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Over 100 delegates from 28 countries attended the GE X-Ray Forum, which took place in Berlin from 29 August to 1 September 2011.

September 2011 was a busy month for all at ETher NDE. The whole team was extremely eager to get to Materials Testing 2011 as it meant the unveiling of three brand new products: the ‘SigmaCheck’ and the ‘ETi’, as well as placing the ‘Vantage’ within the market.

The Technology Strategy Board has declared the first Technology and Innovation Centre in high value manufacturing (HVM) open for business. The Board will be investing £140 million over a six-year period, which will stimulate manufacturing in the UK, reduce the risk of innovation for new and established UK manufacturing businesses and attract international business to the UK.

In response to increased demand, UV Light Technology Limited of Birmingham has added more dates during 2012 for its unique and specialist training course: ‘Risk management of UV light exposure in the workplace’.

Time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD) has established itself as a widely used tool for flaw detection in welds and is an accurate and effective NDT technique to determine defect height. This unique ultrasonic method offers significant advantages in the speed and detection of defects and combines a high detection rate with extremely good reliability for both pre-service and in-service inspections.

The Chief Executive of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear, Jean Llewellyn OBE, welcomed the publication of the UK’s Chief Nuclear Inspector Dr Mike Weightman’s final report on the lessons to be learned from the Fukushima Dai-ichi incident.

Peak NDT marked the presentation of its Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2011 with a celebration and workshop held over two days in October at its premises in Derby and Derbyshire County Cricket Club.

During an award ceremony at Argyll-Ruane Ltd’s premises in Rotherham, The British Institute of NDT (BINDT) and The National Skills Academy for Nuclear decided that it was in the public interest if both were members of each other’s organisations. The National Skills Academy for Nuclear is keen to understand how prepared we will be in terms of the provision of NDT services when generators start to build nuclear power stations. Equally, BINDT is keen to be at the forefront of the development of education and vocational NDT programmes to ensure that an adequate resource is provided.

Monitran, a world leader in the development and manufacture of transducers for the measurement of vibration, proximity and displacement, has promoted Andy Anthony to the position of Managing Director.

A very rainy Aberdeen hosted an all-time record-breaking attendance at what was the largest exhibition and conference in the history of SPE Offshore Europe. AGR Field Operations was amongst over 1,500 exhibiting companies, representing business operations from around the globe and covering more than 25,000 m2. This year’s theme was ‘Securing Safe, Smart, Sustainable Supply’ and was attended by some 32,000 delegates.