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Matt Smith is Sales Director at Silverson Machines, which has over 70 years of experience helping customer in the field of high shear mixing. Silverson Machines serve many different industries from Pharmaceuticals to Food and can be used in a variety of applications including emulsifying – creating stable emulsions, blending liquids of varying viscosities and homogenisation. Along with a dedicated and knowledgeable Sales team and Technical staff, Silverson Machines can help find the right mixer for your application.

Josh is a Technical Engineer and is an integral member of Industrial Tomography Systems’ talented engineering team. Josh is responsible for creating the many and varied sensor designs required by clients to cover the full gamut of fluid handling applications. When he’s not busy designing bespoke sensors, Josh provides face-to-face technical support for Industrial Tomography Systems’ large domestic and international customer base, where he excels in providing straightforward explanations combined with sound technical advice. Josh graduated from The University of Sheffield with an M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering which included a 12-month placement at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research – also known as CERN. Industrial Tomography Systems’ range of electrical tomography systems provides the fluid handling fraternity with the ability to monitor any fluidised process through real-time dynamic imaging and data acquisition totally unconstrained by the opaqueness of a pipe or container. Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) and electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) are highly adaptable and versatile technologies that can be used in a raft of different fluid handling applications. This includes novel applications that have yet to be thought of, discovered or utilised. Josh welcomes all questions and enquiries pertaining to electrical tomography and Industrial Tomography Systems’ suite of turnkey and bespoke solutions.

Paul de Waal is Dutch and educated as a Measurement and Control /Electronics Engineer. After a start as Instrumentation Engineer at Delta Controls, often outsourced to Shell, he became Managing Director of Sierra Instruments b.v. for almost 25 years. In 2012 he moved to the UK and now works as Business Development Director at Vögtlin Instruments GmbH in Switzerland. Paul has been active is several ISO committees and has a wide network of international relations that he can call upon to support him. (Vögtlin is part of the TASI group). He has practical experience with about every flow meter principle available. Currently his professional focus is application support, product development and international sales promotions. His main interest and experience lies in non-fiscal gas mass flow measurement/control systems and calibration. Gas mass flow meters and controllers used in applications like consumption measurements and distribution, gas dosing, mixing, (leak) testing, flame control, furnace, glass, heat treatment, packaging and analysers. Application for this can be found in industries like Food, Bio technology, Surface technologies, Welding, Medical, Pharma, Energy (Solar, Fuel cells, combustion, etc), chemical, semiconductor, metal industry and many more..

Eldad Ohayon is an experienced product management and business development professional with over 15 years of experience in industrial valves and fluid control solutions.