TPT March 2017

The March Issue Welcome to the latest issue of Tube & Pipe Technology magazine. This issue we have a feature on inspection, testing and quality control as well as two extended technical articles. The first is on measuring compliance and examines the weaknesses in carbide saws. It is written By Willy

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Rory McBride – Editor

Goellner and Christian Mayrhofer. The second article is on X-ray weld inspection and is from Hajo Schulenburg, CEO of VisiConsult X-ray Systems & Solutions GmbH. The March issue is being distributed at Tube Russia 2017 in Moscow. We will be at the show along with our sister wire magazines so please do come and say hello. Exciting news this issue is that Messe Düsseldorf has announced increased involvement with FABTECH 2017, already a great event and set to be even bigger. It will also be hosting a trade show called Iran Tube 2017 at what is an exciting time for many tube-related industries in the country, so the event should prove an excellent way to help open doors in this relatively untouched but promising market. Next issue we have features on tube mills and rollforming lines, advances in tube lubricants, and the trade show Guangzhou 2017 in China. The editorial deadline is 17 March and the advertising deadline is 7 April.

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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.

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