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On October 17th the annual meeting of the GSI International branches was organised in Duisburg in connection with the celebration „30 Years Cooperation between China (WTI Harbin) and Germany (GSI SLV Duisburg)“.

Just before the ceremony a study trip to the Duisburg Landmark „Tiger and Turtle“ and to the historical steel mill in Landschaftspark Nord was arranged.

At the meeting the following general managers of the GSI were present:  
Klaus Middeldorf, Managing Director of GSI; Bo Yu, Vice Managing Director of GSI SLV Kunshan; Jerzy Kozlovski, Engineer of SLV GSI Polska; Hans Georg Groß, Managing…

On October 16, 2014 – was held on the occasion of the thirty years of the intensive German-Chinese cooperation - in the GSI SLV Duisburg . This was a special event with international guests.

In addition to the well-known services rendered by SLV Duisburg in the areas of training, materials engineering and quality assurance, SLV Duisburg is opening up a special field of services to an increasing extent: conducting investigations into the usability of newly developed welding installations and components. This begins with the investigation of smaller components such as contact nozzles for GMA welding, TIG electrodes made of new materials and special electrode materials for resistance spot welding, is followed by tests on workpiece clamps for fusion welding as well as tests on…

The lecture delivered by Dr. Christian Klesen from GSI Niederlassung SLV Duisburg dealt with the subject of "Challenges during the clarification of cases of technical damage". On the one hand, the diverse technical influencing factors which must be taken into consideration and assessed in a case of technical damage were examined in the overview lecture. On the other hand, attention was drawn to the economic and legal significance of damage which must be clarified between the parties involved.

The lecture highlighted the methodical approach during the damage analysis with the application of the…

Active participants in committee meetings during the conference of the International Institute of Welding 2014 in Seoul / Korea

At this year's IIW meeting in July 2014, representatives from the welding technical training and research institutions Munich, Hanover and Hall, representatives of GSI SLV Baltics, the SVV Praha and the GSI mbH were represented. The participation was carried out on several committees within the IIW in the area of ​​education and training, as well as in the technical and scientific work of the IIW.

GSI participants were Heidi Cramer and Mark Müller, GSI SLV Munich,…

Report of a meeting on 8 / 9th August 2014 in Harbin

GSI Participants: Mr. Klaus Middeldorf, Managing Director GSI, Christian Ahrens, Vice President and abroad coordinator GSI, Markus Holthaus, Head of Materials and Processes SLV Duisburg and Christian Rothbauer, Head of Quality Assurance SLV Duisburg. As a guest of the GSI, Mr. Detlef Ulbrich by the German Institute for Building Technology was also at the event. Main interlocutors of WTI were: Men Yinglong Xie, director WTI, Wang Lin, Head of Education and Training WTI and Chen Yu, Head of Quality Assurance WTI - and other employees of the…

DVS team won Gold Cup for Germany!

Two second place winners and a third place winner, which was the outstanding balance for the German team at the international "ARC Cup" in Beijing. Germany was also able to achieve victory in the team competition and thus take the golden trophy home.

Congratulations!

The test carried out from 04-08 of June, 2014 in Beijing, "ARC Cup" has a long tradition. We started this welding competition in 2008 as a competition between countries welders from Lower Saxony and the Greater Beijing area. The idea was born during the two years previously conducted business…

The international conference on thermal spraying ITSC - International Thermal Spray Conference & Exposition was held this year from 21 to 23 May 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The English ITSC is carried out at different locations around the world annually in exchange either by the U.S. American Association ASM American Society of Materials or from DVS – Deutscher Verband für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e.V.

The conference, which also includes an extensive poster session, is accompanied by an exhibition with an industry forum; another important point of contact for visitors. Here leading…

At this year's International Trade Fair Beijing Essen Welding and Cutting in Beijing several events were of GSI representatives attended, held lectures and conferences and held talks with several Chinese partner organizations. Call be paid to the participation of GSI - staff at the Beijing 2014 ARC Welding Cup International Competition in Beijing with 300 participants from 13 countries from Europe and Asia. This international competition to hand-held welder and robot-controlled welding process is performed with increasing number of participants for several years. Germany participates -…