Appreciation for TCR's PWHT Services in Saudi Arabia

Appreciation Letter received from Al-Toukhi Co. in Riyadh after completion
of our PWHT Project. Al-Toukhi is very impressed with the support we have
extended to them and they plan to utilize our services for their upcoming
projects including the Feras Power Plant Project that is due to start soon
in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. More details of TCR Arabia's PWHT services
are available at www.tcr-arabia.com

Online Module of MiC 3.0

It gives me great pride in announcing that the highly popular Microstructure
Characterizer (MiC) 3.0 developed by TCR now has an online Grain Size
Measurement module available at http://121.247.168.37/mic/

The new version 3.0x comes with Online Web Modules, Attached Camera system,
One Click calibration, Training Videos, Supporting Example images. More
details on the software is available at
http://www.tcreng.com/products/laboratory-software/microstructure-characteri
zer/

Corrosion Metal Coupons from India

TCR often undertakes custom Preparation of AISI 1010 test coupons of 4” x 1.5” x 1.6”mm Thk with 5mm to assist in corrosion studies for companies all over the world for determination of test specimen (initial & final weighing plus evaluation of pitting depth). Corrosion coupons can be made in other sizes and dimensions as well in India. Corrosion Testing Experts from TCR will assist in this matter. Contact TCR at www.tcreng.com

Consultancy on Foundry Setup in India

The Engineering Consulting Division of TCR often handles and works on various projects. Recently a client approached TCR to advise them in a technical capacity to look into the setup of a cast iron foundry in Punjab, India. As part of the engagement the client, who wants to produce 350 tons a month wanted TCR’s help in determining the type of equipments and facilities needed, get the equipment installed and make layout upto training of their people and getting quality castings.

To work on this project, the Mumbai, India office of TCR is deputing a Sr. Consultant who is a highly qualified and experienced person with vast experience in foundries and has carried out assessment of many foundries and we had helped them in achieving their quality goals. The scope of TCR’s consulting approach will include to study the type of castings proposed to be casted through their drawing or by visualy seeing the castings made by other foundries, identify all the items of plant and machinery required to make such castings in the form it is desired. This would include production, heat treatment, mould preparation, mould making, Quality assurance, machining and finishing operations. Also assist in procurement of these items. Preparation of layout plan. Inspection and acceptance of items of plant and machinery. Installation, commissioning and calibration of items of plant & machinery. Be present for trail runs and trouble shooting during initial operation. Solving all production problems and quality assurance problems as well as Training of personnel in various operations.

More details on the consulting team of TCR is available at http://www.tcreng.com/services/engineering-consulting-metallurgy.shtml

Tapping your resources

I am writing this blog to see if you know anyone in your network of friends
that would like to work with TCR in Saudi Arabia. We have the following job
positions that are available immediately:

- Sr. ToFD Technican with experience on Olympus Omniscan Machine

- PMI operator with experience on ARCMET 8000 (do not need XRF
people)

- Senior PWHT Technicians that are excellent in English and can
operate 6 channel programmers

We are a fast growing company in Saudi Arabia. For details one can visit
www.tcr-arabia.com

All jobs come with Food, Accomodation, Yearly ticket to India, and excellent
pay package. Send resumes to rohit@tcreng.com

TCR wins Third Party Inspection Project of Rigid Perlite Insulation products of Perma-Pipe Middle East

TCR Engineering Services in India has been awarded a repeat second order to perform third party inspection for Rigid Perlite Insulation products of Perma-Pipe Middle East (FZE) at their vendor locations in India. The inspection involves complete third party inspection of Perlite in accordance with ASTM C610. The inspectors from TCR will undertake visual inspection with dimensional measurements. During manufacturing, the inspectors will check the process for conformity and any process non-conformities shall be reported. When the Client's vendor in India does perform any tests like density, compressive or thermal conductivity, the inspector from TCR will witness the tests and will countersign the reports. TCR representative will check the conformance by joining two seams together so that minimum gap as per ASTM C 610 is followed. Due the fragile nature of Perlite, TCR inspectors will ensure that there are not be any cracks at the circumferential seam that will go up to the root, however minor edge cracks may be accepted. Surface cracks at the circumferential seam will be accepted upon repair of the seam as per the manufacturer's repair procedure.

A six member team from TCR will work round the clock at vendor locations in India to ensure strong In-process Inspections.

