Project Partners
EU
EFNDT, a partnership for Safety and Quality, is a federation of national non-destructive testing societies. It has 25 Full Members, 18 of them from within the EU. These members represent the 1,100 NDT service companies, 600 of whom are SMEs. EFNDT also has 5 Associate Members from outside Europe (Brazil, China, India, Israel, and Japan). Its main objectives are: -
- To develop powerful Working Groups, the results of which should answer the NDT problems of industrial and public organisations.
- To establish a European system for personnel qualification.
- To set up a European Certification Programme.
- To promote total quality in NDT for the benefit of its members, NDT users and society at large.
- To demonstrate the performance of and to strengthen confidence in NDT.
- To guide global NDT co-operation in close connection with transatlantic understanding.
To survey the LRUT market in Europe, its current and future needs (WP-A), to input into the training and certification needs for technicians (WP-H), to provide assistance in the dissemination and exploitation plans in Europe, organise LRUCM National Conferences & Workshops (WP-I).
LRUCM is a collaboration between the following organisations: TWI Ltd, Deutsche Gesellschatt fur Zerstorungsfreie
Prufung EV, European Federation of Non Destructive Testing, Asociacion Espanola de Ensayos no Destructivos, Associacao
Portuguesa de Manutencao Industrial, Associazone Italiana Prove Non Distruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica, Balgarski
Saiuz po Zavariavane, Ukrainian Society for Non Destructive Testing and Technical Diagnostics, Coaxial Power Systems
Ltd, I & T Nardoni Institute Srl, Sonatest NDE Plc, Isotest Engineering S.r.l., RARI - Construcoes Metalicas Engenharia
Projectos E Solucoes Industriais, Lda, A Casa Inteligente, Lda., Atlantis NDE Ingenieria de Inspeccion no Destructiva SL,
NDT Consultants Ltd, Advanced Technology Group Sro, Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade Associacao, Kingston Computer
Consultancy Limited, Zenon Robotics and Informatics SA, Kauno Technologijos Universitetas, Nexus Engineering Ltd. The Project
is co-ordinated and managed by TWI Ltd. and is partly funded by the EC under the Collective SME programme ref:
Number Coll-CT-2005-516405.