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Canada: Progressive Planet Solutions has appointed Randy Gue and Chris Halsey-Brandt to its advisory board. The company is developing pozzolan-based supplementary cementitious material (SCM) products. It operates its Z1 Zeolite quarry in Cache Creek, British Columbia and is working on other projects also in the province.

Gue will advise on introducing Progressive Planet's developing products into the marketplace with the initial focus on markets for PozGlass SCM. Randy spent 17 years with Lafarge Canada as the Director of Business Development and Resource Recovery where he led Lafarge's Western North American initiative to reduce variable operating costs by developing business-to-business relationships primarily related to the recovery and reuse of wastes and by-product streams from industries and institutions.

Halsey-Brandt will assist in financial analysis of the first PozGlass SCM manufacturing plant and will also assist in evaluating opportunities to grow the company through strategic acquisitions. He is both a chartered professional accountant (CPA) and a chartered business valuator (CBV). At present Halsey-Brandt owns and operates a successful food processing business. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he was a partner at Blair Mackay Mynett Valuations, an independent firm in Vancouver providing business valuation services.

Canada: Progressive Planet, a company developing pozzolan-based cementitious products, has appointed Doug Brown as a Scientific Advisor with immediate effect. Brown is a materials scientist who holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Calgary. He has worked with the team that founded Carbon Engineering, a Canadian company that is developing industrial-scale technology to remove CO₂ directly from the atmosphere. He has also worked in the private sector in the field of green building technologies and he is a board member of the Alberta Chapter of the Canadian Green Building Council.