Perma-Pipe is manufacturing based on an order to perform the factory insulating and jacketing services for a 600 KM long 24 inch diameter heavy crude oil pipeline. TCR is conducting third party inspection services at the Perma-Pipe facility which is located in Mundra, India on the premises of Jindal Saw Ltd. Jindal, one of India's largest steel pipe producers, will manufacture and fabricate the pipe for the project. The value of Jindal's contract is in excess of $200,000,000 USD. The insulation and jacketing work, included in Jindal's contract, has a total value of approximately $60,000,000, which includes the value of the insulation materials to be procured by Jindal as well as other services to be provided by Perma-Pipe.

The pipeline will be owned by Cairn Energy India Ltd. in partnership with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), a Government of India entity. The pipeline will be used to transport heavy crude oil from their oil fields in Mangala in North West India to a terminal in Salaya, a distance of approximately 600 kilometers (375 miles). Since the heavy crude oil is essentially solid at ambient temperature, the pipeline must be insulated and electrically heated to assure oil flow.

TCR's independent, third-party quality assurance services results in improved product quality, with a reduction in customer complaints, noncompliance and product recalls.
The on-site inspection team covers all the states across India. The pricing structure for the on-site inspection services is set competitively and is based on man-day charges.

TCR's Third Party Inspection Services also include:- Factory Audit- OEM and Product Development and Monitoring- Welding Certification and Welder Qualification- Picking of Samples and Testing Coordination- Initial Production Check- In-Production Check- Random Inspection- Loading Supervision.

All inspection will be carried out as per P.O. / Drawing/ approved QAP/ Stipulated National and International standards / specification. Any mandatory testing stipulated in P.O./ QAP shall be carried out and testing charges, if any, shall be to Purchaser / Vendor account. In case of any technical dispute the final approved document from Client / Purchaser shall prevail. We strongly advise our Clients to suggest a Single point contact and feedback for efficient and timely execution. All Communication/Document transfer shall be through Phone/ Fax/ E-Mail/Courier services.

Over 2000+ customers worldwide use TCR´s services to dramatically improve and certify their products, validate material quality, ensure innovation in the marketplace, and to achieve significant competitive advantages. As a result, these companies are bringing the right products to market, at the right time, at the right cost.

Please visit http://www.tcreng.com/ to know more.

TCR Arabia - NDT in Saudi Arabia

The office in Saudi Arabia is now under full operations complete with NDT technicians and administrative staff.

The services TCR Arabia, based in Saudi Arabia, provides include Mechanical Testing, Chemical Analysis, Positive Material Identification (PMI including onsite carbon detection), Non Destructive Testing (UT, DP, MP, PT, Automated UT using ToFD, Helium Leak Detection, Ferrite Measurement, Portable Hardness), Metallography, Welder Qualification (as per ASTM, ASME and API), RoHS Compliance Testing, in-situ Metallography (with SEM and EDAX), Corrosion Testing (including HIC/SSC), Risk Based Inspection as per API 581, Failure Analysis, Fitness for Service as per API 579, Vendor Evaluation, Factory Audits, Third Party Inspection, Metallurgical Product Evaluation, Post Weld Heat Treatment, Manpower Deployment, Training, Engineering Research and Consultancy using NDT Level III and AWS/CSWIP inspectors.

Please visit www.tcr-arabia.com to know more.

TCR chairs session at Conference on Condition Monitoring

CII is organizing a Conference on Condition Monitoring on 27 June 2008 in
Hotel Express Residency, Alkapuri, Vadodara with the objective of helping
the process based industries in the central Gujarat zone understand and
adopt industry relevant condition-based monitoring practices. Central and
southern Gujarat is home to large number of chemical, petro-chemical,
pharmaceutical and fertilizer industries contributing roughly 60% of the GDP
of the state. Gujarat contributes nearly 50% the petro-chemical, 30% of
chemical and 30% of the fertilizer output of the country. With such a solid
national profile, it's but obvious for these industries in Gujarat to remain
competitive by adopting the latest technologies to prevent production down
time and enhance the asset utilization.

In this backdrop, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is holding a one
day conference on 'Condition Monitoring' to discuss about the emerging
technologies in the field of maintenance practices with specific reference
to condition monitoring, helping the SMEs demand and adopt customized
condition monitoring practices and design and develop industry specific
condition monitoring guidelines. The conference would seek participation
from both existing large companies using condition monitoring practices as
well as SMEs, who have heard about it but are reluctant to implement the
same.

Mr. Paresh Haribhakti of TCR Advanced Engineering is charing a session on
June 27 at this conference.

