Agenda

Head of Nitrogen,  CRU
Laura joined CRU in April 2018 as the Head of Nitrogen Analysis, overseeing the company’s portfolio of market outlooks, cost studies and multiclient reports to the nitrogen industry.

Prior to joining CRU, Laura led the nitrogen research team at Integer Research, and has almost ten years’ experience in the fertilizer industry. Laura has presented at numerous international conferences on fertilizer market trends, the industrial nitrogen market, and long-term fertilizer demand. Laura has a BSc in Physical Geography from King’s College London.

Senior Analyst, Nitrogen,  CRU
Keshni Sritharan joined CRU Group in 2016. She undertakes price forecasting and quantitative modelling across the different nutrients in the Fertilizer team.

Keshni is primarily involved in monitoring market volatilities and price movements in the nitrogen industry. Keshni also closely monitors gas markets and forecasts long-term fertilizer demand.

Keshni has a background in econometrics and holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Warwick. 

Technology Manager,  Johnson Matthey
John Pach graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He joined ICI Billingham and spent a few years in methanol related process engineering design. He then relocated to ICI Severnside, near Bristol in the UK, and performed a variety of technical and operational roles. After a brief period in a project management role at another site, he returned to Severnside (then owned by Terra) as Site Production Manager. He joined Johnson Matthey in 2008 and is now their Ammonia Technology Manager.

Senior Sales Manager, Ammonia/Urea,  thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions
Stephan Buss graduated at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany, with a Diploma in Process Engineering. He joined the fomer Uhde in 2007 and worked in the field of urea plant design. He gained experience in the basic and detail engineering of different sizes and layouts of urea plants. Stephan worked as commissioning engineer abroad and was responsible as commissioning manager urea for the start-up of an urea plant in Egypt. Two years ago, Stephan joined the Sales department of tkIS, where he is currently working as Senior Sales Manager within the Fertilizer Division.

Product Portfolio Manager,  Stamicarbon
Joey Dobrée has a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering at the Hanze University and a Master degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. After graduation Mr Dobrée started working as Process Engineer for Stamicarbon in 2007, the Licensing and IP Group Center of Maire Tecnimont. After seven years working in the role as Licensing Manager, Mr Dobrée now holds the position of Product Portfolio Manager. Within this position Mr Dobrée is commercially responsible for product management and incremental innovation of all business lines, as well the overall account management of Safurex®

In his work Mr Dobrée has special attention to drive plant digitization and the development of sustainable production of urea and nitrate fertilizers in order to contribute to more sustainable footprint of the fertilizer industry in order provide resilience to the industry and answer challenging questions in relation to the environmental footprint of urea and nitrate fertilizers.

R&D Manager,  Haldor Topsoe
Fernando Morales Cano is a R&D Manager at Haldor Topsøe A/S in Denmark, where he has worked over the last 13 years on different research projects within catalyst developments in the area of syngas generation. Mr Morales Cano holds a MsC in Chemistry from University Autónoma of Madrid (2001) and a PhD from Utrecht University in The Netherlands at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis. His PhD thesis is entitled “Manganese Promotion in Titania-supported Cobalt Fischer-Tropsch Catalysis”. In 2006 he joined the R&D division of Haldor Topsøe and since then he has contributed to the development of many new catalyst products as well as establishing new fundamental insights in his research areas.

Global Commercial Lead- Catacel SSR,  Johnson Matthey
Matthew Wilson graduated from Teesside University with a BEng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering in 2010 and is the Global Commercial Lead for CATACEL SSR , the Johnson Matthey’s structured catalyst business. 

Mr Wilson reports into the Commercial Manager for the Americas and is responsible for growing the structured catalyst business globally, by delivering the CATACEL SSR breakthrough technology to the Ammonia, Methanol and Hydrogen markets. 

Mr Wilson joined the Catalyst Technologies business unit of Johnson Matthey’s Efficient Natural Resources sector in 2014, his previous role reported into the Strategic Hydrogen Business, as a Contractor Sales Manager for Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa, focusing in on ‘New Plant Build’ Hydrogen plants in his territory, and European contractor relationships. 

