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Genuinely Handheld and Integrated BPR Wedge-Welding Equipment

The useful product distinction is simple: choose the GT-100 when direct handheld control fits the work; choose an integrated GT system when the application justifies purpose-built equipment.

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Current Commercial Path

Two Main Ways to Apply BPR Today

Current Novaseal GT-100 handheld wedge welder
Handheld BPR

GT-100 — Genuinely Handheld

The GT-100 was designed from the beginning as a genuinely handheld wedge welder. It eliminates the powered feed and drive mechanism used by traveling machines while preserving the heat, pressure, control, and flexibility required for demanding industrial work.

  • No powered drive train, gears, belts, chains, or motorized feed rollers are required for welding motion
  • No drive-system jams and no production downtime for clearing drive/feed jams
  • Production, fabrication, field work, maintenance, repair, patching, straps, reinforcements, edges, and detail work
  • The GT-100 can also weld dissimilar flexible materials together when both materials can be heat welded
  • Different material weights and thicknesses with application-specific settings
  • Designed and manufactured in the United States
Current GT-100 Product PageTechnical Reference
Current Novaseal GT-200 integrated wedge-welding system
Integrated BPR

GT-200 — Application-Specific Integration

The GT-200 is the integrated GT configuration for compatible nonwoven textile materials. A wheel-mounted walk-behind system is one implementation—not the definition of the product.

  • Compatible nonwoven textile applications
  • Material handling and field workflow engineered into the equipment
  • Specialized seam requirements, including selected T-joints and multilayer intersections
  • Made-to-order configuration
  • Designed and manufactured in the United States
Current GT-200 Product PageTechnical Reference
Broader GT Engineering

Integrated BPR Is Not Limited to the GT-200

The GT-200 is specific to compatible nonwoven textile applications. Other integrated GT systems can be engineered for HDPE geomembranes, vinyls, other heavier heat-weldable plastics, production-line welding, specialized material handling, seam tracking, split-wedge pressure-verification channels, controls, and tooling.

Material HandlingConfigure movement and support around the product.
Seam GuidanceAdd tracking or alignment where production requires it.
Specialized ToolingEngineer wedge orientation, split seams, or unique geometry.
ControlsIntegrate application-specific controls and machine functions.
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Engineering Roots

GT-500 / Rover

The GT-500, also known as Rover, was a BPR design built as a considerably more complicated automatic/heavier portable system. Experience with that approach showed that many applications could be performed faster, more efficiently, and at substantially lower equipment cost with the much simpler genuinely handheld GT-100.

The engineering progression was simplification and refinement—not a change from one welding technology to another. GT-500, GT-100, and GT-200 all used BPR.

Historical automatic portable BPR wedge-welding system
Historical automatic portable BPR engineering.
Materials & Work Types

Choose the Machine Around the Work

Early Novaweld applications were strongly associated with geosynthetics, but GT wedge-welding applications extend well beyond the original “geo” market.

GT-100 heavy vinyl fabrication
Industrial and heavy vinyl fabrication.
GT-100 welding a strap
Straps, reinforcements, and narrow components.
GT-100 patch welding
Repair and patching.
Industrial fabricsHeavy vinylsCompatible plastics Nonwoven textilesHDPE geomembranesField installation Production fabricationRepair & maintenanceCustom integration

Actual production suitability depends on the complete material composition and layer structure, process settings, seam design, support, and required performance.

All Novaseal® Equipment Is Made in the USA

Novaseal® products are made in the United States. For availability, configuration, application engineering, parts, service, support, or quotations, use Novaseal.com as the commercial destination.

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