Many years ago, when the first boilers and pressure vessels were put into service, and when people realized the danger involved in their operation, the national governments of the main industrial countries started to issue rules for their design, fabrication and inspection. Of course the most important problem at that…
The implementation of our new software platform NextGen (containing already the software to ASME Section VIII division 1 and 2) with the software according to EN 13445.3, 2014 Edition has almost been completed: the few still missing modules are always contained in the “classic” version of EN 13445.3. We thank…
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…
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…
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…
