Electric (electrically heated gas) soldering, brazing, welding machines and apparatus, capable or not of cutting, electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered carbides
HS v2022 Code: 8515
About electric (electrically heated gas) soldering, brazing, welding machines and apparatus, capable or not of cutting, electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered carbides
HS code 8515 covers a diverse range of electric welding, soldering, and brazing equipment used across various industries. These machines and apparatus play a crucial role in the fabrication, assembly, and repair of metal components, enabling the production of a wide array of goods that underpin the global economy. From automotive parts to construction materials, the applications of 8515 products are far-reaching and essential to modern manufacturing processes.
Production process
The production of 8515 equipment typically involves the assembly of various electrical, mechanical, and control components. This includes the fabrication of the welding, soldering, or brazing heads, the power supply units, and the control systems that regulate the heat, current, and other parameters necessary for effective joining of materials. Manufacturers may utilize advanced manufacturing techniques, such as computer numerical control (CNC) machining and robotic automation, to ensure precision, consistency, and efficiency in the production of these specialized tools.
Production inputs
The main inputs required for the 8515 industry include a range of electrical and electronic components, such as transformers, resistors, and microcontrollers, as well as mechanical parts like housings, fasteners, and cooling systems. Additionally, the industry relies on the availability of high-quality raw materials, including metals, ceramics, and specialized alloys, to fabricate the welding, soldering, and brazing heads. Manufacturers may also require specialized software and programming tools to develop the control systems that govern the operation of these machines.
Production outputs
The primary outputs of the 8515 industry are the electric welding, soldering, and brazing machines and apparatus themselves. These products are then consumed by a wide range of downstream industries, such as 8708 Parts and accessories for motor vehicles, 8411 Turbojets, turbopropellers and other gas turbines, and 8430 Machinery for moving, grading, leveling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snowploughs and snowblowers, which rely on these specialized tools for the fabrication, assembly, and repair of their own products.
Family tree for electric (electrically heated gas) soldering, brazing, welding machines and apparatus, capable or not of cutting, electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered carbides
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A["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/85'>85: Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles</a>"]
A --> B["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8515'>8515: Electric (electrically heated gas) soldering, brazing, welding machines and apparatus, capable or not of cutting, electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered carbides</a>"]
A --> C["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8501'>8501: Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)</a>"]
A --> D["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8502'>8502: Electric generating sets and rotary converters</a>"]
A --> E["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8503'>8503: Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502</a>"]
A --> F["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8504'>8504: Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors</a>"]
A --> G["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8505'>8505: Electro-magnets; permanent magnets, intended permanent magnets; electro-magnetic, permanent magnet chucks, clamps, similar; electromagnetic couplings, clutches, brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads</a>"]
A --> H["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8506'>8506: Cells and batteries; primary</a>"]
A --> I["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8507'>8507: Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square)</a>"]
A --> J["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8508'>8508: Vacuum cleaners</a>"]
A --> K["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8509'>8509: Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08.</a>"]
A --> L["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8510'>8510: Shavers, hair clippers and hair removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor</a>"]
A --> M["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8511'>8511: Ignition or starting equipment; used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines; generators and cut outs used in conjunction with such engines</a>"]
A --> N["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8512'>8512: Lighting or visual signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading no. 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters; electrical, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles</a>"]
A --> O["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8513'>8513: Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512</a>"]
A --> P["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8514'>8514: Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss</a>"]
A --> Q["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8516'>8516: Electric water, space, soil heaters; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus; hand dryers, irons; electro-thermic appliances for domestic purposes; electro heating resistors, not of heading no. 8545</a>"]
A --> R["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8517'>8517: Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular/wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), excluding items of 8443, 8525, 8527, or 8528</a>"]
A --> S["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8518'>8518: Microphones and their stands; loudspeakers, mounted or not in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, combined or not with a microphone, and sets of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency and electric sound amplifiers and sets</a>"]
A --> T["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8519'>8519: Sound recording or reproducing apparatus</a>"]
A --> U["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8521'>8521: Video recording or reproducing apparatus</a>"]
