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Biography:
Moved to South Africa in 1981. Worked at Spenser Melksham SA (Pty) Ltd as Senior Designer - Conveyor Systems. Moved to Keeve Steyn (Consultants) as Mechanical Engineer for their Lethabo Coal Stockyard Project. Started the Materials handling section at IMS, was mechanical project manager on Syferfontein mine, overland system and stockyard with Keeve Steyn, re-started the materials handling division at Babcock Africa. Founded Engicon Systems (Pty) Ltd in 1996.

Know-how and experience
Designer of:
Blending and Homogenising Stockyard systems
Conveyors to 12km
Curved conveyors
Tubular conveyors to 475dia
Systems for materials as diverse as Logs, bagasse, platinum ore and fine wet coal mixed with tar.
Biomass systems.
Waste handling systems

Fields of Consulting work:
Complex chute design for a huge range of materials incl. dust a spillage free
Incident analysis
Tubular conveyor design
Plant de-bottlenecking
System analysis
Expert witness on disputes

Major Projects
Blue Circle Cement - Eastgate Works - De-bottlenecking problematic maintenance areas throughout the plant
Blue Circle Cement - East Gate Works - concept for kiln sect change and supervision thereof
Blue Circle Cement - East Gate Works - Concept and installation of modifications to the Areofall Mill to reduce maintenance stops and improve efficiency
Mondi Richards Bay - Coal Handling System from the tipplers to the boiler house
Mondi Richards Bay - Wood chip reprocessing system
Mondi Richards Bay - Bark shredding system
Eskom Matimba - Terrance Coal handling design
Eskom Matimba - Coal Stockyard Stacker reclaimer commissioning
Eskom Lethabo Power Station - Coal Stockyard
Eskom Kendal Ash - Total ash handling system from boilers to dump incl Dumping logistics
Eskom Kendal Ash - Installation of the countries first Sicon Conveying system
Sasol - Syferfontein Coal Preparation concept, design audit supervision of installation, commissioning
Sasol - Syferfontein Overland system
Sasol - Syferfontein - Stockyard concept and operational logistics for blending and homoginising 12 piles from 6 mines feeding Sasol II and III plus design audit.
Sasol - Gasification - De-bottlenecking coal flows to the gasifierers and power station including fine wet coal mixed with tar
Sasol Explosives - Design of the emulite handling and processing systems
Sasol Polymers - Concept, design, supervision of erection, training and writing manuals of an automated PE handling system for bags bulk and semi bulk loading
TSB - Komati Sugar Mill - Concept, Design and commissioning of the total bagasse handling and storage system
Sappi - Usutu Mill - Bark processing and storage system including the countries first Saalasti Crush
Sappi Ngodwana - De-bottlenecking the soft wood chipping line including the first self clearing chipper feed chute for logs
Sappi Ngodwana - De-bottlenecking the hard wood chipping line with automated 2 stage log deck
Sappi Ngodwana - De-bottlenecking the bark handling and processing system
Portnet - Concept and design of a new Soya port handling and storage facility
De-beers - Spionkop Diamond mine - Design audits and dumping logistics for the mines tailing system
Debswana - Jwaneng Diamond mine - De-bottlenecking the tailing system including the rectification of the dump incline conveyor which was suffering from severe ground subsidence
Tube Conveyors - Design of Multiple tube conveyors throughout the world
Self clearing blockage and spillage free chutes in numerous applications.