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Industrial Radiographic Inspection Company (IRICO GROUP) an ISO 9001:2015 Certified & NABL (ISO/IEC 17025:2017) Accredited Company for Permanent Facilities as well as Site, was established in the year 1972 at Chennai by humble philanthropist Late Shri. Attavar Ramdass, who started his career from the ground up with passion and wide vision in the field of Non-Destructive Testing. He has been honored with "Life Time Achievement Award" from Dr. A.U.Sonawane, Head RSD AERB. He also has various awards to his credit for his outstanding achievements by NDT and other fraternities.
Over the journey of 50 years, IRICO has created a landmark in the field of NDT with operations at Chennai, Coimbatore, Ranipet, Tiruchirappalli/Trichy, Bangalore and Delhi.

Our Company

IRICO, having its corporate office at Chennai is headed by Shri. R.Badri Attavar, Managing Partner of the Company who has an experience of more than 28 years in the field and is instrumental in various implementations and procurement of equipments of latest technologies in NDT.

He is being supported by Mr. H.K.Satyan, Certified by BARC as Radiological Safety Officer Level-II who has experience in all NDT methods for more than 47 years. He has performed as Project Supervisor and presently as Head-Operations, provides overall supervision of all important projects.

Mr. P.G.Krishnan, BARC certified Radiological Safety Officer Level-II has 45 years of experience in the field of NDT. He is managing our Chennai Laboratory ably supported by Mr. P.M.Purushothaman, a senior SNT-TC-1A / PCN Level-II Certified Person and Mr C. Baskaran, BARC certified Radiological Safety Officer Level-II with ASNT Level-III in RT.

IRICO at Coimbatore is headed by Mr. M.Sureesh, BARC certified Radiological Safety Officer Level-II with ISO 9712 Level-II in RT a senior most site in charge in our Organisation, who has vast experience in the field of NDT for more than 18 years.

In the year 2007, IRICO started an offspring Company at Coimbatore in the name of Visveswaraya Industrial Engineering Works (VIEW) supported by Mr. R. Jeyakumar, BARC certified Radiological Safety Officer Level-II. He is a senior NDT engineer and expert in Casting Industries and welding inspection.


Offices
In the year 2014, IRICO started an offspring Company at Tiruchirappalli/Trichy in the name of Visveswaraya Industrial Engineering Works (VIEW) supported by Mr. S. Velmurugan and Mr. P.Selvadurai, BARC certified Radiological Safety Officer Level-II. They have an experience of more than one decade and expert in welding inspection.
Our Tiruchirappalli/Trichy branch is headed by Mr. Krishnamoorthy and Mr. V. Murugesan, BARC certified Radiological Safety Officer Level-II, They have an experience of more than one decade.

IRICO has adequate trained auditors to maintain Quality Management Systems (QMS)/ Laboratory Management Systems (LMS) and conduct Internal Audit as per ISO/IEC-17025:2017 & ISO 9001-2015. The team is headed by Mr. Bibhu Prasad Swain, BARC certified Radiological Safety Officer (RSO) Level-II holding the position of Head NDT-Systems. He is a Level-II Certified Person as per SNT-TC-1A, PCN (EN 473/ISO 9712), CSWIP (ISO 9712), ISNT (IS 13805) and Lead Auditor as per ISO 9001:2015 (QMS), ISO 14001:2015 (EMS), ISO 45001:2018 (OHSMS). Also, he is a certified Internal Auditor as per ISO/IEC 17025:2017 (LMS) and Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt holder.

IRICO has been approved by Competent Authority RSD, AERB is equipped with Cobalt-60 Radiography Enclosures at Chennai, Ranipet, Coimbatore and Tiruchirappalli/Trichy and has the approval of RSD, AERB to operate Linear Accelerator 6 MeV, 100 Ci Cobalt-60, 100 Ci Iridium-192 Isotope and Portable X-Ray upto 300 Kv. at all its laboratories and is equipped to handle castings weighing upto 20 Metric Ton capacity.

IRICO has been approved by Director of Boilers Tamilnadu for carrying out Non-Destructive Testing under Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950 and other external Inspection Agencies like EIL, LRIS, DNV etc. IRICO has also upgraded its facility to carry out LINEAR ACCELERATOR, BETATRON Radiography, TOFD (Time of Flight Diffraction Technique) and PHASED ARRAY Ultrasonic Techniques by PCN qualified Engineers.

With all the above infrastructures, IRCO's activity profile over five decades has covered AEROSPACE, DEFENCE, FOUNDRIES, CROSS COUNTRY PIPELINES, REFINERRIES, THERMAL POWER STATION, NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, SHIP INSPECTION, INSTRUMENTATION, VALVE MANUFACTURERS, STORAGE TANKS, AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRIES and HYDRO ELECTRIC PROJECTS.


Our Mission

To provide prompt and professional service using the latest yet proved Technology with functional flexibility to meet client requirement to their fullest satisfaction.
"Our mission is to be the leading "one source" global provider of high quality services in the field of Industrial Inspection and non-destructive Testing with the help of our multi-disciplined personnel, qualified and certified by an International Standard.
To be a profitable provider of high quality services on our customers and create a company that can attract, recruit and retain smart and talented employees to uplift their standard of living.
Our mission is to promote the value of learning and use all of our resources in updating inspection techniques.
We will accomplish this through the effective use of Ultrasonic, Acoustic Emission, Eddy Current, Thermography, Radiography, Vibration and other advanced proprietary products and systems, technology-enabled inspection and wireless and online monitoring services, and the collective efforts and talents of our scientists, PhD's, other degreed engineers, highly skilled certified technicians and team members in all of our locations throughout the world focusing on safety, customer satisfaction, innovation and productivity.

Our Vision

It is our aspiration to be the first preferred choice of the industry when it comes to Industrial Inspection, Technical Services and non-destructive Testing provider nationwide or even worldwide.

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