The professional firefighting service that Lainsa SCI has implemented in the industrial installations of Airbus in Getafe (Madrid) has won first prize in the XXII Fire Prevention Competition organised by Mapfre Global Risk. The Lainsa SCI squad was outstanding in the professional firefighters mode and in the fire extinguishing event in a structure on two levels (the upper with an LPG leak and the lower with a flammable liquid spill), with the use of water hoses.

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The Grupo Dominguis and Metallisation Inc, a British company specialising in metallisation equipment, have reached an agreement with the aim of joining synergies in the distribution of equipment and services. For the Spanish company this collaboration means greater sales possibilities for the Tirant 3 robot and also the opening up to other sectors and countries.

The Grupo Dominguis and the British company Metallisation Inc have reached an agreement by means of which the latter, which already was a supplier of metallisation material for the Valencia holding, becomes a business associate and client for the distribution and sale of the Tirant 3 robot.

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The work of the mechanical and chemical cleaning of superheater dryers of the GSS type carried out by Lainsa in collaboration with Solarca during March at the French nuclear power station of Bugey has been recognised by Electricité de France (EDF) as the “Best Security Work of the first quarter of 2011″. This was part of the programme of the recognition of maintenance suppliers known as “Challenge de Sécurité 2011″.

In early 2011 EDF started the “Challenge de Sécurité” programme, an initiative that aims to reward an exemplary piece of work on security each quarter. The best work is chosen by a panel of judges of the Technical Operative Unit (Unité Technique Opérationnelle, UTO) of EDF after the visits it makes during the execution of the works, assessing different security culture criteria: transparency, the quality of risk evolution and of the preventive solutions applied, staff behaviour, respect for rules, and an attitude of continuous improvement, among others.

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Lainsa a company specialized in the nuclear industry and part of Grupo Dominguis was awarded the provision of complementary radiological protection services for Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant (CNC) during the 18th refueling which took place between September 25th and November 10th of this year. Lainsa has already provided this service in the past, in prior refuelings of the Valencian facility as a subcontractor, but this is the first time that Iberdrola Generación S.A. has awarded this service directly to Lainsa.

A professional team of 43 Lainsa’s experts has worked for more than one and a half months at Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant complementing the work done by CNC’s radiological protection services, in which the Grupo Dominguis’ company has extensive experience from its participation as a subcontractor of the prior awarded company.

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Lainsa, the subsidiary company of the Dominguis Group, specialists in industrial cleaning and decontamination services for nuclear power plants and radioactive facilities, has organised, together with other institutions, the II Health and Radiation Symposium (II Jornadas sobre salud y radiaciones). The conference, which was held last June in Teruel, aimed to bring together the different laboratory studies that use biological dosimetry and to introduce the new equipment and advances in food-borne radioprotectors. The meeting was organised by Lainsa, the Official College of Doctors of Teruel, the La Fe hospital of Valencia and Iberdrola.

Marcelo Soto, the director of the Radiological Protection Technical Unit of Lainsa, represented Dominguis Group in the organising committee of this symposium, which lasted over three days. During that time, issues of great interest were dealt with, such as the results of cytogenetic studies on children from the Chernobyl area, metabolic therapy in nuclear medicine or the biological effects of non-ionizing radiation.

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