The growing desire to save water and reduce water-related costs crosses all industries. Water’s ever-growing importance in manufacturing-based industries combined with diminishing quality of water supplies, increasing purchase costs and increasingly strict environmental standards are forcing industries of all sizes to look for new and improved options for water reduction, reuse and recycle.
Join us as we discuss recent chemical, equipment and digital innovations that are helping water intensive industries like the chemical industry optimize water usage, reduce costs and improve their overall environmental footprint.
MODERATOR: Melinda Burn, VP Strategic Marketing, Solecta, Inc.
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Dr. Gary Xuqing Gu
Sr. Global Technology Director,
DuPont Water Solutions
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Dr. Lotta Kanto Oeqvist
Chief Sustainability Officer,
VP Global Marketing and Innovation,
Solenis
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About our Speakers:
Dr. Lotta Kanto Oeqvist is the Chief Sustainability Office at Solenis, and VP for Global Strategic Marketing and Innovation of new products and solutions for the industrial segment, with a focus on efficient solutions for water intensive industries. Lotta has more than 25 years of experience in a variety of different positions, from sales and application support, solving water related challenges at customers, to leading positions in market developments and R&D. She brings experience in close cooperation with global customers and colleagues to create new-to-the-world innovations and solutions to support a sustainable growth for the future. Lotta’s strategical work in the ESG area (Environmental, Social and Governance) spans over many areas including responsible sourcing, production, development of new sustainable products/solutions and much more, supporting Solenis focus to help customers to reach their sustainability goals. She received a MSc in Chemical engineering from Chalmers Technical University in Sweden and her PhD in Industrial Microbiology from Helsinki University, Finland. She is now working in Germany and lives with her family in a low energy house.
Dr. Gary Xuqing Gu leads the global technology organization of the Water Solutions business. With an integrated global R&D, Technical Service, and Product Stewardship & Regulatory organization, Gary is responsible for creating sustainable values through core and emerging innovations to support a variety of markets and industries with the business’ growing science and technology capabilities.
Gary started his career with DuPont in 1998 as an R&D Engineer at Jackson Lab, New Jersey. In his 24 years of service, Gary held technology, engineering, marketing, and commercial leadership responsibilities in DuPont’s US and Asia organizations across 3 strategic business units and Corporate R&D. In 2018, after the DowDuPont merger, Gary relocated from Shanghai to Minneapolis and assumed the current responsibility.
Gary graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MBA from University of Delaware. He is currently based in Wilmington, Delaware.