Airborne Labs International
Leadership
CEO, Dr Don Pachuta
Dr. Don Pachuta founded Airborne Labs International, Inc. in 2000 and has grown the company to be a world-recognized, independent commercial laboratory, that is ISO/IEC 17025 Accredited and approved by major international bottlers.
Dr. Pachuta is an industry-recognized leader with over 30 years of experience in gas analysis (CO2, air, fuel, medical, specialty, high purity gas applications) and developed many of the methods used for CO2 sampling and testing. He was also part of the discussions of ISBT’s Quality Guidelines for Bulk CO2 (2001 & 2010), CO2 Fountain Quality Guidelines (2010) and Beverage Grade N2 Guidelines (2015).
Additionally, Dr. Pachuta is a proven expert in several fields, presenting and contributing to numerous papers for:
- International Society of Beverage Technologists (ISBT)
- Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry & Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon)
- Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition (EAS)
- Society of Aerospace Engineers International (SAE)
- Compressed Gas Association (CGA)
- Semiconductor Equipment and Material Institute (SEMI)
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
- The American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)
- The American Chemical Society (ACS)
- CO2 Fountain Committee (Technical Committee of ISBT)
- Coca-Cola® World Quality Conferences
- PepsiCo® World Quality Conferences
As an innovative leader in analytical chemistry, Dr. Pachuta developed the first benzene analyzer for beverage-grade gas applications as well as novel Total Sulfur Content (TSC) Analyzers, Soft Ionization Spectrometers (SIS) and other advanced instruments for gas and synthetic aerospace lubricant analysis.
He has also developed several “manifold-friendly” gas detector tubes, ultra-clean sampling equipment for gas testing, non-hazmat gas sampling & shipping, Fountain mini-bulk tank sampling kits, and no-emission, non-hazmat SF6 sampling systems.
President, Mark Taylor
Mark R. Taylor has over 25 years of experience in designing multi-valved Gas Chromatographic analysis systems for CO2 Beverage gases, Natural Gas Analysis, and Refinery Gas Analysis applications. He has presented several papers at ASTM, PittCon, Gulf Coast conferences, International Society of Beverage Technologists and has authored LCGC magazine publications. Mark also a participating member of the ASTM D3 committee.
- International Society of Beverage Technologists (ISBT)
- Beverage Gases Technical Committee
- CO2 Fountain Technical Committee
- The American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)
- D3 Committee
- D03.14 Hydrogen Workshop 2nd Vice Chair
- The American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Pittsburgh Conference (Pittcon)
- Gulf Coast Conference (GCC)
- National Conference of Weights and Measures
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Analytical Operations Manager, Jeff Wahome
Jeff Wahome (BS in Chemistry) has seven years of experience in gas analysis (CO2, N2, Ar, He, H2, SF6 and Air). Jeff also has over six years of experience in instrument (GC and FTIR) method development and validation, for analytical applications in industrial and beverage gases. Jeff is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ).