Speaker’s name: Herman de Vries
Organization: Micbusters
Job title: CEO
Biography:
Herman holds degrees in mechanical engineering and technical business sciences. He began his career at the investment company NOM, fostering R&D investments with a capital budget of €11 million. He then joined one of NOM’s portfolio companies, a small biotech firm with capabilities in Molecular technologies, as a project manager. Herman has been the driving force to demerge the molecular laboratory into a separate company and became managing director and shareholder, building it into a service lab and consulting firm for MIC-related issues. After 10 years, in 2021, he sold his shares and became Marketing Director at the surface preparation company MontiPower, while simultaneously building a new company: MICBUSTERS, focused on bringing molecular technologies to the field. In addition, Herman has been an active board member of AMPP Benelux for many years and currently serves as Document Project Manager for the AMPP standard for MIC field techniques, TM0194.
Presentation title: Do we really need to care about MIC, and does a proper diagnosis give business value?
Presentation abstract/summary:
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) has gained a lot more attention over the last years. But it’s just one on the long list of corrosion mechanisms that can affect a systems integrity. Should we care to measure anything? And is there a business value to distinguish it from other mechanisms?
This presentation will give you an update about the recent academic developments into MIC and how to convert these academic developments into practical approaches.