Biography

Dennis Beetham was born in Rome New York in 1940 and married to Sue in 1965.
Dennis is a father of 3 children , Denesa, Brent and Steve. Sue passed away in 1990.
Dennis is currently married to Janet, his college sweet heart; and we reside in North Bend
Oregon on the family ranch. Janet has 2 children Robin and Dean. Some milestones in
Denniss career are as follows :
1. Lived in Texas, California, Washington ; however grew up in grade and high school in
Portland Oregon.
2. Played football, wrestling, and track at David Douglas High School.
3. Graduated from Portland State University 1964 with a BS in Math and Physics.


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4. Accepted to Oregon State University Graduate School of Chemistry in 1964 and
awarded a Chemistry Teaching Assistantship .
5. Accepted to University of Oregon Graduate School of Chemistry 1965 and awarded a
Chemistry Research Assistantship , working under Dr. Keanna on the steroid tetrodotoxin
,or the deadly toxin from a coral snake.
6. Hire by Celanese Chemical Company in Kingsville Texas 1968 , and promoted into the
main research facilities for Chemical Process Development at Corpus Christi Texas ,
where Dennis was on the project team for a new process for vinyl acetate. Dennis also
developed new processes in Hydrogenation and CO2 absorption .
7. Dennis was the technical supervisor for the new world scale plant in Clear Lake City
Texas , and startup of new ethylene oxide , ethyl glycol , and ethylene di glycol plants.
8. Dennis was hired by Georgia Pacific Chemical Resins in Coos Bay Oregon in 1971 as
engineering manager and built 6 new chemical resin plants in the USA. Dennis was also
technical manager for developing UFC 85 continuous processes.
9. Dennis started DB Western (DBW ) 1975 with a new UFC and Resin plant in Las
Vegas New Mexico, and supplying both UF and Melamine UF Resins to the wood
products industry.
10. Dennis designed , fabricated and shipped a new generation UFC/UF/MUF
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