Global Product Manager - Syngas,  Clariant
Dr. Stefan Gebert is the Global Product Manager in Clariant’s Business Unit “Catalysts” and is responsible for Clariant’s syngas catalyst product portfolio for ammonia, methanol and hydrogen plants. Dr. Gerbert has a PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and started his career in the catalyst business with Süd-Chemie AG in 2003. He has more than 16 years of experience in the field of syngas catalysts for hydrogen, ammonia and methanol production with varying roles in catalyst sales, technical service and product management. From 2012 – 2014 he was appointed as Head of Regional Sales Office in Singapore for the catalyst market in South East Asia / Pacific.

Product Development Manager,  TechnipFMC
Dr. Stéphane Walspurger is Product Development Manager at TechnipFMC in Zoetermeer in The Netherlands. He obtained a PhD in chemistry from the University of Strasbourg in France. He has contributed to research on the “Methanol economy” with Nobel laureate Prof. George Olah at the University of Southern California. Between 2008 and 2013, as a scientist at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (currently TNO) he contributed to the development and scale-up of novel CO2 capture and steam reforming technologies. Since 2014, he has been working on the development of new products to extend TechnipFMC’s technology portfolio in Hydrogen and syngas.

Sales & Solutions Manager,  Stamicarbon
Mr. John Oostveen obtained a BSc in Process Engineering & Operations in 1986 at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and a post graduate degree in Energy & Process Technology in 2003 at the same institution.
He started his career in 1986 as a Process Operator at DSM, the Netherlands. Whilst working at DSM he gained experience working as a shift supervisor in plant operations and rotating equipment, and project development in a large range of chemical processes for DSM and SABIC.

In 2007 he joined Stamicarbon as Process Engineer and in 2012 he became a Process Services & Solutions Manager within the Licensing, Sales & Services department. He is responsible for commercializing proven and new developed technologies, as well as know-how of Urea processes developed by Stamicarbon.

Research Engineer,  Yara
Volker Siepmann is employed by the fertiliser producer Yara, working as a researcher in an expert role on custom process model development, mainly on the ammonia, nitric acid and urea production processes.

After graduating, he studied chemical engineering at the University of Dortmund and continued with a PhD on the field of thermodynamics and process modelling in Porsgrunn and NTNU Trondheim, Norway. This PhD study was conducted with and financed by the Norwegian Norsk Hydro ASA, at that time embracing today’s companies Norsk Hydro, Equinor and Yara.

Technology Specialist,  Yara

Urea Kaltim 5 Superintendent,  PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur
Slamet Cahyono has 32 years of operational experience working at PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur. Mr Cahyono specialises in the Urea plant process and troubleshooting, and is currently a Superintendent of Urea plant Kaltim 5 in Pupuk Kaltim.

Process Engineer,  PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur

Global Marketing Manager Syngas,  Clariant

Christian Berchthold has a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Siegen, Germany with the major subjects being marketing and finance.

Mr Berchthold has over 5 years of international experience in the marketing field, for example trade marketing, brand management, public relations and communication, working for companies within the Juvenile industry and at Clariant.

For 1.5 years he has been working at Clariant and is responsible for the Global B2B Marketing Syngas. In his role he oversees Clariant’s Syngas marketing strategy and marketing mix to enhance the customer journey and experience through various channels such as events, public relations, communication material and trademark management. 

Technology Manager (Ammonia),  Casale

Sergio Panza graduated in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan in 1998. He worked over one year in the research field at ETH of Zurich. Since 2001 he is part of CASALE GROUP. His current position is Technology Manager in the Syngas Process Department.

Head of Group Ammonia,  thyssenrupp Industrial Solutions
Bernd Mielke graduated from the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany in 1997 with a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in 2001 on the design of adsorptive gas separation processes by expert systems. He joined thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (formerly ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH) in 2001 as a process engineer for nitric acid plants. In 2004 he became a member of the ammonia process group and worked on basic and detail engineering, commissioning, plant revamping and trouble shooting. Since 2019 he is the head of the ammonia process group at thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG.

