The ME/MES Zipwelders are considered one of the most advanced shear welders available. These fully automatic welding machines were developed with an intention to reduce the operator involvement and increase mill uptime by reducing weld failures. Guild zipwelders are designed for use on either start/stop or continuous lines in units like pickling plant, tube/pipe mill, coil buildup plant, rolling mill, and coil prep plant for a variety of applications such as stamping, coil buildup, rolling mill, tube/pipe mill, slitting, annealing, pickling and galvanizing and others. These machines can also be used for welding a wide range of alloys including stainless steel, carbon steel, and aluminum. Our zipwelders are ideally suited for meeting process line requirement and can also be used as transport welds, which allows the zipwelders to be removed at the end of the line, or for use in coil buildup. The ME/MES Zipwelder can also be used to butt weld that makes the welded material as strong as the parent material, as well as for special applications such as narrow width and light gauge welding applications. Though the zipwelders are considered a subtype of shearwelders, these are meant to be used for slightly different sort of applications.