A --> V["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8522'>8522: Sound or video recording apparatus; parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521</a>"]
A --> W["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8523'>8523: Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, smart cards and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, excluding products of Chapter 37</a>"]
A --> X["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8524'>8524: Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens</a>"]
A --> Y["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8525'>8525: Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders</a>"]
A --> Z["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8526'>8526: Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus</a>"]
A --> BA["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8527'>8527: Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.</a>"]
A --> BB["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8528'>8528: Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus</a>"]
A --> BC["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8529'>8529: Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528</a>"]
A --> BD["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8530'>8530: Signalling, safety or traffic control equipment; for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations, airfields, excluding those of heading no. 8608</a>"]
A --> BE["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8531'>8531: Signalling apparatus; electric sound or visual (e.g. bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), excluding those of heading no. 8512 or 8530</a>"]
A --> BF["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8532'>8532: Electrical capacitors; fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)</a>"]
A --> BG["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8533'>8533: Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), excluding heating resistors</a>"]
A --> BH["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8534'>8534: Circuits; printed</a>"]
A --> BI["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8535'>8535: Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits; for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts</a>"]
A --> BJ["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8536'>8536: Electrical apparatus for switching, protecting electrical circuits, for making connections to or in electrical circuits, for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables</a>"]
A --> BK["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8537'>8537: Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets, bases with apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 for electricity control and distribution, (other than switching apparatus of heading no. 8517)</a>"]
A --> BL["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8538'>8538: Electrical apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 and 8537</a>"]
A --> BM["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8539'>8539: Lamps; electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps, arc lamps, light-emitting diode (LED) light sources</a>"]
A --> BN["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8540'>8540: Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (e.g. vacuum, vapour, gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray and television camera tubes)</a>"]
A --> BO["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8541'>8541: Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals</a>"]
A --> BP["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8542'>8542: Electronic integrated circuits</a>"]
A --> BQ["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8543'>8543: Electrical machines and apparatus; having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter</a>"]
A --> BR["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8544'>8544: Insulated wire, cable and other electric conductors, connector fitted or not; optical fibre cables of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors</a>"]
A --> BS["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8545'>8545: Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon; with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes</a>"]
A --> BT["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8546'>8546: Electrical insulators of any material</a>"]
A --> BU["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8547'>8547: Insulating fittings; for electrical machines, appliances, equipment, excluding insulators of heading no. 8546, electrical conduit tubing and joints therefore</a>"]
A --> BV["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8548'>8548: Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus; not specified or elsewhere included in this chapter</a>"]
A --> BW["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/8549'>8549: Electrical and electronic waste and scrap</a>"]
B --> BX["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/851511'>851511: Brazing or soldering machines and apparatus; soldering irons and guns, whether or not capable of cutting</a>"]
B --> BY["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/851519'>851519: Brazing or soldering machines and apparatus; other than soldering irons and guns, whether or not capable of cutting</a>"]
B --> BZ["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/851521'>851521: Welding machines and apparatus; for resistance welding of metal, fully or partly automatic, whether or not capable of cutting</a>"]
B --> CA["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/851529'>851529: Welding machines and apparatus; for resistance welding of metal, other than fully or partly automatic, whether or not capable of cutting</a>"]
B --> CB["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/851531'>851531: Welding machines and apparatus; for arc (including plasma arc) welding of metals, fully or partly automatic, whether or not capable of cutting</a>"]
B --> CC["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/851539'>851539: Welding machines and apparatus; for arc (including plasma arc) welding of metals, other than fully or partly automatic, whether or not capable of cutting</a>"]
B --> CD["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/851580'>851580: Welding machines and apparatus; n.e.c. in heading no. 8515, whether or not capable of cutting</a>"]
B --> CE["<a href='/classifications/hs/v2022/851590'>851590: Welding, brazing or soldering machines; parts of the machines of heading no. 8515</a>"]
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