Please note the email I received today via my CCN profile. I investigated. It is a scam. Beware!

This message was sent via Chemical Consultants Network: www.chemconsultants.org

Mikio Kinoshita mikiokinoshita@outlook.com sent you the following message from your profile page at:
http://www.chemconsultants.org/Sys/PublicProfile/38774879

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Contract Opportunity
Salary-$4,000 monthly
Commission-7%
Job type-Contract
Duration: 12months
Time Required:3-5 hours per week.
Role- Account Receivable Agent.

We are currently recruiting companies/individuals on behalf of a company located in japan { Canox Corporation.} for a number of account receivable agents in Canada And USA. As an Account Receivable agent, you will be responsible for collection of all account receivables due to the Company in North America to directly support sales operations.

Job description is simple and structure without affecting your present occupation. Please email us ( mikio@canoxjp.com ) if interested in the role or have any questions with regards the job description

Thanks
Mikio Kinoshita
President,
Canox Corporation
1-1-12 Nakano Nishi-ku Nagoya
Aichi, 451-8570, Japan
Tel : +81345308963
Email : mikio@canoxjp.com

02112015.IndustBiotech.KW.ppt

Becht advisors have provided a wide array of experience and background to our clients including serving as technical experts in a legal setting on many financially significant cases.

In one example, our team was hired to develop economics impact of a broken five-year term agreement for our client to recover a wide range of petroleum oils and slop for an international oil company.  Our client had provided staff and equipment on site but their client then decided to back out of the contract and did not pay any of the expenses accrued to the date of notice.  Considerable legal effort was exercised to work out a settlement but the buyer of their services refused.

Our client, who found us by Internet search, was impressed by our many years of relevant experience in the petroleum refining business, and hired us for the project. 

We examined the petroleum processing and pipeline facilities of their intended client in great detail.  This included three trips to London for preparation and the final trip was for our day in court.

The refineries were examined for crude throughput on an annual basis including evaluation of the capacity of each of the downstream processing units.  Our study revealed that there was considerable product loss or that a percentage of the crude oil was not making it to the refineries.  The computed loss of crude and/or oil products was unbelievably large.

In addition, the method for handling slop oil and catchment from refinery oil sewer systems routed to API separators was also reviewed.  At this location, oil was stored for periods of time in open pits, leading to large losses due to evaporation in the hot sun.  Our thermodynamics expert modeled the pits with consideration of sun strength and duration, wind velocity and other factors.  He provided a measure of loss of oil in just a 24 hour period that was astounding.

In addition we evaluated practice of the company’s pipeline with respect to oil produced when pigging the lines.  Based on miles of pipeline and conventional rate of pigging and amount of slop produced, our pipeline expert provided an estimate of oil loss due to the practices used at their location.  This too was significant.

I presented our results to a tribunal of judges in the Swiss International Arbitration court in London.  Our data were exhibited using video connections with our experts who remained in the USA but were assisted by me serving as an expert witness, coordinating the team effort in front of the three Swiss judges.

Our client is extremely satisfied with our technical work and would hire us again for any and all of their future oil-related projects that require Becht Engineering skills.

Becht Engineering is a world-class engineering services group with offices across the country and focusing on the Oil & Gas, Energy, Reliability, Corrosion and Heavy Lift areas.  For more information on Becht, please visit our website at 
http://www.becht.com

A  member of CCN, Dr. Peachman, was a part of an inspection the state agency performed at a large butcher's operation. He asked a young salesperson:

- This thing in the window. Is it a pig's butt?

- No, sir. It is a mirror. 

 

God was highly concerned with chemical consultants. Their status in societies is not as high as it should be, they have major difficulties finding customers, they are considered by many as those who promote non-safe environmental practices, etc. Perhaps chemical consultants are an endangered species. After a short discussion with himself God decided to visit the Earth and act.

He was hired by a huge chemical company to address major problems at one of the processes in the Texas facility. The yield of the final product was only 38% instead of expected 72%. Moreover, the product formed in the lab was white and crystalline. The plant product should be almost pure based on the analytical data but was a gray, ugly oil.

The issue was not easy to solve but God had no problems. He proposed to increase the pH at stage II (during the second step) from 7.6 to 7.8.     

