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General Secretary’s Report and President’s Column GENERAL SECRETARY’S REPORT Dear Members


Hello, this year seems to be flying past, I don’t know where the time goes, we are now getting down to the


final for the conference


arrangements and


training day, our President and Senior Vice-President have several papers lined up. Following on from the success of last year’s event I am again expecting a high attendance so please book early, Sam Franklin has again got a good program organised for the training day. It will appeal to all levels of technical expertise so again we would expect high levels of attendance please book early.


In the next few weeks I will be sending reminders to those who have yet to pay their subs, anyone who knows that they have not paid please organise payment ASAP.


I have recently posted membership certificates but several were received damaged or in one case a damaged envelope with nothing inside, so any new members please contact


myself if your certificate has not arrived. I actually posted about 25 certificates at a post office in the Cambridge area while I was in that region, so I can’t go back and complain but I would like to know what happened as this has not occurred before.


Our journal continues to give some problems, it is getting harder to obtain papers for the journal so if anyone has a technical paper or something of interest for our members we would be pleased to print it in the journal.


In this journal we have some detail of the AGM and accounts, we usually have this in July and September journals to meet our institute rules but this year our AGM is later in the year so we will try to have the September journal available early, this is being sent to unitecr 2017 in S. America so it will be seen by several non-members so we will not include our accounts. The accounts and AGM agenda will appear again in the November journal which will be available before the conference and AGM but any changes will appear on our website so please check the details.


Jayne Woodhead


General Secretary & Treasurer Institute of Refractories Engineers


PRESIDENT’S COLUMN


Dear Members and Colleagues


Our members are at the heart of everything we do here at the Institute of Refractories Engineers.


It does ourselves no harm at all to regularly remind ourselves


of that and re


read our mission statement published inside the front cover our every journal we publish. This has provided steady guidance to all the past Presidents and Council members since the founding of the Institute and this should never change.


It is with that thought that I was delighted at our last


council meeting when we were provided with a large stack of new membership applications to help review and new membership certificates to sign off. It is a great privilege to


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be part of that process and heartening to see so many new applications.


It shows that the efforts made over the last few years to raise the profile of the Institute both domestically in the UK and internationally is working. The work done by the team in the UK and Australia to raise the profile of the Institute at international events, through the Journal, via our vastly improved website and the reinvigorated conference has been brilliant. We should never underestimate the amount of work put in behind the scenes in all these areas and I would like to thank everyone involved in those processes greatly for their efforts. Thank you.


During the last council meeting we reflected on this a little but immediately asked the questions are we still meeting our mission statement and how can we do better?


As is always the case with these types of questions there are always lots of ideas and opinions which can yield some excellent progress. The trick is how to go about it and who will actually do the work involved. At this point I would like


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