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April 1999 – Issue n. 2

The world Organisation for NDTThe Global Mutual Recognition
of NDT Certification Scheme.
The target of the 21st century
Based on ISO 9712, the global mutual recognition of NDT personnel certification
scheme is getting a touchable reality.
The long way to approach this target started in 1979 during the 9th World Conference held in Melbourne. ICNDT appointed on the purpose a proper working
group entrusted with a task devoted to unify the plethora of schemes adopted by thedifferent countries.
The fundamental points of reference were the three levels of qualification according the outstanding SNT-TC-1A Recommended Practice for NDT Personnel
Certification. The Working Group was recommended to pass over formalities but togo deep into the content of the knowledge that, for the different methods, the involved personnel has to know to do correctly his job.
Along years of strong work the WG developed a document that was submitted for
acceptance to ICNDT. The document represents the first ICNDT product and ISO
referred to it editing its early scheme of minima requirements for personnel certification.

“Globalisation of
Codes is the objectiveof the 21st Century.
This target shall befollowed with every
effort. All people will
have benefit by purProf. Elias
suing
the globalisa(President of ISO)tion of quality requirements. ISO has this task!
In these last years the world wide spreading of application of ISO 9000 norms
relative to Quality Systems are a valid
demonstration how a code can be serve
people on global shape. It is auspicablethat for other norms the same way will befollowed.

International Committee
for Nondestructive Testing
Working Group
Harmonization of Training
and Qualification of NDT-Personnel

Recommendation
ICNDT WH 15-85
Basic Requirements
for National Personnel
Qualification and Certification Schemes

ICNDT
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from BELGIUM
Being very happy with the first
ICNDT publication, I want to congratulate you with the content andlayout, as well as to express my gratitude to you personally. I always had
the feeling we are both striving to thesame targets for the growth of a strong
international “NDT co-operation”, amission we share. Thank you for having mentioned the historic Agfa activities for over 40 years. Also in future
we will support your and world-wide
NDT actions… Best wishes for a successful World Conference.
H. Deschaumes (AGFA)
from BRASIL
We have just received some copies ofthe first issue of ICNDT Journal.
Congratulations! It is excellent! We
sent sometime ago news of Abende.
Did you have? Sincerely.
Joao Antonio Conte (ABENDE)
from BANGLADESH
Happy to receive the first issue of
ICNDT Journal. Special thanks andcongratulations to you and your organising staffs to present such informative journal for the first time to
the NDT societies of the world…
Mahi Uddin Khan (BSNDT)
from ISRAEL
Our congratulations for the edition of
the ICNDT Journal. It is very impressive. You have done very much efforts.
Thank you for your mention Israel.
Gabi Shoef - President (ISRANDT)
from UKRAINE
It was a great pleasure to receive first issue
of ICNDT Journal. It contains a lot of
useful information for us. …At the nearest time we are going to send you somenews from Ukrainian NDT Society.
V. Troitskij - President (USNDT)At the beginning of 1999 an important event
occured in the ICNDT life: the edition of the
ICNDT Journal. All over the world it has been
welcomed with enthusiasm. The NDT Community has recognised the Journal as a voice
for speaking to each other on the subjects thatcharacterise the NDT profession.
Many messages have been sent to the Secretariat; that is the witness of our common will to Prof. F. Tonolini
get together people living far away.
(ICNDT Secretariat)
All of you are called to collaborate to the
ICNDT Journal in order to make it the expression of our profession.
Several important specific objectives have to be pursued. The following targets may be envisaged and accomplished in a short-middle term:• to set up a network (via Internet) in order to diffuse and to exchange information about World Conferences on NDT and
ICNDT activities;• to approve final text of New Constitution and to give to it legal status;• to reinforce the ICNDT Secretariat and to implement a complete
and operative ICNDT structure;• to extend the editorial group of the ICNDT Journal and to stimulate a larger and larger collaboration with it;• to trigger and to boost a first nucleus of Middle East/Africa Federation;• to establish a Task Group of high expertise scientists to be consulted by political and economic institutions in the occurence of special events, decisions and situations as the design and constructionof important plants and structures, the policy of conservation andrestoration of art patrimony, the prevention, diagnostics and etiology of catastrophic accidents;• to shape a model of an NDT discipline to be inserted in highschool and university curricula.
Step by step we will climb the mountain!

