Regional Affiliate Director
Antonio Casanas holds a MSc in Chemical Industrial Engineering, with several masters in water treatment, water desalination and environment. He also holds a degree in Risks Prevention.
He began his career working with the Australian multinational Hardie Irrigation and later with ESSO. He joined Dow Chemical in 1989, being initially the technical-commercial responsible for the Liquid Separations business in the Canary Islands and actually the Account Manager for Dow Liquid Separations for Spain and Portugal. He has been directly involved in the design of the largest R.O. projects of Dow worldwide and has given the technical assistance during the start-up of the main Spanish desalination plants like Ceuta, El Atabal, La Tordera, Javea, Lanzarote IV among others.
He has participated as a teacher in the Desalination Master organized by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and in the most important desalination courses organized in Spain and has presented works in several international congresses and for several national and international magazines. He belongs to the AEDyR board of directors being actually its secretary and the AEDyR representative in the IDRA board.
