Chemetry, a technology company focused on reducing the energy requirements and carbon footprint in the production of essential commodity chemicals, announces that its board of directors has selected Ronald Birkhoff as chief executive officer.
Birkhoff joins Chemetry from Technip Energies and its predecessor companies where he spent more than 14 years in roles including CTO and vice president of R&D and innovation for the process technology business, where he reportedly led the growth of its technology portfolio. Birkhoff holds a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Twente in The Netherlands and has over 30 years of experience in development, commercialization and licensing of process technologies in the chemical and refining sectors.
"Chemetry is making great progress in the realization of the eShuttle EDC demonstration plant in Maceio, Brazil with our partners Braskem and Technip Energies," says Birkhoff in a press release from the company. "I am very excited to have the opportunity to lead this organization through the commercialization of this new process and the deployment to the industry."
eShuttle is a platform technology that can be applied to a wide range of chemical products. Chemetry's first deployment of the technology is to produce EDC, used in the manufacturing of PVC plastics, which are used in many consumer and construction products.
Read the press release at www.chemetrycorp.com
