IIW History 1990-2015

Record attendance at the 63rd IIW Annual Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey in 2010 when almost 900 participants attended

The IIW WeldCare programme continued to be the flagship for the promotion of IIW membership to developing countries and the benefits this could bring to various regions of the world, including workshops on subjects such as ‘Technology Diffusion’ and ‘Governance’. These workshops were also held successfully around the world in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, India, Egypt and China. In 2013 WG-RA introduced a new project entitled ‘Establishing a National Welding Capability (NWC)’ as part of its WeldCare programme. With the support of the Indian Institute ofWelding, aNWCworkshop attended by over 30 senior people was delivered in India by Smallbone as Chair of both the WG-RA and the IIWTask Group Governance (TG-GOV). This was part of the third IIW International Congress held in India, in New Delhi in 2014 and assisted in the development of the Indian Institute’s ‘Welding for Nation Building’ project. This was followed by a stream of events as part of the Indian Institute ofWelding’s 50th year Golden Jubilee celebrations which also included the 6th IIWWelding Research and Collaboration Colloquium held in Hyderabad in 2016 linked in with IIW SG-RES. Dr Arun Kumar Bhaduri, Mr R. Srinivasan and Mr Parimal Biswas, among many others in the Indian Institute of Welding, played significant roles in the development of welding and IIW in India. IIW Commission XIV Education and Training (C-XIV) was a committed supporter of the NWC project and played a key role in assisting and guiding member countries

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