Dear Members,
October will be a very special month for the Institute as we welcome Dr Jane Lomas to the Surface Treatment Scheme Manager (STSM) role and Brenda Peters as the Institute’s new Honorary Secretary. We are very pleased that John Fletcher will remain as a valued member of ICorr Council and thank him for all his previous support to us.
This past month saw ICorr well represented also at EuroCorr24 in Paris and also at Electrochem24 in Manchester through our Corrosion Science Division. We offer our congratulations to all the award recipients at these events.
We had some further good news during September when we received a visitation from the Engineering Council to our Northampton HQ and following a thorough review of our organisation, we are delighted to announce to award to ICorr of a provisional license to offer Eng.C C registrations (CEng, IEng and EngTech) from the UK Engineering Council (Eng.C) to our valued members. This new direct scheme will be implemented from January 2025. We are most grateful to our new volunteer assessors who have joined us from across the UK and overseas to help us with our scheme launch and to Anthony Setiadi for coordinating these assessor activities. Most importantly to David Harvey for his fantastic leadership over the past 2 years of Eng. C. scheme development.
Our newly strengthened CPGB / STGB Cathodic Protection and Surface Treatment governing boards are now up and running, and we very much welcome the participation of YICorr and former YEP winners on both these and on our ICorr branch committees, they are doing splendid work and helping build the future of the Institute. The current YEP programme with 24 candidates is now drawing to a close after some excellent lectures throughout 2024, many thanks to all our volunteer presenters. Our readers are reminded of the ICorr 2024 YEP – Final Presentation of Case Studies, to take place on 21st November 2024 15:30 – 21:00 at: Lancaster Hall Hotel, Craven Terrace, London, W2 3EL hosted by ICorr London Branch. All are welcome to attend this. Do please contact Danny Burkle should you have any queries on YEP activities danny.burkle@lbbcbaskerville.co.uk
During August we held our very successful 2024 Annual Corrosion Forum (ACF) kindly hosted by ENGTEQ Aberdeen on 27th August 2024, on the theme “Corrosion Management in the Energy Sector” with over 60 attendees from across the energy industry. With many congratulations to the Aberdeen Branch for organising this most successful event.
Our new MoU with AMPP has now been completed, which will bring more joint events during 2025 and 2026. Work continues developing other ICorr collaboration opportunities in China, India, and the Middle East.
Please do get involved in our upcoming activities and keep an eye
on the ICorr Events Calendar at: www.icorr.org/events/
Do note for your diaries, the upcoming Institute AGM to which all ICorr members are cordially invited. This will be an ‘In-person’ Event at: Neville Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 1SE on 13th November 2024 with an associated NE Branch Offshore Wind Technical Program.
Enjoy the Autumn and new ICorr technical sessions ahead of us from our eight regional branches which now include Central Scotland and Wales and South-West.
With my very best wishes.
Stephen Tate,
President: Institute of Corrosion
president@icorr.org
