Professional Training:
Courses/Workshops

Hands-On Courses:

Structured programs, held in English, to cover state-of-art applied topics on consumer product´s innovation and visual appearance, with ample scientific references:

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Workshops:

Short on-site training programs customised to specific client needs in the Consumer Industry. Contact DETERTEC if you and your colleagues are looking to improve or update your knowledge on:

• Introduction to radiometry, photometry and colorimetry. The four basics concepts and units. Natural sun radiation and luminosity. Trichromacy and opponency. Equipments and procedures.
• Natural sun radiation. Natural UVB-UVA irradiation. Direct and diffuse radiation. Transmittance and blocking. Materials photochanges.
• Sources of illumination and relevant visual scenarios. Sky-light, cloud-light, sun-light. Artificial sources. Outdoors and indoors visual scenarios.
• Fabrics fluorescence spectroscopy. Fluorescence principles, emission profiles, quantum absorptance function, quantum yield, loss of fluorescence. Fluorescence quenching.
• Colour appearance models. Colour appearance phenomena. Chromatic adaptation transforms. Compression models. Hunt Model. CIECAM02. Recent models. Uniform colour spaces, J-ac-bc, J'-a'-b'.
• Modelling visual perception. Colour differences: line element, MacAdam ellipsoids, DECMC, DE2000, customised colour difference formulas. Whiteness: Ganz system, linear and non-linear indexes, customised whiteness formulas.

Main Instructor:

Rodrigo Olmedo / Director-General, DETERTEC, Ecuador. Curriculum Vitae

Courses/Workshops References:

Since 1997, representatives from the following companies (in alphabetical order) have participated on DETERTEC's training programs:

