Webinar: Practical optimization for today’s brownfield plants: A fast path to sustainable margin improvement

You don’t need a greenfield project to lift margin. This session lays out practical optimization steps—process tuning, tighter control, and quick run simulations—that can increase throughput and cut energy per ton. We’ll run the margin math on a realistic plant scenario and show a short path to a low-risk pilot that doesn’t require a long shutdown window or a big change program.

We’ll focus on the kinds of constraints that quietly cap performance in everyday operations: variability that forces operators to “run safe,” control strategies that don’t hold the unit at its economic optimum, heat and utility inefficiencies that creep in over time, and operating windows that are wider than they need to be. You’ll learn how to separate “nice-to-have” improvements from the few changes that reliably move EBITDA—whether that’s a small throughput lift, a utilities reduction, or fewer quality giveaways and off-spec events.

Most importantly, we’ll talk about how to make improvement stick. It’s one thing to find an opportunity in an analysis; it’s another to sustain the gain across shifts, feed changes, and seasonal conditions. You’ll leave with a practical approach to prioritizing opportunities, validating them before you touch the unit, and turning them into a short pilot plan with clear success criteria and minimal disruption to ongoing operations.