Mr Pieter Kampers
Consultant for
Gaylin International Pte Ltd
Heavy Lift Slings & Grommets Slings
 
 
Specialist in Cable Laid Slings & Grommets
  
My name is Pieter Kampers, nationality Dutch, and born in 1940 at Bandung, Indonesia.
My education is metallurgical M.Sc. at the Technical University of Delft. After 10years of working in steel mills I joined United Ropes in 1979 as technical engineer.

Besides the technical process I gave technical support to Sales and for the Netherlands I was the representative in technical working groups and revision of Standards.
One of my specialities was Cable-laid slings and Grommets.
Due to heavy demands in the offshore industry I was fully involved with the development in increased diameter, length's and weight. United Ropes - till their bankruptcy in 1993 - was the world leader and was in the possession of all world records concerning heavy cable-laid slings and grommets.

I was one of the members for the revision of PM20 of October 1987 and member of the technical working group for development of the European standard EN 13414-3, which will replace the PM20.

It was an honour for me to come in contact with GAYLIN in 1994 and to be their consultant.

They are producing a good quality cable-laid, made from the best available ropes, and according to the above mentioned standards. I'm constantly in contact with them to give them technical support.

 1995-Present Technical Consultant for Lankhorst Fiber Rope manufacturer- the Netherlands. From May 1995 a part-time employment with Lankhorst Touwfabrieken. Responsible for R&D/QC in the Netherlands and Portugal. Product development of ropes made from high tenacity fibers, as Tipto, aramids and Dyneema. Responsible for the quality of all imported steel wire ropes.

1993-1999 Representative for ABS Marine Services in London, United Kingdom, especially for wire rope surveys at the crane vessels of offshore contractor Heerema.
1979-1993 Unlted Ropes, Verto Wire Rope Division at Ridderkerk the Netherlands.
Started at the Leiderdorp Factory, responsible for Technology (including Laboratory) and Technical Sale Services. Implemented the Quality Assurance System for ISO 9001.
After the merger with Den Haan Steel wire rope I took residence at the head office at Ridderkerk, from where the 3 factories (Dongen, Leiderdorp and Hamme/Belgium) were technically controlled.

Specialized in elevator ropes (sales in the USA/Canada) and offshore ropes. The development on thicker diameters and higher tensile strength of the wires and ropes, heavy lifting and the grommets were accompanied.

from March 1992:
General Manager Technical Affairs, directly responsible to the Managing Directors Mr. Yves Dekeyser (Member of the Board of N.V. Verto) and Mr. Nico Struijk (M.D.).

From January 1991:
Director of United Grommets at Moerdijk - the Netherlands. (Joint Venture of Uinted Ropes and Gebr. Henschel Germany).
United Grommets now working as United Offshore Services.

1974-1979 Hoogovens Steelcompany at lJmuiden in charge of the Department of Quality-Technology on cold deformation steel. This department of 30 people took care of the quality control and improvement of the production from hot and cold rolled steel. Also Technical Sale services.
1970-1974 NKF Steelcompany at Albasserdam, (now called Nedstaal), in charge of the department on Product- and Process development.
This small group was part of the Quality Control department, doing studies for the hole factory. Process parameters were made for the new Stelmor rod rolling mill.
1962-1964 Metallurgical Institute T.N.O. at Delft Working at the Foundry, Department Non-Ferro.
1962 N.V. Royal Steel factory DEMKA at Utrecht Bachelors-paper "Hot tearence in austenitics stainless steel" for the Higher Technical School.

TRADE AFFILIATIONS
Present till 2003 Dutch Representative of the Standardization working groups of the Netherlands (NEN) and the European working group (CEN) for Wire Ropes and terminations (TC 168-WG2).
Present till 2003 Member of Technical Committee of EUROCORD (European fiber rope manufacturers) and EWRIS Technical Committee (European Wire Rope manufacturers Association).

Member of European and ISO Standard revisions committees for fiber - and steel wire ropes.
till 1993 Member of several international study groups on examination/experiments of the lifetime of steel wire ropes systems for the offshore. (Joint Industry Study - Noble Denton - London) and the Heavy lift Criteria (Brown and Root Vickers - London).
1991-1995 Secretary of the International Organization for the Study of the Endurance of Wire Ropes, OIPEEC (Organisation Internationale pour l'Etude de l'Endurance des Cables).