Experience comes from far
The Italian Institute of Welding is a private organization, set up in 1948 as an association of individual and legal persons, whose main tasks are research, training, certification and technical assistance in the field of welding. The Institute has been enacted on 1961/06/20 as an “Ente morale” by the President of the Republic (D.P.R. 882), in this way placing its image within an ambit more consistent with its statutory objectives.
The Italian Institute of Welding is provided with the most modern equipment which is continuously updated, with the aim to attain the best qualitative results.
In 1988 its seat was moved to the actual building in Genova, where technical departments and laboratories are gathered in an area of 11.000 sqm, 7.500 of which are covered.
The Institute has a staff of around 190 people, of whom about two thirds are graduate or non-graduate engineers.
Structure and competences:
The Institute is characterized by its multidisciplinary and versatile structure, made-up of operative divisions, each specialised in its competence sector and offering a global service: from design to fabrication and final test of welded structures, in Italy and abroad.
- The Institute performs the following activities:
- Education and training
- Research and documentation
- Certifications and approvals
- Laboratory analysis and tests
- Engineering
- Technical assistance in welding
- Diagnostics and non-destructive tests
- Standardization
- Publications and technical events
International connections
The Italian Institute of Welding is a founder member of the International Institute of Welding (IIW) and of the European Welding Federation (EWF). Inside both organizations the Institute has held, and still holds, important offices. Besides, it works together with some executive and research committees of the European Union.
The active participation of the Institute to these bodies results in a strong international activity, which leads to technical contacts with similar Institutes of highly developed countries.