INDUSTRIAL WASTE HEAT RECOVERY • BUSINESS ADVISORY
Recover the heat you’re losing. Build the business you’re aiming for.
Qmax Consulting helps industrial operators cut energy costs through practical waste heat recovery and thermal transfer solutions, and helps founders and SME leaders grow with the benefit of someone who has taken a company from foundation to exit.
20+ years
in industrial waste heat recovery, from site survey to commissioned plant
Founder → exit
first-hand experience of starting, scaling and successfully selling a company
300+ installations
of industrial heat pipe technology across multiple industries worldwide
SERVICES
Two disciplines, one practical point of view.
Whether the question is about a furnace flue or a funding round, the answer starts the same way: understand the real situation, then find the option that pays back.
01.
Industrial Energy Consulting
Independent advice on how your site uses energy and where the savings really are, from process heat and steam systems to decarbonisation roadmaps and capital project reviews.
02.
Waste Heat Recovery Assessments
A structured look at the heat leaving your process (exhausts, flues, cooling circuits) and what it could be doing instead. You get recoverable heat, candidate thermal transfer technologies, indicative costs and payback, clearly set out.
03.
Business Advisory
Strategic support for established businesses: growth planning, commercial strategy, organisation and preparing the company for investment or exit, from someone who has sat on the other side of the table.
04.
SME & Startup Advisory
Hands-on guidance for founders at the start of the journey: company set-up, business planning, first customers, funding and building the foundations that make later growth possible.
Advice from someone who has done it.
Professor Mark Boocock
In 2007 I founded Econotherm, a Welsh designer and manufacturer of heat pipe heat exchangers, and led it as Managing Director for more than eighteen years. Our units recover waste heat from furnace, boiler, oven and incinerator exhausts and turn it into useful hot air, hot water or thermal oil, for process use, space heating or even power generation, cutting fuel costs and CO2 emissions for clients worldwide.
Building Econotherm meant living the full life of a company: founding it, winning its first customers, growing it strategically and, as Chairman, seeing it through to a successful exit. Before that I spent the late 1990s and early 2000s in commercial and delivery leadership roles at Xansa and Tekwin. Qmax Consulting brings that technical and commercial experience together for your business.
Founder
Econotherm, 2007 to 2026
Managing Director for 18 years, then Chairman, from start-up to international supplier and successful exit.
Visiting Professor, Brunel
Visiting Professor at Brunel University London since 2023, and lecturing on its Building Services Engineering MSc since 2014.
EU-funded heat pipe R&D
Industrial partner on multiple European research projects developing new heat recovery systems.
API 560 recognition
Worked with refiners to establish heat pipe exchangers as a recognised technology for fired heater service.
The Strategic Journey
01.
Foundation
02.
Traction
03.
04.
Structure, business plan, first hires and first customers.
Proving the offer, pricing it properly and building repeatable sales.
Strategic growth
New markets, the right team and the systems to scale without losing control.
Exit
Getting investment-ready, valuing the business and managing a successful sale.
How a heat recovery assessment works
From hot exhaust to a decision you can take to the board.
01
Understand the site
Review of process data, energy bills and operating patterns, followed by a site visit.
02
Map the heat
Identify each heat source and potential heat sink: temperatures, flows and availability.
03
Weigh the options
Match suitable thermal transfer technologies to each opportunity with indicative cost, savings and payback.
04
Clear recommendation
A concise report with prioritised next steps, and support through to delivery if you want it.
Typical sectors: Oil & gas refining · Steel & metals · Aluminium · Ceramics & glass · Food & drink · Chemicals · Mining & minerals
CONTACT
Let’s talk about your site, or your business.
An initial conversation is the easiest way to see whether there’s an opportunity worth pursuing.
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