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Explosive welding allows joining metals and alloys in almost any combinations unlike various types of fusion welding. It provides the ability of manufacturing products with a combination of service properties of applied materials with a high level of strength, tightness, fatigue strength, etc. In addition to bimetals produced in fairly large volumes for chemical and oil equipment, explosive welding is used to manufacture products with special characteristics for different industries. Producing coaxial joints (welding is performed along generatrices of axisymmetric coaxial tubes) can be attributed to a special class of tasks, since they are more economical than alternative methods of their production. In some cases, a permanent joint can be created by explosion compression without welding of elements to be joined. This work presents a number of technological processes for manufacturing coaxial products developed at the PWI, which use both welding and explosive compression. The presented developments testify that a wide range of practical tasks can be solved with the help of explosion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]