Alfred Schnyder

Since the foundation of the company, solving of numerous interesting projects in identification of the hazards potentials in chemical and thermal processes, investigation of the cause after reactor accidents and development of safety-integrated chemical processes for our clients of small to large chemical and engineering companies worldwide.

Merging of the two sites of SCHNYDER Safety in Chemistry Ltd in the headquarters in Rieden at Baden.

Buying the central safety laboratories of CLARIANT (infrastructure and methods). Set-up of the overall service for the safety assessment of all steps of chemical processes. Operating two sites, Rieden at Baden und Schweizerhalle Muttenz.

Foundation of the company SCHNYDER Safety in Chemistry Ltd.

Foundation of the company SCHNYDER Safety in Chemistry, a scientific laboratory and consultancy for identification of the hazards potentials in chemical and thermal processes and development of safety-integrated chemical processes.

Head of a process development laboratory. Development and technical implementation of the own idea, of non-nobel metal catalytic hydrogen transfer hydrogenation of aromatic nitro compounds as a substitute of the Bechamp reduction in Multi- product facilities (for that, ROHNER AG was awarded with the Basel Innovation Prize in 1993). After that, Plant Manager (Multi-product facility, analytical laboratory and process development laboratory).

Chemical Engineering study at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETHZ. Degree, Dipl Chem Ing ETH, Zürich (Master of Science ETHZ in Chemical Engineering).

60% employment at the Federal Office of Public Health, Department of Poisons, Bern Switzerland, for the classification of chemical products. Preparation for university in part-time.

Chemical laboratory assistant in the fields of organic synthesis, gas chromatography, UV, IR, NMR and MS spectroscopy in the following companies: • Research Institute Givaudan-Esrolko AG, Dübendorf. • Swiss. Explosives Factory AG, Dottikon. • Research Institute WANDER AG, Bern. In addition, Deputy trainers for chemical laboratory assistants and six-month deployment in the subsidiary in Kings Langley (England).

In the companies BLATTMANN & CO Wädenswil and SIEGFRIED AG Zofingen as an employee in chemistry laboratories. During this time, preparing for chemical laboratory assistant. 1969 Degree as chemical laboratory assistant EFZ

Series of lectures by S. Baneijee, Professor and Chairman, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering University of California Santa Barbara.