Hobart Brothers Inc. (www.hobartbrothers.com) designed its new gasshielded, flux-cored wire for single-or multi-pass welding on ships, storage vessels, earth-moving equipment, structural steel and offshore oil rigs and for general mold steel applications. The company says the wire delivers xray quality welds in positions and has added deoxidizers. Formula XL-550 wire is used with 100 percent CO2 shielding gas. The company says the 0.045-in. and 0.052-in. wire has dual AWS classification of E71T-1 and E71T-12CJ H4, and the 1/16 -in. wire is classified as E71-T-1 and E71T-12CJ H8.