-It will solve all your problems. I promise - he said.

-But why? - they asked.

-I cannot tell you. Just try – was his response.

 

They did not have much to loose so they did. It turned out that his solution worked like a dream. The yield of the final product of the process was above 95%, it was crystalline and the crystals where beautifully white. They paid the consultant’s fee and he went off to other consulting jobs.

A few days later one of the company executives asked the plant manager:

-How did the new consultant do?

-Well, we were not impressed at all. He didn’t even bother to ask what the melting point of our final product was.

Don, a former and dedicated Chair of CCN passed away on May 9. His obituary can be found 

at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/philly/obituary.aspx?pid=179954916. Those of us who knew him benefited from his friendship and knowledge and will miss him and his lively discussions and insights. We extend our condolences and sympathy to his family.

• CECON Division of Becht Engineering

  Position Description

  Position: Client & Market Manager

  Date: 3/1/2016

  A. Position Scope

  The Client and Market Manager’s prime responsibilities are: 1) broker contracts between CECON DIVISION

  potential science and engineering clients and the independent consultants in CECON DIVISION’s network in

  support of Becht Engineering Contract section, 2) implement and manage active consulting projects, 3) take

  technical and market ownership of defined applications and market sectors, and 4) provide professional

  coverage to the CECON DIVISION business, clients, consultants and marketing programs.

• B. Detailed Responsibilities

  1. Actively manage client leads as assigned by the CECON Group Manager of The CECON DIVISION of

  Becht Engineering or On-Boarding Coordinator. Activities include, but are not limited to, discussion with

  clients about the scope and nature of their projects, negotiating and finalizing client contracts, and

  managing client or consultant issues.

  2. Provide sales forecasts, and manage job leads and projects utilizing the job management system, and

  manage client relationships.

  3. Develop a market and technical focus for CECON DIVISION in specified markets and applications as

  agreed upon between the Client & Market Manager and the CECON Group Manager of the CECON

  DIVISION of Becht Engineering, utilizing current consultants in the CECON DIVISION network and

  supplementing consultants as defined by management. Drive CECON DIVISION’s branding in these

  markets, attend market sector conferences, and solicit new business via phone, email programs and

  personal visits (as approved by the CECON Group Manager of the CECON Division of Becht Engineering).

  4. Basic professional office coverage to include, but not limited to, office and phone coverage, recruiting and

  registering new consultants, providing support for CECON DIVISION administrative tasks such as reviewing

  consultant resumes, and attending CECON DIVISION Staff meetings.

  5. Implement and manage active consulting projects staffed by a team of CECON DIVISION consultants on an

  as-needed basis

• C. Position Requirements

  1. A technical college degree and plus 10 years of experience in science, engineering, or a technical business.

  Technical and/ or market experience in a defined area.

  2. Interpersonal and telephone skills with the ability to handle and close sales leads, elicit client needs, and

  talk to different people outside of CECON DIVISION.

  3. The ability to discuss technical consulting services, negotiate, execute, and manage contracts, manage

  client relationships, and manage technical projects.

  4. Skilled using MS Office and a computer to access, use, and update databases and to electronically

  communicate with associates, consultants, and clients.

  5. Work may be conducted from the CECON DIVISION office or remotely; however, on average for part-time

  personnel, a minimum of two days per week should be spent in the office.

  6. The ability to read, write, type, use the telephone, stoop to kneel to retrieve items, lift office supplies,

  push/pull doors, and climb stairs
  
  

• D. Compensation and Reporting Relationship

  1. Compensation shall consist of a base monthly salary and a commission based on project gross margins.

  2. Must work cooperatively with the CECON Staff and the network of consultants.

  3. Reports to the CECON Group Manager of the CECON Division of Becht Engineering.

  
  

Remember that business.usa.gov is a very useful resource for those with an entreprenurial spirit  and hosts many free seminars at locations across the country.

This week is National Entrepreneurship week

See results of the survey of CCN members from August 2014.  

best regards,  Keith Wing   08162014.CCN.MemberSurvey.pptx 

If you have any ideas for future meeting subjects please let us know. We are always looking for topics of interest to consultants as well as for suggestions for speakers.