CNIITMASH JSC became the first in Russia official partner of Bureau Veritas Exploitation S.A.S (France) involved in welding personnel and procedures certification according to European norms.
Within the frames of the Partnership Agreement, CNIITMASH and Bureau Veritas will work together in the certification of personnel and welding technologies according to European standards. To make it possible, the expert committee of Bureau Veritas trained four welding specialists from CNIITMASH: Dmitry Khodakov, Dmitry Praliev, Alexander Abrosin, Konstantin Denisov. The theoretical part of the course was provided in the form of lectures and a final test, and the practical part involved the control of certification procedures for welders using real samples and was held on the basis of CNIITMASH Welding and Technology Center (WTC). With the benefit of training in Bureau Veritas, the institute experts gained the right to certify welders and welding procedures as well as the related technical documentation jointly with Bureau Veritas. They are authorized to carry out the above said both at customer’s sites and on the base of WTC.
The parties expressed interest in developing and conducting training courses on requirements of European welding standards.