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IGEM NEWS | Events

INNOVATION VISIT

TO TOWNGAS

By Jonathan Ng, IGEM FEDS follows Managing Director Alfred Chan’s
Membership Manager equation for successful growth: G = I x I
(Growth = Innovation x Implementation).
GETTING A TASTE of China’s innovation Anthony, Paul and John began their Kong gas network. Simon’s team
projects, IGEM Vice President Anthony day with a trip to the Hall where they shared some of the self-designed
Green, of DNV GL, joined SGN’s Paul were joined by Duncan Wong, Past applications currently being used in
Denniff and John Lobban on a visit to Chair of IGEM FEDS, and Trevor Tang, Towngas operations.
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Business Innovation Manager, who The meeting ended with a farewell
Limited (Towngas). gave them a warm welcome and dinner arranged by IGEM-FEDS. The
Towngas is working to promote the presented the creative exhibits. Section and Towngas would like to
importance of innovation in enterprise After the visit, they met the team of express their warmest thanks to
and has set up a Hall of Innovation, Simon Ngo, Towngas Head of Anthony, Paul and John and are
displaying a series of creative products Engineering for HK Utilities, to discuss looking forward to future
invented by its teams. The project innovations taking shape on the Hong opportunities for cooperation. ■

CHARITY QUIZ NIGHT welcoming our neighbours from

across the border next time as the
North East & Yorkshire Section plans
By Sheila Lauchlan, IGEM They saw off competition from to put up a challenge. See you all
President and Scottish Section ‘Energy Asses’ and ‘99 Problems and again next year! ■
Committee member Maths is 10w4 of Them’, from
Energy Assets, ‘Dunderbawls’, from
IT WAS GREAT to welcome new PM Projen, SGN’s ‘Show Quizness’,
faces along to the Scottish and a team of interlopers called
Section’s 7th Annual Charity Pub ‘Three Pint Thursday’.
Quiz, held in Edinburgh’s Mercat A special thanks to Ben Clarke for
Bar, on 22 March. his help with the raffle, to all who
In a fiercely fought battle, reigning donated prizes and to the winners
champs Putin on the Gas, made up for donating their £50 prize money,
of Masha Allan, Raymond Brown, raising a whopping £207 for
David Young and James Allan, held Alzheimer Scotland.
on to their title. We’re looking forward to

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