Dennis Beetham

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 Dennis’s 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.

Dennis Beetham

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