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APPENDIX 9
Year Host Country Title of Congress
2012 South Africa 3
rd
IIW International Congress: Advancing Science and
Technology of Welding in Sub-Saharan Africa, Johannesburg
2011 Australia
Asia-Pacific IIW International Congress: Improving quality of
life Through Welding, Cairns
2011 Turkey
IIW International Congress: Advances in Welding Science
and Technology for Construction, Energy and Transportation
Systems, Antalya
2010 Bulgaria
2
nd
South East European IIW International Congress: Welding
– HIGH-TECH Technology in 21st Century, Sofia
2010 Tunisia
2
nd
IIW International Congress: Welding and Related
Techniques, Hammament
2010 Thailand
2
nd
South East Asia IIW International Congress: Technology-
Education-Quality Management, Bangkok
2010 Israel
2
nd
IIW International Congress: Welding for Water
Technologies, Tel Aviv
2009 Iran
4
th
IIW International Congress, Tehran
2009 Slovakia
1
st
Central European IIW International Congress:
Progressive Structural Materials and their Joining
Technologies, High Tatras
2009 Nigeria
1
st
West African IIW International Congress, Abuja
2008 P.R. China
Asia-Pacific IIW International Congress ‘Change, Chance and
Challenge in Welding Technology’, Tianjin
2008 Brazil
2
nd
Latin American IIW International Congress, Sao Paulo
2008 India
2
nd
IIW International Congress: Technological and Material
Challenges in Welding, Fabrication and Inspection, Chennai
2007 Australia
Asia-Pacific IIW International Congress, Sydney
2006 Thailand
1
st
South East Asia IIW International Congress: Welding in
South-East Asia: A Challenge for the Future, Bangkok
2006 Romania
1
st
South-East European IIW International Congress: Welding
and joining technologies for a sustainable development and
environment, Timi oara
2006 South Africa 2
nd
IIW International Congress: Welding and Related
Inspection Technologies for the Development of Southern
Africa, Cape Town
2005 India
1
st
IIW International Congress: Frontiers of Welding Science
and Technology, Mumbai