Conference venue details are:

Maple Room

Hotel Express Residency

18/19 Alkapuri Society

Vadodara

Tel : 0265 2337899

Fax : 0265 2337978

Article from TCR now Published on NDT.net

A technical whitepaper written by Mr. V.K. Bafna and Mr. Paresh Haribhakti
on In-Situ Metallography for the Plant Health Assessment Study and Failure
Investigation has now been published.

The article has been published in the NDT.net Database.

Document ID: 5651
Title: In-Situ Metallography for the Plant Health Assessment Study and
Failure Investigation
Details: www.ndt.net/search/docs.php3?MainSource=-1&id=5651

Customer Appreciation in Saudi Arabia

The NDT Services team of TCR Arabia has gotten good appreciation from recent clients. Here

 

View the following letters given by our esteemed clients on completion of our projects.

SINOPEC - Appreciation letter for ToFD Services

Tekfen at PetroRabigh - Appreciation letter after 8 months of ToFD Project

PetroRabigh (Rabigh Refining & Petrochemcials Co.) - Appreciation on ToFD

 

We undertake ToFD, PMI (both XRF and OES for onsite carbon detection), Conventional NDT, Helium leak Testing,, Eddy Current and many other tests in Saudi Arabia. Do visit www.tcr-arabia.com to know more.

Stainless pipes shipped without tests

5 June 2008 (Source: sswnews.com)

 

Nisshin Steel Co. confirmed that it had shipped 550,000 stainless steel pipes without conducting required non-destructive testing for detecting defects and tests for ability to withstand hydraulic pressure and air pressure. The Nisshin Steel plant in Amagasaki of the western Japan prefecture of Hyogo failed to carry out the testing, mandatory under Japanese Industrial Standards and fabricated test data for some steel pipes manufactured at the plant in the past five years. A Nisshin Steel in house investigation of test data found that a total of 480,665 stainless steel pipes were shipped without non-destructive inspections or tests on hydraulic pressure out of 4,311,205 subject to such tests. Tests were also not conducted on 71,756 stainless steel pipes of 2,485,458 subject to air pressure resistance testing. Nisshin Steel is the third Japanese steelmaker at which testing data fabrication has been revealed, following similar cases late May at JFE Steel Corp and Nippon Steel Corp.

 

Read more at: http://www.japancorp.net/Article.asp?Art_ID=18483

 

Jaidev Patel Passes ASNT Level III

TCR is happy to announce that Mr. Jaidev Patel has passed the ASNT Level III certification for UT and MT.

 

Mr. Patel, works out of the TCR Advanced Engineering in Baroda.

 

His details are:

Jaidev H Patel
Baroda, INDIA

ASNT ID: 177600

ASNT NDT Level III

Method	Exp. Date
MT	5/13
UT	5/13

 

Congratulations are in order for Mr. Patel.

 

Hardness Tester - HL 200

TCR Engineering Services has got the agency to market the portable Hardness Tester HL 200 (made in China) all across India and the rest of the world. The Model  HL 200 Portable Hardness Tester – China make comes with the following standard configuration -

 

1	Main body	1 No
2	D type impact device With cable	1 No
3	Standard test block	1 No
4	Cleaning brush (I)	1 No
5	Small support ring	1 No
6	Alkaline battery AA size	4 Nos
7	Manual	1 No
8	Instrument case	1 No
9	DataPro software for HL200	1 No
10	Communication cable	1 No
11	Tool for battery cover	1 No
12	Belt	1 No

 

To place an order for this portable hardness tester, please contact TCR Engineering Services on email. Visit www.tcreng.com to know more.

 

Nilesh Pathare is now an ASNT Level III

TCR congratulates Mr. Nilesh Pathare in passing the ASNT Level III Exam in UT and MT Methods.

 

Mr. Pathare, currently working at TCR Mumbai will soon be taking a more active role in the company’s partner operations in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. TCR continues to pay a lot of emphasis on developing and recruiting talent. The goal at all times is to meet and exceed customer expectations. Please visit www.tcreng.com in India to know more about TCR Engineering Services.

 

Looking to Hire in India and Saudi Arabia

We have new requirements opened at our laboratory in Navi Mumbai for the following job positions:

 

-          General Laboratory Technical Head (10+ years in Lab Management, experience in all Metallurgy)

-          Physical Laboratory Techninican (Experience in Tensile, Bend, Hardness)

-          Corrosion Specialist

 

We have the following job positions in our Saudi Arabia office:

               

-          AWS/CSWIP Professional

-          ToFD Experts (omniscan)

-          Sr. PWHT Technicans

 

Our positions fill up fast and you are required to send an email with your resume and salary expectation to rohit@tcreng.com