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The Principals
MARTEN D. WALTERS, Eur Ing, BSc
President |
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 Marten Walters has more than 30 years experience in engineering design, project management, sales and marketing. He is currently responsible for overall management of KEMWorks and is active in coordinating sales activities with Prayon-Rupel Technologies of Belgium for phosphoric acid and fluorine recovery technology. He has overseen the modernization and re-structuring of chemical plants in Alberta, Canada; Coatzacoalcos, Mexico; Pocatello, Idaho; Conda, Idaho; Tampa, Florida; Bartow, Florida; Senegal and Uzbekistan.
At BCI, Marten was responsible for process engineering for a planned $1 billion phosphate/power complex at Pine Level as supervisor of the process engineering department, and at Davy McKee was a process engineer for 10 years.
Marten has also worked for two major fertilizer producers - IMC New Wales at its Uranium Recovery facility and Norsk Hydro, UK as process engineer.
Marten was named Chemical Engineer of the year by Central Florida AIChE in 1997.
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MIKE KELAHAN
Vice President / Beneficiation |
| Mike Kelahan has more than 37 years of phosphate beneficiation experience worldwide.
He is responsible for metallurgical process engineering for minerals beneficiation projects conducted by KEMWorks. For the last 24 years Mike has either managed and/or was the process lead on over 25 phosphate feasibility studies, bankable feasibility studies, and basic engineering projects. He also has extensive material and slurry handling experience specific to phosphate rock (apatite and francolite), silica sand, bauxite, calcite and dolomite. His expertise includes: slurry handling equipment; design and operation of solids retrieval systems; reagent conditioning and flotation utilizing mechanical or column flotation cells; and solids-liquid separation equipment specification and operation for both pilot plant and production facilities.
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CHRIS EARL, PE, BSc
Chief Chemical Engineer |
 Chris Earl has more than 35 years experience in the chemical process industries, including process design, technology development and company management. He has carried out the process design and start-up of ten world-scale phosphoric acid plants including plants in Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and Canada. More recently he was executive sponsor for modernization of fertilizer and chemical complexes in Idaho, Alberta, Indonesia and Uzbekistan. Chris was named Chemical Engineer of the year by Central Florida AIChE in 1991.
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Directors
Marten Walters - Chairman
Mike Kelahan - Vice Chairman
Chris Earl
Tip Fowler
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THEODORE P. (TIP) FOWLER
Non-Executive Director |
Tip is currently President of Commercial Carrier Logistics, LLC and CCC Transportation, LLC, Florida’s largest intra-state trucking company serving bulk commodity producers, dry van and flat bed customers.
He was President and Chief Operating Officer of FREEPORT McMoRan SULPHUR from 1999 to 2002 and Senior Vice President from 1975 to 1996. FREEPORT is the world’s largest sulphur miner and transporter. Assets included a billion dollar offshore sulphur, oil and gas production facility and $150 million in marine and rail transportation facilities.
From 1996 to 1998 Tip was Senior Vice President - Operations, for IMC GLOBAL/IMC-AGRICO plants at Mulberry, FL and Baton Rouge, LA. The Florida and Louisiana production facilities had 4,300 employees, six chemical plants, six mines, and two ports totaling nearly $2 billion in asset value.
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