The standard now being used for the central certification of NDT personnel is ISO 9712: 2012 (which is the newly issued 4th edition). In Europe, this document has been adopted as EN ISO 9712 and is the replacement standard for EN 473.

GE Inspection Technologies attended the recent North East Scotland Branch seminar in Aberdeen and took the opportunity to welcome a new member to the area sales force and recognise the long service of another.

Since the start of the recession, Ultrasonic Sciences Ltd (USL) has been bucking the trend for the manufacturing industry, seeing a continuous rise in order intake, turnover and profitability. The culmination is that 2012 was a record year, yet again. In November and December, a total of six large inspection systems and other major equipment was delivered to companies in the UK, the USA, China and The Netherlands.

Tecnitest NDT has successfully expanded its distribution network to the UK market by securing a distribution agreement with Baugh & Weedon Ltd.

FEI’s Visualization Sciences Group (VSG) and North Star Imaging (NSI) have announced the signing of an OEM partnership agreement between the two companies. North Star Imaging will begin offering VSG’s Avizo® Fire high-end 3D visualisation and analysis software as an integrated component with its 3D X-ray scanning solutions.

NDT Solutions, Inc (NDTS) and Danatronics Corporation have reached a long-term distribution and marketing agreement. This agreement gives NDTS distribution rights to the complete line of Danatronics instruments, including the EHC-09 Series and UPG-07 Series of ultrasonic thickness gauges, iFlaw™ ultrasonic flaw detector, EZ-Scan 4™ encoder and ultrasonic transducers.

As a result of considerable apparent demand, Lavender International NDT Ltd is considering a training and examination programme specifically for tube inspection using eddy current, remote field eddy current, magnetic flux leakage and Iris inspection methods.

TWI has combined its non-destructive testing and asset integrity management activities to better provide a holistic solution to asset management for industrial members and external customers.

With a worldwide reputation for an innovative ‘can do’ attitude and solving many clients’ requirements with original OEM solutions as well as boxed products, the concentration at Technology Design has been very much focused on sales growth through customer service.

On 18 January 2013, SGS was awarded a contract to provide non-destructive testing (NDT) services for a paper mill expansion project in Nelspruit, South Africa.