Kevin Fraser is an outstanding Canadian metallurgist, design engineer, business leader and pre-eminent designer of high-pressure autoclaves used in extractive metallurgical operations. As Director of Hatch Ltd.'s Autoclave Technology Group, he has grown a small pioneer design group into an exemplary business centre of over 80 professionals who have custom-designed, built and commissioned commercial autoclave plants world-wide for unlocking and recovery of valuable paymetals from refractory mineral deposits. Kevin and his team have established a number of important autoclave innovations covering both the processes and the equipment developments. By devoting his career to developing the technology and engineering of autoclaves, Kevin has greatly enhanced the reputation and competitiveness of Canadian engineering around the world.