Last week, within a day of one another, I received 2 e-mails. The first was from an old American colleague (old in the sense of I worked with him many years ago rather that he is old!).   more »

I spent yesterday at Innovate 07 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. This is the first of these meetings organised by the Technology Strategy Board in its new guise as an “arms length” body. It was an impressive event and the materials community can take some pride in its relevance to where the Technology Strategy Board is heading.    more »

Yesterday was the first Annual General Meeting for Materials UK. To hold an AGM is a legal requirement of being a company. It is more about dealing with the basics of a company – are you legal, do you have money to continue, who are the directors and so on. What was remarkable was that – as always when the senior people associated with Materials UK get together – the enthusiasm to understand and act on the challenges for our industry kept breaking through.    more »