� The late Radu Munteanu of Israel Electric and Pinhas Lindner, one of the founders of Ofil Systems, work together to set up an early generation solar blind corona camera during the late 1990s for an inspection of a substation near Beersheba. Looking at the camera size and seeming complexity, one can quickly appreciate how much this technology has advanced, with modern cameras being both portable and easy-to-use.
“ The biggest advantage of polymers is that they allow us to be creative and find new solutions as well as innovative designs for both indoor and outdoor applications.”
Ernst Hubler, Marketing Engineer( retired) Ciba-Geigy( now Huntsman Advanced Materials),
Switzerland, June 1994
Photos: INMR ©
� INMR met Tang Zhenming in Austria in the early 1990s. A former Managing Director of China’ s largest insulator plant, located in Xi’ an, he had recently retired and been appointed advisor to the Chinese insulator industry at large. In spite of enormous local production capacity, China at the time still relied mostly on foreign made insulators for any lines and substations above 230 kV. Neither he, nor myself – nor anyone else for that matter – could ever have foreseen how fast the Chinese power grid was about to develop and how quickly that country’ s insulator industry would develop and become a major player on the international insulator scene.
� Lots of‘ brain power’ in this shot of( from left) Herman Schneider, Ravi Gorur and Hermann Kärner, taken at the 2nd INMR WORLD CONGRESS in Singapore in the summer of 1996. Every reader knows that Ravi was a major force at these events, as Chairman of the first several, and that he also served as INMR’ s lead Columnist for years. Herman Schneider also helped INMR a great deal as a truly accomplished, persuasive speaker at our first conference in Zurich in 1995. Prof. Kärner, a respected academic at the University of Braunschweig, trained many of Germany’ s current generation of power engineers and was also a valued contributor to our early issues.
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