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Letters and Messages to ICNDTINDIA

SOUTH AFRICA

Dear Dr. Nardoni,
I hope this letter finds you and your family in the best of health and spirits.
I am delighted to note that the 15th
World Conference on Nondestructive Testing in being held from 15th October 2000
to 21st October 200 at Rome, Italy.
I consider it my privilege, if I am given an
opportunity to present a paper titled “Nondestructive Elevation of Self (NDT of Self). My
paper will help open a new avenue in the fieldof NDT in the Third Millennium for furtherance of the powerful message from “Jesus ofNazareth”.
I shall be thankful if you could let menow in detail the guidelines on the format
in which it should be sent.
S.D. Janakiran
NDT of self! New Dhely 1996
14 World Conference on NDTSpeaking at the open cerimony in front of
more than 1500 partecipant I had the privilege
to address the message hereafter reported.
In the message there is a very short reference to our spiritual part of our life.
One of the attendee come to me and promised for Roma 2000 a paper on “NDT of self”.
The above letter we received now confirm
his will to open a new avenue in the field of
NDT.
Thank you Mr. Janakiram.
ICNDTTUNISIADear Dr Nardoni,
It is my pleasure to send you this letterto inform you since our meeting in Copenhagen.
I take this opportunity to have your advice on some items discussed during the last
meeting on ICNDT.
To make a new step in the future activity of ICNDT and to develop and promote NDT, it is opportune to consolidate themission and the tasks for the Regional
Groups that will take part in the futur atthe meetings as members of Executive
Board.
Regarding the countries which will bevoter members, it is hopefully to envisage
the principle of three levels of contributions:- 1st category: Strongly industrializedcountries; an annual rate of 3.000 and 5000
$ U.S.
- 2nd category: Industrialized countries; an adesion rate of 1.000 to 3000 $U.S.
- Other countries: 100 to 1000 $ U.S.
Every country has of course one representative committee as notified by the statutes
On the other hand, I point out to youthat as “Project Scientific Consultant” forthe NDT Project for Africa it is time toforeseen the putting in place of a NDTRegional Grouping which will strengthen
the overtures of the International Committe so that the Congress of Rome in
October 2000 will underline the universal
opening.
For this purpose, it is my pleasure to
inform you that the Meeting of the African
Chiefs of Projects will be held at Douala(Cameroun) during the period of 12th to14th of April 1999.
F. Herelli
Dear F. Herelli
Many thanks for your letter, your proposals are very helpful! As by our telephon conversation the task to achieve a Regional
Group of Africa and Meaddle East Countries
is in our dreams. For Roma 2000 we have torealize it. Extend in the meeting of Camerum
the greetings of ICNDT and present its Policy.
With this Regional Group, ICNDT will
become really universal!
I will be in Cairo the 3,4,5, of June; please contact our friends in Egipt, South Africa,
Libia, Israel, Saudi Arabia and others you
know for a meeting in Cairo on this important
item.
Thank you very much for your help!

With gratitude, we take leave fromthe founder and Managing Director of
the Institute Dr. Foerster, who 50 years
ago, with ingenuity, vitality and a social
conscience, laid the foundation stoneof our present, worldwide operating
enterprise.

Prof. Dr. mult. Friedrich Förster* 13.02.1908 † 29.03.1999
His wish that his life’s work should be continued as an independent family enterprise will be our duty and incentive.
Management, Works Council and Staff of
INSTITUT DR. FÖRSTERGmbH & Co. KG___
He passed.
A deep commotion embrace all of us.
Sculptured as in the rock his memory will remain in our mind.
His human and scientific contribution was wonderful all over theworld. Eddy current was a part of him.
Good by Dott. Förster, ICNDT thank you very much for the benefit you gave to NDT Community.
ICNDT

ICNDT

NDT IN RUSSIA
The Russian Society
for Non-Destructive Testing
and Technical Diagnostics(RSNTTD)

South African Institutefor Non-destructive TestingSuid-Afrikaanse Instituut
vir Nie-vernietigente Toetsing

