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IMFormation April 2009
IMFAIR 2009
10-11 June 2009
Royal Airforce Museum Cosford
Why you should be there...
IMFair ’09 is set to be the UK’s largest and most in-depth
surface coating and surface engineering conference and
exhibition, aimed at the aerospace industry.
An impressive list of high quality technical papers will be
presented by many well known names from the aerospace
and coatings industry from UK and International
organisations.
Associated exhibitions will be held in adjacent rooms to the
Auditorium to support the conference from where morning
and afternoon refreshments will be served.
Lunch will be served from within the Cold War Exhibition
with time for delegates to peruse the various exhibits.
A conference dinner will be held at the **** Park House
Hotel, Shifnall with after dinner speaker on –
‘THE WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD’ -
by the well- known historian and passionate ‘Brummie’
Professor Carl Chinn MBE, FRSA, PhD.
Health, Safety and Environment
Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
Under the EC 3rd Indicative Occupational Exposure
Limit Value (OELV) Directive, the occupational
exposure limits for a number of substances, including
sulphuric acid mist are to be introduced or revised.
HSE is preparing an Impact Assessment for each
substance to assess the likely costs to industry of the
implementation and whether the proposed limits will
cause major problems and/or costs.
HSE would welcome any help from the IMF
membership in the provision of any relevant
information for inclusion in the Impact Assessment
document.
The list is too lengthy to copy here, but members can
received a copy on request from Exeter House.
HSE – Time to clear the air
Thousands of workers become victims of asthma and
other lung diseases each year, many die or may become
permanently disabled and unable to work.
Often the first form of defence is air extraction or local
exhaust ventilation (LEV) but this is frequently poorly
designed, applied and maintained. Because some sort of
LEV is present, people believe they are protected.
HSE has carried out groundbreaking research in order to
identify why LEV systems fail and how to make them
work more efficiently. If the outcome is applied
practically, it should dramatically ‘clear the air’ of
harmful substances and improve worker
protection,.Better-targeted guidance is now available:
Aimed at designers and suppliers of LEV equipment:
Controlling airborne contamination at work: A guide to
local exhaust ventilation (LEV) HSG258 ISBN 978 0
7178 2 price £12.50 Contact: HSE Books, Sudbury
Suffolk CO10 2WA Tel: 01787 881165
Aimed at employers who buy and sell LEV systems:
Clearing the air: A simple guide to buying and using
local exhaust ventilation (LEV) INDG408 free from HSE
Books
Aimed at employees who rely on LEV systems to protect
their health: Time to clear the air! A workers guide to
local exhaust ventilation INDG409, free publication from
HSE Books.
A new website is under development to complement the
new guidance and training packages. (visitors can
download guidance for employers/employees already)
In Court today
A water company ordered to pay nearly £24,000 after
pleading guilty of two pollution charges by allowing
sewerage effluent from a pumping station which led to
the closure of a nearby shellfishery.
A company was ordered to pay nearly £13,000 for the
contamination of land with domestic heating oil, by
pouring the oil from a drained tank onto a fire at a
building site. A specialist company had to be called in to
remove and dispose of the contaminated soil. A local
family was advised to move out of their house and
neighbouring houses were affected by odour for up to
three weeks.
Fly-tippers were ordered to pay £100,000 in fines and
costs for permitting the deposit and keeping of waste at an
illegal site between 2005 and 2007. EA inspectors
revealed that there was mixed waste, including asbestos,
even after verbal and written warnings had been given.
A food company admitted contaminating a local stream
with milk and vegetable waste, killing fish and aquatic
animals. Result a fine and costs of £31,700. A member of
the public reported that a town drain had turned white and
smelt of rotten eggs.
A pool turned red after a company admitted spilling
nearly 4000 litres of diesel into a high quality watercourse
feeding a number of sensitive fishing pools. The
environment was put at risk through lack of care &
management of a local brick manufacturer and resulted in
a fine and costs totalling £13,300.
Company News & Products
Bodycote Metallurgy Lab
Bodycote Testing Group’s Metallurgy laboratory at
Dudley in the West Midlands has received Nadcap
approval for a range of tests including tensile, stress
rupture, hardness, impact, specimen machining,
metallography, Inter-granular Attack (IGA) and Intergranular
Oxidation (IGO).
Nadcap is the leading worldwide co-operative of major
companies supplying the aerospace industry and was
designed to ensure a cost-effective consensus approach to
special processes and products. All major aerospace
OEMs now stipulate that companies which provide a
service in “special processes” must obtain Nadcap
approval.
“Nadcap approval is an important achievement for the
Dudley laboratory and it will strengthen our position as a
provider of metallurgy testing services to the aerospace
industry”, comments Ken Lang, Business Development
Manager – Metallurgy, Bodycote Testing Group.
Dow/Safechem – chlorinated solvent supply
Dow is the largest world’s supplier of chlorinated organic
products and services. Dow is committed to chlorinated
solvent manufacture, having production capacity for
market demand, and is continuously working on adequate
product defence with regulators, local authorities and
associations. Products are pre-registered under REACH
and included in the future registration process.
