Facility Planning & Design, Aseptic Processing, Clean in Place/Steam in Place, Compounding, Clean Utilities
Rino is the Vice President of Cheme Engineering, playing a key role in business strategy, management of operations, delivery of professional services, financial performance and future growth of the firm. He actively applies his expertise to deliver on the values and expectations of shareholders, clients, and employees.
With over 15 years of experience, Rino is an industry leader with a proven track record of successfully delivering high-risk, complex capital projects in the Pharma, Biotech, and Science + Technology industries. He has deep expertise in planning, design, project management, construction coordination, commissioning and qualification of GMP/Non GMP facilities.
Rino’s technical expertise covers a broad spectrum of areas including high purity water systems, chemical/bio-waste systems, process support utilities, aseptic processing equipment, cleaning and sterilizing equipment, lab/medical gases, and drug product compounding equipment.
Rino’s vision is to have Cheme deliver value driven results to our clients and partners while establishing strong trust-based relationships through communication, collaboration, strong leadership and creative thinking.
Rino is a registered professional engineer with the Professional Engineers of Ontario with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and a diploma in Mechanical Engineering Technology from George Brown College.
“At Cheme, we bring the resources and expertise of a large firm and the care and attention of a small firm together to serve every client as a dedicated partner. ”
Recent Success
Vaccine Manufacturing Process Upgrades Project
We partnered with our client in the biotechnology industry to design, optimize, implement, and validate their existing biologic manufacturing process.
Cheme was engaged to design and commission equipment to support a Major Component Replacement (MCR) project at one of the largest electricity suppliers in Ontario.
Our client needed to relocate a high throughput beverage quality assurance laboratory to a high-rise building location without disrupting business continuity. Learn how Cheme helped.
In Line Oil Winterization and Evaporation Production Suite Project
A pharmaceutical-grade botanicals oil producer approached Cheme to scale-up, design and optimize an existing multi-step extraction and winterization process.
A Canadian pharmaceutical client needed to expand manufacturing capabilities for oral solid dose production. Here’s how Cheme support our client’s execution of the manufacturing expansion.