ISO/TC 44/SC 8 “Equipment for gas welding, cutting and allied processes” met on 2017-10-26 to -27 at ANIMA in Milan, Italy. Experts from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and United Kingdom participated in the meeting. Liaison reports were given from ISO/TC 45/SC 1 “Rubber and plastics hoses” and from ISO/TC 58/SC 2 “Gas cylinder valves”. The Systematic Reviews were discussed. Apparently a couple of International standards are hardly used in Europe because European standards on the same topics exist. Their scopes shall be compared in order to check if a future revision may lead to EN ISO standards.
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The focus of the work program lied on the revision of ISO 9090:1989 on “Gas tightness of equipment for gas welding and allied processes” which is led by France, the revision of ISO 3821:2008 on “Rubber hoses for welding” and two new projects on “Pressure Regulators”: ISO 22073-1 and -2 initiated by Italy.
Since Prof. Kurt Ziegler has been the Chairman of ISO/TC 44/SC 8 since 1993, the maximum time for chairmanship has passed. Therefore the secretariat has started a ballot after this meeting to propose new candidates.