10 November 2010 SAIW training manager Etienne Nell has released details of two new courses – a sales representative course and a heat treatment course – launched recently by SAIW. Heat Treatment Course Outline Introduction to welding; Heat treatment definitions; Welding processes; Welding effects on materials; Metallurgy; Reasons for heat treatment; Heat treatments; Methods of […]
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03 November 2010 East Cape Midlands FET College International Welder in training Chris van Zijl has won the Young Welder of the Year 2010 competition and will represent South Africa at the 41st WorldSkills Competition to be held in London in October 2011. He also won the Carbon Steel Category by achieving the most marks
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13 September 2010 The Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW) recognised exceptional achievement across a broad spectrum when it presented its annual awards recently. The Institute’s highest honour, the Gold Medal Award, went to welding stalwart Prof Andy Koursaris in recognition of the impact he has made on training welding engineers and his contribution to
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08 September 2010 Following discussions initiated by Cooperheat SA, SAIW is to develop a training course that will be open to anyone working or wanting to work in heat treatment. Heat treatment technicians are typically responsible for the pre- and post-welding heat treatment of equipment such as pressure vessels, pressure piping and boilers. Their work,
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08 September 2010 SAIW, in response to industry request, is launching a sales reprentative course that will enhance sales professionals’ overall understanding of welding and assist them to provide greater value-added expertise to customers. The first course is scheduled to start early next year. The four-week course, which is currently being finalised in conjunction with
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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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