Merry Christmas from Williamsburg

Dennis McCutcheon and Rick Grigg

Rick Grigg and Derek Clay

Jack Young, Don George, Rick Grigg and John Hood

Rick Grigg, ?
?, Jim Lindsay LEW Coke Ovens Superintendent and Ian Deeks.

Japanese visitor, Rick Grigg, ? and visitor  

?,?,?, Rick Grigg,Linda Grigg,?,?,?, John Thompson
The visitors are from Kobe Steel

?, Derek Clay, Al Harris, Rick Grigg, Mas Shimizu,?

Margaret Clay, Linda Grigg, Rick Grigg and Mas Shimizu Kobe Steel.

No. 1 Conference Room

Back Row: ?, Rod Saunders,? ,Rick Grigg, Nick Danelak, ?, Derek Clay

Front Row: Chuck Murdock,?. Jock McKay, Les McLean 

Henry Paulencu and Rick Grigg

Back Row:?, John Hood, Rick Grigg
Front Row: ?,?,?, Klaus Heyer

Rick Grigg and Derek Clay

LEW Maintenance Manager, ? and Rick Grigg

Jock McKay, Derek Clay and Rick Grigg

Hello all you fellow R&D retirees,

Sending you this reminder regarding our R&D retirees breakfast this Wednesday June 5^th , 2019. Hope you can make it. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it since I must work this Wednesday.

Next breakfast: Wednesday Oct 2, 2019 (put it on you calendars)

Take care,

Rick

Projet Bessemer

Pilot Plant for strip casting At IMI, Boucherville, QC 

After retirement Jock McKay was asked if would set up a Joint Venture Company to develop a viable strip casting process. Five Canadian steel companies were involved: IPSCO, ALgoma, Dofasco, Stelco, and Sidbec-Dosco.  He accepted the offer and
Jock, as Executive director, within a few months set up the company and began the daunting development task. He chose the name Projet Bessemer. Projet means project in French and plan in English.    Henry Bessemer, as you may know, developed the first mass production process for making steel. NRC's Industrial Materials laboratory in Boucherville served as the centre for development. Jock had worked with them in the past.