V. V. Klyuev(General Director)

Dear Mr Nardoni
A World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing has never been held on the African
continent. For this reason South Africa is interested in hosting the 16th or 17th World
Conference.
We would appreciate it very much if you
could through your office:1. put South Africa’s name down as apossible venue
2. advise us on how to proceed further.
Thank you for your assistance.
We look forward to renewing our association at the 15th Wolrd Conference and wish you and your committee everything of thevery best with the task of organising it.
Yours sincerely
A Clavier - President
Dear Mr. Clavier,I really enjoyed to receive your letter with theenthusiastic will to organise a World Conference.
As, the 16th WCNDT will be hosted by the
Canadian Society for NDT in the year 2004, you
may propose the SAINT candidature for the further
edition to be held in 2008! On the purpose you haveto send a formal application detailing the organiser
institution, venue, date, facilities and financial supports. Then the proposal should be presented at thenext ICNDT meeting scheduled on October 2000 inconjunction with the next WCNDT in Rome.

V.V. Klyuev

The RSNTTD was foundedin Russia in 1989 in order to help to improve population safety and ecological standards with the aid of NDT and TD. At
present more than 3000 organisations andabout 1000 individual members are involved in the Society. The RSNTTD has 51
regional branches all over Russia. All leading organisations of oil, gas, metallurgical,
aerospace, chemical, food and other branches, transport organisations of Russia, research organisations, companies developing
NDT equipment and instruments, educational institutes, as well as the leading
NDT specialists are members of the
RSNTTD. In the Society there are also foreign associated and individual members.
The main periodicals of the RSNTTD are
journals “Kontrol. Diagnostika”(“Testing.
Diagnostics”), “Defektoskopiya” (“Defectoscopy”) and “Zavodskaya Laboratoriya/ Diagnostika Materialov” (“Factory Laboratory/
Diagnostics of Materials”). Each month new
research results and information about new
NDT methods and equipment are publishedin these journals.
The next 15th Russian Scientific and Technical Conference:”NonDestructive Testing and Diagnostics” will be held on 29
June-2 July 1999 in Moscow. The technical programme includes more than 700
oral and poster presentations

Your request give me the opportunity topress your Society in helping to constitute thefourth Regional Aggregation still missing now
days: the Middle East - Africa Committee. Thisaggregation is strongly claimed by ICNDT after the constitution of the European Federation
for NDT, the Pan Pacific Committee for NDT
and the Pan American Committee for NDT.

CHINAAs ICNDT President I will organise, a meeting hosted by the Tunisia Society for NDT (Dr.
Herelli very active in ICNDT) to discuss thismatter. I will take you up dating about it.

On behalf of The Chinese Society for
Non-Desctructive Testing, I am pleased toinvite you and your Society’s delegation tojoin us in our Society’s 20th Anniversary and7 th Conference on NDT, International
NDT Research Symposium in conjunction
with NDT Instruments and Equipment
Exhibition to be held in Shantou, Guangtong Province, China on October 19-23
1999. .....

Thanks for your collaboration!
ICNDTPan America
Committee NDT
On behalf of the Pan-American Committee
for Nondestructive Testing I would like tocongratulate the Canadian Society for Nondestrictive Testing and their Conference
Committee for providing our newly formed
P. Brady
region the opportunity to participate at the 1st(President PANNDT) PANNDT Conference, September 1999.
The organization and success of the conference has provided our members a solid foundation for future meetingand conferences in the Pan-American region.
At the PANNDT conference the organizing committee and all PanAmerican delegates held formal meetings. To highlight all successes
would be a horrendous chore but I would like to highlight a few of themore prominent success, the completion and acceptance of the
PANNDT Terms of Reference, approval for the PANNDT logo andthe award of the next two PANNDT conference locations. The
ASNT and ABENDE will host the 2nd and 3rd PANNDT Conference and Committee meetings, respectively.
I would like to thank all my colleagues in the NDT community who
assisted in the last four years and provided their time in establishing
the Pan-American Committee on NDT. I would now take this opportunity to pass the torch our new appointed President, Mr. David
L. Culbertson, ASNT and his Organizing Committee, Mr. Chuck P.
Woodruff, 1st Vice President, ASNT and Mr. Joao A Conte. 2nd Vice
President, ABENDE. The PANNDT delegates working together asa team will provide a strong voice from the Pan-American region,
and will be heard by the NDT community, on behalf of the CSNDTand myself I wish everyone success and prosperity as the foundation
has laid and we should all be proud of our accomplish today.

