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Graham Honeyman Takes Over As BMPCA Chair Issue 34 | April 2019 Graham Honeyman takes over as BMPCA Chair I am delighted to announce that Graham Honeyman from Sheffield Forgemasters is our new BMPCA Chair. Most of you already know Graham - he has attended and spoken at many of our events. Sheffield Forgemasters are a founder member of the BMPCA and many of their staff have taken Executive roles over the years. It is a fantastic opportunity for the Association to be led by Graham through these changing times for specialist Trade Associations. I know all the members will be keen to welcome him. Elizabeth Bonfield BMPCA Director About Graham Honeyman In 1988 Graham joined Sheffield the Year at the YBI International Forgemasters as Technical Business Awards in May 2013 and After gaining BSc (Hons) and MSc Director. He led a management named CEO Of the Year at the degrees in Engineering Materials buyout of the Company and was national Private Business Awards Technology at the University of appointed Chief Executive in in September 2013. Aston, Graham was awarded a 2005. PhD from Teesside University. In February 2013 Graham was Graham was awarded a CBE in made an Honorary Professor In 1987 he was awarded a Winston 2008. of Strategic Management at Churchill Medal for his study Sheffield University Management of supercritical steam turbine At the IOD Director of the Year School and awarded an technology. Awards in 2010, Graham won the Honorary Doctorate of Business Global Director of the Year. In 1997 he was awarded a silver Administration at Teesside medal from the Royal Academy In July 2012 Graham was awarded University in November 2013. of Engineering for outstanding the Bessemer Gold Medal. He was contribution to British voted the International Person of Engineering. www.bmpca.org.uk 1 ASSOCIATION NEWS Decision time for members The February business meeting was held at Siemens Manchester Office and had the largest number of attendees since I took over last January. The main part of the meeting was around the future direction of our Association which will celebrate 50 years in existence later this year. There was no shortage of ideas and suggestions and some frank views on the future of Trade Associations. BMPCA is in the fortunate position of being its own master, a specialist Trading Association with low fixed costs no pension liabilities and the opportunity to flex to deliver what members want for their subscription. Significantly we need to recruit more members. The more members the greater service can be provided. I have been contacting potential new 1.1 Reason for being part of the BMPCA - Networking Opportunities members which we can invite to meetings and events going How important is this aspect? How effective is this within the BMPCA now? forward. Those present took the decision 57% to survey the members and meet 64% again in April at ABB Robotics site Milton Keynes to use the information received to plan for 2019 and beyond. 1.2 Reason for being part of the BMPCA - Business development Thank you to Vincent Morton, Siemens - Key Account Manager - How important is this aspect? How effective is this within the BMPCA now? UK Steel, who prepared the survey. Thank you to all members and their companies for taking time to 50% 43% 43% complete the survey a snapshot is provided for those who are unable to attend the meeting workshop. I will be distributing the agreed outcomes to all the members 1.1 Reason for being part of the BMPCA - Knowledge sharing following our April meeting. How important is this aspect? How effective is this within the BMPCA now? I am really looking forward to delivering your needs on behalf of the business. 50% 50% Elizabeth Bonfield BMPCA Director 2 www.bmpca.org.uk ASSOCIATION NEWS Annual Lunch Magazine (print) 50% 71% Quarterly meetings - Site visits/tours ISSB reports 64% 50% Online presence (website, other) Annual dinner 28% 28% 38% Quarterly meetings - Expert talks 46% www.bmpca.org.uk 3 Renaissance Man As quite a small child I’d been involved one way or another with my father’s and my grandfather’s businesses, going to the office, and generally helping out. And between my A levels and university I took two years out selling bicycles in Turkey for my father. Did you feel there was anything you had to prove or was it something totally natural to you? SG: People ask me all the time, “What else could you have done? What would you have been? What was your dream?” and I say – I never knew any different! I was born with this heritage and I fell in love with it from a very early age, it’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. anjeev Gupta has been ArcelorMittal, currently the world’s engineering a quiet revolution largest steelmaker. In Australia, Liberty House started as a Sin the UK and global metals Liberty is working with SIMEC, the commodity trading company, but sector, while simultaneously GFG Alliance energy company, to later in your career you decided building an integrated presence in develop its presence in steel, mining to switch to manufacturing. What automotive and aerospace supply and energy. It has also acquired spurred that decision? chains that will position his Liberty Aluminium Dunkerque, the largest House asa key player in both. aluminium smelter in Europe. Liberty SG: The true heritage of my family House now has annual revenues of is manufacturing. I started a trading The most outstanding example $15bn, is headquartered in London business while at college because of that strategy is the planned and has offices in Dubai, Singapore I saw an opportunity to connect alloy wheels factory at Lochaber and Hong Kong. different parts of the world. The in Scotland, where Liberty House family had been used to doing bought the local aluminium smelter In education, Sanjeev Gupta’s business between India and and the hydroelectric plant that support for the Industrial Cadets Africa. Being in Europe, I saw the powers it. For the first time, UK scheme is laying the foundations opportunity of bringing another automotive companies will be able for tomorrow’s industrial workforce, leg to that equation, which was to buy alloy wheels directly from a to remedy the damage done by a very, very successful. And for a UK manufacturer. generation of neglect of the skills long time, that’s what I continued needed in heavy manufacturing. doing. But I was always involved It is a remarkable and continuing with manufacturing, always in steel record of achievement for Gupta It is an impressive record, which is mills, out of steel mills, buying and his team at Liberty House, why in 2018, Sanjeev Gupta was an from steel mills, selling to other which is part of the global GFG Exemplar in The Manufacturer Top 100. steel customers. I always dreamt of (Gupta Family Group) Alliance starting my own industries. In steel alone, they are reviving He spoke to editorial director Nick what was once written off as a Peters about his career. You did that by investing in the dinosaur UK industry, battered by Nick Peters: You started Liberty UK steel industry, against which, competition from cheaper foreign House at university I understand. over recent decades, the tide has competitors, and they will do it by very much been set. You decided recycling steel instead of making it Sanjeev Gupta: The launch of the not only to swim against that tide, from scratch. business was indeed during my but to try to reverse it. What made first year at Cambridge. It sounds you think you could do that? A bit Overseas, among many projects, quite unusual, but actually for me quixotic perhaps? Liberty House has restarted a steel it was nothing special because I’d plant in Kansas, while in Europe been in business all my life. SG: Right now, it feels far from it is buying seven plants from that because it’s all been a great 4 www.bmpca.org.uk success. But at the time – we’re So recycling is the only way to over time. So you never have to talking about 2013, 2014, 2015 – it bend the global steel industry make steel in this country ever was probably one of the worst back into profit? again if you just recycle what is times in the history of steel. There already there in the system. was a global crisis in steel – that’s SG: No, it depends where you are. when Redcar closed (in 2015, If you’re in a country like Australia, Recycling steel – Greensteel as owned by Thai-based Sahaviriya which has all the natural resources you call it – requires electric arc Steel Industries, who had bought it you need, like iron or like coal, it’s furnaces. Anyone who has an from Tata Steel) and literally every very much viable to make primary electric arc furnace is going to be steel company in the world was steel. And we are going to invest able to compete against you. Are challenged, particularly the weaker in that as well. But in countries like you concerned you might lose your ones, and those in countries like the UK, where you have no iron, or first-mover advantage? no coal, all those resources have the UK were falling over, one after SG: I actually quite encourage another. long been spent. To import those raw materials all the way across the others to do this. We import To decide to restart the shutdown world from Brazil, from Australia, something like six million tonnes steel plant at Newport was to import almost four tonnes of of steel a year into this country, so therefore quite controversial.
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