InsPyro and Proval Partners sign cooperation agreement

InsPyro and Proval Partners announce that they have established a new and extensive cooperation. "We believe this partnership is another important step to provide our customers with high-quality consultancy services, covering all aspects of operating a metallurgical business," says InsPyro CEO Sander Arnout.

The InsPyro and Proval Partners teams have different technical approaches and specialisations. Working together on common projects will allow for more complete solutions to meet customer needs. Moreover, a joint development program will be started to develop modelling and performance analysis tools tailored to the needs of metal producers. Apart from the partnership, both companies will continue providing their own services without interruption.

By combining highly complementary backgrounds in a very similar working field, a beautiful cooperation is expected to thrive. Projects jointly executed by InsPyro and Proval Partners may involve full flowsheet modelling, for example. Studying the realistic feasibility of technical scenarios viable from a market point of view, is another example among many other new possibilities.

Christian Landaas, Partner of Proval Partners: "We look forward to start working with the InsPyro team in developing new projects and products together. This way we believe we are in the position to offer our customers high-quality services and products. This year we expect to demonstrate our capabilities through the launch of our joint support and optimisation system."

The metallurgical industry is facing many market-related, technological and strategic challenges. Contact us to discuss opportunities to address these challenges in your organization using joint services provided by InsPyro and Proval.

About InsPyro

InsPyro is a KU Leuven spin-off company, providing metallurgical optimisation and process development solutions based on a scientific approach. Using advanced thermodynamic and CFD models, process fundamentals are unravelled, and scenarios can be evaluated for technical or economic feasibility. InsPyro’s Spark tool is a first software application, in which knowledge on multiphase chemistry is made available at the customer’s fingertips.

Contact person:

Sander Arnout, CEO
sander.arnout@inspyro.be
+32 16 298 491

About Proval Partners

Proval Partners is an advisory services company to the non-ferrous metal industry. Proval’s approach is based on a holistic analysis, starting from the raw material feed to the finished product: feed and sourcing, metallurgical process analysis, by-product valorisation, product and sales strategy, financial optimisation and risk management. Covering in the beginning mainly the business aspects, they have recently increased technical competences, e.g. to include total plant modelling. The company also invested in production facilities, i.e. ErasMetal in Norway, which was recently sold to Nyrstar.

Contact person:

Christian Landaas, Partner of Proval Partners
c.landaas@provalp.com
+41 21 544 33 00