API Conference Summary

The API Inspection Summit was held in Galveston, Texas in January. Along with a variety of inspection sessions and panel discussions, two four-hour workshops were held. The first workshop highlighted AUT, Advanced Ultrasonic Testing, which includes C-Scan, Phased Array, and Time of Flight Diffraction of TOFD. C-Scan can be used for corrosion mapping and flaw [...]

By |2017-07-11T11:39:46-05:00May 20th, 2017|State of Inspection|0 Comments

A Preventable Catastrophe

On April 3, 2017, an explosion occurred on the premises of Loy-Lange Box Co., a cardboard box plant in St. Louis, MO. The blast launched a 2,000-pound steam storage tank more than four-hundred feet in the air until it crashed into the roof of a nearby linen factory seconds later. Four people died as a [...]

By |2020-06-03T12:37:32-05:00May 6th, 2017|State of Inspection|0 Comments
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