The work started in 2023 and developed so well that for the sugar business, I am now exclusively working for Pfeifer & Langen IP GmbH, under the brand name Sucrosphere. Sucrosphere is a spinoff of the 3rd biggest sugar producer in Germany, the 150-year-old Pfeifer & Langen family business. They decided early on, in 2019, to not let the digitalization of the industry overrun them and took a long view, thanks to their family business vision. The long view, maybe a bit crazy at that time, was to develop a complete control system for the sugar industry, from sensors (Vision, NIRS) to model predictive control. Of course, not forgetting scheduling, heat integration, and operator training through a digital twin.
I am happily supporting them as lead modeling expert, bringing my 25 years of experience in the industry to a young and talented team of software developers and engineers backed by years of internal sugar expertise. We have a lot of fun solving hard problems.
For everything else, no exclusivity, so if you need some molecular property expertise, oil & gas, pharma, or fine chemicals modeling, I am there!