#ndt MSHA conducted wire rope nondestructive testing (NDT) and inspections on hoisting ropes that had been determined safe for service as a result of a recent examination and found that these ropes had flaws and no longer met MSHA’s in-service standards. Therefore, MSHA is recommending that mine operators use NDT when conducting required six month inspections [...]
#ndt When I was 19 years old, my first paying job in the nondestructive testing (NDT) industry was inspecting a weld repair on a water intake pipe at the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant in New Hampshire. The eight-foot diameter pipe extends about a half-mile into the Atlantic. It was new construction at the time but [...]
#ndt A.Hak Industrial Services Middle East has secured the largest contract in the history of the company. Joining forces with Al Tamimi, the five year contract includes the inspection of the majority of the un-scrapable pipelines of Saudi Aramco in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This award is one of the largest of its kind globally [...]
#ndt Integro Technologies, a premier machine vision integrator, announced today its partnership with Coherix Inc., manufacturers of 3D, high-speed, high definition machine vision products, as an Authorized System Integrator. Coherix is in the business of solving difficult 3D machine vision problems. The 3D data the Coherix products produce enables customers to assess how their manufacturing processes [...]
#ndt MISTRAS Group, Inc. (NYSE:MG) announced that its Board of Directors appointed Dennis Bertolotti as its President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective August 10, 2017, succeeding MISTRAS founder and Chairman, Dr. Sotirios Vahaviolos. Dr. Vahaviolos will remain active in the business as Executive Chairman, focusing on strategy and technology, and will continue to lead the [...]
#ndt Zetec Inc. will demonstrate its latest nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions at Materials Testing 2017, the most comprehensive exhibition for materials testing and technology, in Telford, UK, from Sept. 5-7 (booth #C7). The exhibition runs alongside the 56th Annual British Conference of Non-Destructive Testing. Zetec will showcase several leading ultrasonic and eddy current solutions for balance-of-plant/power [...]
#ndt When some machines rest it’s when others are running at peak levels: during a so-called turnaround in chemical plants, as it took place in Böhlen in September 2015, this is what happens every three to five years. Installations, compressors, pumps, and turbines stand still, but cranes and lifting platforms are on the move – during [...]
#ndt Red River College will be home to a new Smart Factory and will be expanding its Centre for Aerospace Technology and Training (CATT) as part of a $10 million investment over five years by Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD). "These new facilities will ensure our students and industry partners in aerospace and manufacturing remain at [...]
#ndt Zetec Inc., a global leader in nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions, announced that registration is now open for its latest live webinar, "Improving Productivity & Reliability for Manufacturing Inspections of Thick Carbon Steel Vessel Welds." The one-hour presentation in October will examine how a combination of fully mechanized Phased Array Ultrasound Pulse-Echo and Time of Flight [...]
#ndt Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI) is happy to announce the acquisition of Fracture Technology Associates (FTA) of Bethlehem, PA. Both FTA and LTI have been in the materials testing business for over thirty years. FTA is a commercial, independent testing laboratory that has provided Fracture Mechanics Testing Services and tailored software systems to a wide variety [...]