Dr Peter Smallwood is an industrial chemist with extensive international and cross cultural experience. An expert in new product and process development, working with customers, in the laboratory and on manufacturing plants in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Japan and North America.

Peter is an expert in surface and colloid chemistry. His expertise in polymers and polymerisation, new product development and manufacturing developed during a career with ICI, AstraZeneca, NeoResins in the UK and SABIC in Saudi Arabia. His formulation skills have been used to develop antifoams, paints, antiseptics, disinfectants and products for health care, to laundry detergents and surface cleaners. Developing environmentally friendly products is a speciality.

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• PhD in surface and colloid chemistry, Liverpool University
• BSc (Hons) Physical Chemistry, University of Liverpool

• Transferred polymer latex manufacturing technology from the UK to Japan and the USA
• Developed dispersions and disinfectants for use in sports science
• Development of novel coatings and dispersions
• Assessment of the prospects for a ChloroAlkali, EDC/VCM and PVC production site
• Techno-commercial reviews of the prospects for the global PVC industry
• Development of formulations for cleaning green products
• Expert Witness

• Established Chemical Associates in 2000
• Worked as a research advisor to SABIC R&T, Riyadh on manufacture of emulsion PVC
• Responsible for the technical development, manufacture and use of the ICI, AstraZeneca and NeoResins range of vinyl acrylic, and PVdC latices and resins for use in specialist paint and barrier coating applications
• Technical plant and research manager for ICI, supporting suspension PVC production

• New product development
• Chemical process development and optimisation
• Laboratory Management
• The manufacture of commodity and specialty grades of PVC
• The processing use and market for PVC
• The formulation of dispersions
• Education and training