What are the latest happenings in the world of induction heating? This section will keep you up to date.
Pascal Large has been appointed Managing Director of EFD Induction France. He formally took over the post on September 30, succeeding Daniel Delage.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), one of the world’s largest builders of cruise ships and gas tankers, has installed two EFD Induction “Terac 25” deck straightening systems at its main shipyard in Nagasaki, Japan.
The Terac systems are currently being used to straighten decks and bulkheads on large cruise vessels.
Ekornes, the largest furniture maker in Scandinavia, has selected an EFD Induction mobile ‘Minac’ heating system to braze steel support bars used in sofas.
Oil and gas contractor Bonatti has selected an EFD Induction post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) solution to help build the world’s longest 13% Cr onshore pipeline.
The corrosion-resistant pipeline is part of the In Salah Southern Fields project (ISSF) in the Algerian Sahara desert.
EFD Induction and its ‘Minac Twin’ mobile heating system have won a gold medal at the International Technical Fair held recently in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
EFD Induction, one of the world’s leading makers of induction-based industrial heating solutions, has announced the appointment of Terje Moldestad as new Group Sales and Marketing Director.
A heating solution based on EFD Induction’s Minac induction heating system has succeeded in improving output for Blue Wave.
Blue Wave is of the world’s largest manufacturers of rigging hardware for the marine, architectural and industrial markets.
Morten Lavergren has been appointed Managing Director of Electronic Heating Equipment (EHE), the Washington State-based coil, impeder and scarfing equipment supplier recently acquired by EFD Induction.
Bjørn Eldar Petersen, a Norwegian executive with 20-plus years’ experience in the global automotive industry, has been appointed CEO of the EFD Induction Group. Petersen takes over from Eivin Jørgensen, who, as planned, has stepped down on his 60th birthday.
Dr. Hansjürg Stiele and Stefan Schubotz of EFD Induction Germany have written a detailed study of the energy efficiency of induction surface hardening. The study, which is in German, is published in connection with Härterei Kongress (Heat Treatment Congress), held this October in Wiesbaden.
SKIEN, NORWAY-20/08/2012. Peter Runeborg, formerly the Segment Manager for tube and pipe at EFD Induction Norway, has been made the company’s new Sales and Service Manager, with responsibility for selling the firm’s complete range of induction heating products and services.
High profile for EFD Induction’s low-power Weldac. New range a hit with US profile makers.
In 2011 EFD Induction added a range of low-power (50-225 kW) welders to its popular ‘Weldac’ family. “We knew,” says EFD Induction Sales Manager Peter Runeborg, “that there was a demand for this power range, but we never anticipated such a positive reaction.
EFD Induction will be demonstrating a mobile Minac Twin induction heating system at the International Air-conditioning, Heating and Refrigerating Exposition (AHR), to be held January 28-30 in Dallas, Texas.