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March/April 2017
Vol 30 No 2
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
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.
Enjoy the magazine.
Rory McBride –
Editor
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.
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.
The international magazine for the tube & pipe industries
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