UNITECR is a biennial international conference that is conducted by one of its four "Founding Member Organizations" in odd-number years. The official oversight body is the UNITECR International Executive Board (IEB), composed of representatives of the Founding Member Organizations and certain individuals, who are elected to the IEB as Distinguished Life Members. IEB is governed under Bylaws established by its members.

The objective of the UNITECR IEB is to organize the biennial UNITECR and any other meetings with a view to maintain and develop its activities and generally to contribute to the progress and exchange of industrial knowledge and technologies concerning refractories.

Meetings
UNITECR'05 8-11 November 2005 Orlando, Florida USA	UNITECR'07 18-21 September 2007 Dresden Germany

UNITECR Members

Founding Members
The American Ceramic Society (ACerS)
The German Refractories Association (GRA)
Association Latinoamericana de Fabricantes de Refractarios (ALAFAR)
The Technical Association of Refractories, Japan (TAR J)

Principal Members
Chinese Ceramic Society (CCS)
Indian Refractory Makers Association (IRMA)
Federation Europeene des Fabricants de Produits Refractaires (PRE)

Distinguished Life Members

Secretariat
The designated Secretariat to the UNITECR IEB is:
The American Ceramic Society
735 Ceramic Place, Suite 100
Westerville OH 43081 U.S.A.
www.ceramics.org
E-mail: unitecr@ceramics.org
Telephone: +1-614-794-5861
Facsimile: +1-614-794-5852