BVAA Spring Conference May 2025

The BVAA Spring Conference 2025 was held at Formby Hall on 14-15^th May, and we want to thank our sponsors, speakers, exhibitors, conference delegates and golfers for being part of a hugely successful and enjoyable event!

But, don’t take our word for it – here is just some of the brilliant feedback from our delegates:

• 'Great event. Really useful as ever. Great for networking.'
• 'Good market overview. Very interesting Additive Manufacturing information.'
• 'Great event as always.'
• 'Really enjoyed today's talks and opportunity to network. Really enjoyed topics and general understanding from where we are globally and challenges faced.'
• 'Very informative and diverse content. Generally, very relevant.'
• 'Good variety of topics.'
• 'Brilliant event, very well organised and excellent venue.'
• 'Great presentations on highly relevant topics!'
• 'Thanks very much BVAA team, really super day and very interesting.'
• 'BVAA team excellent as always!'
• 'Very good content delivered from speakers and excellent venue.'
• 'Good, varied content, very well run.'
• 'Really interesting and informative event.'
• 'As always, thoroughly engaging speakers, very interesting topics, relevant to our company. Fantastic venue, delicious catering, all knitted together perfectly by the wonderful BVAA team!'
• 'Excellent topical event hitting the current hot topics.'

Thank you to the 2025 Keynote Speakers:

• Andrew Douglas, Material Engineering Group Manager, James Walker - Topic: Navigating PFAS in sealing material selection and validation.
• Patrick Stephen, Product Manager - High Performance Elastomers, James Walker - Topic: Sealing solutions for the energy transition.
• David Linden, Executive Director & Head of Energy Transition, and Nick Patience, Consulting Manager - Westwood Global Energy Group - Topic: Valves and Actuators: Global Market Outlook.
• Emelie Olsson, Customer Success Lead - CBAMBOO - Topic: Navigating CBAM: Simplifying compliance & future-proofing your business.
• Matthew Charlton, Technical Director, KOSO Kent Introl – Topic: Qualification of Suppliers and Quality requirements for ALM parts in the Petroleum and Natural Gas industries. 
  
• Andrew Woloszyn, Key Account Manager and Dr. Jhonattan Gutjahr, Team Manager, Laser Additive Manufacturing Section at TWI – Topic: Advantages and Challenges of Additive Manufacture for pressure components.
• Bill Cattanach OBE, Head of Supply Chain and Sylvia Buchan, Energy Supply Chain Manager, North Sea Transition Authority – Topic: Expanding opportunity in Decarbonisation including, providing awareness and value of the industry contract visibility tool.

Thank you to our sponsors: James Walker, Industrial Valves Ltd and Bray Controls (UK) Ltd.

Glorious BVAA Golf Day!

In contrast to 2024, this year’s BVAA Golf Day was played in just about perfect weather!
 
The sun shone throughout, a gentle cooling breeze, and the course was in superb condition.  We also welcomed a good number of new golfers this year, which added hugely to the atmosphere.

Congratulations to the Winning Team 7 (Valmet) with Rob Porter, Michael Oliver-Goggins, Mike Freeman and Liam Allen (pictured) claiming the coveted BVAA Cup, 2025.