Ricardo Emanuel Vaz Vargas, Senior Professional at Petrobras, has been named the winner of the 2025 ASME Hermann Rosen Award for Pipeline Innovation. The announcement was made during the official award ceremony held at the ROSEN booth at the Rio Pipeline Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 10, 2025. The ASME Hermann Rosen Award [...]
WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada (July 21st, 2025) – AMETEK, Inc. today announced that it has completed its acquisition of FARO Technologies, a global leader in 3D measurement and imaging solutions. FARO will join Creaform and Virtek as part of AMETEK’s Ultra Precision Technologies Division. Together, FARO, Creaform, and Virtek now offer the most comprehensive, powerful, and trusted [...]
With its original roots in the NDT of ships’ hulls, Cygnus Instruments has now worked in the marine industry alongside ship surveyors and commercial divers for over four decades. As a result, their knowledge of the industry and its challenges is second to none. Today, Cygnus is a world-renowned maker of easy-to-use, highly accurate ultrasonic testing [...]
A-Scan is a testing method that displays ultrasonic echo signals in a waveform format, with the horizontal axis representing the time or depth of sound wave propagation and the vertical axis representing the amplitude of the echo signal. When ultrasonic waves encounter defects (such as delaminations or voids) or interfaces inside a material, reflected signals are [...]
ROCHESTER, N.Y., August 26 — Carestream’s Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) group, a global leader in NDT technology, today announced the launch of the INDUSTREX Fieldview Tablet, a rugged industrial tablet designed to simplify digital radiographic (DR) imaging in the field. With the INDUSTREX Fieldview Tablet, radiographers can validate imaging compliance right at the inspection point, eliminating the [...]
Revealing the Hidden Heat How FLIR Empowers Advanced NiTi Alloy Research at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Nickel-titanium (NiTi) shape memory alloys (SMAs) are unique metal alloys that can be stretched or bent when cold and hold the shape only to return to their original shape when heated. This makes NiTi SMAs useful for a wide-range [...]
It’s finally here… our superb NEW Underwater Ultrasonic Thickness Gauge will be available for delivery this October! This clever new tool is designed specifically for professional divers, and as we’ve come to expect with Cygnus UT Gauges, it has been built for the best durability, accuracy, and usability. It can withstand harsh subsea environments, provide ultrasonic [...]
Furnaces play a critical role in refining and petrochemical operations, providing the high temperatures required for essential processes. When they fail, the consequences can be severe both in terms of safety and operational losses. A single day of unplanned downtime can result in losses exceeding $1 million. This is why companies like PROtect, under the leadership [...]
Baugh & Weedon Ltd, a leading UK manufacturer of non-destructive testing (NDT) equipment, proudly announces the launch of the MagnaCheck 4D – the next-generation magnetic field strength meter designed to bring unmatched accuracy and flexibility to Magnetic Particle Inspection (MPI) applications. The MagnaCheck 4D sets a new industry benchmark for magnetic field measurement and quality control [...]
ETher NDE, a leader in advanced eddy current and electromagnetic inspection technologies, is proud to announce the launch of ACE, the next generation of portable Alternating Current Field Measurement Technology (ACFMT). The ACE combines cutting-edge NDT capabilities with a lightweight and rugged design to provide industry with an efficient, easy-to-use tool for superior inspection results. The [...]