General Secretary’s Report Journal advertisers


www.ireng.org Relevance of the Institute


Benefits of IRE membership


IRE survey conclusions


GOOD : P Journal - Articles and News, product developments P Conference and Training


NOT SO GOOD : X Too much emphasis on steel and monolithics X UK and EU emphasis X Global market information and end user input X Limited membership and Journal circulation X Low profile and old fashioned


What members didn’t like!


FOR IMPROVEMENT : P Increased Training P Overseas case studies P More non-ferrous and other industry applications


P Greater collaboration with Institutes and Associations


P Website upgrade, Blogs and Forum development


Having got the above facts, we now need to implement an action plan to make some changes to our institute/journal, so we have arranged a meeting for mid August, if anyone wants to make further comment please contact me in the usual way.


Jayne Woodhead


General Secretary & Treasurer Institute of Refractories Engineers


4 ENGINEER THE REFRACTORIES July 2018 Issue


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