Manager Chemical Engineering

Mani Ashrafi Kakhaki

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Phone: +1-604-***-**** E-Mail: acy3jt@r.postjobfree.com Professional

• Over 18 years of experience in production/technical/R&D/Purchase management in food, natural products and herbal extraction, with a diverse background in chemical engineering,

• A passionate and forward thinking professional who never compromises on quality and execution.

• Successfully accomplished technology changes in large-scale sights including equipment and process designing, supervision on manufacturing, commissioning and make the system steady state.

• Innovation on designing, manufacturing and start up a licorice extraction line from the scratch in a very compact and efficient way.

• Strong track record at coordinating the work of team members in order to maximize production and delivery results.

• A Professional with solid understanding of production process, always striving to deliver the highest quality of work.

Experience

AROMAPRODUCT/ Georgia’s Natural food processing group.- Republic of Georgia Fruit and vegetable production and processing company 2015 – 2017 Production and technical manager

• Engage Equipment installation and purchase of the whole processing line

• Manage the overall operational, staff hiring and training responsibilities and activities of the production line

• Engage the cold storages loading and unloading processes as for raw material and products

• Supervision of the washing and draining section

• Handling the responsibilities of the cooking line, juice extraction, freezing tunnel and drying tunnel

• Supervision of bottle filling line, packaging unit, shrink packaging and cold storage.

• Engage the process of HACCP and FSSC22000 certification and establishing the system plus following the document records.

MacLic (Licorice Processing)- Republic of Georgia 2010 – 2015 Founder and CEO and Production/R&D Manager

• Designing of machinery

• Processing and formula development

• Commissioning, fine-tuning and steady stating equipment

• Training of staff

• Raw material sourcing and purchasing

• Production and technical management

• Raising capital

• President and board member

Accomplished jobs:

1- Developed the cutting machine especially for Licorice root in wet and dried form with 0% of 2

waste and optimum particle size for extraction

2- Developed the extractors’ heat transfer mechanism and loading/unloading procedure 3- Developed an innovative method for concentration Licorice Extract liquid at very low Temperature (25 C) based on newest technologies.

4- Developed dried Licorice extract in a new form as Crystal for the first time 5- Using special PHWE developed and adjusted method for licorice extraction in order to customizing the Extract.

Shirin Darou (Licorice Processing)- Shiraz, Iran 2005-2009 Production/technical/R&D manager (2006-2009).

Production line and process correction/technology change consultant (2005-2006).

• Extraction process correction.

• Heat transfer method correction in Extractors.

• Increasing the capacity from 700 tons/year to 1,600 tons/year

• Technology upgrades and innovation in Evaporation Unit.

• Innovation in steam loop to bring energy efficiency.

• Size reduction technology change.

• Innovation in the process of cooling down the blocks (paste).

• Activating the workshop as a machinery and manufacturing the equipment inside the company.

• Formation of a committee to consolidate the financial, commercial and production departments in a gleaned form to achieve the most efficient team work management. The Iranian Society of Pharmacognosy (ISP) and Soha Jissa- Tehran and Salmanshahr 2001-2005 Member of the Advisory Board Committee in “ Soha Jissa Herbal Extraction Company Consultant for PhD thesis at ISP.

• Assisting PhD students who have had thesis related to extraction and distillation.

• Cooperation in the projects as advisor/teammate in the Pharmacognosy group of Pharmaceutical faculty of Tehran University.

• Being in charge of approving (receiving) the complete production line from GEA and APV Anhydrous on behalf of “Soha Jissa” as a member of the Advisory Board Committee.

• Product MDF preparation in Soha Jissa for chamomile, Melisa and Nettle propylene glycolic liquid extracts.

• Modification of the pilot plant spray dryer’s atomizer and operational parameters in Soha Jissa in order to spray dry Valerian extract.

ZARDBAND (Herbal Extraction and Medicinal Plant)-Tehran and Yasooj, Iran 1997 - 2001 Production/ Technical Chief Supervisor and R&D Manager Assistant (1999-2001) Production/technical supervisor (1997-1999).

• Member of the team of Pyrethrum extraction process development in R&D Department.

• Member of the team of Echinacea extraction process development in R&D Department. 3

• Member of the team of Silimarin extraction process development in R&D Department.

• Redesign the extractors and heating systems.

• Designing a UV assisted pasteurization unit for liquid extracts.

• Optimizing the process of extraction in order to produce liquid extracts such as Thyme and Chamomile.

Education

M.Sc. (Engineering) – State Engineering University of Armenia (Polytechnic) Jan.2009-June2010 Area of Study: Chemical Technologies.

Thesis title: Set points calculation of the extraction parameters in order to achieve High GA content Extract.

B.Sc. (Engineering) – University of Tehran Sept.1992-1997 Area Of study: Chemical Engineering-Process and Equipment Thesis: design and built of partial distillation tower in lab scale for essential Oil fractionation Information

• Experience at working in a Fast growing herbal producing and processing units.

• Identifying areas of waste and work with the team to reduce and eliminate them.

• Reducing stock levels without the risk of shortages or outages.

• Designing factory workflows.

• Proactive, logical, efficient and self-motivated.

• Working knowledge of all relevant technical and hygiene standards.

• Licorice Processing, Herbal extraction, essential oil distillation and fractionation.

• Food processing operations and equipment.

• Factory Management, Pilot plant and scale up management.

• Cooperation with Lab as in support of the production.

• Experienced in equipment manufacturing in the field of petrochemical, food and pharmaceutical industries.

Publications

• Mani Ashrafi, H.Monsef, F.Karamkhani, "GC mass study of Deragosephalum from khorasan province Iran ", international congress on natural products research, Phoenix,Arizona, USA -2004

• Mani Ashrafi, H.monsef, F.Mahdavi, " purification of Grip fruit oil with fractional distillation ", ICNF, Florance, Italy -2005

• New Elaborated Technique for Isolation and Purification of Limonene from Orange Oil, Yaghoub Amanzadeh*, Mani Ashrafi, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Iranian journal of pharmaceutical science.2007

• Designing a modified extractor for Licorice Extraction. Tehran Pharmaceutical Research centre- 2008

• Mani Ashrafi, “A NOVEL METHOD FOR DIVERSIFYING LICORICE EXTRACTS BY INVENTING AN EXTRACTION DIAGRAM” international congress on natural products research by American society of Pharmacognosy, NY, USA -2012

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