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December 2011: The latest edition of our quarterly newsletter features: • A voice at Westminster • Proposed professional qualifications • Optimising combustion air/gas ratios • Furnace study to determine future EC action • Latest consultation on climate change agreements • New approaches to furnace atmospheres • SEA news • Letter to the Editor • Member news • Diary of upcoming heat-treatment-related events • Member profile • Market movements. |
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September 2011: • 19th IFHTSE Congress • The recruitment opportunity • Top ten heat treat advances? • Booming CHTA Benchmarking Club • Member news • Award for SEA • Member profile. |
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June 2011: • CHTA AGM 2011 • What does the future hold for UK energy supplies? • Training of metallurgical technicians • Outsourcing heat treatment is a no-brainer • Climate change agreements: performance history of the UK heat treatment sector • CHTA sponsors IFHTSE Congress. |
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March 2011: • New CHTA Chairman • Future energy supplies to be discussed at CHTA AGM • Climate Change Agreements – Milestone 5 and what next? • Avoiding the risk of critical component failure • New requirements for hardness measurement and reporting • What’s in a name? |
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December 2010: • CHTA Secretary wins Individual Achievement Award • Awards herald success of ADI Treatments • Quality: food for thought • Training: what’s you priority? • Changes to the CRC Scheme • Size of the surface engineering market? • Metal theft on the rise again |
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September 2010: • Do you have a half-hourly electricity meter? (requirements of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme) • New CCAs on hold • New CHTA Guidelines for Conditions of Business released • Surface protection of stainless steel whilst maintaining corrosion • CRC exemption for companies with CCAs • IFHTSE Congress returns to UK • EuP Directive: heat treatment furnaces |
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June 2010: • New CCA target negotiations: crucial information requested • Good turnout at CHTA AGM • Whither contract heat treatment? • Training in heat treatment (letters to the Editor) · Finding a heat treater • New CHTA guidelines for conditions of business • Energy and steel prices explored |
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March 2010: • CHTA’s May 13th AGM (Special discussion session on “Training in heat treatment” announced) • Training in Heat Treatment (Options, requirements and initiatives reviewed) • Understanding Heat Treatment (Another Wolfson course) • New Climate Change Agreements (Proposed changes and timing outlined) |
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December 2009: • Government ignores manufacturing at its peril • Project Discovery and future energy prices • Problems of communication? (Part 2) • CCAs: latest news • How to fill the training gap? • CHTA’s website upgrade |
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September 2009: • "Unfair" Energy Contracts - help needed. • Heat treater uses technology as blueprint to efficiency. • Why bother working to make a living? • Problems of communication? |
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June 2009: • Good turnout at CHTA AGM • Slash your electricity bill! • Climate Change Agreements • Health and Safety • Forty-five years in contract heat treatment • Obituary: Harry Child |
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March 2009: • Championing UK manufacturing • Working capital and credit management / risk reduction • CHTA's new Chairman • David Frost to speak at CHTA AGM • CCAs – milestone reporting • Tom Bell Memorial Award |
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December 2008: • Countering the recession • Achieving CQI-9 – was it worth it? • Outsourcing heat treatment • CHTA’s website – what do you think? • CCAs – latest news • Obituary: Brenda Buckley • Training • SEA Award for CHTA member |
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September 2008: • 2500 years of metallurgical experience • Rising energy prices - the beginning or the end? • CCAs - latest developments • Experience with a Knowledge Transfer Partnership • Salt costs • Looking back on 31 years as MTI's CEO. |
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June 2008: • Climate Change Agreements: an unrealistic target review • Process control: a new approach for gas carburising • Obituary: Professor Tom Bell • CHTA AGM: photographs • Steel prices: analysis of recent developments • SEA Awards: nominations. |
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March 2008: * "On your bike for CHTA's AGM" * "Risk management and insurance" * "CCAs: changing energy suppliers" * "Transporting demands for heat treatment" * "What is REACH?" |
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December 2007: * "Nadcap - outside looking in"; * "Rising fear of energy crisis this winter?"; * "Capturing the captives"; * "Wolfson course marks 30-year anniversary with bumper turnout"; * "CCAs extended". |
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September 2007: * "Metal theft: we are not alone!"; * "Climate Change Agreements: a progress report"; * "Moving forward on degreasing"; * "Improving energy efficiency through Energy Project Implementation". |
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June 2007: * "John Cowie, CHTA's founding Chairman" (obituary); * "David Wilkins retires"; * "Smoke-free heat treatment shops". |
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March 2007: * "What cost in-house heat treatment?"; * "Why CQI-9?"; * "Investing in smart meters can bring significant compliance and cost benefits"; * "HSE operational circular published after CHTA input"; * "New CHTA Chairman". |
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December 2006: * "Why use contract heat treatment?"; * "Outsourcing - hope for heat treatment"; * "CCA audits: some things that CHTA members should know!"; * "Latest CCA news from SEA"; * "A good year for CHTA". |
