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Pyroweek Community Day

Community Day

Ex Mente hosts an annual Community Day where we invite influential speakers to share their thoughts and insight on the pyrometallurgical industry. Our shared experiences enable us to learn from one another and thereby help to grow the industry.

This is usually accompanied by FactSage and Thermochemistry training where we explore, discover, and learn together as part of our drive to empower teams in our industry.

Opensim

Ex Mente is proud to be associated with openSim, a group of open-source software users from around South Africa. There is an annual symposium where people in the field present from their experience, discuss ideas, learn from each other and build relationships.

We are involved in organising the event and committed to growing this initiative. Follow us on LinkedIn for more information.

Dr Jaco Swanepoel 2024

Dr Jaco Swanepoel

SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER

Jaco is a Chemical Engineer with twelve years of experience in projects that range from reactive metals handling, reactive metal powder production in molten salt slurry reactors, extractive metallurgy to microwave-assisted gas-solid materials processing.
Jaco contributed to three process patents and obtained a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering. Jaco also completed the KTP Management and Leadership Study Program at Ashorne Hill Management College, England.

Stefan van der Merwe 2024

Stefan van der Merwe

Lead Engineer Digital

Stefan’s greatest passion is to enable people. By combining his greatest passion with his love for technology, he finds joy in making computing infrastructure accessible to the non-technical, and developing software that uncomplicates tasks. As a software engineer with qualifications in electronic engineering and bioengineering, Stefan is responsible for software development, enabling the team and clients to advance through insight.