The short version
I have completed that arc twice, thirty years apart, in the same technology family — and the twenty years in between are the reason the second one went better than the first.
In the 1990s I took a food-contact PET depolymerisation process from bench scale to pilot to 24/7 full-scale production, ran the US FDA trial work, and saw it commercialised through a joint venture. Three decades later I did it again with enzymatic plastic recycling: from laboratory data to pilot plants producing commercial-grade PET and Nylon-6,6 monomers.
Between them I ran a hazardous waste business — solvent recycling, water treatment, a NATA-certified laboratory, oil processing at Moomba — and delivered capital projects inside live operating plant without losing production. You learn what a scale-up decision really costs when you are the one operating the result.
What I do
Technology scale-up and commercialisation
Bench to pilot to production, with each stage designed to answer the question that unlocks the next tranche of spend.
Capital project delivery
Projects inside live operating plant, without losing production.
Owner's Engineer
Holding designers and constructors to scope, cost, schedule and technical risk on behalf of the company paying for it.
Technical due diligence
An independent read on whether the technology does what the deck says, and what it costs to scale.
Operational and process engineering review
For plant that is not doing what the design said it would.
If you are moving a process out of the laboratory and into a plant, or you have a plant that is not doing what the design said it would, I am happy to talk it through.