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TECHNOLOGY UPDATE ........ 40
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中文综合 ........................ 123
ADVERTISERS INDEX ......... 132
July 2011 |Vol 24No 4 |US$33
Is this the world’s best
induction welder?
Putting the smarterheat to smarter use
Judge for yourself, visi
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. 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.
Today, EFD Induction is Europe’s largest supplier of induction
solutions for industry (number two worldwide, but they aim to change
that!). If you’d like to know more about them, their products, and how
they can help boost your productivity, just get in touch.
THE JULY ISSUE
Welcome to the latest issue of Tube & Pipe Technology
magazine, which includes features on Cutting, Sawing &
Saw Blades; Coating, Pickling & Galvanising as well as show
information on Tube Southeast ASIA and EMO. As you can see
it has been a busy couple of months in the tube industry and it is
only set to get busier. Just the way we all like it.
The TPT team was recently at Tube Russia and had a great trip
to (sunny) Moscow by all accounts, meeting many old friends
and plenty of new contacts and enjoying some great Russian
hospitality. The magazine will of course be represented at all the
major tube shows coming up including the China (Guangzhou)
Tube & Pipe Industry Exhibition and we are already making our
preparations for our annual trip to Fabtech. And don’t forget that
the biggest of them all is Tube Düsseldorf, which, believe it or
not, is now just under a year away. Time to start planning.
Next issue we have features on the latest developments in
welding as well as a bumper show feature on Fabtech and
Tubotech Brazil is also coming up in October.
Rory McBride – Editor
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Features editor (USA) • Dorothy Fabian
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• Hendrike Morriss
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• Doug Zirkle
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• Linda Li
Chinese sales
• Jeroo Vandrevala
Indian sales
Advertising • Liz Hughes
co-ordinators • Andrea McIntosh
Subscriptions • Liz Hughes
Accounts manager • Richard Babbedge
Publisher • Caroline Sullens
Founder • John C Hogg
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