Sep 11

Meeting of the international team SEFTIM and partners in Portugal

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DouroMeetingSEFTIM will soon be 50 years old. To organize events that will allow us to celebrate this birthday throughout 2016, the SEFTIM team met in Portugal in the Douro Valley for a 2-days seminar.

The team was composed of members of SEFTIM in the various offices of SEFTIM (France, Indian Ocean, New Caledonia, Portugal and China) as well as partners from France and other countries. Unfortunately SEFTIM teams in Martinique and Guadeloupe and SEFTIM Antibes, could not make them free but will of course be incorporated in the coming events.

This meeting was also an opportunity to celebrate the creation of SEFTIM Portugal and SEFTIM China.

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Aug 24

Lightning Protection Study in Gabon

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SEFTIM is more and more present in Africa. After Botswana and Mozambique, this time SEFTIM experts were going to Gabon for working deep inside the forest. Climate was good neither too humid nor too hot allowing an efficient collect of data. The Lightning Protection Systems installed on the site has been studied, data collected for a further Lightning Risk Analysis and in-fine the Technical Study will allow to define the most adapted protection means.

The French law for environment (ICPE) of course doesn’t apply in Gabon but it was used as a guide for the steps to follow to define the needs. Besides, considering already recorded damage, protection means to protect operational risk will be taken into account. The need of an easy maintenance of the protection means is also an important criterion in the selection process at the time of the definition of the protection solutions.

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Aug 17

Children Lightning Protection

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Lightning protection of children and especially the education of children on the lightning risk and how to protect themselves, is an important focus of SEFTIM in his cares of human risk protection.

To this end, SEFTIM developed a small document for children which can be downloaded from the website.


Download the leaflet

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Jul 31

Training in New Caledonia

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Training of technical personnel in the province of Loyalty Islands to obtain the qualification Qualifoudre for various sites in the Islands ( Lifou, Ouvéa , Maré, Tiga ).

This training allowed 5 people to discover the different materials and methods of protection and facility audits.

Visits to some facilities have shown both good and bad practices.

The Lightning phenomenon including its special characteristics on the islands was developed.

The necessary protection of people both in the workplace and leisure was highlighted.


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Jun 17

SEFTIM participates to the Oil & Gas conference in Aberdeen

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IMG_1981As part of its export activities in the oil sector, SEFTIM participated from 17 to 18 June 2015 at the conference and exhibition Oil & Gas in Aberdeen (Scotland). This meeting between professionals was an opportunity to discuss the current market and its needs, both for offshore installations in Scotland and around the world.

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This was also an opportunity to make exchanges with experts in this field and observe the trends for the future.

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Jun 05

A new Qualifoudre trainer Level 4 in SEFTIM

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To meet the ever-increasing training needs of companies wanting Qualifoudre qualification or already being qualified according Qualifoudre 3.3, SEFTIM continues to develop its training center.

Thus SEFTIM is pleased to announce that its has obtained qualification by Quaifoudre of a second trainer at Level 4 able to train people to Level 1, 2 or 3.

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May 25

Initial Inspection of 4 sites in Botswana

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Botswana is a country with great wealth in flora and fauna. Lightning is also very important in the territory.

A preliminary lightning study was conducted locally to show what is the lightning density in the country.

Following this first step, data communications facilities located on high points on 4 sites (3 sites around the capital Gaborone and one more distant) were studied.

The Lightning Risk Analysis has shown the need to protect these four sites and a Technical Study has identified the means of protection, including Surge Protective Devices.

Once the installation done on site, initial inspection was conducted at each site in the presence of the installer to validate whether protections were installed correctly and if necessary define the corrective actions.

The four sites have been approved and are by now ready for lightning.

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May 19

A new SEFTIM office: SEFTIM PORTUGAL

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To continue its growth outside of France and especially in Portuguese -speaking countries, SEFTIM just set up an office in Portugal.

Based in Lisbon it allows to be close to industrial needs in Portugal, but also to meet the expectations of other Portuguese speaking countries like Brazil and Mozambique

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May 11

Lightning Protection training in Brittany

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2015 was a good year for lightning protection training in Britany showing the interest of local manufacturers, users or contractors in this area.

Brittany is not necessarily the most severe region for lightning activity, but lightning strikes have usually severe energy and soil is usually based on granite leading to important consequences.

In addition, many manufacturers with sensitive activity are based in the area.

Two 2-days training perfomed in intra allowed to review the essential elements of protection and also to handle the specificities of the region and the sea effect.

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May 04

Training in USA for IEC standardization rules

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IECUSAFollowing his appointment as Chairman of the IEC Committee on Surge Protective Devices,
the IEC organized a 2-day training specifically dedicated to the functions of Chairman and Committee Secretary.

This training was held in the premises of IEC Regional Centre for North America,
since USA is in charge of the SPD Committee

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