CEO Monthly August 2017

18 CEO MONTHLY / AUGUST 2017 reflects the vast and intensive worldwide activity of Dr. Kongoli, and his dynamic involvements are truly impressive. For most, the intensity of his commitments FLOGEN Technologies Inc. is a high-tech technology company independently incorporated in Canada and USA, with offices around the world. The CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc. is Dr. Florian Kongoli, who was awarded last month “The Environmental Tech CEO of the Year 2017” The following is a profile of Dr. Kongoli and of his company FLOGEN Technologies Inc., whose intensive work on sustainable technologies all over the world was the key factor in granting him this award. During our interviewwith Dr. Kongoli, he provides his major points of view on the thorny issues of our current reality. Achieving Sustainability through Science and Technology Dr. Florian Kongoli is CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc. (www.flogen.com) , a high-tech technology company independently incorporated in Canada and USA, with representative offices around the world. It mainly specializes in two objectives: (a) the development of new sustainable technologies and (b) transforming existing technologies into sustainable ones. The firm’s areas of expertise include: metallurgical, chemical, and environmental industries; various smelting, converting and refining processing in non- ferrous (Ni, Cu, Zn, Pb, Fe-Ni, Fe-Cr, PGMs, etc.) extraction and processing; iron and steel making; and recycling and waste treatment. FLOGEN Technologies Inc. has developed unique proprietary design, decision-making, control, optimization, and automation systems that have been successfully applied in various companies around the world, covering almost all existing technologies and generating operation savings that range from US$ 5 to $ 15 Million per year. Last year the company celebrated 20 years of successful operations and business excellence, which is attributed to the application of his unique systems in almost all smelting, converting, refining and recycling reactors (Mitsubishi, TSL, Flash, Teniente, Noranda, Plasma, Pierce Smith, Hoboken, Anode, Waelz, Roasters, Electric, Sintering, Pelletizing, Blast, Shaft, BOF, etc.) The contribution of the company in sustainable technologies has been widely recognized. This includes excellent reference letters from major industrial companies, as well as two letters that the company received last year by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Natural Resources of Canada, which recognized “the significant contribution that FLOGEN makes toward scientific research related to new sustainable technologies.” The News Section of the FLOGEN Technologies Inc. web site (www.flogen.com/news.php ) 1707CE03 Dr Florian Kongoli - “The Environmental Tech CEO of the Year 2017”