From 1995 to 1998, Jeroen Bosboom was employed at Vandokem Chemical enterprises in South Africa as a Chemical Process engineer.
Vandokem was providing services to the chemical and mining industry. This involved EPCM of turnkey multidisciplinary projects in food, chemical and process industry as well as Environmental Impact Assessments, Hazard & Operational Analysis, economical and technological feasibility studies.
Over the 3 years, the responsibilities of Jeroen shifted from and providing day-to-day support to the owner/director to new business development, sales & marketing as well as transactional & contract management.
For Intaba Chemicals a pilot plant was developed to extract Aluminum Chloride Hexahydrate from a mining waste in Potchefstroom. Vandokem first developed proof of concept on laboratory scale after which a full sized pilot plat was developped.
Vandokem was also involved in the commissioning at Foskor’s Mining Division in Phalaborwa which mines phosphate rock (foskorite and pyroxenite), from which Foskor’s Acid Division in Richards Bay produces phosphoric acid and phosphate-based granular fertilisers for local and international markets.
The project was located next to the opencast mine in Phalaborwa, the largest man-made hole in the world under difficult circumstances of daily temperatures exceeding 40 degrees.
