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Contents General Secretary’s Report .....................2 President’s Column .................................3 Institute News
The Institute of Refractories Engineers Draft Accounts .................................................................. 4
58th Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Refractories Engineers ................................................ 6
Company News
Seven Refractories wins biggest steel producer as new client ......................................................................... 7
Ancorite heads for ISO 9001 accreditation ................. 7
Hot Metal Desulfurization & dedusting system from Primetals Technologies ............................................... 8 British Steel gains light rail recognition ....................... 9 Future Steel Forum 2019 - A great success!................ 9 Lucideon publishes its 2020 training schedule ..........10
Buying process for British Steel is back on the front burner .....................................................................10 Sheffield Forgemasters recruits 15 new apprentices..10
Liberty Steel plants to merge into one global group, setting sights on carbon-neutral operations by 2030 11 September 2019 crude steel production ...................12
World’s steel producing regions call for extension of Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity .....................12 Technical Papers Stuck in the 90’s (alumina) .......................................13 Solutions in practice .................................................18 QuickShot Directory ..............................27 Buyers Guide .........................................28 Officers & Council
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The Institute of Refractories Engineers is dedicated to fostering the science, technology and skills of refractories engineering and to serving the needs of refractories engineers worldwide.
Aims: To raise the standard of ability and training in this field of science and technology. To promote and maintain the character, status and interest of members of the Institute. To disseminate information, facts, ideas, news or suggestions that may be of interest to members. To encourage the exchange of ideas and information among members to their benefit and to the benefit of the industries they serve.
The Institute is a non-profit making body and its entire income is applied solely to the promotion of these aims.
General Secretary’s Report Dear Members
By the time you read this, we will have had our conference, training day and our AGM. The numbers booked on the conference, conference dinner and training day are looking good so hopefully it will be another good event, I will give details in the January journal. During the conference and training day representatives from “Fluid“ a marketing company we are using will be present and will asking questions about how the Institute is perceived following on from our own research we started a few years ago, after we get a report on their findings we will making some improvements to our “Brand” and website, this is an expensive program but it was what our members wanted and we hope that this will increase our membership, and make it easier for our members to give feedback.
Once the conference is finished I will be preparing invoices for membership along with other year end tasks, please remember if companies are paying your membership they must quote your membership number for me to match up payment with your membership. For those using sage pay then payment is automatically tied up with your account.
I will also be asking you to supply your email address so we can update our records, we expect the new website will allow us all to have better communications. The website should be going live at the end of Quarter 1, 2020 you can contact me at
secretary@ireng.org.
With all the work on the journal, conference, training day and our marketing exercise the council has been very busy, if anyone feels they can help please contact me on the email address above and it may be you can join/assist the council.
Once again we are having the November journal available at the conference before it is posted to all members and there are two technical papers in the journal which will be presented at the conference.
As I write this note and look forward to seeing many of you at the conference, it seems very strange to think this is the last note I will be putting in the journal this year, so I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Jayne Woodhead General Secretary & Treasurer Institute of Refractories Engineers
www.irengineers.co.uk www.ireng.org
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