Technology transfer
Technology Transfer
The industrial partners with their interests and expertise relevant to COST Action CM0802 are:
Sasol Technology UK Ltd, website
contact:
- Dr. Martin Hanton
- martin.hanton@eu.sasol.com
- tel.: +44 (0)1224 460-830; fax: +44 (0)1707 383-647
- Sasol Technology (UK) Ltd
Purdie Building, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST
- Dr. Martin Hanton
- expertise:
- Homogeneous Catalysis, Organometallic Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry
- interests:
- WG2, WG4, and WG5
- The use of phosphorus-based ligands in catalysis, and the use of various analytical, spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques for the study of such systems to gain a fundamental understanding of the chemistries and mechanisms at work.
BASF - The Chemical Company
- contact:
- Dr. Steffen Tschirschwitz
- steffen.tschirschwitz@basf.com
- tel.: +49 621 60-54114; fax: +49 172 7491882
- BASF SE, GCI/P - M311, 67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany
- Dr. Steffen Tschirschwitz
- expertise:
- Industrial Phosphorus Chemistry: Large scale syntheses and industrial applications of phosphorus
- P-chiral Ferrocenylphosphanes
- interests:
- WG4 and WG5 I
Thermphos International
- contact:
- Dr. Willem Schipper, website

- willem.schipper-at-thermphos.com
- tel.: +31 113 689720
- R&D and New Business Development for Business Unit Phosphorus and P Derivatives, Postbus 406, 4380 AD Vlissingen, The Netherlands
- Dr. Willem Schipper, website
- expertise:
- 15 years in industrial phosphorus chemistry, working on process improvement and new phosphorus chemistry
- interests:
- Applied phosphorus chemistry, industrial phosphorus chemistry
Lucite International
- contact:
- Dr. Graham R. Eastham, website

- graham.eastham@lucite.com
- tel.: +44 1642 447109
- Room T135 Wilton Centre, Wilten, Redcar TS10 4RF, United Kingdom
- Dr. Graham R. Eastham, website
- expertise:
- Design and synthesis of novel phosphine ligands employed in palladium catalysed carbonylation reactions
- Catalyst testing in both batch autoclaves and continuous pilot plant facilities
- Scaling up development for the large scale production of bis-phosphines
- interest:
- WG1, WG3 and WG4
- Smart catalysts, high longevity catalysts, environmentally benign catalysts, metal-free catalysts, bio-inspired catalysts