MEMBER'S & BRANCH NEWS Master Chemical Europe Ltd. MIDLANDS REPRESENTATION


Wide experience of selling oils and lubricants into the automotive, industrial and agricultural sectors has provided Martin Powell with a good grounding for his new role with Master Chemical Europe. He joins MCE -The Coolant Management Company and supplier of TRIM<!> metalworking fluids - from Batoyle Freedom Group.


Martin has been appointed to the post of Area Sales Manager for the Midlands, a territory that extends from Lincolnshire to Staffordshire in the north and Hereford/Worcester to Northampton- shire in the south. He is to operate from his home base in Brierley Hill, West Midlands.


Master Chemical Europe Ltd., Maitland Road, Lion Barn Business Park, Needham Market, Suffolk IPE 8NZ. Tel (44) + (0) 1449 721985 Fax (44) + (0) 1449 721719


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AKM Products Limited, Unit 1, Lea Green Business Park, Eurolink, St. Helens, WA9 4TR Tel: 01744 831700, Fax: 01744 831707, Key Contact: Mr. P. Veal.


FORTHCOMING EVENTS • 1999


JANUARY Additives for Fuels and Lubricants Tuesday 19 January- Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre, Saville Row, London. An RSC Industrial Inorganic Chemicals Sector Meeting organised with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Contact: Dr. Mario Moustras, RSC, Tel 0171 440 3388.


FEBRUARY The ICIS-LOR World Base Oils Conference 18- 19 February, Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London.


Contact: Registration Hotline, Tel: +44 (0) 181 332 7689, Fax: +44 (0) 181 332 7690 FEBRUARY Steel Mill Lubrication 28 February-2nd March - Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Contact: Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, Pittsburgh, Fax 001 412 281 4657


MARCH APRIL


BLF One-Day Conference 1st. March, Manchester.


For further details please contact the BLF Secretariat +44 (O) 1442 230589


Challenges for Materials in Automotive Engineering : Tribology and Materials 20 - 22 April 1999, Maastricht, Netherlands


Contact: Samantha Craven, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1 Birdcage Walk, london SW1H 9JJ Tel: 0171 973 1291 Fax: 0171 222 9881 e-mail: HYPERLINK mailto:s_craven@imeche.org.uk s_craven@imeche.org.uk


JUNE


The 6th International Congress on " lubricants of the Future and the Environment" - 2nd, 3rd & 4th June in Brussels.


Contact: ORTHIM Congress, Brussel s, Tel ++32 2 779 93 12, Fax ++32 2 779 81 28.


BALKANTRIB '99- The 3rd International Conference on Tribology 2 -4 June 1999 Sinai, Romania


Organised by the Balkan Tribological Association For further details please contact; Universitatea " Petroi-Gaz" Ploiesti Bd. Bucuresti, No.39, Ploiesti 2000, jud. Prahava, Romania Tel: 044 · 11.02.92 Fax 044- 11.98.47 e-mail: balkan99@csd.univ.ploiesti.ro


OCTOBER OCTOBER


CBI National Conference- 31st October-1 November, Birmingham Contact: Elaine Walder, CBI, London Tel 0171 379 7400


INTERNATIONAL TRIBOLOGY CONFERENCE, NAGASAKI 2000 'Tribology: Voyaging Into The New Millenium' 29 October - 2 November 2000, Nagasaki Brick Hall, Nagasaki, Japan


Organised by Japanese Society of Tribologists Contact: Secretariat, lTC Nagasaki 2000 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6·10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812·8581, Japan. Fax: +81 92 641 9744 e-mail: secretariat@itc.mech.kyushu-u.ac.jp


ISSUE 35 • DECEMBER 1998


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