Buenos Aires is a city with its own personality, open to the World's architecture, culture and art; cosmopolitan and contradictory, dynamic and tra-
ditional, historical and avant-garde. It offers a wide variety of attractions: monuments, churches, museums, art galleries and theatres; squares, parks and gardens with ancient trees; typical neighborhoods; large commercial centers, traditional and modern hotels, typical restaurants and international cuisine.

The size of Buenos Aires forces travelers to choose their visits very well. Without a good guide, the city may seem scattered. Therefore, it is advisable to choose different itineraries depending on the travelers' free time.

AAENDE is the acronym for the Spanish name of the Society, that is a non-profit organization which nucleates all the different parties involved in Non- Destructive & Structural Testing (ND&ST). ND&ST actually started in Argentina many years ago, hand-in-hand with the construction of the nuclear power plants and partially sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and gradually extended to non-nuclear activities. In the course of years a national certification scheme has been developed within the framework of ISO 9712, and people are active in keeping it up-to-date, extending the scheme to include new methods and techniques. At present, many companies, non-profit organisations, government agencies and universities are involved in ND&ST throughout the country. Many of them became corporate members of AAENDE. There are:

CAEFE, CENACAF (Railways training centre), CITEFA (Army forces research centre), CNEA (Atomic energy agency), CONAE (Aerospace agency), DPVM (Mendoza's road authority), FAVARETO, GE Insp. Technologies, ITBA (Technological Univ.) , METALMECÁNICA, NASA (NPP operator), PTC (Technologic pole), SI Termografía Infrarroja , TECNOEMEL, TENARIS/SIDERCA, UBA (Buenos Aires Univ.), UM (Morón Univ.), UMM (Merchant Marine Univ.), UNMP (Mar del Plata Univ.), UTN (National Technological Univ.) Campana & Mendoza-ITREN.

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AAENDE WAS SELECTED AS THE NEXT HOSTING SOCIETY FOR THE PANNDT

During the third Pan American Conference held in Brazil, AAENDE from Argentina, was selected as the organizer of the fourth Conference.
This will be a good opportunity to strengthen links in the non-destructive evaluation activities of the Region.
The 4th PANNDT aims to gather experts and companies engaged in the NDT field, to exchange ideas and experiences and to promote technological exchange.
The conference will be held for the second time in Latin America, in the city of Buenos Aires.
This conference is organized by the Pan-American Committee for NDT, which congregates associations that develop related activities in the American continent fostering NDT activities in the region, and promoting the Pan-American Conference for NDT.

PARTICIPANTS

We are expecting the presence of managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, and NDT inspectors and researchers, working with equipment inspection, equipment and structure integrity, welding and also quality control, from fields as diverse as:

• Gas & Petroleum & Petrochemical industries
• Electric power generation (hydraulic & thermal & nuclear & others)
• Steel industry
• Automotive industry
• Airspace industry
• Nuclear Industry
• Rendering service companies for assembling lines
• Maintenance and inspection of different industries
• Universities and R&D Centres
• Art & Heritage Curators

Exhibition Hall

It is foreseen an Exhibition Hall to create for the companies a forum for promotion of their products and services, while visitors will have a unique opportunity to access the latest technologies, resource new contacts, meet industry colleagues, keep up-to-date, and see hands-on demonstrations. The exhibition will be linked to conference subjects and will host NDT instrumentation and product manufacturers and agents, industrial companies involved in manufacturing and operation of plants, NDT
service companies and laboratories, NDT societies, institutes and standards organizations .

Social Programme

Buenos Aires 2007 will be a good opportunity to know one of the most European of all Latin American cities. With its wide boulevards, leafy parks, grand buildings and varied culture and night life, the city is reminiscent of Paris or Barcelona. Buenos Aires is the third largest city in South America and comprises 47
barrios (neighborhoods) in which nearly three million people live.

To obtain information of the next PANNDT:

www.aaende.org.ar
info@aaende.org.ar

Altolaguirre 1674 (1431) Buenos Aires-Argentina

TE: 0054-11-6772-7429/7257
FAX: 0054-11-6772-7426/7355

AAENDE INVITES YOU TO THE

2007-PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE

BUENOS AIRES-ARGENTINA

AAENDE is a professional society that combines the history and the present of the NDT activities in Argentina. Starting with it's Steering Committee formed by persons from different areas and activities:

President: César Belinco , Manager CNEA
Secretary: José Scopelliti , Inspector QDA & L III
Treasurer: Héctor Espejo, Former PNUD-OIEA developer of the NDT activities in the Region
Elected Members: Alberto Nicolini , Quality Asssurance Manager Tenaris/Siderca. María A. Rebollo, Researcher, B uenos Aires University- Engineering Faculty

Replacements:

Vice-president: Ricardo Condoleo , GE Inspection Technologies
Pro-Secretary: Ceferino Gomez Cores , NA-SA (Argentine NPP operator)
Pro-Treasurer: Oscar Schmidt, NDT Inspector
Elected Members: Néstor Gómez , NDT Inspector Eduardo Yangosian, Director Railway Training Centre

But not only the Steering Committee is working hard on next PANNDT. A short time ago they have recognised two AAENDE members, that were two of the columns that built the NDT activity in the Region, and are examples to follow, specially for young people: Mr. Juan Báez and Mr. Ken Beswick.

The new honorary members of AAENDE