TPi November 2015

business & market news

Inaugural Welding World awards The Association of Welding Distribution has announced the new Welding World Awards, which aim to find and recognise the best examples of work across all aspects of the welding industry. The awards ceremony will be held on Wednesday 13 April 2016 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, UK, during MACH, a showcase for themanufacturing and engineering industries. 20 votes or more will be invited to confirm their application. Arrangements will then be made for members of the Welding World Awards panel of judges to visit the companies in January and February 2016, should they reach the shortlist within the top ten.

Categories include best gas supplier, best new welding product, best safety product supplier, best welding distributor, best welding industry training provider, best welding product supplier, best e-commerce website and best welding machine supplier. The Association of Welding Distribution was created to support and promote the high professional standards of its members in dealing with customers, suppliers and competitors.

Welding World Magazine is the official journal of the AWD, and includes industry news, product reviews, feature articles, membership news and an ‘ask the expert’ section.

The awards are international, impartial and independent, and can be won by anyone involved in the industry. To enter, a company must be nominated online at www.welding-world.com. Once nominated, all entrants are listed on the website with their name subject to a public vote, which ends on 31 st October 2015. Companies are able to nominate themselves, and all nominees awarded

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Tenaris expands online course offering on edX platform

advance its employees’ training experience, but extend its academic reach to the public and future industry employees. “This collaboration with edX has been very fruitful, as it has introduced to us to the highest standards of learning methodologies for developing people both inside the company and in the community,” said Rolando Lange, who heads Tenaris’s corporate university. Tenaris customers include oil and gas companies as well as engineering companies engaged in constructing oil and gas gathering, transportation, processing and power generation facilities. The company operates an integrated worldwide network of steel pipe manufacturing, research, finishing and service facilities with industrial operations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and a direct presence in most major oil and gas markets.

Tenaris, a manufacturer and supplier of steel pipe products and related services for the energy industry and other industrial applications, is expanding its online library on the edX platform with the launch of two additional MOOCs – massive open online courses. ‘Introduction to Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG)’, which started in August, encompasses everything from the geology of the ground and drilling conditions to what products are used and why, and how selected, as well as their different characteristics. The OCTG course was followed up by ‘Introduction to Running Pipe in Oil and Gas Wells’ in September, in which participants gained a better understanding over a two-week period on how OCTG products are safely prepared and installed in oil and gas wells. Tenaris’s corporate university has been collaborating with edX, a non- profit created in partnership by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, to produce courses that not only enrich and

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