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September 2006: * "Update on energy price trends"; * "SEA Energy Management Services: what's on offer for CHTA members?"; * "Climate Change Agreements - End of Milestone Reporting"; * "How things change!" (the ever-changing face of UK contract heat treatment); * "Contract heat treatment in Australia". |
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June 2006: * "New CHTA Buyers Guide to Contract Heat Treatment published" (downloadable pdf below); * "Solvent degreasing: how to be compliant"; * "New Noise-at-Work Regulations"; * "Knowledge Transfer Partnerships"; * "CHTA/SEA CCA Workshop for heat treaters"; * "CHTA Benchmarking Club"; * "Advertising in Hotline". |
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CHTA Buyers Guide to Contract Heat Treatment (10th Edition) May 2006: The new definitive guide to sourcing from 70 UK-wide subcontract heat treatment specialists. For a more-readily manipulated original hard copy, contact Diana Blair (tel: 0121 237 1123; fax: 0121 237 1124; e-mail: diana.blair@sea.org.uk). |
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March 2006: * "Contract heat treatment's positive impact on the energy/cost/value equation"; * "CCA for heat treaters kicks in - at last!"; * "Sympathetic MP visit gives some hope of back-dated CCL rebates"; * Guidance on environmental legislation for heat treaters; * "The softening insurance market". |
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December 2005: Features include: * "Running out of gas? - Running out of patience"; * CCA update; * "Combating energy price increases"; * Nadcap from two perspectives; * CHTA support for Wolfson course; * New CHTA Buyers Guide planned; * Promoting CHTA and its members; * CHTA Chairman's end-of-year message. |
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September 2005: This issue includes the following items: * "CHTA launches membership drive"; * CCA update; * "Bringing benefits to the bottom line: one company's experience of ISO/TS 16949:2002"; * Nadcap and aerospace heat treatment. |
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June 2005: Contents of this centenary issue include: * "The 100th Edition of Hotline"; * "CCAs for heat treaters: the go-ahead"; * Nadcap; * "100 editions of Hotline: a look back". |
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April 2005: Features include: * "CCAs: the finishing line's in sight"; * "Challenges met and changes accommodated": the outgoing CHTA Chairman looks back; * "New Chairman targets proper recognition of heat treatment's contribution"; * CHTA's new Chairman: a profile; * "Software to assist the heat treater"; * More on CCL/CCA; * Defining the heat treatment sector; * Publicity matters; * Health and safety. |
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December 2004: Contents include: * "A healthy future? The CBI comments"; * New CHTA contact details; * "UK energy prices: the future?"; * North American gas prices: US heat treater testifies to Congress; * A further update on SEA efforts to render CHTA members eligible for CCL negotiated agreements; * Thanks to Wolfson Heat Treatment Centre. |
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September 2004: Features include: * A further update on SEA efforts to render CHTA members eligible for CCL negotiated agreements; * The thoughts of former CHTA Chairman Ian Brown, on his retirement; * A response on Nadcap from the Director of PRI/Nadcap operations; * Guidance on new statutory dispute resolution procedures; * NAMTEC comment on "A healthy future for contract heat treatment?" * "Sourcing quality heat treatment". |
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June 2004: Highlights the challenges now facing the heat treater in "A healthy future for contract heat treatment?". Also examines American heat treaters' perspective on Nadcap after ten year's experience. |
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March 2004: Focuses on the threat to competitiveness of increasing new-legislation administration. Also examines energy purchasing and updates further on efforts to extend CCL negotiated agreements to heat treating. |
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December 2003: Considers soaring energy prices and updates on renewed attempts to extend CCL negotiated agreements to heat treating. Other features cover a heat treater's experience with Nadcap accreditation and the new regulations on the disposal of hazardous waste. |
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September 2003: Highlights renewed attempts to have CHTA members recognised as eligible for CCL negotiated agreements. Other features cover Nadcap, strategic partnerships, and DTI's new business support strategy. |
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June 2003: Focuses on the revision of "CHTA Guidelines for Conditions of Business". Other features cover guidance on additional legal issues, Action Energy's proposals on energy benchmarking and MTI's on-line "Heat Treat QuoteMaster". |
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March 2003: Includes "Your industry needs your voice" - a message from new CHTA Chairman Terry Littlewood, an article on nitrogen-supply options for furnace atmospheres, and a reminder about the FAST database. |
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December 2002: Features a message from retiring CHTA Chairman David Wilkins, plans to revise CHTA's "Business Conditions Guide", and a progress report on CHTA's website. |
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September 2002: This edition highlights business insurance issues and member views on the benefits of ISO 14001 accrediation. |
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June 2002: This issue examines the relevance of ISO 14001 to heat treaters, CCL dual-use exemption, and the future for the UK automotive sector and its suppliers. |
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March 2002: Includes a message from CHTA's new Chairman and a look at integrated plant management systems for heat treatment operations. |
