#ndt MultiX, a market leader in spectroscopic x-ray imaging for airport security and non-destructive testing applications, announces that it has raised €3.5 million on the occasion of a new financing round with its long-standing investors and two newcomers: Omnes Capital and H3C (private investor). MultiX was founded in October 2010 by Jacques Doremus and Patrick Radisson [...]
#ndt MFE Rentals, Inc. is now an official service provider of Flyability’s Elios, the world’s first collision-tolerant drone. With its usage of gimball technology, live video feedback, and a carbon fiber protective structure, the Elios provides a visual reach to industry professionals that was previously unattainable or cost-prohibitive. The Elios is now available for purchase from [...]
#ndt Danatronics Corporation is pleased announce the latest software updates for our new portable ultrasonic flaw detector, ECHO FD. Our new ECHO series continues to receive tremendous worldwide response for its size, fast display update rate (60 Hz.), weight, battery life, ease of use and, most importantly, price. The latest ECHO FD software features and improvements [...]
#ndt Amec Foster Wheeler announced today that it has secured a new agreement worth £125 million to provide long-term support to EDF Energy Nuclear Generation. Under the Technical Support Alliance 3 (TSA3) agreement, the global engineering consultancy will continue its operational support for the UK reactor fleet, which began more than 50 years ago. The five-year [...]
#ndt Tecnatom Group attends one more edition of JEC World, the largest international composites show, to be held from 14 to 16 March in Paris. Tecnatom's aerospace division is showing, along with its French subsidiary M2M, its most advanced technological developments, especially in the field of inspection systems, highlighting its new semi-automatic 3D portable arm and [...]
#ndt The "Mum-Flower"-Type Array Probe (via Immersion) adopts a 45-degree-tilted cone screen to make orthogonal shift of the beam into a ring of a pipe either from inside or outside, thus ending up fully covering either the inner surface or the outer surface of the pipe wall. The ring interface can be placed onto one end [...]
#ndt Sonomatic, a market leader in the provision of advanced automated ultrasonic inspection services, has created a centre of excellence for NDT and integrity services at its brand new, multi-disciplined facility at The Core business park in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen. Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, Paul Wheelhouse joined Sonomatic with the unveiling of a [...]
#ndt The critical API 1169 training course for pipeline inspectors was announced by Atlas API Training – the exam prep course is available both online and now via Atlas' new on-site training program. According to Hannon McLeod, president of Atlas, "the API 1169 will deeply impact the career paths of many inspection professionals, new pipeline construction [...]
#ndt Terahertz imaging could be a prime candidate for non-destructive testing. THz rays are non-ionizing and low-energy (from 0.3 THz to 10 THz), and have the capacity to penetrate a number of non-conductive and non-polar materials like skin, certain plastics, certain garments, paper, and cardboard. THz rays pose less of a danger than X-ray imaging systems [...]
#ndt Investcorp‘s portfolio company NDT Corrosion Control Services Co. ("NDT CCS"), today announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Hi-Tech Inspection Services LLC ("Hi-Tech"), Oman’s largest provider of industrial non-destructive testing ("NDT") and inspection services. Hi-Tech’s founders, Al Sulaimi Group Holding, established the company in 1996. Investcorp acquired a majority stake in NDT CCS in [...]