Jim Cribbes
Chairman of the Board, ProMet Engineers
BSc(Hons), CP(Met), FAusIMM
Jim has over 35 years of experience in the iron processing industry, much of it spent with the Pittsburgh, USA office of Aker Solutions, (previously known as Kvaerner, Dravo and Davy McKee). He has been involved with operating and developing iron pelletising plants in a number of countries including Quebec Cartier Mining in Canada, Hibbing Taconite in the US, Jindal Vijayanagar Steel in India and Robe River Mining here in Australia. He was also Kvaerner’s Project Director for the HYL direct reduction project of Grasim Industries in India.
Immediately prior to the formation of ProMet Engineers, Jim was the general manager of the Kvaerner office in Perth and was involved with all of the metallurgical projects completed by that organisation between 1996 and 2000. This included studies into AUSI Iron in the Pilbara and Mt Gibson Iron near Geraldton. He was Kvaerner’s project sponsor on the Cawse Nickel project – the most successful of the three lateritic nickel projects in Western Australia - and has also been actively involved with the development of BHP Billiton’s nickel project near Ravensthorpe.
Under Jim’s leadership ProMet Engineers has established itself as the leading consulting and process engineering organisation in the Australian iron processing industry.
David Glynn
Managing Director, ProMet Engineers,
MBA, CEng, FInstMC, MAICD
David is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control (UK) and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). David has 30 years experience in the minerals, metals and resources industry. He has been involved with all phases of project development from scoping studies to commissioning. He joined ProMet Engineers in August 2007 after completing 18 years with Aker Soloutions (formerly known as Aker Kvaerner and Davy McKee) where he was employed on various international ferrous and non-ferrous projects. On completion of his MBA, David became more involved in the commercial aspects of projects and business administration.
Derek Macauley
Technical Director, ProMet Engineers
BSc(Hons), CP(Met), FAusIMM, FIChemE, CEng, MIM
After 30 years experience in the Stockton, UK office of Aker Solutions (previously known as Kvaerner and Davy McKee) as Technical Director of the Iron and Steel Division, Derek came to Australia in 1997 to oversee Kvaerner’s participation in the development of the HIsmelt technology at Kwinana. He was responsible for the technical development which saw the original rotating vessel converted to a vertical furnace – the successful design of which is now incorporated into the commercial plant which was commissioned is now being ramped up.
Until mid 1998, Derek was also Engineering and Production Manager of the AUSI Iron project, responsible for the technical competency and satisfactory integration of the various plant units and processes comprising the integrated plant facility.
He has had extensive experience of all aspects of conventional iron and steelmaking as well as the new technologies such as HIsmelt, AusIron and rotary hearth technologies.
Brian Povey
Principal Consulting Metallurgist
BSc(Eng), MBA(Tech Man), CP(Met), FAusIMM, MIMMM, MAIM
Brian has had 30 years experience in operations and technical management in the mining and minerals processing industry. He was Resident Manager at the Savage River iron ore mine and magnetite concentrator in Tasmania, and prior to that Chief Metallurgist at the pellet plant. He has been the Operations Manager in a major coal mine in Queensland, an iron ore operation in the Pilbara and a manganese mine in Ghana. He has also worked in a gold CIP operation, a major tin mineral processing plant and a lead smelter. While at Savage River, Brian gained an Open Cut Mine Manager’s Certificate.
For the last ten years Brian has been a senior consulting technologist, involved with mineral processing plant design and direct reduction and steel project studies with BHP Engineering, Kvaerner and ProMet Engineers. The studies and designs include the OneSteel concentrator at Whyalla, Boodarie concentrator at Port Hedland, the Karara and Mt Gibson magnetite concentrators near Geraldton, the concentrator and pelletising plants of International Minerals and numerous conceptual studies on various iron ore projects. He has also been involved with a number of studies on synthetic rutile, vanadium and nickel beneficiation.
David Andrews
Engineering Manager
BSc(Eng)
David is an Engineering Manager with extensive experience in engineering and project management in the minerals processing and metal manufacturing areas. David was initially employed by the Stockton, UK office of Kvaerner (formerly known as Davy McKee), where he was employed on various ironmaking projects. He subsequently worked in the manufacturing industry for a number of years being actively involved with quality control, optimising production line manufacture and detailed engineering.
David rejoined Kvaerner in 1997 and between 1997 and 2000, project managed several optimising projects for Kvaerner at the HIsmelt plant in Kwinana, performed synthetic rutile process investigations and managed various development projects for Bulong Nickel.
David was ProMet Engineers’ project manager for the replacement of the blast furnace dust collector at OneSteel Whyalla Steelworks – ProMet’s first major job as an independent company. David now leads ProMet’s engineering team.
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