ALICORP (Peru), AZUL K (Colombia), BALLESTRA (Brazil), BAYER (Venezuela), BEIJING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY (China), BELMAY (Colombia), BISCONSULT (Brazil), BON-BRIL (Colombia), BORAX (Singapore), BORAX EUROPE (United Kingdom), C.A. PROMESA (Venezuela), CASALUKER (Colombia), CENTER FOR TEST MATERIALS - CFT (The Netherlands), CERIA KAMU ENTERPRISE (Malaysia), CESAR IGLESIAS (Domican Republic), CHEMPRO TECHNOLOGY (Malaysia), CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (Brazil), CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (Mexico), CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (Germany), CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (Singapore), CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (Switzerland), CLARIANT (Brazil), CLARIANT (Ecuador), CLARIANT (Mexico), CLOROX (Argentina), CLOROX (Chile), COLGATE PALMOLIVE (Colombia), COLGATE PALMOLIVE (Ecuador), COLGATE PALMOLIVE (Malaysia), COLGATE PALMOLIVE (Mexico), COLGATE PALMOLIVE (Philippines), COMPANIA GENERAL DE SERVICIOS (Mexico), CONDEA VISTA (USA), CROSCO CORPORATION (Philippines), DETERGENTES S.A. (Colombia), DXN INDUSTRIES (Malaysia), E. CHAMORRO INDUSTRIAL (Nicaragua), ESPAMEX (Mexico), FIRMENICH (Argentina), FIRMENICH (Brazil), FIRMENICH (Colombia), FIRMENICH (Costa Rica), FIRMENICH (Ecuador), FIRMENICH (Mexico), FIRMENICH (Peru), FIRMENICH (Venezuela), FLORASINTESIS/HAARMAN & REIMER (Colombia), GARBU/FABEL (Ecuador), GENENCOR (Argentina), GENENCOR (Brazil), GENENCOR (Colombia), GENENCOR (Mexico), GENENCOR (The Netherlands), GENENCOR (Singapore), GENENCOR (USA), GIVAUDAN (Brazil), GIVAUDAN (Colombia), GIVAUDAN (Venezuela), GME CHEMICALS (Malaysia), GRUPO JAREMAR (Honduras), HENKEL (Germany), HENKEL (Guatemala), HENKEL (Mexico), HENKEL CHEMICALS (Malaysia), HPA INDUSTRIES (Malaysia), IFF (Brazil), IFF (Colombia), INDUSTRIAL DANEC (Ecuador), INDUSTRIAS ALEN (Mexico), INDUSTRIAS ALES (Ecuador), INDUSTRIA DEL ALCALI (Mexico), INDUSTRIAS DIANA (Venezuela), INDUSTRIAS LA POPULAR (Guatemala), IREX (Costa Rica), ISIMEL (Peru), ISP (Mexico), JABONERIA WILSON (Ecuador), JC LABORATORY (Malaysia), JKL COSMETIC (Malaysia), KIMIA SUCHI (Malaysia), KIWI MANUFACTURING (Malaysia), KSP MANUFACTURING (Malaysia), LA CORONA (Mexico), LA FABRIL (Ecuador), LAM SOON (Malaysia), LEMBAGA KEMAJUAN IKAN (Malaysia), LARKIN (Colombia), LLOREDA S.A. (Colombia), MAVESA (Venezuela), MILLIKEN (Mexico), MRA INDUSTRIES (Malaysia), NOVOZYMES (Brazil), NOVOZYMES (Malaysia), NOVOZYMES (Mexico), NOVOZYMES (Peru), OIL FIELD TECHNOLOGY (Malaysia), OLEOMEX (Mexico), PETRESA (Spain), PORIM (Malaysia), PROCTER & GAMBLE (Brazil), PROCTER & GAMBLE (Belgium), PROCTER & GAMBLE (China), PROCTER & GAMBLE (Mexico), PROCTER & GAMBLE (United Kingdom), PROCTER & GAMBLE (USA), PROCTER & GAMBLE (Venezuela), PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (Malaysia), PUNTO ROJO (Costa Rica), Q-PACK (Malaysia), QUEST INTERNATIONAL (Brazil), QUIMASOC (Ecuador), REPRESENTACIONES L.BUNZL (Venezuela), RHODIA (Brazil), RHODIA (Colombia), ROEMMERS (Ecuador), ROHM AND HASS (Singapore), SANCHEZ Y MARTIN (Mexico), SENSIENT FRAGRANCES (España), SERVICIOS INDUSTRIALES PEÑOLES (Mexico), SHELL CHEMICALS (Singapore), SHELL CHEMICAL (USA), SIRIM BERHAD (Malaysia), SOUTHERN EDIBLE OIL IND (Malaysia), STEPAN (Mexico), STEPAN (Philippines), SÜD CHEMIE (Mexico), SÜD CHEMIE (Peru), SUPER SYNTEKO (Ecuador), UNILEVER (Bolivia), UNILEVER (Brazil), UNILEVER (Ecuador), UNILEVER (Honduras), UNILEVER (Malaysia), UNILEVER (The Netherlands), UNILEVER RESEARCH (United Kingdom), UNILEVER (Venezuela), UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMERICAS (Mexico), UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE (Chile), UNIVERSITI KEBANGBAAN (Malaysia), UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA (Malaysia), UNZA (Malaysia), ZAITUN INDUSTRI (Malaysia).

Overall Evaluation:

As part of each training program a Final Evaluation document is filled by each participant, it evaluates several topics including logistics as well as theoretical and practical level of the training program. Overall Evaluation is graded using a five points scale: poor, fair, good, very good and excellent.

Based on more than 390 evaluations filled by experienced professionals in charge of brand and product innovation in the consumer market, the average of DETERTEC's training programs is: Good (0.4%), Very Good (53.4%) - Excellent (46.1%)

Additional comments from experienced (seniors) high-level professionals around the world:
"the course was perfect"..."excellent theoretical and practical level"..."set the basis"..."impressive"..."..is essential.."..."very useful training"..."very good speaker"..."it was one of the best training"..."very informative - impressive way of explaining the content"..."technically sound"..."ideal"..."gave us lots of opportunities to develop technical expertise"..."well balanced combination"..."thank you for giving this difficult theory in a very clear and understandable way"..."fairly priced"..."thank you very much."

Location:

Some courses and workshops are held at DETERTEC facilities located close to the city of Quito, Ecuador. The laboratory is located in the Tumbaco valley, east from the city and 30 minutes far from the business and international hotels area. The installation has spacious laboratory areas and a full implemented training room. See facilities.

DETERTEC area is located 2,600 meters above the sea level, near the Equatorial Line. Sunny days are typical, temperature during the day is in the range of 15 to 25 Celsius degrees all around the year, and humidity in the range of 30% to 80%.