Ronald Patron (Ron)

Ronald Patron, known as Ron, is a Senior Engineer in Purple Engineering's estimating and quoting team, which prepares quotes for Purple Valves' valves and flow control equipment alongside the wider Purple range. He is a mechanical engineer with 35 years in industry.

Ron's career spans manufacturing, mining, chemical processing and oil and gas, with senior roles in reliability, maintenance and project management. He was Reliability, Maintenance and Project Manager at Orica Nitrates, Senior Reliability Engineer at copper smelter and refinery PASAR, and Project Manager and Business Development Manager at BTSMC Managing Solutions.

His project work includes greenfield project management for an FMCG printing plant, a rehabilitation assessment of an ammonium nitrate plant, and managing the transition of an oil refinery into an oil depot hub.

Having spent much of his career responsible for keeping process plants running, Ron understands what equipment has to do once it is installed. On a valve quote, that means looking past the part number to the media, pressure, temperature and duty the valve will actually face. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Mapua Institute of Technology and joined Purple Engineering in 2022.