Project Development Team
Our team cover all aspects of the phosphate industry: technical, management and marketing.
KEMWorks recognizes that no two phosphate deposits are exactly alike and that to effectively engineer an operation to a specified deposit an integrated approach must be used to deliver that final product, whether this is phosphate rock or fertilizer product at a competitive price.
KEMWorks personnel are familiar with the latest advances in mineral processing and fertilizer technology and have experience in applying this technology in the most cost effective manner.
We have the team to develop your project from early conceptual design through process testing, project delivery, and operations.
Marten Walters - Chemical Engineer
Marten Walters is President of KEMWorks. He has more than 30 years experience in the design, start-up and operation of fertilizer and chemical plants. Marten has designed and started up phosphoric acid and granulation plants in Australia, Brazil, China, Yugoslavia, US and UK. He was consultant to JPMC for the revamp of a phosphate complex, to Petrokimia Gresik, Indonesia for a World Bank-funded study of a fertilizer complex. Most recently he was responsible for the process design and start-up of a phosphoric acid plant in Morocco. He was honored as the 1997 Engineer-of-the-Year by Central Florida AIChE.
Christopher B. Earl - Chemical Engineer
Chris Earl has 40 years experience in the chemical process industry. As Chief Engineer of KEMWorks Technology, he is responsible for activities in the fertilizer industry. He has carried out the process design and start-up of eleven world-scale phosphoric acid plants. In the last few years he designed and implemented a series of revamps to phosphoric acid plants in N. America and Brazil. Most recently he led the design for a phosphoric acid plant in Morocco, and consulted for OCP for a 200 km slurry pipeline. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Florida and was honored as the 1991 Engineer-Of-The-Year by Central Florida AIChE.
Charles B. Snyder - Chemical Engineer
Chuck Snyder has 30 years experience in the process design and operation of chemical plants in various areas of the chemical industry. Chuck has developed process design packages (i.e., heat and material balances, PFD’s, P&ID’s, equipment specifications, and operating manuals) for fertilizer, petrochemical, food, and pharmaceutical industry. He has also been involved in commissioning, start-up, and troubleshooting of many of these plants including a DAP plant in Morocco in 2008.
Neil R. Greenwood, PE - Chemical Engineer
Neil Greenwood has more than 40 years experience in the fertilizer, heavy and specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, including process and project design, maintenance and production supervision and construction. He is currently Engineering Manager for KEMWorks and a licensed professional engineer. He was the KEMWorks project manager for: major projects for Agrium, including a phosphoric acid expansion and modifications to the granulation plant; basic engineering for a dicalcium phosphate plant in Brazil; and production and environmental improvements for a phosphate acid plant in Mexico. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Florida and was honored as the 1995 Engineer-of-the-Year by Central Florida AIChE.
Jamie Knez - Chemical Engineer
Dr. Francisco J. Sotillo has more than 34 years of experience in both industrial and academic aspects of metallurgy, leaching, and mineral processing. Dr. Sotillo started his career as a foreman at a mining company and is now a recognized expert in the beneficiation of phosphate rock and sulfide ores. Dr. Sotillo is the author of 36 publications on sulfides, phosphate, coal, and metallic oxide ores.
Ed Finch - Metallurgist
Ed Finch has an MS in Metallurgical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines and has more than 35 years experience in phosphate, nickel, gold, and fluorspar beneficiation. He is a practical hands-on metallurgist and was Chief Metallurgist for Mississippi Phosphates, Agrico, and Gardinier His most recent projects include, Mosaic Wingate Creek, JPMC Eshidya and Ma’aden, Saudi Arabia.
Qualified Person – National Instrument 43-101 (Canada).
Henry J. Lamb - Professional Geologist
Henry is a professional geologist with over thirty-five years experience in the exploration, development, conceptual and production planning, economic analysis, operation and maintenance of mineral projects throughout the United States and internationally. Two years ago, he completed the Rehabilitation of the Eshidiya Phosphate Beneficiation Plant in southern Jordan where he acted as the Employer’s Representative for Jordan Phosphate Mines Company. He is currently an advisor to several companies with interests in developing phosphate rock deposits.
Competent Person – JORC (Australia) Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Qualified Person – National Instrument 43-101 (Canada).
Rick Davis - Chemical Engineer
Rick Davis is president of an engineering and consulting group specializing in sulfuric acid processes and cogeneration. The firm has established clients representing significant corporate interests including General Chemical Corporation, Tampa Electric Company, Monsanto Enviro-Chem, Cargill, Factory Mutual, PCS Phosphates, Otto H. York Company, and the U.S. Federal Court. He has provided evaluations for cogeneration projects and provided technical assessment reports to Monsanto Enviro-Chem and Otto York. He has participated in due diligence reviews of cogeneration facilities and the potential sale of phosphate complexes. Rick was named Engineer-of-the-Year by Central Florida AIChE in 2005.
Wes Berry - Chemical Engineer
Wes Berry has provided consulting assistance for projects, especially those involving new technologies. He was one of the developers of the solvent-based Uranium Recovery process for IMC. He was also instrumental in developing novel techniques for the extraction of metal salts via the application of proprietary ion exchange, continuous chromatography, and solvent extraction approaches.
Sam Prentice - Pilot Plant Supervisor
Sam has extensive experience in all phases of phosphate core processing programs, including pilot plant set up and fabrication. Sam is our troubleshooter for anything involving electronics, computer or mechanical problems. He has ten years of experience in set-up and running of beneficiation and phosphoric acid pilot plants as operator and analyst.
Art Roth - Marketing Specialist
A. J. Roth & Associates was founded in 1985 by Arthur J. Roth, former senior executive of International Minerals & Chemical Corporation (now Mosaic Co.), AMAX Chemical Corporation and Helm Fertilizer Corporation. Roth & Associates provides business consulting and other services to the agribusiness, fertilizer, and minerals industries. To date, Roth & Associates has provided proprietary consulting assistance to more than 85 clients in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, China, India, Thailand and Japan.