Jun 8 2011
AcousticEye, the leader in non-invasive tube inspection solutions for the heat exchanger market, has signed a strategic agreement with NDT company Sound Tube Testing, based in the Netherlands. Sound will deploy the AcousticEye Dolphin G3 systems throughout Europe, making the breakthrough tube inspection technology readily available to the region. The two companies made the announcement at POWER-GEN Europe, where they are exhibiting together at Booth 5D46.
"With this partnership in place, we expect the penetration of our ultra-fast inspection system into Europe to accelerate greatly," said Brenda Zeitlin, Vice President of Business Development for AcousticEye. "Under the agreement with Sound we can already boast the entrance of the Dolphin G3 into the markets in Germany, Greece, Croatia, Spain and Benelux."
Sound Tube Testing has already signed on five new service providers in Europe, representing new territories for AcousticEye. The providers are: Vogt Ultrasonics GmbH in Germany, Technava S.A. in Greece, Trokuttest d.o.o. in Croatia, DiagnostiQA Consultoria Tecnica S.L. in Spain, and HPFM in the Benelux region. With many more prospects in the pipeline, the AcousticEye APR technology is guaranteed to be widely available for the inspection of all heat exchangers throughout Europe.
"Our company has been very impressed with AcousticEye's technology since we first started using it last year, and we are excited about the prospect and opportunity to make this inspection technology available throughout Europe," said Hans Felius, CEO of Sound Tube Testing.
AcousticEye utilizes breakthrough acoustic-based technology to revolutionize the way companies perform heat exchanger maintenance. Currently only 8-10 % of tubes are randomly "sampled" due to the time and costs associated with traditional NDT-based inspection methods. The random sampling of tubes results in failures and defects, since the vast majority go untested. The cost of the resulting tube defects - including performance degradation, energy waste, environmental hazards and lower heat transfer - is estimated at $30 billion annually. With AcousticEye, 100% of the 13b tubes used worldwide can be tested for defects at a fraction of the time and expense of other testing methods. As a result, costly downtime due to failures in mission critical equipment can be avoided entirely.