N-Tegration Licensing Engineer,  Koch Agronomic Services
Dan Kuttenkuler has been involved in the design and manufacturing of nitrogen-based fertilizers and products for more than 35 years and has broad experience in prilled or granular nitrogen products. He began to work with enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizers in 2006 at AGROTAIN International and brought this expertise to Koch Agronomic Services (KAS) when KAS acquired the company in 2011. Prior, Mr Kuttenkuler held roles including Process Engineer, Plant Manager and Technical Director for Hercules Inc., Dyno Noble (formerly IRECO), LaRoche Industries Inc. and Simplot. He is a graduate of University of Missouri-Columbia with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering.

Director, Global Innovation Technologies,  Koch Agronomic Services
Chris Muehling joined Koch Agronomic Services (KAS) in February 2013 as a Director of International Business Development. He transitioned to his current role in November 2014 as Director of Global Technology Licensing. His background includes extensive experience in business development, plant operations, sales/marketing, and senior leadership. He has worked in the fertilizer, corn wet-milling and ethanol industries and spent time in private equity. Mr Muehling holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from St. Ambrose University.

Process Engineer,  Toyo Engineering Corporation

Shohei Baba has been engaged in several projects as a process engineer of urea process licensor. His responsibilities include engineering of new licensing projects and EPC projects, commissioning, start-up and operation supervisor for urea plant. Mr Baba has been working for Toyo Engineering Corporation since he graduated from a master’s course in chemical engineering from Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan.

Superintendent,  PT Petrokimia Gresik
Ahmad Dzakil Fikri joined PT Petrokimia Gresik in 2011 after he graduated as a Bachelor of Chemical Engineer from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology in Surabaya, Indonesia. He began his career in Business Development Department, which initiated the Ammonia and Urea 1B Project from the feasibility study, EPC contract document, Bidding document until successful Bidder assignment, from 2011 to 2013.

From 2013 to 2018, Mr Fikri was appointed as Technical team (head of Urea Plant team) of the Ammonia and Urea 1B Project, his role was deeply involved in Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning and Performance Test activity. Furthermore, in 2018, he was appointed as a Superintendent of the new Urea Plant. 

The Ammonia and Urea 1B Project was a big challenge for him due to his relatively short of the work experience, finally the plant achieved 120% of the nameplate capacity. He had a unique experience, was closely engaged to the big project from the early preparation as a non-technical competence until the daily plant's operation as a technical competence.

Head of Process Division,  Casale
Francesco Baratto joined CASALE GROUP in 2004, where he worked initially as Process Engineer, mainly involved in the field of ammonia, methanol and its derivates. In March 2010 he was appointed Technology Development Section Manager, responsible for a group of people in the Research & Technology department with the duty of preparing technical proposal and feasibility studies and giving process support to the development of new technologies and optimization of existing ones. In December 2012 he was appointed Deputy Department Head of Syngas Process department, with particular duty of coordinating technical proposal and feasibility study activities. Since November 2018 he is head of Syngas Department in the Process Division. Mr Baratto graduated from Politecnico di Milano in Chemical Engineering in July 2004 and holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from University of Illinois in Chicago (April 2004).

Plant Manager,  INEOS
Dr. Daniel Stoltenberg studied technical chemistry in Halle, Germany. In 2008 he joined the Max-Planck-Institute in Magdeburg, Germany, as a scientific coworker. After finishing his PhD in chemical engineering in 2012 Dr. Stoltenberg joined INEOS in Cologne to become a process engineer for the ammonia and nitric acid plants. As such he worked on process improvements like the replacement of the ammonia converter. Since 2018 he has been the responsible plant manager for both plants. 

Technical Service Manager,  Haldor Topsoe
Johan Jönsson holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden. In 2011 he joined Haldor Topsoe A/S as Catalyst Specialist and in 2013 he was appointed Product Manager for a number of products within the syngas field. Since 2018, Johan has been working as Technical Service Manager, supporting global sales in the company.

