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Susan Ellerbusch

Chief Executive Officer
Air Liquide USA LLC

Susan Ellerbusch has been appointed chief executive officer of Air Liquide USA LLC, a U.S. subsidiary of Air Liquide, the global leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health.

RAPID Interns--Our Newest Ambassadors for Process Intensification

August 17, 2018
As summer draws to a close, we thank all our RAPID interns, their mentors and project sponsors for their participation in our first RAPID Summer Intern Program. Below, our last group of interns echos all we have heard so far about how process intensification has made a lasting and important...
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John E. Anderson

John Anderson is a chemical engineer who has worked for Dow Chemical for 36 years.  He has held roles in Process Engineering assisting in the equipment and process designs associated with multiple agricultural chemicals, Technical Service, Manufacturing and, most recently, R+D.  In his current role, he completes cost-of-manufacturing estimates for products and processes that are not fully developed.  These estimates are based on limited knowledge of how a new product will be made and are generally applied by businesses when process options are compared and when project...Read more

Vijay Swarup

Dr. Swarup joined the company in 1987 as an engineer at Exxon Research and Engineering in Clinton, New Jersey.  Over his career, he has progressed through a variety of engineering, planning and managerial roles at company locations in Redwater, Alberta, Canada; Baytown, Texas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Houston, Texas and Fairfax, Virginia.

In 2006, he became the Global Technology Planning Manager for ExxonMobil Chemical.  In 2008, he was appointed Global Olefins Marketing Manager for ExxonMobil Chemical Company. He moved from Houston, Texas to Fairfax, Virginia in 2010 to...Read more

Bob Maughon

Bob Maughon is the R&D Vice President for Packaging & Specialty Plastics and Hydrocarbons at Dow.

Prior to this role, he was the Senior R&D Director for Dow Pharma & Food Solutions in the Functional Materials Business Group.

Bob began his career with Dow in 1998, working in the Central Research laboratories on a variety of programs ranging from heterogeneous hydrogenation catalysis, ring opening polymerization and homogeneous catalysis. In 2004, he assumed leadership for the chemical feedstocks research area focusing on breakthrough technologies for...Read more

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