23 August 2010 In the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region in southern Nigeria many former militias, having rejected militancy, are now ready to swap their guns for welding rods and the first group of Niger Delta welder trainers who will help train them and the youths of the Niger Delta region, recently graduated as International […]
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23 August 2010 The Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW) Certification’s Welding Fabricators Certification Scheme, which accredits welding fabricators to the SANS 3834 standard will be boosted by the fact that SANS 347:2010, which is due to be published later this year, affirms that fabricators who design and construct Pressure Equipment (PE) in South Africa
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01 August 2010 SAIW Certification’s Welding Fabricators Certification Scheme, which accredits welding fabricators to the SANS 3834 standard, will be boosted by the fact that SANS 347:2010, which is due to be published later this year, affirms that fabricators who design and construct pressure equipment in South Africa to the ASME code, will, inter alia,
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27 May 2010 The Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW) says it is coping with the demand as pressure grows from an increasing number of fabricators that want ISO 3834 accreditation. The three latest companies to get accreditation , all pressure vessel fabricators, are: Carbon Steel Fabricators and Turnmill Proquip Engineering from Vanderbijl Park and
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14 May 2010 SAIW offers training, qualification and certification programmes that are accredited by the International Institute of Welding (IIW), making it a standard bearer for established best practice, says Chief Executive Jim Guild. “These internationally harmonised qualification and certification programmes facilitate the movement of personnel within the worldwide community and also assist companies competing
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07 May 2010 “We are delighted with both the quantum and quality of companies that have been audited and accredited and look forward to doing the same for many more fabricators, both small and large, in the future,” says John McLeish of SAIW Certification (SCERT). Another is Steinmuller Africa, which was presented with its ISO
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24 April 2010 “We have made some fundamental changes this year,” says SAIW executive director,” Jim Guild. “While the overall winner must have entered all three categories – carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminium – we are allowing entries for one category only. This will broaden the participation in this important competition. Also, the winner
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18 April 2010 “All SAIW courses need to be periodically reviewed and, when necessary, modernised and upgraded,” says Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW) Executive Director Jim Guild. “At the end of last year an opportunity arose to attend to the Painting Inspector course, which has been running for many years.” The course, which currently
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07 February 2010 The pioneering “Train the Welder Trainer” programme that the Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW) undertook in conjunction with the Nigerian Institute of Welding (NIW) has been a great success. The programme has not only produced Nigeria’s first International Welders, but also its first International Welding Practitioners, first International Welding Specialists and
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01 February 2010 SAIW still receives occasional applications from holders of older SAIW Welding Inspector and Welding Supervisor qualifications to convert to the current SAIW Welding Inspector Level 2 qualification. This has been allowed provided the holders attend and pass Level 2 modules which were not included in their original courses, e.g. the Legal Knowledge,
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