Tuesday October 30th saw the launch, or rather the re-launch of the British Composites Society as a separate entity within the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
Society Chairman Paul Hogg, who is Professor of Materials Engineering at Queen Mary University, London, told a gathering at the launch event at the IOM3 in London that the Society originally joined the IOM3 in 1991, and then addressed the question as to, “Why re-badge?”
He answered this by saying that, “We really have no idea who among the twenty thousand members of the IOM3 are really into composites”. He said that the Institute felt itself unable to give details of what members’ interests were even to other members, “Because of the Data Protection Act”. For this reason he urged anyone who is particularly interested in composites, whether they are currently members of the IOM3 or not, to log onto the Society’s website, www.bcompsoc.org.uk and tell them (and him) so.
A full report on the launch event and what was decided there will appear in the December 2007 edition of Eureka
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