Technical development and standards are constantly evolving and it is important for the technical staff as well as for business engineers that they constantly master these issues and anticipate at best the changes. For this purpose, a 2-day seminar brought together most of our available Parisian players to discuss the latest technical developments . The seminar was held in the imperial city of Fontainebleau, allowing us to concentrate for two days outside of the Parisian pressure.

The topics concerned people protection, the various types of Lightning Protection System , surge protective devices and earthing systems. How to check the protection means in field is becoming increasingly complex , and was also one of the topic addressed.

SEFTIM will participe this year to 2 main international lightning conférences : ILPS in Porto in April and ICLP at Lisbon in September. For lightning it is the Portugal year !

For ILPS (https://www.ilps2016.org/)  publications have already been accepted by the Scientific Comittee :

SEFTIM Brazil : The Role of the Grounding System in Electronics Lightning Protection

SEFTIM Portugal : Lightning Protection of Golf Courses and outdoor activities.

SEFTIM France : Lightning Protection System taking into account currents greater than IEC 62305 standardized values.

For ICLP (http://iclp2016.org/) publicationsstill have to be approved by the Scientifc Committee

SEFTIM New Caledonia : Lightning Risk Evaluation – Field experience

SEFTIM France : Thunderstorm Warning Systems: IEC 62793 standard  and another topic in cooperation with Polish and US colleagues : high frequency groundng impedance tetsing at test site in Huta Poreby, Poland

SEFTIM will soon be 50 years old. We are very proud of this longevity but the name SEFTIM has no more the same meaning that when it was created. We moved from a Société d’Etudes et de Fabrication des Techniques Modernes (Company for study and manufacturing of modern techniques) to an international company making studies in the lightning protection field. We kept our development and manufacturing knowledge when the needed products don’t exist in the market. We also have maintained and developed our EMC knowhow coming from the embarked equipment technology (mainly in aircrafts). SEFTIM is by now a brand. Our international development pushed us to make the brand SEFTIM more international. It then appeared clearly that SEFTIM sound is similar to « SAFETY ». And this is what we are doing: enhance the safety of the sites that we are protecting des sites whether it is for petroleum, nuclear, explosive or even historical buildings.

The PPA is an inter-governmental agency and member of the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP) to promote the direct cooperation of the Pacific island power utilities in technical training, exchange of information, sharing of senior management and engineering expertise and other activities of benefit to the members.

The PPA’s objective is to improve the quality of power in the region through a cooperative effort among the utilities, private sector and regional aid donors.

The PPA’s members pool their resources and expertise for their common benefit, gain international representation and improve access to international power sector assistance programmes.

SEFTIM will thus share its expertise in the field of lightning protection of electrical networks.

To continue its growth in exports and also to take into account that SEFTIM was very active in China for many years, SEFTIM officially opened an office in China in Shanghai.

In these modern and well located premises (10 km from Pudong Airport, 20 km from the center of Shanghai) a team of 3 people will develop studies and training in China. SEFTIM China will of course receive technical support from SEFTIM particularly during the development phase. Chinese courses will be given in 2016 to everyone at SEFTIM Paris to obtain a minimum of varnish and to be able to intervene in China for technical support.

Some studies are already foreseen: petroleum industry sites, explosives sites and a village that is very severely and frequently struck by lightning. See also other news about Tibet.

The inauguration took place in the presence of about thirty officials including the CMA who came specifically from different provinces and also of course from Beijing. The day was studious but also festive with, as it should be in China, fireworks!

A traduire en en_us : SEFTIM Chine est créé !