UK battery production

[Bill Dawes]

Recently read an interesting article published by Sky news. Google.. 'Humber refinery, British industries best kept secret'

Bill D.

[ALAW]

2 hours ago, Bill Dawes said:

Recently read an interesting article published by Sky news. Google.. 'Humber refinery, British industries best kept secret'

Bill D.

Very interesting Bill. Ive worked here numerous times over the years. Remember been there once and the plant we were building was a new cokeing plant. I had no isea it was this. I always thought it was for fires LOL. Good read that makes you wonder about our governments and the environmental issue etc.

[Bill Dawes]

Well dig beneath all the media hysteria about Boris's wall paper and how much Andrew's settlement was there is quite a bit of good things going on in  UK industry, I wish the media would get behind UK plc and support it, give us some of the good news that is around, you would think they lived in another country and owed no loyalty to us. Still good news is bad news for the media I suppose, headlines matter you know.!!

Bill D.

[Bill Dawes]

PS Brent, in my job (industrial fan engineer) I have been to Teeside, Humberside, many of the ICI plants (remember them) in that area and Cheshire, steelworks in Wales etc thsi will be strange to people that look the other way at such sights but I loved 'em.

I supplied a very large fan to the Conoco refinery up there and it was handling a quantity of this oil based coke, the other coke is coaling coke, incidentally what the proposed new mine that there is so much fuss about, is for I bellieve. So stop the mine and buy it all in from somewhere that have far less stanadards than us, that will make ok won't it (NO) coking coal is required for steelmaking.

We have a problem in the UK where there are so few people in manufacturing these days that we have a vociferous army of non technical people that spout total uninformed nonsense.

Bill D.

[steve2006]

Sir Digby Jones, ICI chairman I remember him.

[Bill Dawes]

Also Arnold Weinstock of GEC, what happened to all these great companies.

Bill D.

[Phil xxkr]

16 hours ago, steve2006 said:

Sir Digby Jones, ICI chairman I remember him.

Not very it seems 😂. John Harvey Jones is nearer the mark. Lord Digby Jones(who coincidentally I've known for 40 years) was head honcho at the CBI. 

[steve2006]

I thought that was the guy who shot JFK. my brain cells are diminishing. 😀

[Phil xxkr]

38 minutes ago, steve2006 said:

I thought that was the guy who shot JFK. my brain cells are diminishing. 😀

No there're not Steve, who can be absolutely sure unless you meant JRE? 🤣