Edward S. (Ted) Beardwood has more than 46 years of experience in
water treatment. Ted’s career included technical and sales positions with major specialty chemical companies, including serving as the senior global applications consultant for Solenis LLC, technical director for the Canadian operations of the Ashland Water Technologies Division, and sales representative and area sales manager for the Dearborn Division of WR Grace (now Betz/GE/Suez/Veolia). His experience in the industrial water conditioning industry has ranged from full service, sales, sales management, new construction and commissioning of thermal systems, laboratory management, regulatory compliance, product management, R&D, and consulting.
Mr. Beardwood is a past chair of Water Technologies, and the Research and Technology Committee for Water and Steam in Thermal Systems for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), as well as a former working member of PTC – 31 Performance Test Code for High Purity Water Systems. Past Chair of NACE International Research Committee STG 11 on Water (now Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP), SC 08 committee). Mr. Beardwood has numerous publications and holds 14 patents.
Mark has worked in the mining industry for 38 years, mainly with gold in process plant operations and metallurgical processes. More recently he has worked as Mill Operations manager at the Macassa and Detour lake mines in Northern Ontario. He guided the teams to improve their safety records and to achieve record tonnage throughputs.
His efforts at Macassa were focused on team building and enhanced communication, which enabled continued improvements on safety. He lead multiple projects, such as new cyclones, trash screens, and lime slacker system. He coached the Metallurgical department on calculating the metallurgical balances, and procedures were changed to bring them in line with the industry standards.
At Detour lake, he improved the efficiency of planned down times of the plant by mentoring the Maintenance department and empowering them to bring solutions forward and implement them, which resulted in more work being completed with less stress. The sag mill bolt failure issues at Detour were improved in collaboration with the Reliability team. Previous to this, he was the plant manager at Jerritt Canyon processing plant in Nevada for four years, where he successfully changed the safety and operating culture. He initiated multiple projects, such as crushing and ore drying circuit efficiency, dust control, major equipment improvements in the grinding circuit, and reinforcement of the roaster building. The unique part of this circuit was the twin Dorr Oliver two stage fluid bed roasters, each rated for 2000 stpd, which continued to improve operational efficiency under his guidance. His breadth of experience includes my involvement with the commissioning of the Victor diamond mine in Attawapiskat as their circuit metallurgist and the commissioning of Mount Milligan mine in British Columbia as the plant general foreman. He also participated in two expansions of the Bell Creek mill in Timmins, from planning, construction to commissioning.
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