR. The Paton Institute, internationally famous for its entrepreneurial efforts in electrical welding processes, is also famous for its application of electrically based processes in melting and remelting of high­ alloy and high-temperature materials. These include the ESR (electroslag re­ melting) process, the ESC…