ANDES – Advanced NDE Solutions

About ANDES Advanced NDE Solutions

ANDES Advanced NDE Solutions is a network of highly qualified NDT professionals with long term background. It was founded by Daniel Comuzzi who has spent most of his professional career at the TENARIS A.S. Group. Since 1988, Daniel has been the global head of NDT and NDT procurement at TENARIS and has extensive background on all NDT methods which are relevant for the tube and pipe markets. This includes Ultrasonic Testing (UT), Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT), Eddy Current Testing (ET), Magnetic Strayflux Testing (MFL) and Magnetic Particle Testing (MT). Speaking four languages, he has qualified leading NDT suppliers and introduced them in TENARIS plants worldwide, i.e. in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Saudi Arabia, China and Japan. Long term placements, e.g. spending more than two yours in Asia, formed his multi-cultural background.

ANDES History

In 2017, Daniel Comuzzi has left TENARIS and founded ANDES Advanced NDE Solutions. Since then, ANDES has been supporting well-known NDT suppliers such as METALSCAN, TECNATOM, EDDYFI and KARL DEUTSCH. ANDES is also regularly exchanging information with leading tube and pipe manufacturers such as VALLOUREC (workshops in Brazil, France, Saudi Arabia, China and Germany) and the TMK Group (workshops in Russia and Romania).

ANDES Projects

ANDES has been appointed by ECOMAG SRL Italy for business development with the focus on UT, MT and PT testing machines. ECOMAG has been a well known supplier of NDT solutions mainly for the Italian market. ECOMAG also has references in Greece at CPW Corinth Pipe Works and in international markets – mainly for subsidiaries of Italian companies such as MARCEGAGLIA China, METALFER Brazil and AD TUBI USA. The job for ANDES is to broaden the base of customers and industrial sectors such as railways (LUCCHINI, LUCCHINI IRS and JSW-Piombino), aerospace (VALBRUNA) and power industries (forging shops such as FORGITAL).

Daniel Comuzzi and Dr. Wolfram A. Karl Deutsch (President of KARL DEUTSCH, Germany) celebrating the shipment of the seamless tube testing system for TKM-ARTROM.

New and alternate NDT techniques such as contactless MT for pipe ends or ET Array or MFL testing of semi-finished profiles are in the portfolio of ANDES. ANDES maintains close links to the key players of the market for surface crack detection.

In the years 2021/2022, a project with TMK-ARTROM (Slatina, Romania) and KARL DEUTSCH (Wuppertal, Germany) was accompanied.

ECHOGRAPH-RPTR-PAUT Testing system for seamless tubes at KARL DEUTSCH workshop before shipment.

An impressive high-speed Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing system for the inspection of seamless pipes (diameters 60 – 270 mm, wall thicknesses up to 60 mm) and for oblique defect detection (0 – 75°) was put into operation.

ECHOGRAPH-RPTR-PAUT Seven probe holders (clusters) and eight phased array probes with a total of 960 PAUT parallel test channels.

Currently, the testing system is in the commission stage in Romania and the final acceptance test is foreseen in the first half of 2022.

ECHOGRAPH-RPTR-PAUT Testing system for seamless tubes during assembly at TMK-Slatina workshop with Project Manager Jörn Bolten and Mechanical Construction Engineer Holger Harmuth from KARL DEUTSCH and with Dipl.-Ing. Raimund Zeman from Solutii CND from Bukarest, Romania for after sales service.

For more information about this testing system, you can download the paper for the upcoming world conference for NDT in Korea (WCNDT, May 30^th – June 3^rd, 2022) -> DOWNLOAD LINK.

Meeting of ECOMAG, KARL DEUTSCH and ANDES NDT (f.l.t.r., January 2022): Mirco Gualtieri (ECOMAG Sales), Dr. Wolfram Deutsch (KD), Daniel Comuzzi (ANDES), and Mario Lamari (ECOMAG CEO).

ANDES Literature and Downloads

Etienne Grondin, „Inspecting Seamless Tubes with Phased Array Using the Gapless Inspection Method“. ECNDT 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Wolfram A. Karl Deutsch et al., „Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing of Heavy-Walled Seamless Tubes by Means of a Testing Portal“. ECNDT 2010 in Moscow, Russia.

Michel Vahe et al., „Utilisation de Capteur Ultrason Multiélément 1.5D pour le Contrôle de Défauts Longitudinaux sur Tube à Fort Rapport Épaisseur/Diamètre“. COFREND 2017 in Strasbourg, France.

Cristian Drinciu, et al., High-Speed Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing of Standard-Walled and Heavy-Walled Seamless Tubes with Improved Oblique Defect Detection. To be published at the WCNDT 2022, in Incheon, Korea (May 30^th – June 3^rd, 2022).

ANDES Contact and Imprint

ANDES is an international network with hubs and members in Germany, Estonia, Argentina, and Milano Italy. We are happy to provide more information about our skills and competences.

You can contact us at:
Via Pisa No. 250
20099 Sesto San Giovanni near Milano
Italy
info@andes-ndt.com
+39-331-901-1361
www.andes-ndt.com