Angus MacKinnon
Engineer and project manager at VWS Westgarth.
The missing link between Bob Silver and Veolia. In Glasgow for the long haul.
Angus MacKinnon – Angus MacKinnon
Angus spent his first six months in desal at the Troon test facility set up by Weir Westgarth and the Atomic Energy Agency to test MSF in detail, following on from Bob Silver's invention and development of a commercially workable version.
Since then, he has engineered, constructed, commissioned and managed for Weir Westgarth, and Veolia since the takeover – from the Scilly Isles to Curaçao via Malta, the Channel Islands and all the usual Middle Eastern customers.
When Richardson Westgarth pulled out of the merger, Weir offered to let any of Westgarth's desal people that wanted to stay on, and quite a lot did as Westgarth were leaving desal. Not many of them stayed long though; the move all the way up to Glasgow, away from roots and friends and family, was too big for most of them.
One, Rob Pringle, became station head for a private water company's desal plant on Jersey [at the other end of the UK!], shortly after moving to Weirs.
One, Rob Pringle, became station head for a private water company's desal plant on Jersey [at the other end of the UK!], shortly after moving to Weirs.