Purac has announced the appointment of Jerry Quickenden who joins the business development department to head up the company's Municipal Solid Waste team.

Purac has announced the appointment of Jerry Quickenden who joins the business development department to head up the company's Municipal Solid Waste team. This is a return to Purac for Jerry who first began working for the company in 1996 before he took a senior role with Anglian Water International, then part of the awg business. Jerry begin his career working with the treatment of industrial and agricultural waste using anaerobic digestion, before moving into project management and then technology development.

He recently returned from working for AWI in China where he was design manager for the Beijing 10 water treatment project, a USD200m project that he managed for two years.

His new role will see him heading up the Purac team developing the company's Municipal Solid Waste resources, maximising on the experience the company already had in the use of anaerobic digestion.

'This is an exciting move for me and I am looking forward to the challenges ahead as we cement relationships with our partners to position ourselves firmly as the leading company in the field of MSW' says Jerry.

'We have a huge raft of relevant experience behind us, along with an impressive list of satisfied customers, who know that Purac delivers what it promises.

Purac Limited has more that 40 years of wide-ranging experience in the field of water, wastewater and sludge treatment for the municipal and industrial sectors - to date there are more than 4000 Purac designed plants in 60 countries around the world.

The company offers process design and project management services and has developed a number of key processing technologies, with clients choosing between turnkey solutions or individual specialist services.

Based at Kidderminster in the Midlands, the Purac 300 UK employees achieve a turnover of around GBP50 million each year.

Employee development is central to the Purac strategy and the company is accredited with Investors in People status.