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Teesside process sector employer group collaborates on apprentice training
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Teesside process sector employer group collaborates on apprentice training
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n the UK, a group of Teesside employers in the science industry – led by SABIC UK Petrochemicals – is collaborating to provide process sector apprentices with specialist pipeline connection technical training and competencies. The group has partnered with TTE Training Ltd as the main training provider and is also working with Flexitallic UK Ltd’s Academy of Joint Integrity, which has a training facility on Teesside, on process safety and joint integrity. Alongside SABIC in the group are Lotte Chemical, Huntsman, CPI, Chemoxy, Invista, Venator and Cogent Skills. A programme of training modules, delivered by the academy at its facility in Riverside Industrial Park, encompass safety, flange assembly, and hand and hydraulic torque tightening, which is underpinned by an insight into gasket technology within the process industries. The academy is providing this programme as a complementary service after completing a training project for SABIC in recent months. The academy offers ECITB/Energy Institute Certified Training Courses in flange assembly and sealing technology and is a member of various UK and international working groups to ensure the latest best practice is integrated into a unique range of modules. Its training is delivered at various locations and on clients’ sites by qualified training instructors with extensive site experience. Gary Milne, Academy Training Director, Academy of Joint Integrity, said: ‘Providing this training to the apprentice group in the unique field of loss of containment prevention ensures all the technical standards developed for industry are transferred to future generations of technicians. This will help the apprentices underpin the compliance and competence skills they are gaining for their careers in the process sector.’ ‘The support we have received from TTE and our relationship with SABIC has been really beneficial in the delivery of these skills and competencies.’ For further information, visit: Web: www.academyofjointintegrity.com,
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Henkel Indonesia opens South East Asia regional innovation centre
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enkel Indonesia recently opened its South East Asia Regional Innovation Center in Bintaro, South Tangerang, which is the first of its kind in the region for the adhesives industry. According to Henkel Adhesive Technologies, it represents a strategic move by the company to combine its technical and innovation capabilities in the region under one roof to deepen collaboration with its customers and create greater value for them. The centre aims to deliver exciting innovations and high impact technology and products for the adhesives, sealants and functional coatings markets in Indonesia and across South East Asia. In line with this, it will partner with customers to develop new product applications and improve productivity and reliability in their production facilities. In addition, the centre will collaborate with Henkel’s experts around the world to bring the company’s global application expertise and innovation power to its customers in Indonesia and the region. Henkel Indonesia elected Bintaro as the location for its business and innovation hub because of its proximity to the highway, airport and its customers situated in Tangerang, Jakarta, and Bekasi and Karawang, where many industrial zones are based.
For further information, visit: Web: www.loctite.co.uk/limitless & Web: www.henkel.com
Conferences and Meetings News Call for papers issued for 17th EDF–Pprime Workshop
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call for papers has been issued by the organising committee of the 17th EDF–Pprime Workshop, which
is scheduled to be held on 4 October 2018 at the EDF Lab, Paris-Saclay, France. Run under the theme ‘Green sealing: how to combine both low leakage and low friction’, this workshop is primarily intended to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to gather and share knowledge regarding the reduction of environmental impacts through the use of innovative sealing systems. This event is the result of collaboration between the Electricité de France Co and the GMSC Department of the Pprime Insttute (UPR 3346, CNRS-Université de Poiters – ISAE-ENSMA). Furthermore, the workshop is organised under the auspices of the French section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and L’Association Française de Mécanique (AFM). Authors who are interested in giving a presentation are invited to submit the abstract of their paper directly to the Web-site at the address given below by no later than 30 May 2018. The manuscript should be written in English. Presentations, which also should be given in English (preferably without simultaneous translation), may last for 30 minutes, including discussions. A list of specific topics to be covered by the workshop can be found on the event’s Web-site at the address below. For further information, visit: Web: http://edf-pprime-2018.sciencesconf.org
Seminar covers the use of mechanical connectors
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he Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is running the seminar Mechanical Connectors 2018 on 24 April in London, UK. According to the IMechE, it is the only event that focuses specifically on the use of these assets for pressure systems, and will provide attendees with best practice for installing, managing and inspecting them in users’ projects. Attendees will also gain a thorough technical understanding of the latest available connectors and their advantages over welded joints. For further information, visit: Web: https://events.imeche.org/ ViewEvent?code=SEM6629
