IIW History 1990-2015

The first modern welding technology stamp in the world issued by South Africa

an authoritative account thatwas published in1993.The front cover of Boyd’s book, incidentally, depicted postage stamps of many nations that were associated with welding and its processes. This brings to mind the external pursuits of Prof. Fukuhisa Matsuda of the Japanese Welding Research Institute at Osaka University in Japan, and his colleagues, Dr Itsuhi-ko Sejima and Dr Takashi Nakamura, who assembled a unique collection of postage stamps from around the world that depicted various forms of welding and its practices. These were published in a later book translated into English by the three authors and published by the Osaka University in 1996. 25 Among these stamps was the first ever stamp on arc welding issued by SouthAfrica in 1941.

Henry Granjon

Boyd made many friendships including a lasting one with Mr Henry Granjon who had also been associated with IIW since it was founded in 1948. They were of equal status in terms of their contribution to IIW and were part of its success over the many years that they were associated with one another. Granjon believed that knowledge had little value unless shared by everyone. 26 There was a great sense of loss when Granjon died in 1992 but his memory lived on through the IIW Henry Granjon Prize, which was established to recognise the achievements of research students, a cause that he was extremely supportive of and interested in. The prize, sponsored by the Institut de Soudure, was first awarded in 1992.

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