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THE
SKILLS GAP
Everyone is talking about it.
For one Berkshire businessman it is a reality.
Chris Dodson is an old-fashioned kind of
businessman. He is an engineer and a very good
one too, with over 100 patents to his name and a
hugely successful business, the Torftech Group,
based in Berkshire, now in its 25th year.
“We are at the bleeding edge of process technology,” he says. “We
are process engineers, taking one product and turning it into
another, and these days, either significantly saving fossil fuel energy
or reducing wastes and sometimes both.”
It is deeply esoteric stuff and may not at first seem all that
glamorous – for example it is vital that someone can make the
white pigment in a tin of white paint cheaper and use significantly
less energy - his TORBED
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technology does. But it is important. In the
Photos: Inside the rice husk incinerator. technology sector Dodson occupies you will find a lot of the
Chris Dodson at the incinerator plant in India. answers to the multitude of problems that assail the world.
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