Tetronics is a plasma company specialising in the environmental application of its core plasma technology. With licensed commercial references throughout the world that have been operational for 10s of years. We take projects from concept through to final commissioned commercial reality and offer ongoing technology service and support. We have current live project activities and company focus in decarbonisation, hydrogen production, resource recovery, circular economy and hazardous waste stabilisation.

Valinger Technologies Limited (VTL) provides process design, engineering, R&D and technology identification and sourcing services to clients within and external to the Valinger Group https://valinger.com/. VTL is product focussed and technology agnostic, looking to select the most appropriate and efficient technological tool for any particular duty with an inclination to pursue projects in relatively high value and low volume applications.

As CTO I have overall responsible for the technical and compliance delivery of Tetronics' capital equipment at our operating client's sites. I sit on the Board of the company as a company Director. I head a multidisciplinary team of mechanical, process and EC&I engineers; circa 10-20 strong at any one time. Tetronics offers a complete service solutions. As well as engineering the product, we model the process thermochemically, operationally, environmentally and financially . Tetronics is a capital equipment provider that manages overall technological integration and performance risks. I am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Materials, Mining and Metallurgy (FIOM3). I currently have international commercial capital supply, and technology licencing, project activities in precious metals and refractory metal recovery from catalysts and pretreated e-waste (Russia, UK and USA) and waste to synthesis gas to product activities in the UK. I have successfully managed the engineering of commercial products from conception through to completion (client handover and sign off). I have a thorough understanding of the regulatory framework that surrounds the Environmental Sectors, from plant permitting, waste/material transfer through to compliance monitoring of installations and residues.

In 2006 I became the Technical Director of both Tetronics Limited and Platinum Recoveries Limited (PRL). Subsequently he became a Director of Plasma Processing UK Limited (PPUK). The latter operates a fully integrated 25,000 tonnes per year waste recovery facility independently licensed thermal plasma waste recovery facility. In the Tetronics' role the most recent packages of work related to waste management within the nuclear power/decommissioning industry and investigated the vitrification of asbestos, PCM and wet ILW, with emphasis on the properties of the final wasteforms and RWMD compliance. At the same time I project managed a TSB Technology Programme project entitled ‘Integrated solution for air pollution control (APC) residues using DC plasma technology’, this was a three year project with a budget of £2.37M and multiple partners. This project addressed the limitation of current APC residue disposal mechanisms, with an alternative competitive recovery solution, and engineers the final products for re-use as opposed to disposal, effectively closing the recycling loop. I have been actively involved in vitrification, gasification, smelting and pollution control projects for many years. I have a thorough understanding of the regulatory framework that surrounds the Environmental Sectors, from plant permitting through to compliance monitoring of installations and residues.

PPUK provides a processing service for an international client. It was the UK's first independently licensed plasma based precious metal recovery facility. The facility worked on the basis of plasma recovery of precious metals from spent catalysts; more specifically autocatalyst. The technology offered high technical efficiencies, low environmental impacts and low cost treatment costs. The product of the plant was a mixed alloy; suitable for final refining, by others. Due to wider commercial business circumstances this facility has now been decommissioned and sold.