The Chinese Society
for Nondestructive Testing

Dear President Giuseppe Nardoni,

I welcome you and your colleagues sincerely to take part in the grand event, and wish
you to make great achievements in the coming activity.
Your support and cooperation are greatly
appreciated.
Yours truly.
Yao Jinzhong
President of The Chinese Society for NDTDear Mr. Jinzhong,
Many thanks for your invitation to China
next October 19-23, 1999 for the CHSNDT
7th National Conference and celebration foryour Society’s 20th Anniversary.
I am pleased to accept to join you and in theoccurrence I am going to plan a PGPC meeting. I will propose it to the PGPC Members at
the next meeting in Coventry.
I wish you all the best in the preparation ofsuch important event for your Country.
Yours sincerely.
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Comparing training hours of the most highlighted schemes
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level 10level 1level 2level 1level 2ICNDT Secretariat, with a view to maintain a close lively link
ICNDT Secretariat The
with its membership, starts from this Journal issue a column devoted
to publish news, information or simply messages received fromopen Window Societies. All are invited to take part in keeping alive this column!

S. Ghia (Technical
Director of ICNDT)

ICNDTBenefactors list

ICNDT do not have a proper fund. All
the activity is made on a voluntary basis.
The only funds come from Benefactors and ICNDT Journal Subscriptions.
AIPnD (Italian Society for Nondestructive Testing Monitoring
Diagnostics) has given a contribute of 20.000 $ necessary to organise the permanent Secretariat, to print the ICNDT Journal, tostart the activity forseen in the Constitution.
Other Benefactors are welcome!
ICNDT Benefactors will be listed in the next issue of the Journal.
ICNDT Secretariat

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Shorts…

March 17. “I am very happy to see your email regarding ICNDT structure. I am fully
satisfied with the workability of the structure now proposed for ICNDT/PGPC, executive committee and the secretariat. I fully endorse the recommendations outlinedin the e-mail message of March 16, 1999”.
Baldev Raj - PGPC Chairman - India
March 18. “I require a list of countries
that have introduced an ISO 9712 compatible or aligned certification standard or
program, and the year in which they did
it. Can you provide such a list, any information; can you suggest sources?”.
Richard V. Murphy - Manager Non-Destructive Testing Certification - CANMET. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

April 6. Prof. Scherbinin, Chief NDTDept. of Institute of Metalphisics from
Ural’s Branch of Russia Acad. Sci. announces starting of a project on Computer Aided Design for NDT. Interested
person are pleased to contact him via
e-mail <scherbin@imp.uran.ru>.
Prof. Scherbinin - Russia
April 10. “The CNDT Executive Committee has discussed the revision of the
ICNDT constitution, On behalf of the results of this discussion I would like toinform you, that the CNDT quite agrees
with the actual proposal”.
J. Obraz - CNDT President, Czech Republic

PRESS RELEASENDE Institute of Canada
Appoints Managing Director
Stewart de Walle,
Chairman of the
Mr. M. Farley (General
Board of the NDE
Secretary of ICNDT)
Institute of Canada, is pleased to announce, on beahalf of the Board of Trustees,
the appointment of Douglas J. Marshall as Managing Director of
the NDE Institute of Canada, effective November 1, 1998.
Mr. Marshall has thirty years experience in nondestructive examination management, administration and human resources.
Mr. Marshall brings extensive national and international involvement in nondestructive examination and predictive maintenance technologies to the NDE Institute. He has received
many awards and acknowledgements for his outstanding dedication and contribution to the field of nondestructive examination. His efforts were most recently recognized by his peerswith the presentation of the W.E. Havercroft Award in September of this year.
The NDE Institute has also provided comprehnsive coursed
to organizations and NDE practitioners outside of Canada.
It has assisted foreign organizations and educational institutions,both private and government controlled, to set up NDE education and training to satisfy local industry needs and to establish national certification programs.

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