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INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZATION MEETING - April 2, 2008 - YOU ARE WELCOME!

In the afternoon of April 2, 2008 there is a very interesting happening for all spring maker's in the world. Please find here the precise agenda and the participation form! We are looking forward to your participation!

Last big international event of ESF

“Key challenges of the spring manufacturing industry”
an international seminar on 19. and 20.10.2007 in Palma de Mallorca
dealing with economic, legal and technical subjects.
For more details please KLICK HERE.  
To see the schedule of events and the booking form please KLICK HERE.

ESF recovers in Scandinavia

ESF welcomes a new associated member:
SPINOVA AB  -  SE-385 22 Torsas  -  Sweden
Kobenhavn, 20.04.2007

I W A – tolerances for spring rates

There is a debate between the Japanese Spríng Manufacturers Association (JSMA) and the Spring Manufacturers Institute of America (SMI) and the ESF about tolerances for spring rates to be internationally standardized. The latest proposals have been discussed on 26.04.2006  (standardization seminary during the WIRE 2006 fair).  

For details please KLICK HERE.
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Annex 2
Annex 3
Annex 4

International ESF Standardization Meeting

Please find here the agenda and the participation form.

ESF at the WIRE 2006

 The German Spring Maker’s Association VDFI and the European one ESF manage a special booth at the WIRE fair for the benefit of its members.

It will be in hall 17 booth no. C 28.

Special information as to partners of the European spring maker’s markets and technical information for the spring business will be available.

Beside that a short break or a quick discussion with some colleagues may be very helpful from time to time.

Next International ESF Standard’s Meeting 26.04.05 in Düsseldorf / Germany

The next International ESF Standards Meeting will be on 26.04.2006 at 2:00 p.m. in the Congress-Center-Süd of the WIRE 2006 fair in Düsseldorf.

More than 60 experts in the spring making business from around the world are expected to participate. Last time in 2004 representatives of all ESF member associations and of USA and Japan and China took part to discuss improvements in calculating and proper describing springs.

This time additional guests from the new EU states and from Korea et cetera are expected.

For more details for 26.04.2006 please KLICK HERE

3rd International ESF Seminar in Parma 07.10.2005

More than 60 spring makers of 7 EU countries and of Japan took part in the 3rd International ESF Seminar in Parma on 07.10.2005 welcomed by Mr. Piero Longoni president of ANCCEM  (Association of Italian spring makers) and introduced by Mr. Dr. Hans-Jochem Steim president of ESF (European spring maker’s federation). 

Many managers of well known big spring purchasing companies, some professors from the Bocconi University in Milan and people of spring producing companies reported and discussed about

“Springmaker’s Future: Big or Small Enterprises in the Global Markets”

This seminar was a very valuable event for all participants. For details please KLICK HERE

1st meeting of ISO/TC 227 – 'Springs' in Tokyo on 29.08.2005

The first meeting of the ISO/TC 227 – 'Springs' was held on 29.08.05 in Tokyo. It was joined by the national leaders of  5 P-members  like China, France, Germany, Japan and Korea and  8 additional delegates of these countries.

Necessary basic resolutions have been taken in addition to some special resolutions for 3 Japanese projects like shoot peening for springs or revision of ISO 2162-3, vocabulary and symbols  or classification for springs to be pushed within short and to 2 Chinese projects in the pipeline.

Two new liaisons have been established with ISO/TC 10/SC 6 (Documentation) and  ISO/TC 17/SC 4 (heat treatable steels) for close working together in the future.

This meeting evidently was very essential for Japanese spring makers since more than 20 people of JSMA followed that meeting as silent observers in the back.

Discussions during the brakes of that meeting in which the silent observers have been involved have been very interesting and useful for everybody.

After the meeting the president of JSMA, Mr. K. Kato, came along and did a greeting speech.

Several famous representatives of Japanese economic life also came along and did greeting speeches. These have been Mr. R. Matsumoto, Director of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Mr. M. Tanaka, president of  the International Standardisation Organisation in Geneva, and Mr. H. Wakai, director of Japanese Standards Association (JSA).

Many of them regretted very much that the US was missing due to organizational  problems.

This regret was also emphasized in the final speech of the retired Mr. T. Maeda  who did a lot for the achievement of this ISO/TC 227 – 'Springs' during his active time as president of JSMA.

The next meeting of this ISO/TC 227 – 'Springs' is anticipated for mid of October 2006 in Germany.

ISO/TC 227 – Springs  –  first meeting 29.08.05 in Tokyo

The aim of this TC is to establish new international standards to facilitate the world wide exchange of spring products and more. A business plan to be discussed on 29.08.05 was circulated on 13.05.05. Main topics are
    1. Terminology and classification
    2. Tolerances  for compression, extension and torsion springs
    3. Inspection and test methods
    4. Processing
France and Germany will represent Europe, England and Italy are asked to join that meeting.

International Standards Conference – Dearborn 03. – 05.05.05

 Annually International Standards Meetings for the spring industry organized by ESF (Europe), JSMA (Japan) and SMI (USA) have been since 2002. They took place in Düsseldorf – WIRE 2002, April 2002, and in Yokohama, October 2003, and in Düsseldorf – WIRE 2004,  March 2004, and the last one in Dearborn / USA, May  2005. 

During these meetings all items of the agenda for the ISO/TC 227 – Springs meeting on 29.08.05 in Tokyo have been discussed as there are for example:
Preliminary works for a revision of ISO 2162-3 to be completed by ESF, SMI and JSMA. 
Detailed works for an IWA document for global tolerances for compression springs with a specific matrix of allowable tolerance schemes to prevent customers from over-tolerating springs. .

Different formulas to calculate spring rate tolerances used in various big spring producing countries shall be improved on the base of testing results to be collected from shop floors. 

For more details please contact ESF offices.

ISO/TC 227 – Springs

 There never was a special ISO/TC covering global standards for springs only. 

SMI (USA), JSMA (Japan) and ESF (Europe) stimulated in an international standardisation meeting on 30.03.04 during the WIRE fair 2004 in Düsseldorf  the foundation of a special ISO/TC for springs and succeeded.  

A new “ISO/TC 227 – Springs” was founded in November 2004 with the following participating (P) members being allowed to participate and  vote for the future:

China, England, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Korea,

and the observing (O) members:

Brazil, Canada, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Thailand.

The secretariat of this ISO/TC 227 is in Tokyo and will be sponsored by JSMA. The chairman of it is the current general secretary of ESF. The first meeting of the ISO/TC 227 – Springs will be on 29.08.05 in Tokyo.