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…
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)…