Our unique facility is situated on approximately 131 acres in Bradford, Pennsylvania, the heart of McKean County and the birthplace of the U.S. domestic oil industry more than 100 years ago. Our refinery has a rated capacity of 11,000 barrels per day and processes light sweet paraffinic crude. In addition to base oils, the refinery's product slate includes gasoline, waxes, diesel fuel, fuel oil, naphtha, distillate solvents as well as a number of specialty products including; various resin blends, shock fluids, camping fuel, asphalt cut back solvents, well treating solvent, extract blends, and quench oils.Recruited to drive continuous improvement to Refinery Operations with a focus on Safety, Environmental Compliance, Quality and Reliability. Led reorganization of the Refinery team; adding a Reliability Group and implemented Planned & Scheduled Routine and Preventative Maintenance processes and practices. Established a formal Refinery Turnaround program. Hired several key professional and technical staff to strengthen the team and developed formal training programs to upgrade skills across the board.

Synthane Taylor is an industry leader in the supply of electrical insulation materials and finished parts and is Head Quartered near Toronto, Ontario.Recruited to revitalize the commercial viability and market presence of a privately held manufacturing business that had gone through three Presidents in 3 years.Right-sized the company’s manufacturing footprint and relocated Toronto-based Manufacturing facility resulting in significant annual savings; hired 2 new Operations Managers and implemented Lean Manufacturing principles and 5-S at both Operations.Implemented a business strategy to grow revenue both with existing accounts and new target customers; hired a new Director of Sales; gained back multiple former customers that had abandoned Synthane Taylor as a Supplier due to lack of customer attention and noncompetitive pricing policies. Achieved double digit annual Sales Revenue growth.Provided key assistance to former Company Ownership group to sell the business to Dunes Point Capital (a New York based Private Equity firm) in 2014.

Recruited to reinvigorate and re-engineer an under performing joint-venture formed by Kruger Inc. and Norbord Inc., a consolidation to minimize the impact of the economic downturn.Evaluated all facets of the 240-person, $50 million sales entity and developed a radical plan to extract costs and consolidate personnel from two facilities, gaining full authority and commitment from all employees to re-position the company based on new vision, value and strategy.Developed and deployed a communication plan to suppliers and customers, maintaining over 90% of business in a depressed economy.Implemented a fundamental reload and warehousing restructure establishing a new operation in Mississauga with a rail siding, generating $600,000 in outbound freight savings while significantly improving delivery times.Created an aggressive sales and marketing strategy designed to capture high value, high volume clientele contributing to capturing the $1 million Lowe’s Canada national business account.Successfully secured a multi-million dollar operating line of credit plus foreign exchange facility, presenting an enticing proposal which gained interest from a number of banks.

Offered challenging appointment after a personal interview from the CEO of the Finnish-based company to deliver a swift turnaround of the under performing North America south region.Assessed business unit, devised and implemented a rapid far-reaching reorganization refocusing sales to value selling versus existing commodity, developing key customer partnerships and long-term supply contracts across 5 chemical plants, 4 in the U.S. and 1 in Mexico, generating annual revenues of >$400 million USD.Steered the business through unparalleled success driving sales from $240 million to $350 million delivering a 14% year-over-year gross margin improvement and a 70% increase in EBITDA.Selected by the Global Senior Executive Team to assume additional regions in the Pacific Northwest and Mexico due to unprecedented delivery of results and streamlining initiatives.Negotiated a strategic alliance with Rexcel in Mexico resulting in the closing of their chemical facility and transitioning 100% of their resin business to Arclin.Led a North American freight consolidation strengthening strategic relationships with Quality Carriers generating a $1 million annual savings.Conceived and adopted “The Midas Touch” best practice program at manufacturing plants, providing a $5+ million annual cost reduction.Implemented the Six Sigma program at Arclin’s largest chemical plant generating a further $1.5 million savings in year one.Played the pivotal role in selling Dynea’s North American business unit to the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.Key influencer during a re-branding from Dynea to Arclin while working with the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan to raise $250 million debt financing in New York capital.

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