Posts by: Fernando

The dissolution of EPERC, the European Pressure Equipment Research Council

I have just received from UCC/ANIMA (Unione Costruttori Caldareria, the Italian Pressure Equipment  Manufacturers’ Association of the ANIMA federation,  the  actual  operating  agent  of EPERC-AISBL) the agenda of the next meeting of this association, to be held in Milan on April 3rd 2014. One of the points on the agenda…

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Europe and the European Standardization System: Lights and Shadows

When some European countries  decided  to  withdraw  their  national  currency and   to replace it  with  the Euro,  they certainly decided to give up  much of  their national sovereignty. Well, at that time the economy was doing well, it was certainly a big advantage for everybody to use a single very…

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The European Pressure Equipment standardisation system: state of the art

Following to the remarks made by many different sources, I was recently involved in a comparison among the different EN standards dealing with Pressure Equipment in order to identify possible differences. Among the topics in which the main harmonised standards (EN 12952  – Water  Tube Boilers,  EN 12953 –  Shell…

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The European Pressure Vessel standard: the most advanced Pressure Vessel standard in the world or a stupid waste of money?

In our preceding Newsletter (November 2009) I tried to prove that the interest of all the European industry (manufacturers and users of pressure vessels) should be the adoption of a single European Pressure Vessel standard. In all the other industrial compartments European standards are in fact progressively replacing the old…

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The importance of European standardisation for the Industry of all the world

All manufacturing activities concerning Pressure Vessels are slowly moving from Western Europe to Eastern Europe and the Emerging Countries (mainly China and India). This tendency is particularly relevant in France and Germany, where well known manufacturers (particularly of Steam Generators) have closed their home manufacturing facilities and bought manufacturing shops…

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