David Archer Email & Phone Number

Brisbane

Design and build new processing plant to exploit intellectual property developed to produce silicon based plant nutrients. Inventor of the "MaxSil" nutrient products. Design and implement marketing plans including licence agreements into countries where patent has been granted and implement marketing agreements for Australia.Develop submissions to Commercialisation Australia which led to competitive funding of over $380,000 being awarded to develop future trials with the MaxSil product during 2013-2014.Responsible for a number of successful trials with the product across a range of crops including potato, sugar cane, sweet corn, onions, poppy, rice and cotton. Some of the major crop trials such as sugar cane trialed on over 150 ha in areas from Maryborough to Tully in Queensland have demonstrated cost effective yield increases in excess of 5 tonnes per hectare and vegetable crops such as potato have shown a net benefit of over $2,000 a hectare.Trials completed during 2018 included more plant and ratoon cane which again showed outstanding results. Third party trials with tomato, spinach and capsicum showed a net benefit of over $3,000 per hectare.We are now proceeding with the build of a new production facility (to be complete by mid 2021) for product destined for Australian and export markets, and are actively looking for marketing partners to take the granular and liquid products to market. We will also be continuing with some trial work, particularly around the concept of using MaxSil as a seed coat material.

Toowoomba, Australia

Design build and commission new processing plant for high performance concrete reinforcing materials aimed at the hard rock (underground) mining market. Develop the products and take them to the market.The company now supplies a range of cementitious materials such as specialty grouts, micro cements, cable anchor cements and shotcrete additives for hard rock mining and has been operating in this field for over twenty years. Succession planning has led to the appointment of Michael Archer as the current Managing Director and he continues to grow and re invent the company, provide energetic leadership and develop new and innovative products and patents.

Bell Bay Tasmania

Start up design and build facility to recycle a by product from BHP Temco at Bell Bay in Tasmania. This development laid the foundation for the current Si Powders Pty Ltd operations at Toowoomba.

Hay And Griffith Nsw

Owned and operated a variety of fuel based businesses including retail outlets and wholesale fuel sales to rural customers in the Riverina area of NSW. Learnt to fly and operated our own aircraft during this time as an ideal way to keep in touch with customers over the 100,000 square kilometer service area for the business.

Victoria, New South Wales, Vietnam And Thailand

Joined the Regular Army at age seventeen as a lad from country Victoria (Euroa) and spent twelve years in the Corps of Signals as a communications specialist, attaining the rank of Warrant Officer at the age of 26.Tours of duty took me to many parts of Australia, active service in Vietnam (1968-1969) and an accompanied posting for two years in charge of the communications cell for allied nations at SEATO headquarters in Bangkok.I had a fantastic time in the army and made some great mates but I started to get itchy feet in a peacetime environment and decided to move on and into private enterprise.