Senior Process Engineer,  thyssenkrupp Fertilizer Technology
Thomas Krawczyk has been working in the field of urea fertilizers for more than eight years. He studied chemical engineering at the University of Dortmund where he obtained his Diploma degree in 2007. Working for thyssenkrupp since the beginning of 2008, he has been involved in the engineering of grassroot plants as well as for revamps. In 2011 he joined the world leading licensor for fluidized bed urea granulation technology thyssenkrupp Fertilizer Technology (tkFT) were he has been in charge for the preparation of process design packages for numerous urea granulation projects. In the recent past he has been responsible for several different research and development projects and the product manager for urea additives.

Process Plant Superintendent,  Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co. (GPIC)
Abdulmunem Alnajjar joined GPIC in 1993 after completing his Engineering degree and worked in an Ammonia plant before joining the Urea Project in 1997. During his career at GPIC he held various positions including Urea shift supervisor, Production Engineer, Senior Shift Supervisor and Urea Plant Superintendent. and product handling &export superintendent  He was appointed as 1st Bahraini Process Plant Superintendent in 2007 and holds the position until this date. In this time, he managed many project and production scheme enhancement   Mr Alnajjar holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from King Abdul Aziz University (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and a high diploma Degree in Management & Leadership from Darden Business School, Virginia, USA.

Head of Process Department,  NIIK (R&D Institute of Urea)
Rinat Anderzhanov graduated from Nizhny Novgorod Technical University in 2011 and received a Bachelor degree in Chemical Machinery and a postgraduate degree in Heavy Machinery. Mr Anderzhanov's current position is Head of process department at NIIK. Mr Anderzhanov is one of the key specialists of the company and has a vast experience in urea technologies development, urea plants construction and revamping. He is the author of over 60 publications, including 20 inventions.

Business Development Director EMEA, Smart Combustion,  John Zink Hamworthy Combustion

Senior Applications Engineer,  BD Energy Systems

VP Sales,  Blasch Precision Ceramics
Jeffrey Bolebruch graduated in 1985 from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering. He has served 5 years in the U.S. Army leaving in 1990 with the rank of Captain. Mr Bolebruch joined Blasch Precision Ceramics immediately thereafter as Technical Sales Representative, becoming Market Manager, and then Senior Market Manager, for the Chemical/Petrochemical market, Vice President of Sales, and finally Vice President, Strategic Global Business Development. 

Mr Bolebruch has an MBA from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY in 2004. He is also a holder of several US patents, including a number relating to Claus technology and author of several papers and has presented a number of technical papers on refractory use in process plants.

Senior Technical Expert, Fellow,  Haldor Topsoe
Søren Gyde Thomsen holds a MSc and a PhD in mechanical engineering, Dr. Thomsen has been employed with Haldor Topsoe since 1987 and has been responsible for development of Topsoe proprietary hardware for various licensed processes and in particular in relation to synthesis gas production. Today, Dr. Thomsen has the position of Senior Technical Specialist and Fellow and in that capacity he is among other assisting customers and partners with special tasks such as root cause analyses. Dr. Thomsen is the originator (or co-originator) of several patents and a number of papers.

Senior Process Engineer,  Johnson Matthey
Julie Ashcroft is a Senior Process Engineer who has worked at Johnson Matthey since graduating with a degree in chemical engineering in 2013. She has been employed in roles related to the nitric acid industry for the previous five years. She was initially employed in a technical sales role, where her responsibilities included the design and optimisation of pgm catalysts for ammonia oxidation in nitric acid plants. Her current role encompasses technical support for both nitric acid and syngas applications, including technical oversight of catalyst design and operational troubleshooting.

Senior Technical Service Manager,  Heraeus Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
Oliver Henkes studied as process engineer and has worked in the precious metals industry since 1999. Throughout his career, his roles and responsibilities have included: Project Manager for precious metals compounds; Head of Refinery Team; Application Engineer in the production of semi-finished silver products; and Technical Sales Engineer of silver catalyst for the production of formaldehyde. Today he is Senior Technical Service Manager in the Heterogeneous Catalysts team from Heraeus in Germany. In this role, he is responsible for the performance of catalytic gauzes for the combustion of ammonia according to the Ostwald process, as well as for secondary catalyst for N2O abatement in the nitric acid production process.

