TPT November 2018

The November Issue Welcome to the latest issue of Tube & Pipe Technology magazine. In this issue we have features on cutting technology, sawing & saw blades; and inspection, testing & quality control.

November/December 2018 Vol 31 No 6

Rory McBride – Editor

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We also take a look at an important industry trade show in the form of Tube India 2018. I will be travelling to this and it will be my third Tube India trade show in the vibrant city of Mumbai. I look forward to seeing the relentless march of progress in this huge country – with a population of more than a billion people – as it fulfils its potential as one of the major global economic powers over the next few years. I am sure I will also enjoy its usual high levels of hospitality. Next issue we have features on bending, end forming & swaging as well as welding technology, equipment & consumables. We also take a look at the BORU 2019 trade show in Turkey and TOLexpo 2019 in France. The magazine will, of course, be distributed to both of these important events, and our staff will be in attendance. The advertising deadline for the January issue is 21 November. If you would like to submit an article, news story, case study or technical paper for the first magazine of 2019, the deadline is 7 November. You can contact me about any stories you have at: rory@intras.co.uk

ARTICLE: Non-destructive inspection of tube and pipe welds By Xiris Automation Inc, Canada

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Enjoy the magazine.

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On the cover . . . The roots of EFD Induction go back to the launch in 1950 of a universal induction hardening machine by the German company Induktionserwärmung Fritz Düsseldorf GmbH (FDF). While FDF was expanding in the 1970s, an induction revolution was taking place in Norway, where engineers had figured out how to transistorise frequency converters for induction heating.

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In 1981 three of those engineers founded ELVA Induksjon AS. In 1983 they unveiled the Minac range of mobile converters. Workpieces no longer had to be brought at great cost to a stationary induction heater – the heater could now go to the piece. In 1991 the managing directors of FDF and ELVA met by chance. They talked and speculated. FDF was strong in stationary induction hardening machines. ELVA was the agile innovator with a track record in finding new applications for induction heating. What if the two companies got together? In January 1996 FDF and ELVA merged to create EFD Induction. And the rest is, as they say, history.