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About Us
MSW Consulting, Inc. is based in Florida and was formed by Rob McKeown in early 2000 to provide consulting services to the ethanol industries of the following countries: the United States, Canada, Trinidad and Australia. The company has since expanded to include work in the biodiesel and chemical industries. The team has gained industry experience by designing and constructing multiple production plants as well as through operating and managing many of the plants that were constructed.
MSW Consulting, Inc. has performed work for some of the major Design-
MSW Consulting, Inc. was directly responsible for the design of many of the systems in California’s first 25 million gallon per year ethanol plant. MSW Consulting Inc. was also involved in procuring equipment and assisting with the management of contractors during construction of the plant. The plant took 10 months to build and started up in August of 2005.
MSW Consulting has successfully designed ethanol plants that produce ethanol from feed stocks such as corn, wheat, sorghum, lactose (whey), and citrus peel.
MSW Leadership Team
Robert McKeown, President
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Rob has 30+ years experience in progressive levels of management with mining, pulp & paper and ethanol industries. Rob has served as a general manager, plant manager, operations manager and maintenance manager in various ethanol plants throughout the past two decades. Rob has lead the design of or been a major contributor in the design of [9] ethanol plants and a major factor in the construction of [5] plants having a combined capacity of [75] MGPY.
O. Wayne Mitchell, PE
Wayne has 30+ years of experience in various engineering and management roles. Wayne
has served on the Board of Directors for thirteen fuel ethanol plants during construction
and operation. He also served as the Senior Vice-
Roy Eyjolfson
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Roy has 30+ years of management experience in Ethanol. Roy spent 18 exciting years
as a plant manager and plant engineer at Crown Royal [Seagram]. Following his time
with Seagram, Roy spent a number of years at Katzen International, Bifrost Bio-
James Knight
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James has 6 years of process engineering & project management experience in the ethanol, biodiesel, and algae oil industries. James has been a part of the MSW team for the last 4 years leading various projects such as: designing ethanol plants; distillation system; steel structures; flash systems; and management support during plant construction. James received his Master’s Degree in Chemistry Entrepreneurship from Case Western Reserve University and his Bachelor’s Degree in Professional Chemistry from Eastern Michigan University.
Industry Partners:
L&M Ethanol Maintenance Contracting Inc. www.lmethanol.com
Structural Engineering Inc. – Lakeland [Anthony Bonnin, PE]