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

	I review the raw data generated by the QC laboratory
 I check the work outlines used in routine for their release. (laboratory notebooks, Excel spreadsheets, etc.)
 I ensure that procedures are followed.
 I approve the experimental data technically and verify the accuracy of the calculations performed as well as the traceability of the data and the absence of test drift.

Data Reviewer Chimie / Biochimie 

 I check the stability of our products such as Paa, H2O2 (cosmetic grade, PARAMOVE (R),... for responding at the BPR (Biocide product regulations). 
 I collaborate in the catalysis projects for the search and for helping the plants. 
 I work in the applications projects for new uses of our products and for solving the customers’ issues. For H2O2 stability linked at the plant production. (Metal lixiviation, stabilizers, ...) 
 I participate on catalysis search project for improving AO process (the preferential choose of noble metals on the support)

Customer Support & AO Support Technician

 The techniques were: differential scanning calorimetry DSC, thermogravimetry analysis TGA. 
 Autonomous realization of complex analysis (no routine). 
 Being in charge of research support: discussions with clients (researchers); interpretation of results and writing reports. 
 Checking and controlling equipment to correspond to ISO9001 certification. 
 Contacting equipment suppliers in case of technical problems.

Chemical Analyst

 I filed a new trademark name and to be in charge of the formalities to keep in force or to abandon the trademark 
 I contacted the customers for trademark portfolio management, 
 I monitored trademarks for verifying that competitors do not use a similar trademark name for similar goods and/or services and to oppose when it is the case. 
 I checked the correct use of the trademark in the literature and web sites. 
 I checked availability of trademark names in case of a new proposition.

Trademarks Assistant

 I had discussions with the peroxide department to know the relevant topics (market and uses) allowing to adapt a best profile to respond to their customer needs. 
 I read the literature and the patents downloaded in the specific data bases; I added relevant keywords; I sent an alert when the subject was very important when it was in relation to the laboratory research topics or to the new explored topics of the competitors. 
 I informed the department by publication of the peroxide bulletin. 
 I searched for new information (synthesis / new application /…)

Chemical documentalist

 The techniques were: atomic absorption, mercury analyzer and atomic emission spectrometry (inductively coupled plasma ICP-OES.)

My ambition is to provide full support to clients, relying on the analytical mind and recognized skills of the organization. 

To be able : 
- to deliver products in accordance with the specifications, 
- to respond to the customer needs by solving industrial issues or by optimizing the process. 
These would be challenges that I would take up with rigour and seriousness.

I have a wide experience in the laboratory mainly like AAS, ICP-OES, HPLC, H2O2 quality, stability study, support for new applications, customer support

My analytical mind, my autonomy and relational ease, will be an asset to your company.

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