Solvay

Steering Solvay towards innovation and sustainability while laying the groundwork for future executive leadership.

• Transforming and shaping the innovation portfolio to align with long-term business goals, promoting growth, sustainability, and reinforcing industry leadership.

• Implementing Generative AI solutions within the Business Unit, enabling a surge in speed and efficiency in our R&D operations.

• Catapulted innovative technology improvements, operational excellence, and energy transition, achieving a colossal >40% reduction in CO2 emissions since 2018. This propelled us towards carbon neutrality.

• Overhauled lab specifications and standardization, providing critical analytical services. Boosted Solvay’s licensing business, generating €2 million annually.

• Coordinated global network of 18 labs, ensuring integrity and reliability of €200 million chemical assets, bolstering key business operations and quality standards.

Process Innovation Manager (R&I) - GBU Peroxides

Propelled operational excellence and strategic alignment, setting the stage for subsequent leadership roles.

• Spearheaded procedural optimization across 18 global chemical plants, bolstering annual turnover of €1 billion.

• Coordinated with technical teams, facilitated industrialization and start-up of new production units. Implemented technology improvement programs, ensuring efficient ramp-up to full capacity.

• Championed the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies, driving significant efficiency and productivity gains across all operations.

GBU Peroxides Technology Engineer & Digital Champion

Managed process engineering, production, utilities, and laboratory services while also overseeing demolition operations to improve site layout. Ensured strict adherence to safety and quality standards, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance.

• Transformed energy efficiency in the sodium chlorate unit, achieving a 4% improvement. This resulted in significant cost savings and a reduced environmental impact, demonstrating my commitment to sustainability and cost control.

• Directed the ISO 17025 laboratory, supervising the lab team to ensure strict quality control of our products while also delivering external analytical services (waste waters).

• Led team, executed safe demolition of deactivated plants, revamped layout, achieving complex operation with zero incidents.

Production Engineer & Analytical Services Manager

Ensured compliance and spearheaded improvement projects in environmental areas, fostering a culture of safety.

• Guided strategic environmental decisions through technical evaluations, improving company’s sustainability compliance with 30% decrease in TSS and 50% reduction in N-NH4.

• Maintained and strengthened positive relations with Portuguese authorities, enhancing cross-functional team leadership and stakeholder management.

• Prepared and submitted comprehensive environmental reports, demonstrating strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Deputy HSE Manager

APQuímica - Associação Portuguesa da Química, Petroquímica e Refinação

Key contributor in APQuímica's advocacy and regulatory affairs, aligning the Portuguese chemical industry with EU directives. Instrumental in engaging with authorities and associations, advancing industry interests in critical legislations like IPPC, REACH, and ETS.

• Served as a key liaison between the chemical industry and public authorities for IPPC, REACH, and ETS, achieving recognition as the Portuguese expert in Cefic’s REACH Experts Network.

• Instrumental in shaping industry responses and compliance strategies regarding critical EU regulations, demonstrating strong stakeholder management and regulatory standards expertise.

• Cultivated and leveraged extensive expertise in EU environmental and safety regulations, providing invaluable guidance to member companies, facilitating effective compliance strategies.

Technical Advisor for Responsible Care

In a world where innovation intersects with sustainability, my career is driven by a profound vision to champion sustainable innovation for a better world.

I am Nuno, a senior innovation leader with over 18 years of experience in the chemical industry. My expertise spans plant operations, lab management, global R&D leadership, and innovation management. Starting my career in engineering roles in Portugal and advancing to strategic leadership positions in Belgium, I have consistently prioritized merging innovative strategies with sustainable practices.

As Process Innovation Manager at Solvay's GBU Peroxides, I led initiatives that resulted in a significant reduction of CO2 emissions by over 40% since 2018. This achievement highlights the successful integration of sustainability into our core business operations. Beyond environmental impact, I have refined licensing business models by providing analytical services to Solvay's licensees, generating over €2M annually.

My leadership extends to building strategic partnerships with universities, research institutes, and other external stakeholders, securing €20 million in grants for innovative and sustainable solutions. I am committed to mentoring the next generation of professionals and actively collaborate with educational institutions to promote STEM and R&D partnerships, aiming to inspire sustainable future advancements.

Looking ahead, my focus is on leveraging technology, innovation, and sustainability as foundational drivers of growth and corporate responsibility within large organizations or international institutions. My goal is to guide these efforts, ensuring that innovative and sustainable solutions achieve significant societal, environmental, and economic benefits.

I am eager to connect with organizations and individuals that prioritize visionary leadership and pragmatic approaches to innovation and sustainability. Together, we can create pathways that harness these strengths, driving progress that benefits our businesses and the broader world.

Let us unite our efforts towards a future that is as innovative as it is sustainable.

Nuno Formiga

Technical process manager

Production/Process engineer

Vinythai Co.,Ltd

- Be responsible for PVC, Demineralized water, and Monomer recovery
process
- Being manufacturing excellent leader: OEE and specific consumption
- Be responsible for Process improvement and troubleshooting
o Process improvement
- Managing transition/ grade change project: estimating cost saving
3.3 MTHB
- Expanding new VCM pipe project team: budget 33 MTHB
- Trialing alternative raw material source: saving 600 KTHB
o Process troubleshooting
- Accomplishing in new workflow of month end system
- Achieving in program modification for monomer carry over
reducing: protect against production loss > 4 MB
- Reducing contamination product loss 20% from 2018

Process Engineer

Vencorex (Thailand) Company Limited

- Be responsible for Tolonate and utility production
- Joined since construction and start-up plant until normal operation as project team: Issued commercial operating date (COD) in June 2017
- Be responsible for process improvement and troubleshooting with France & US team
o Process improvement
- Solving color problem from distillation column
- Stabilizer optimization for higher stability and lower yield loss
- New accelerated monomer testing for quicker and reliable result
- Optimize utility consumption and supplier contract: saving 14%
o Process troubleshooting
- Recovery excess monomer from start-up period
- Fine tuning monomer recovery distillation to improve overall yield by compromising design problem and actual operation
- Modified the reflux loop design of light distillation column
- Solving lack of raw material by using alternative local source
- Being leader of Tolonate production trainer for operation team and
annual overall review for initiative improvement project
- Accomplishing 1st integrated ISO system (ISO9001, OHSAS18001, and
ISO14001): Generate 1st version of workflow and work instruction
- Being leader of 1st MOC and OEE system implementation
- Co-production and turnaround planning by optimization in production
and equipment efficiency with supply chain and maintenance team
- Facilitating and supporting the process data for EIA activities
- Being liquid waste management leader from production team by
cooperating with SHE team and waste disposal company

Project engineer/ Process Engineer

Thaipolyacetal.Co,Ltd. and Thai Polycarbonate Co.,Ltd. (TPAC-TPCC)

- Responsible of production department in petrochemical industry.
- Solve confronted problem.
- Plan and improve the process.
- Design the separation system.

Engineering Intern

Biochemical 2013 ; Engineering Plant Research and Development Unit (BEC)

Pink discolouration and the effects of sulfur dioxide and the pH in cassava starch.

Research Assistant

Polymer PROcessing and Flow (P-PROF)

Antibacterial Activity and Cure Mechanical Properties 
of HPQM based Neusilin/Natural Rubber Reinforced 
with Carbon Black.

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