Meet the team
Meet our managerial team. Leading our modern, innovative, and ambitious workforce, our leaders bring diverse experiences in driving and supporting our business, paving the way for future leaders in our industry.
Kevin Ross / Managing Director
Kevin has worked across a wide spectrum of the recycling industry, with exposure to both the timber and plastics industry, as well as a wide-ranging background in support industries such as shipping and sales.
He has taken on the role as President of Scottish Plastic and Rubber Association.
Managing Director
Gregg Falconer / Sales & Operations Director
Responsible for the laboratory operations including work planning, staff training and development, along with overall responsibility for the UKAS ISO 17025 Quality System and HSE.
Sales & Ops Director
Steven Burns / Commercial Director
Steven is a co-inventor of the BOSS recycling technology, and comes from a background in international recycling, with extensive experience in electronic recycling in Asia. His recent work has seen him heavily exposed to the European recycling markets and the problems facing the recycling industry.
Commercial Director
Andy Burns / Director
BSc(Hons) 1st Chemistry (Polymers) UMIST
Ph.D Catalysis of Propylene Polymerisation, UMIST, 1976.
Andy worked for 29 years in BP Chemicals at the Technical/Commercial interface on a range of Polymer and Petrochems material and process developments. He started as a Development Chemist, became a Research Manager in the late ’80s and was Strategic Programme Director for Olefin technolgy worldwide when BP sold the Chems business to Ineos.
On leaving BPCL in 2005, he has worked for Impact on a range of Polymer related topics. During his career Andy has presented many papers and is inventor on many patents across a wide variety of many materials and processes including composites, fire retardants, sealants, coatings, nano clays for plastics, plastic to oil (pyrolysis processes -inc BP’s Polymer Cracking technology), Pipe weld analysis with an in depth knowledge of Polyethylene and Polypropylene technology from reactor to recycling. Not only does Andy have the broad technical knowledge but also the experience of managing large engineering pojects to scale up from lab to commercial scale – an example was BP Chemicals new route to ethylene project which Andy managed (incl a £50M pilot plant) which was one of BPCL’s two ‘Blue Ribbon’ projects in the early 2000’s.
Director
Les Rose / Technical Director
Les worked in the polymer industry for over 35 years. After completing an MSc in physics before joining BP Chemical’s R&D department based in South Wales focusing on polyethylene grade development. He moved with the R&D department to the main production site at Grangemouth in 1984. During his 13 years with BP Chemicals, he specialised in understanding the molecular structure of polyethylene and its influence on polymer properties. He was closely involved in the development of PE80 and early PE100 pipe grades for gas and water, and cross-linked LDPE insulation for medium voltage wire and cable systems.
He has written various papers on environmental stress cracking and electrical failure in wire and cable insulation.
In 2003 he left BP Chemicals to set up with his co-directors, Impact Laboratories as a UKAS test facility focusing on testing packages for UN approval, pipe and material testing and continues to work as a material consultant for the company.
He is a member of the Institute of Physics and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and has recently been awarded a Fellowship for the later.
Since coming to Scotland Les has been closely involved with the Scottish Plastics and Rubber Association and is a past president and still active with them.
Technical Director
Rachel Lowe / Marketing Manager
Having studied graphic design and digital media, Rachel was looking for an opportunity to expand on her current skills and gain experience in digital marketing. She is responsible for the day-to-day handling of Impact’s Marketing and development of our online presence and website. Her previous experience in freelance graphic design is used to design and create marketing material and a strategy for the company.
Marketing Manager