Managing Director of Bitrez is elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Paul Jones, Managing Director of Bitrez, manufacturer of specialist polymers and chemicals, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Jones joined Bitrez shortly after it was formed and consisted of a handful of staff. He entered the lab directly from school, aged 17, into a role as an apprentice technician and through a process of self-teaching and dogged determination, Jones developed his knowledge and experimental skills in chemistry, rising through the ranks to Development Chemist, Works Manager, Operations Manager, Head of R & D, and now Managing Director and co-owner.
His election to Fellow caps a number of awards secured by Bitrez as a result of his pioneering development and innovative work, including the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, and business and innovation awards by the Institute of Chemical Engineering, MAKE UK and Chemicals North West.
Oldest chemical society in the world
The RSC is the oldest chemical society in the world and includes more than 54,000 members. The fellow designation indicates an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the chemical sciences and a high level of accomplishment as a professional chemist. The designation FRSC is given to a group of elected Fellows who have made outstanding contributions to chemistry. The names of newly elected Fellows are published each year in The Times (London).
