Peter Consitt is our owner and Principal Engineer – he is a seasoned food and beverage industry professional with over 45 years technical experience developing and managing complex capital projects and commercializing new products and packaging designs.
Peter received his Engineering Degree from Durham University in the United Kingdom, where he began his career with Cadbury Schweppes. His 20 years with Cadbury included multiple business functions, such as project engineering, production, maintenance, process & packaging development, operational analysis and sales. He worked at food and beverage plants throughout Europe and North America. He was responsible for the design and operation of many multi-million dollar processing and packaging projects, including being at the forefront of the transition from hot-filling to aseptic filling of PET bottles in the USA when he managed design, construction and subsequent operation of a major multi-million dollar aseptic PET blowmolding and aseptic filling plant in the 1990s.
Since forming Operational Innovations in 1999 his first-hand experience with production, maintenance, engineering, and R&D in the packaging industry has proved invaluable in developing successful solutions for our customers for more than 25 years.