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CHAIRMAN, EVENTS IN BELGIUM
Steve Price (M) Photo
Steven D PRICE C Eng MAPM, Avenue du Lycee Francais 11-16, 1180, Uccle,
Brussels, Belgium.
Tel : +32 2772 1603
GSM : +32 473 931 830
Fax : +32 2779 8217
Started his career as a Maintenance Manager for ICI on Teeside after graduating in Engineering, Manufacture and Management at Manchester University. He progressed through a variety of manufacturing improvement roles before becoming a Project Manager with ICI Engineering. In this role he spent four years managing plant construction projects in Malaysia, Singapore and Shanghai, PRC. He moved to Gouda, NL in 1997 to develop the Manufacturing IT project portfolio for Unichema, part of the ICI group, and moved to Brussels in 1998 to take up a position as European Regional IT Manager for ICI Specialties. Since 2001 Steve has been working as an independent Consultant, and as a partner in team-building and team-working specialists McCourts Project. Since January 2003 Steve has been Project Director for the European Institute for Industrial Leadership project, and is director for the High Performance Leadership module on the EIIL's Masters of Industrial Leadership programme.
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMAN, LUXEMBOURG EVENTS COORDINATOR
Theo Speaight (M) Photo
Reliability Engineering, Reisermillen, L-9364 Eppeldorf, Luxembourg. Tel : (+352) 878626 [Luxembourg] Fax : (+352) 878627 [Luxembourg]
Theo Speaight, CEng, DIpEM, Member, started his career in overhead cranes and naval radar. He moved to Luxembourg in 1979 with Goodyear where he developed finite element analysis for tyres and was responsible for vehicle dynamics analysis, spending two years in USA. In 1990 he moved to the steel industry within a mechanical engineering consultancy, also in Luxembourg, developing a condition monitoring system before setting up as an independent consultant.
HON SECRETARY
Andy Webb (F) Photo
Air Products, Houtemsesteenweg 20 , B-1800, Vilvoorde, Belgium. Tel : (+32) 2-2559131 [Belgium] Fax : (+32) 2-6739733 [Belgium]
Webbap@apci.com
info@imechebenelux.org
Andy Webb, CEng, Fellow, has nearly thirty years background in industrial gases. He is employed by Air Products and is currently involved in Packaged Gases, (gas cylinders) activity outside of Europe. He has been active in the Institution's activities in Belgium since the inception of the Ad Hoc Committee and his previous activities included UK Schools liaison.
BRANCH MEMBERSHIP LISTS
John Thompson (M) Photo
Residence Jupiter, 12 Ave du Champ de Mai BTE 49, B-1410 Waterloo, Belgium. Tel : (+32) 2-3548042 [Belgium]
John.Thompson@village.uunet.be
John Thompson, CEng, Member, began his career as a marine engineer. He later joined the Nuclear Power Group and worked on the mechanical and thermal design of power station components for the UK Magnox and AGR programmes. In 1972 he joined Westinghouse Electric in Belgium and from 1974 until his retirement in 1987, was manager of engineering groups responsible for PWR mechanical equipment. He is an active golfer.
HON. TREASURER
Malcolm Henderson (Eur. Ing.) Photo
Dept. AS&E/Q, Dutch Space BV, PO Box 32070, 2303 DB Leiden, Netherlands. Tel : (+31) 71-5245721 [Netherlands] Fax : (+31) 71-5245499 [Netherlands]
Malcolm V Henderson, CEng, Member obtained his degree at UMIST. He is currently Product Assurance (PA) Manager, Quality Department, Advanced Systems and Engineering Division, Dutch Space B.V where he has been since 1989. His current responsibility is PA Manager and Post Delivery Support (PDS) Manager for European Robotics Arm project. His previous positions with Dutch Space included PA Manager for Herschel Plank AOCS project, PA Manager for Envisat Solar Array project and PA Engineer for Ariane-4 structures project. Prior to Dutch Space, he was QA Manager for Cannon Rubber Ltd, Project Manager and QA Manager for Robobar Ltd, Principle Quality Engineer for Gestetner plc , QA Manager and Engineer for Gestetner Manufacturing Ltd, Data Evaluation Engineer and Graduate/Undergraduate Apprentice for Rolls-Royce - Bristol Engine Division.
