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…
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…
A few days ago we have received from CEN (the European Federation of the National Standard Organisations) the communication that the European Commission is refusing to pay the contributions already agreed for the work done after 2003 (and completed 3-4 years later) on EN 13445 (the Unfired Pressure Vessel standard)…
In the month of July 2007 the new edition 2007 of the American Pressure Vessel Code ASME Section VIII, Division 2 has finally been published. This brand new Unfired Pressure Vessel Code contains a lot of innovation in respect of the previous 2004 edition. The allowable stresses of Carbon and…
Well, somebody in Europe seems to share this opinion. As you know, Technical Committee 54 (Unfired Pressure Vessels) of CEN is carrying out the 5 years systematic review of all its standards. Among them, the one which required more efforts is no doubt EN 13445, the Unfired Pressure Vessel Standard,…
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