March 2018
Teesside process sector employer group collaborates on apprentice training
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n the UK, a group of Teesside employers in the science industry – led by SABIC UK Petrochemicals – is collaborating to provide process sector apprentices with specialist pipeline connection technical training and competencies. The group has partnered with TTE Training Ltd as the main training provider and is also working with Flexitallic UK Ltd’s Academy of Joint Integrity, which has a training facility on Teesside, on process safety and joint integrity. Alongside SABIC in the group are Lotte Chemical, Huntsman, CPI, Chemoxy, Invista, Venator and Cogent Skills. A programme of training modules, delivered by the academy at its facility in Riverside Industrial Park, encompass safety, flange assembly, and hand and hydraulic torque tightening, which is underpinned by an insight into gasket technology within the process industries. The academy is providing this programme as a complementary service after completing a training project for SABIC in recent months. The academy offers ECITB/Energy Institute Certified Training Courses in flange assembly and sealing technology and is a member of various UK and international working groups to ensure the latest best practice is integrated into a unique range of modules. Its training is delivered at various locations and on clients’ sites by qualified training instructors with extensive site experience. Gary Milne, Academy Training Director, Academy of Joint Integrity, said: ‘Providing this training to the apprentice group in the unique field of loss of containment prevention ensures all the technical standards developed for industry are transferred to future generations of technicians. This will help the apprentices underpin the compliance and competence skills they are gaining for their careers in the process sector.’ ‘The support we have received from TTE and our relationship with SABIC has been really beneficial in the delivery of these skills and competencies.’ For further information, visit: Web: www.academyofjointintegrity.com,
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Sealing Technology
Web: www.flexitallic.eu & Web: www.tteltd.co.uk
Henkel Indonesia opens South East Asia regional innovation centre
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enkel Indonesia recently opened its South East Asia Regional Innovation Center in Bintaro, South Tangerang, which is the first of its kind in the region for the adhesives industry. According to Henkel Adhesive Technologies, it represents a strategic move by the company to combine its technical and innovation capabilities in the region under one roof to deepen collaboration with its customers and create greater value for them. The centre aims to deliver exciting innovations and high impact technology and products for the adhesives, sealants and functional coatings markets in Indonesia and across South East Asia. In line with this, it will partner with customers to develop new product applications and improve productivity and reliability in their production facilities. In addition, the centre will collaborate with Henkel’s experts around the world to bring the company’s global application expertise and innovation power to its customers in Indonesia and the region. Henkel Indonesia elected Bintaro as the location for its business and innovation hub because of its proximity to the highway, airport and its customers situated in Tangerang, Jakarta, and Bekasi and Karawang, where many industrial zones are based.
For further information, visit: Web: www.loctite.co.uk/limitless & Web: www.henkel.com
Conferences and Meetings News Call for papers issued for 17th EDF–Pprime Workshop
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call for papers has been issued by the organising committee of the 17th EDF–Pprime Workshop, which
is scheduled to be held on 4 October 2018 at the EDF Lab, Paris-Saclay, France. Run under the theme ‘Green sealing: how to combine both low leakage and low friction’, this workshop is primarily intended to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to gather and share knowledge regarding the reduction of environmental impacts through the use of innovative sealing systems. This event is the result of collaboration between the Electricité de France Co and the GMSC Department of the Pprime Insttute (UPR 3346, CNRS-Université de Poiters – ISAE-ENSMA). Furthermore, the workshop is organised under the auspices of the French section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and L’Association Française de Mécanique (AFM). Authors who are interested in giving a presentation are invited to submit the abstract of their paper directly to the Web-site at the address given below by no later than 30 May 2018. The manuscript should be written in English. Presentations, which also should be given in English (preferably without simultaneous translation), may last for 30 minutes, including discussions. A list of specific topics to be covered by the workshop can be found on the event’s Web-site at the address below. For further information, visit: Web: http://edf-pprime-2018.sciencesconf.org
Seminar covers the use of mechanical connectors
T
he Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is running the seminar Mechanical Connectors 2018 on 24 April in London, UK. According to the IMechE, it is the only event that focuses specifically on the use of these assets for pressure systems, and will provide attendees with best practice for installing, managing and inspecting them in users’ projects. Attendees will also gain a thorough technical understanding of the latest available connectors and their advantages over welded joints. For further information, visit: Web: https://events.imeche.org/ ViewEvent?code=SEM6629
March 2018