This session will discuss the supply/demand balance in 2020, 2021, and beyond. In addition to the supply/demand balance but also the demand outlook and the carbon black production capacity globally in all regions.
Paul Ita runs Notch Consulting, a Massachusetts-based research company dedicated to the market research needs of the global specialty chemicals industry. Mr. Ita focuses on raw materials for the global tire and rubber industries, with a particular focus on carbon black, silica, and rubber chemicals. Through Notch, he publishes the Carbon Black World Data Book and the Carbon Black Quarterly Newsletter.
As a Chemistry Supervisor at Smithers’ Analytical Chemistry laboratory in Akron, OH, Dr. Dustin Jenkins specializes in material benchmarking and characterization capabilities involving various chromatography and spectrometry techniques serving rubber and polymer product manufacturers.
Dustin has over 10 years of experience in organic and inorganic chemistry in academia and research with technical expertise in GC-MS, FT-IR, polarimetry, time-resolved laser spectroscopy, electrochemistry and NMR spectroscopy. Prior to joining Smithers, he was an assistant professor of organic chemistry at Walsh University in North Canton, OH, where he synthesized and identified new organic and inorganic chemical compounds.
Dustin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry with Mathematics from Western Kentucky University, as well as a Master of Arts degree and Doctorate in Chemistry from Princeton University.
Jeff Silveria is the Global Segment Manager for Tire at Cabot Corporation. In this role, his primary responsibility is translating the needs of customers and end users into an actionable product roadmap. He has 17 years of transportation and materials industry experience in a variety of engineering, management, and strategic marketing roles. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, and an MBA from Boston University.
Haldor Topsoe is a world leader in catalysis and surface science, committed to helping our customers achieve optimal performance. We enable companies to get the most out of their processes and products, using the least possible energy and resources, in the most responsible way. We are headquartered in Denmark and do project development, R&D, engineering, production, and sales & service across the globe.
Kim is holding a degree both in business administration from St. Gallen, Switzerland and in electrical engineering from Copenhagen University, Denmark, and received financial training from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He develops sustainable air quality control projects all over the world.
• Employed by SCHMIDTSCHE SCHACK (formerly ALSTOM / American Schack Co.) since 1980, and currently Project & Sales Manager
• 40+ year veteran in the design and supply of customized solutions for various waste heat recovery systems
• Design of water heat boilers for wastewater and sludge incineration plants
• Deep knowledge and high experiences in design and manufacturing of high temperature gas-gas apparatus such as dedicated carbon black air preheater
• Design of heat exchangers for fluid bed, reheat and multiple hearth furnaces, as well as thermal oil for industrial applications.
• Author of numerous papers on industrial heat recovery for Carbon Black and WEF.
• Experienced with ASME.
• Author of various technical papers, some in the field of combustion of low Btu gases and presented them at conferences.
• Licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania.
• BSME from Point Park University.
Since 1997 Victor has been an integral part in process design and developmental downstream solutions for hydrocarbon recovery. Working in support of key players in the industry his current position allows for new development of filtration and separation systems for hydrocarbon refining. He is principally involved in the technical development and training with EPC or FCC/RFCC Licensors worldwide. Experience includes program development for commercial applications, scoping studies and commissioning. He holds a MA Degree from San Diego State University and has worked for more than 20 years in the design and implementation of hydrocarbon filtration systems for refineries and the carbon black industry.
Dr. Wesley Wampler is the current President of the International Carbon Black Association of which he has been a member since 1995. He is also a Vice President with Tokai Carbon CB and was previously a Vice President with Sid Richardson Carbon Co. for over 30 years. He is a member of the American Chemical Society Rubber Division where he has presented numerous papers and chaired several symposiums. He is also a member of the American Society of Testing and Materials Committee D24 on Carbon Black where he has chaired several subcommittees. Dr. Wampler has also coauthored two chapters on Carbon Black in books dealing with its use in the rubber industry.
Wesley Wampler received a B.S degree in Chemistry and Biology from Tarleton State University in 1981, an M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1995.
C.P. Natarajan, with graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of Madras & University of Pittsburgh, joined American Schack Company (later ALSTOM Power Energy Recovery, ARVOS) in1974 and developed High Temperature Air Preheaters & Energy Recovery Systems.
He organized Schack Carbon Black Conferences in USA (1996, 1998, and 2000).
He retired as President of ALSTOM Power Energy Recovery, USA in 2001 and started GANPADS, providing consulting services on Industrial Energy Recovery & Emissions Abatement (Carbon Black production & Petroleum Coke Calcination). He developed steam cooled Soot blower for High temperature Carbon Black Air-preheaters
From the first Carbon Black world conference in 1993 till the recent China CB conference in 2020, Natarajan made presentations at Carbon Black World, Carbon Black Asia Pacific and Carbon Black China conferences.
Carbon Black Asia Pacific presented him with LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD in 2003 and STAR AWARD IN ENERGY RECOVERY RESEARCH in 2017.
