News from Geneva IPLOCA Webinars Continue After the summer break, IPLOCA started its second wave of webinars as the world rapidly fell into another pandemic related lock-down. The first of these webinars was to announce the much awaited IPLOCA Technology Catalogue portal that enables all IPLOCA member companies to connect and advertise their services at no extra cost to membership fees. Further details on this initiative are available overleaf. On 9 November, Randy Robertson, General Manager at Cyntech U.S. Inc. explained the concept of pipeline anchoring, while giving a brief summary of the engineering, application, and installation. The direct and indirect (social) cost advantages were also presented.
On 19 November, as winner of the IPLOCA Health & Safety 2020 Award sponsored by Chevron, Gurcan Guven, Corporate HSE Manager at Tekfen Construction & Installation Co. Inc. shared with members the practical
Season’s Greetings
training named ‘Hazard Hunting Headquarters’ (3H). Further
IPLOCA’s Board of Directors
www.iploca.com/webinar.
information is available on page 19 of this newsletter. If you missed these webinars, recordings of the presentations are available on our website at
and the staff of the Secretariat would like to thank everyone
Upcoming webinars include the other two 2020 award
who has contributed to the work
winners which are featured on page 19 of this newsletter:
of the association during this past, particularly challenging, year. This period has highlighted even more our appreciation of your friendships and of course we are also
- Denys NV – 2020 IPLOCA Excellence in Project Execution Award for the Bergsche Maas Project on Thursday 3 December at 15:00 CET - Spiecapag – 2020 IPLOCA Environmental Award for
grateful to you for hosting our events and for your
their “Waste Management Solution”
expertise and the time you have shared with us. In 2021
on Thursday 17 December at 15:00 CET
we look forward to once again meeting up physically. If you have a subject you would like to present during Our very best wishes for a healthy, safe
an IPLOCA webinar, please send a short description to
and revitalised new year!
jacqueline.tempel@iploca.com.
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