Senior Process Engineer,  Casale
Giovanna Roviello graduated as a Chemical Engineer from University of Naples “Federico II” in 2003. Mrs Roviello started working as Process Engineer in 2003 with Enel SpA, until 2004, then with Tecnomare SpA, until 2006, and then with Maire Tecnimont SpA, until 2013. Since 2013, Mrs Roviello has been working with Casale as Process Engineer in the Urea Department first, and presently as Senior Process Engineer in the Nitrates and Phosphates Department in charge of the design, revamping and start-up of plants.

Operations Engineer,  Engro Fertilizer
Qazi Wasif Ud Din holds an Undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology. Mr Ud Din joined Engro Fertilizer’s as an Operations Engineer in 2016. Due to his sheer focus and operational insight he quickly grasped the knowledge of ammonia plant. He was recently involved in the commissioning of BASF Feed Gas Enrichment Unit at their Site. During his overall tenure at Engro he has been part of multiple projects of Plant Reliability, Efficiency Improvement and Skill Enhancement of people. 

Manager Ammonia-3 Operations,  Engro Fertilizers
Asim Shahbaz is currently working as Operations Manager at Ammonia Plant. Mr Asim holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from University of the Punjab. He has diverse experience of Process Engineering, Business & Economics and Plant Operations. He has 12 years of experience in various leadership positions at Engro Fertilizers. He has led various startup and commissioning projects including two NG compression facilities, Feed gas enrichment facility and Cooling Tower at Engro Fertilizers. He is also Six Sigma Green Belt certified and has led Black belt project on Energy Index which resulted in more than 1 mmBtu/ Met Urea improvement at Plant. 

Senior Engineer,  Amine Experts
Philip le Grange is a chemical engineer working for Amine Experts, where he troubleshoots, optimises and provides training on amine systems. He has completed process engineering studies testing and troubleshooting on over 100 amine systems at 70 sites across 29 countries and has an excellent track record in resolving operational challenges. Mr le Grange has worked in industry for 14 years and prior to consulting has worked in both Operating Engineer and Plant Designer roles for chemical solvent systems. He has authored papers for Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Hydrocarbon Management, LRGCC, GPA,  PTQ, TCE and Sulphur Magazine.

Deputy Manager,  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.

Tsukasa Otani graduated in year 2010 from Doshisha University in Japan, with a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering. Mr. Otani joined Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering in 2010 as a process engineer in the basic engineering department. He has worked as process engineer and commissioning supervisor for ammonia projects. Presently, Mr. Otani is working as lead process engineer for ammonia, methanol and syngas industry.

Fellow, Senior Proposal Manager,  Haldor Topsoe

Process Engineer,  Fauji Fertilizer Company
Irfan Ullah Khan is a Chemical Engineering graduate from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. He has 6 years of experience as Process Engineer with Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited [FFC]. He possesses sound knowledge of process optimization, process evaluations, plant troubleshooting and energy efficiency projects. Mr Khan is also NEBOSH certified for Oil and Gas Operational Safety [IOG]. He remained involved in major plant modifications, energy efficiency and business diversification projects. He was also the member of plant-site team for obtaining International Fertilizer Association’s [IFA] Product Stewardship Policy ‘Protect and Sustain’. Currently Mr Khan is working as Urea Process Engineer at Plant-III of FFC.

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Urea Plant Manager,  Abu Qir Fertilizer Company
Mohamad Kamal Mohamad Ibrahim received his BSc degree in chemical engineering from Alexandria University in Egypt in 2002. He started his career in the fertilizers industry in 2004 after joining Abu Qir Fertilizers Company as shift engineer. Later Mr Ibrahim worked as a process engineer and in 2012, he was appointed as urea plant manager in Abu Qir 1.

Process Engineer Urea & Utilities-E,  Pakarab Fertilizers Ltd

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Technical Advisor, Ammonia & Syngas,  KBR Technology
Sachin Agarwal has over 17 years of extensive and diversified experience in Ammonia, Syngas and Fertilizer industry. He has been associated with KBR since last 5 years and was involved in various proposals, BED packages and Revamp studies as process engineer. Mr Agarwal was also involved in pre-commissioning & commissioning activity of various Grass root Projects from KBR to support client including CFCL-III. 

