Peter Paone is the Director of Engineering – East Coast for ZAP Engineering & Construction Services, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm that provides engineering and construction services in the cement and minerals industries. Pete has nearly 25 years of experience in the cement industry including extensive work in process design, commissioning, and research and development, and has commissioned and audited cement and minerals equipment worldwide. As a technical expert, Pete has provided training to new plant personnel during commissioning, new process engineers in all areas of cement equipment operation, and continuing education of cement personnel for over a decade, and has been awarded for papers and presentations provided at cement industry conferences in North America and Europe.

Pete has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He maintains a professional engineering license in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wyoming. He has patents for several emissions control technologies in cement and minerals industries, as well as for the methods of creating supplemental cementitious materials.