MEMBER
Ian Hind (M) Photo
Ian Hind CEng, Member, graduated in 1997 with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and in 1998 with a Masters degree in Materials Engineering With Lasers. He started his career in the UK with Goodyear holding positions as Senior Engineer Passenger Tyre Development, Principal Engineer Farm Tyre Development, Production Specialist Truck Tyres, Chief Engineer Tyre Development and finally Six-Sigma Black Belt. In 2003 he moved to Luxembourg to work in the Goodyear Regional Technical Centre to provide support to production facilities with relation to process issues, new technology and waste reduction as a Process Engineer.
MEMBER
Gareth Pemberton (M) Photo
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MEMBER, NEWSLETTER
Colin Anderson (Member) Photo
Rue Victor Lefevre 66, 1030 Brussels, Belgium. Tel +32 2732 0343
colin@nospamshadyoak.freeserve.co.uk
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Colin Anderson, CEng, Member, started work in the field of noise and vibration engineering at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars following graduation from Imperial College, London. He has since worked for several UK companies in the same field, including The Motor Industry Research Association, Jaguar Cars (specialising in wind-noise), and Federal Mogul Technology. In 2005, Colin moved to Ingolstadt in southern Germany, to work for a small NVH consultancy company. At the beginning of 2006, he moved to Brussels to live with his girlfriend and is currently employed at Leuven Measurement Systems International, working in their Engineering Services Group.
MEMBER
Emma Ireland (M) Photo
Air Products, Houtemsesteenweg 20 , B-1800, Vilvoorde, Belgium. Tel :
(+32) 2-2559167 [Belgium] Fax : (+44) 1932 259070 [Electroinc fax]
CEng, Graduated in 2000 from University of Edinburgh - MEng in
Mechanical Engineering with Management Techniques. Since then employed
by Air Products, first 5years spent in UK as Project Engineering and
subsequently Equipment Engineer, for cryogenic storage and distribution
equipment. Current role European Equipment Engineer for Packaged Gases,
(gas cylinders). Living in Brussels.
MEMBER
Chris Grant-Wilson (M) Photo
Air Products, Houtemsesteenweg 20 , B-1800, Vilvoorde, Belgium. Tel : (+32) 2-2559125 [Belgium] Fax : (+44) 1932 258780 [Electronic fax]
Graduated in 1999 from Manchester University with an MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering (Integrated European Programme), having spent the third year studying at ICAM Grande Ecole in Lille, France. After graduating I worked in Tokyo for 18 months as an English teacher before joining Air Products in the UK in 2001. Since then I have worked in several roles and have been based in Germany, France and Belgium, where I now work as a Project Engineer. Hobbies include playing the guitar.
WEBMASTER & CONTACT FOR "IMECHE NEAR YOU"
Alan Hankinson (M) Photo
Pinksterbloem 28, 2992 VP Barendrecht, Netherlands. Tel : (+31) 180 623239 [home] Tel : (+31) 15 268 1747 [work] Fax : (+31) 15 257 1623 [work]
alan1@nospamthehanks.demon.nl
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Alan graduated in 1981 from Southampton University. In 1981, after graduating in Mechanical Engineering, Alan joined SBM Imodoc as a trainee (design, programming and R&D). 4 years later he joined Brown and Root Construction as a Design Engineer/Project Engineer (pipeline design and project engineering/field engineering). 2 years later (1986) He joined newly-starting Allseas as a Senior Project Engineer (project management, subcontractor control, field engineering, offshore representative and assignments to commercial department for proposals). In more recent years with Allseas he has been operating as Senior QHSE Engineer (management systems for ISO9001 & ISO14001 & ISM, project support, tender support, HAZIDs, fatality investigation, legislation, audit lead both onshore and offshore, structured coaching, liaison with authoriies, vessel support). Last year he moved to newly-starting Subsea 7 in Rotterdam as Lead in HSEQ.