Prior to KBR, Mr Agarwal worked in operation and Technical Service department of Ammonia plant in India and has gathered a rich experience in operations & trouble-shooting. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from H.B.T.I., one of leading institute of India.

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Sales & Proposal Manager,  A.W.S. Corporation
Alessandro Gullà graduated with Bachelor’s degree in Environmental engineering from Politecnico of Milan in 2003.

In 2003 Mr Gullà started his career in a small engineering company located in Milan. After this he worked in companies manufacturing waste water filters and dust filters from 2006 to 2010, before joining to AWS corporation srl.

Mr Gullà is currently the Sales & Proposal Manager of wet electrostatic precipitators & mist eliminators in AWS corporation srl, where he has been working since 2010.

EPC Division Director of GIAP OJSC,  GIAP Group
Dmitry Bereslavsky graduated from Donetsk National Technical University, specialty Machines and Apparatus for Chemical Production and Building Materials Enterprises as a Mechanical Engineer. In 2012 he obtained Master's degree in Business Administration. During ten recent years Dmitry managed several investment constructions in chemical and mining industries. He completed successfully over 10 greenfield and revamp projects. Those include the construction of the first melamine 50 kta plant in Russia (Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Region), the construction of the first 380 kta granulated urea plant in Russian Federation  (Novomoskovsk, Tula Region), and potassium chloride 4,6 kta plant (Volgograd region). In 2018 Dmitry joined GIAP Group of companies heading EPC- division with focus on turn-key projects.

Chief Technical Leader,  KBR
Dr. Alexander Ivanov graduated from Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology and obtained his PhD in Zelinskiy Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia in the field of catalysis. Further, he worked 7 years in fundamental and applied science for development of materials and catalysts for refinery processes. The last 11 years Dr. Alexander Ivanov has been working in the nitrogen&syngas industry. After 10 years working in Haldor Topsoe A/S he joined KBR Technology for the position of Chief Technical Leader in Syngas Department of Moscow Branch of KBR. His focus area is licensing of grassroot ammonia plants and revamps of vintage ammonia plants.

Northwest Director,  Eurochem Group AG

Technical Services Dept,  Indorama Eleme Fertilizers and Chemicals

Swapan Kumar Das is a Chemical Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the field of plant operation, design, HAZOP, troubleshooting and plant performance studies. He has expertise in Energy Auditing, Management of Change, and Process Safety Management. He has published more five articles on plant performance improvement and troubleshooting in various journals. Mr Kumar Das has also participated and presented in many national and international conferences. He has worked in Ammonia, Urea and Phosphate Fertilizer industries in Asia and African region. At present he is associated with Indorama Fertilizer, Nigeria as Head of Technical Services function. 

Technical Director (MEA),  Clariant
Prasanth Kumar holds a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering and worked for 29 years in Clariant (Sued Chemie) , a leading company in catalyst and adsorbent technologies. He covered various technical and commercial management roles in India, and for the last 11 years in Middle east and Africa as well. Mr Kumar has worked on catalyst and absorbent applications in various fields, such as SynGas, Petro chemicals and Refineries. Since 2013, his focus is the Engineering Service and on the development of reliable and innovative solutions, to improve product quality, safety, and productivity in the Fertilizers, Petrochemical and Refineries in Middle East and Africa.

Process Engineer - Urea Department,  Casale
Francesco Burattini graduated as a Chemical Engineer from University of Pisa in 2010. Mr Burattini started working as a Process Engineer in 2010 with Foster Wheeler SRL until 2017. Since 2017, he has been working with Casale as Process Engineer in the Urea Department, in charge of the design and start-up of Melamine plants.

Technical Director,  Eurotecnica Contractors & Engineers SpA
Giuseppe Di Ruocco is currently Technical Director at Eurotecnica and responsible for the integration and development of Melamine plants in the fertilizer complex, including proposals and clients support. Eurotecnica is part of Proman Group, a multinational conglomerate of Companies engaged in the production of methanol, nitrogen based fertilizers and melamine. Prior to joining Eurotecnica in 2013, Mr Di Ruocco was Senior Process Engineer in Tecnimont, actively involved in several projects from basic to detail design and start-up activities funded on Normal Alpha Olefins, Propane Dehydrogenation, Syngas, Ammonia, Urea Synthesis and Urea Granulation technologies. He holds a Master Degree in Chemical Engineering from Università di Salerno, Italy, in 2005.