Dow and Safechem are committed to providing the
market with chlorinated solvents in a safe and sustainable
way so that customers can benefit long-term. Active risk
management is provided, supplying products o legal
requirements, the principles of Responsible Care© and in
line with EH&S and Product Stewardship guidelines and
includes complying with:
• Supply and take back of solvents in the closed loop SAFE-TAINERTM system
• Solvent maintenance stabilisation for a longer lifetime in the cleaning machine
• Consultancy and training on solvent use and process improvement
• ‘Bundled’ expert know-how via our CHEMAWARE TM platform
www.chemaware.org
Balco – amp time control for platers
Facilities include:
4 digit 12mm high display with floating decimal point to
0.1 amp minutes
Set to amp minutes or hours
Shunt value can be programmed from front display
Preset values can be set with a visual ‘process complete’
indicator
Inbuilt relay to switch off rectifier when the pre-set is
reached.
Contact: Lisa Hayward – email: balcoeng@aol.com
IMF News - Examination Results
Foundation Certificate
Adams, Jake * Protech Finishing Ltd
Apps, Martyn * Fuji Seal Europe Ltd
Clement, Laurent * Muirhead Aerospace
Devall, Lea # Protech Finishing Ltd
Duncan-Turnbull, Charles # Hawker Pacific Aero.
Gardiner, Emily # Hawker Pacific Aero.
Hughes, David Tewksbury Diamind Plt
Moth, Jamie * GB Hardchrome
Palazon, Mark XAAR
Skingsley, Wayne # GB Hardchrome
Twardzik, Maciek # Hawker Pacific Aero
Fry, James # Gardiner, Stephen #
Grisley, Carl * Hanson, Marc *
Jones, Michael Lloyd, David *
Noble, Michael # Paull, Stephen *
Thomas, Howard # Worgan, Trevor *
All Royal Mint
General Principles (D.L.) Module
Burt, Andrew * Polestar Varnocoat
Mooney, Alex * MacDermid plc
Plating Practice (D.L.) Module
Holman, Phil # Deutsch UK
Matthews, Christopher # Deutsch UK
Material Science (D.L.) Module
Pritchard, Mark # GKN Aerospace Ltd
Paint & Powder (D.L.) Module
Saunders,Lee BMW
New affiliate members
Hennessay, Julian Robert Stuart plc
Laing, Ian Wellstream Int. Ltd
Reeve, Adam Hi-Rel
Thorne, Shaun Augusta Westland
Hawley, James Holder, Colin
Hughes, Neil Murphy, Iain
Turley, David All Messier-Dowty
Cresswell, Terence McConnell, James
Rhodes, Howard All Precision Aircraft
Broad, Shane Gough, Paul
Hackling, Russell Langley, David
Taylor, Craig Wallace, Daniel
All Poeton Ltd
New Sustaining Member
Dalic UK Ltd
South Lodge House, Ickleton
South Cambridge CB10 1SH
Tel: 01799 532 002, Fax: 01799 532 003
Email: damolden.dalic@tiscali.co.uk
www.dalicworld.com
Electroplating without immersion of nickel, cadmium,
gold, silver, tin etc. Selective CAA, SAA, PAA & hard
anodising is also possible. Curb your parts rejection
rate and restore original finish in production and
maintenance with Dalic Pioneer in UK for equipment
and services for selective electroplating.
Greentree – Shercon
Units F1 & F2 Yelverton Business Park
Yelverton, Devon PL20 7PE
Tel: 0800 731 5980, Fax: 0800 731 5981
Greentree – a leading supplier of masking and
protection products to all markets/industries with an
extensive range in a variety materials, specialising in
standard and custom designs.
Mekall Ltd
River Drive, Inchinnan Business Park
Renfrew PA4 9RT
Tel: 0141 568 8185, Fax: 0141 568 8111
Email: sales@mekall.com
An International subcontract manufacturing services
organisation, Mekall provide a complete turnkey
service from original design to final assembly, and
included in their service offered is anodising, Alocrom
powder coating and wet paint spraying.
Education & Training
The next enrolment for existing Foundation,
Technician and higher level modules and courses will
take place in May. Alternatively, if a company requires
a ‘tailor-made’ topic to suit local production needs, the
IMF can supply – a tutored course or distance learning
module. As an example, just commenced is a tutored
course on laboratory analysis and testing.
Contact IMF on 0121 622 7387 to obtain information
on what opportunities for are available.
Metal Finishing Golf Society
Wednesday 20 May 09
New venue – Harborne Golf Club
40 Tennal Road, Birmingham B32 2JE
Event fee - £30, Light lunch and evening meal - £18
Entries close – 8th May. Further details and entry form
from: Chris Bird:
Tel: 0121 353 0291 or 07711430805 or E-mail:
chris@pe-limited.com
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