In 2017, he was awarded US Patent 9540518, “APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR AIR PREHEATER WITHOUT QUENCH IN CARBON BLACK PRODUCTION”
Rob Dennis-Pelcher is a Principal Scientist at Goodyear in the Global Raw Material Development and Approvals group within Global Materials Science. He has the responsibility of carbon black source approvals as well as new material development. Rob has also been heavily engaged in sustainability initiatives over the last couple of years and has the responsibility of being the technical interface with all suppliers of carbon black and nanomaterials.
Rob started at Goodyear in 2016 as a Staff Scientist before being promoted to Senior Scientist in 2019 and Principal Scientist in 2021. Prior to joining Goodyear, Rob spent a year and a half as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Chemistry and Materials Science at Texas A&M University. Rob received his PhD in Chemistry from the University at Buffalo in 2015.
Ryan was elected President and Chief Executive Officer of TSD Logistics, Inc. in January 2018. As CEO he is responsible for the overall management of TSD’s operations, including the accounting, human resources, business development, and safety departments. TSD’s risk management responsibility and oversight of all banking relationships are also under his leadership. Ryan currently serves as a Director on TSD’s Board, and is a stockholder in the company.
During his twelve years at TSD, Ryan has also served as the Chief Operating Officer and VP of Business Development.
When not at the office, Ryan enjoys his time with his three young children; Will, Hattie Wren and Rhodes. He is also actively serving on the Board of Directors for Texas A&M- Texarkana where he recently participated in developing a Transportation Logistics Degree Plan for the university.
Dr. Jayant Khambekar is a Senior Consultant at Jenike & Johanson’s Houston office. Jayant is heavily involved in consulting on various powder and bulk solids handling issues such as erratic flow behavior, flow stoppages, fluidization, purging, segregation and pneumatic conveying. He has worked on more than 250 projects spanning across various industries including food, biomass, chemicals, plastics and mining. He has published several papers and also lectures on the storage and flow of bulk solids. Jayant holds a Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
Cindy Barrera is a research engineer at Ford Motor company. She obtained her doctoral degree (2016) in Food, Agricultural and Biological engineering at The Ohio State University supported by a Fulbright fellowship. Her research focuses on the development of sustainable materials and next generation multifunctional materials. In her current role at Ford Motor Company, Dr. Barrera leads several projects focused on the evaluation of advanced fillers for the development of multifunctional polymer composites and the implementation of polymeric products made with renewable and recycled materials for automotive applications. Dr. Barrera has multiple publications, 2 issued patents and 10 patents-pending to her name.
Marko is responsible for GREIF-VELOX’s business activities in North America. Prior to joining GREIF-VELOX, he held several senior management positions in the U.S. and Germany. Marko holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Management from THM, Germany and an MBA from University of Warwick, England.
GREIF-VELOX is a global market and innovation leader for semi and fully automatic packaging machines for the food, chemical and petro-chemical industries. With corporate headquarters in Germany and installations in 89 countries, GREIF-VELOX has earned a reputation as the global go-to solutions provider for “difficult to bag” materials, including powders with extremely fine grain sizes and low-bulk densities.
Christopher K. Cornille is the chief commercial & supply chain officer at Monolith, where he leads commercial development, expansion of the customer-centric supply chain and all company go-to-market strategies. Mr. Cornille also helps guide Monolith’s innovation development, representing the voice of the customer.
Mr. Cornille brings more than 33 years of experience from the specialty chemicals industry, most recently serving as the senior vice president, supply chain services for SI Group. Mr. Cornille joined SI Group as director, sales – North America, where he quickly took on an additional commercial excellence role. He then moved into the role of executive director – new business development where he acted as director for the Integration Management Office and had the responsibility of identifying, evaluating, and leading opportunities for acquisitions or other forms of corporate partnerships.
Before joining SI Group, Mr. Cornille garnered over 20 years of experience at Cabot Corporation where he held several executive positions – notably, global commercial director – Rubber Products, managing director – Indonesia, and North America sales director – Specialty Products. Chris also was a board member of the Cabot Corporation Foundation.
In 2013, Mr. Cornille was appointed as an advisory board member for Monolith Materials. He continued to serve in that role until being named the chief commercial and supply chain officer in 2019.
Mr. Misbah joined Cabot in 2013 in the company’s Purification Solutions business, where he held positions of increasing responsibility in global marketing and global product management. Since 2019, he has served as the Vice President of Marketing & Strategy in Cabot’s Reinforcement Materials business, where he leads the global marketing team, driving both organic and inorganic strategies for the group. Prior to joining Cabot, Mr. Misbah worked in business development and mergers and acquisitions management at Avery Dennison Corporation. Mr. Misbah holds a Bachelor’s of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Master’s of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Dean works closely with Envea UK (PM & Electrodynamic) to supply, integrate, and design optimal process solutions for the Carbon Black Industry in all market segments including OEM, end user, integration, and distribution.
ENVEA Inc., Envea UK & Envea Process are part of the envea family of companies which are recognized as a world-wide designer and manufacturer of high-precision measuring instruments approved by the U.S. EPA.
We are committed to providing Best Available Techniques, Maximum Achievable Control Technology and the highest quality products & services for Particulate Measurement Systems – PM, Process Sensors - Bulk Powder & Particulate, Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems - CEMS, Air Quality Monitor Systems – AQMS in the areas of Process, Emissions & Ambient market segments.