Materials Engineer,  Quest Integrity Group

Robert Dudley has been working for Quest Integrity NZL Ltd for nine years.  He has a bachelors degree in chemical and materials engineering from the University of Auckland and is currently completing a M.Sc in reliability engineering and asset management with the University of Manchester.  His areas of interest are equipment integrity management including the relationships between material damage mechanisms and management of these risks.  Robert has completed risk-based inspection studies, failure analysis and other integrity management studies on a range of ammonia, methanol and a range of other syngas plants.

Sales Engineer,  SMARTEC SA
Regis Blin is a Sales Engineer at SMARTEC SA, Switzerland. He received the Master for Electro-Optical Engineering at Polytech Paris-Saclay University, France. He joined SMARTEC in 2015 after 10 years working experience as R&D Specialist and Project Engineer in Germany and France. He has a wide experience in fiber optic sensing implementation in geotechnical, civil engineering, nuclear, chemical, oil and gas domains. SMARTEC is a leading developer and manufacturer of instrumentation and monitoring systems. SMARTEC is part of ROCTEST and the NOVA METRIX group of companies.

Operations Engineer,  Engro Fertilizers
Sannan Aleem, an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering from National University Sciences and Technology Pakistan, joined Engro Fertilizers Ltd. as an Operations engineer. Over the years, Mr Aleem has been part of the Top Talent programme at Engro owing to which he was one of the select few individuals who underwent a 6 week resident engineer programme at Haldor Topsoe’s Head office in Denmark. He is also Six Sigma Green Belt certified and have been part of various technical evaluation teams for Engros Ammonia-Urea complex debottlenecking and reliability enhancements. Mr Aleem is currently working as a Senior Operations Engineer at Ammonia Manufacturing Plant.

Lead Engineer,  Engro Fertilizers
Usman Asif is an Operations Manager at Engro Fertilizers. Mr Asif holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from University of the Punjab. In addition to this he is Green Belt in Six Sigma and holds a divest hand on experience of multiple Ammonia technologies like Topsoe, Kellogg and Bechtel . He has 14 years of experience in various leadership positions at Engro fertilizers, mostly in the Operations Department. He has been involved in various strategic assignments with Engro Fertilizers, ranging from capacity enhancement, Energy Index Improvement , plant reliability Improvement and strengthening of operational discipline.

Sales & Solutions Manager,  Stamicarbon
Oldrich Mikus has been working in field of urea process equipment and projects for more than 15 years. He studied University of Connecticut and obtained his degree in 2003. He started as a designer of high pressure process compressors for chemical plants. Later he became Project Engineer for EPC projects of new urea plants in Russia. 

In 2012 he joined the Stamicarbon – world leading licensor for urea and nitric acid technology where he has been in charge innovation program – various innovations projects in inside buttery limits of urea unit but also upstream and downstream processes. 

Mr Mikus changed his position in Stamicarbon recently and became Sales Manager for services and proprietary equipment, an in parallel has a role of Product Manager for high pressure equipment. 

Chief Technical Officer,  Entechmach
Aleksandr Liubimov is a Chief Technical Officer in Entechmach RPC LLC. He is responsible for gas dynamic calculations of centrifugal compressor flow part, blading design, development of new products. He graduated the St.Petersburg State University of Refrigeration and Food Engineering / Russia with a MSc degree and has a PhD degree from the Saint-Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.

Executive - Engineering (Projects),  Fauji Fertilizer Company

Syed Fawad Ul Hasnain Kazmi is an Executive - Engineering Projects for Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited (FFCL) in Pakistan. He is a Mechanical (Project) Engineer with 10 years of experience in project management, reliability management and risk management. Mr Kazmi has successfully completed various large-scale projects. He also has expertise in inspection and has participated in various turnarounds globally. He is a Certified Pressure Vessel Inspector, Certified Corrosion and Material Specialist from American Petroleum Institute (API) and Visual Welding Inspector from TWI, UK.