The Chiquita

Hand-welding a long commercial run is where your schedule bleeds out a minute at a time.

Every foot of seam your crew welds by hand is skilled labor moving at walking speed — and the longer the run, the more chances for a scorch, a cold spot, or a weak weld that turns into a callback. On a big open floor, that’s hours of your most expensive payroll spent on the one task a machine does better.

By hand, consistency is a person, not a standard. Your best welder lays a beautiful seam. The hand next to him is a little hot here, a little cold there. The floor reads like two different installers worked it — because they did.

And the failure surfaces where it hurts most: weeks after you’ve moved on, in the busiest corridor of the building, with your company’s name on the warranty and the GC deciding who gets the next phase.

You can’t clone your best welder. But you can give every hand on the crew his consistency.

The Chiquita is an automatic welder built for long, open runs. A precision drive holds a steady 18 feet per minute with a built-in welding angle that never drifts, so a 40-foot weld is done in just over two minutes — about five times faster than by hand — clean and uniform on every pass. The Universal Turbo Nozzle tempers rod and floor covering together for a durable bond, and the free-spinning reel feeds without drag so the weld runs wall to wall without a stutter.

It glides right over nearby scribes and straightedges, holds its line, and makes your newest installer’s long runs look like your veteran’s. More footage per day, fewer callbacks, and a consistency you don’t have to stand over.

Weld once. Weld right. Finish faster.