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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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Is the European Commission really interested in the creation of a European standardisation system?

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)…

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The new edition of ASME Section VIII Division 2

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…

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