Author: Dave Maher

Effective January 1, 2014 the following management changes took effect at PROCESS:

• Mr. Roger Efferson was appointed Business Development Manager for Process Engineering Associates, LLC
• Ms. Jacqui Stewart, P.E. was named Business Unit Manager for the Tennessee office Commercial Chemicals group of Process Engineering Associates, LLC (in addition to her continuing role as Business Unit Manager for the Pennsylvania office)
• Mr. Andy Felker was appointed President of Process Engineering International, LLC.

In the book Good to Great, author Jim Collins speaks to getting “the right people on the bus” and then getting these people “in the right seats”. These three individuals have always been the right people to get on the bus; we believe that a slight adjustment in seat assignments will help position the PROCESS family to serve our clients better than ever before. Which is all that matters.

September 17, 2013 – One of PROCESS’ valued clients, the SI Group specialty chemical manufacturing plant in Newport, Tennessee has been awarded the Volunteer STAR Award by the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA). The plant site has earned this top safety award as a result of its outstanding safety record and ongoing commitment to safety and health issues.

“To say that we are pleased with this designation is an understatement,” said Jeff Prickett, Director of Tennessee Operations. “This award is the culmination of the tremendous effort of everyone at our Tennessee facility and the company’s relentless pursuit of on-the-job safety.”

PROCESS congratulates everyone at the Newport facility on this outstanding achievement! View Full Press Release

Effective January 1, 2013, Ms. Jacqui Stewart has been made a partner (Member) of PROCESS.  Since she rejoined the company in 2006 (she was an original Partner when the company formed in 1996) as the Pennsylvania office Business Unit Manager, she has grown that office some 8 fold and has contributed greatly to the management of the company during that time.  The existing Partners at PROCESS welcome her equal input into the future management of the company in the years to come.  With her leadership abilities and hard work, she has certainly earned this opportunity. Please join us in congratulating Jacqui on her new role at PROCESS.

PROCESS has formed a new office in the Richland, Washington area for the purpose of serving both commercial and nuclear (Hanford Site related) clients in the Pacific Coast region more effectively. The office is staffed by Mr. Steven A. (Steve) Davis, P.E. (M.S. Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1976) and Mr. J. P. (Pete) Sederburg (B.S. Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, 1987).

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PROCESS is pleased to announce that Mike Sessions, working out of the Daphne, Alabama office, has just recently completed the requirements for and been awarded his P.E. license for the state of Alabama. We congratulate Mike on achieving this significant accomplishment. Mike will be assuming the role of Business Unit Manager for the Alabama office moving forward.

PROCESS has formed a new office in the Mobile, Alabama area for the purpose of serving our clients along the U.S. Gulf Coast region more effectively. Mr. Louis Herrington, P.E. (B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1961) is serving as the Business Unit Manager for this office and Mr. Mike Sessions (M.S. Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, 1985) serves as the Chief Process Engineer for the office. Office contact information:

After the “down” years (by our standards) of 2009 and 2010, when we achieved only a 20% combined growth total for those two years, PROCESS grew by 21.4% as measured by sales during 2011. As always, we thank our loyal long-time customers as well as our new and soon-to-be customers for our success.

PROCESS is performing a series of feasibility studies and preliminary process design work for a consortium in West Virginia called Invictus LLC. The company plans to build an Ethylene Cracker unit to produce Ethylene and other products at a site in WV. The plant would utilize the growing supply of wet shale gas reserves that are part of both the Marcellus and Utica fields. This gas contains a high concentration of ethane and other heavier hydrocarbons. The plant under consideration would include front end gas cleanup and separations, the Cracker unit, and associated downstream separations units.

The following news articles on this project were recently released:

• Charleston Gazette, December 10, 2011 – “Investors Lease Land for Cracking Plant”
• Charleston Gazette, December 24, 2011 – “Tennessee Engineers Working on Design for Kanawha ‘Cracker’ Plant”

May 2010 – Diversified CPC International, Inc. was recently selected by the ION Network to be in their “World’s Greatest” series representing specialty gas producers. Diversified CPC International is a global leader in the production of high quality aerosol propellants, specialty gases, alternative fuels, NGL refrigerants, physical foam blowing agents, and related products.  PROCESS is proud to have provided process engineering design services on a number of different projects for this client. There is no better reward than to play a role in helping our clients be successful.

Congratulations to Diversified CPC International, Inc. !