By Greg Brown
The North-West Branch continues to go from strength to strength under the skilful chairmanship of Greg Brown, recruiting new committee members and planning several exciting events for 2025.
Young Engineer Event – 19th February 2025
The Young Engineer Programme is run by ICorr every two years and serves as a great opportunity for early-career engineers/students to gain valuable experience and problem-solving skills. Our 2024 programme has just been completed in London, and our YEP 24 winners will be off to AMPP25 in Nashville very soon: https://ace.ampp.org/home
Last year’s participants dealt with a power plant corrosion-related issue. The winning team designed a solution to the problem. Roger Francis, of RF Materials, implemented the real-life solution.
Our Young Engineer leadership team of Danny Burkle and Izabela Gajewska has confirmed the date of 19th February 2025 for a ‘Follow-up’ event at the University of Manchester to showcase presentations from the winning team and Roger Francis. As in previous North-West Branch events, it’s also proposed that the event will showcase students’ university research presentations. The event will also promote the next intake for YEP in Q4 2025.
The event will take place from 12:30 for lunch. The event is open to all ICorr members, not just Young ICorr participants.
For further information or to confirm your place, please contact nwchair@Icorr.org
Asset Management Joint Event Â
The North-West Branch was approached to host a joint event with the Institute of Asset Management (IAM). A further meeting of the planning committee is taking place. The date and final arrangements are yet to be confirmed but will be available and circulated in due course, also being posted to the North-West Branch homepage: North-West Branch – Institute of Corrosion.
UK-China Corrosion Summit Dates 
Confirmed as 3rd-4th September 2025Â
In a tremendously exciting development for the North-West Branch, ICorr and our Chinese counterpart, CSCP (Chinese Society for Corrosion Protection), are planning to hold the inaugural UK-China Corrosion Summit in Manchester in 2025, following the signing-off of our MoU in China in October 2024 and the successful ICorr (UK) – CSCP (China) Joint Webinar Week in November 2024.
The proposed format is as follows:
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The Summit will be a two-day event, consisting of: Day 1: Conference with evening dinner; Day 2: University and industrial visits.
- The size of China delegation will be approximately 20-30.
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The Technical Programme will be hosted by Manchester University, with an accompanying industrial visit also taking place to Intertek CAPCIS.
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ICorr North-West Branch will organising the venue and associated facilities.
North-West Branch will continue to update Corrosion Management and all relevant communication channels. Anyone wishing to express an interest in attending the conference can contact nwchair@icorr.org or president@icorr.org
Committee Meetings
The NW Branch committee normally meets on the 2nd Tuesday 
on alternate months, at 18:00 (either in person or online, as advised by Chair: nwchair@icorr.org)
Upcoming dates are:
- 8th April 2025
- 10th June 2025
- 12th August 2025
- 14th October 2025
Branch New Year Get Together
The Committee met in Turtle Bay, NW Manchester, to celebrate their successful 2024 and share a lovely meal before getting down to the work for what promises to be a busy 2025!
Upcoming Events
For more details of upcoming events please visit: 
www.icorr.org/events/
If you wish to present, please contact: 
nwchair@icorr.org
Photo: North-West Committee, January 2025 at Turtle Bay, Manchester.
