“…The mechanised equipment of the second type, produced in Ukraine and other countries and designed for welding aluminium and its alloys also does not satisfy the conditions for welding busbar structures. 2 Investigations were carried out at the Termobr Co (plants carrying out work in the framework of Ukrgrafite company) to develop experimental semi-automatic equipment PShlOWA 3 for welding metal structures produced from aluminium plates and its alloys, this is one of the modifications of the block-module semi-automatic systems developed at the Design Bureau of the E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute, Kiev.…”