What we are about:

Nicholas Calos (PhD) is the Principal of Hephestos Pty Ltd, with more than two decades of experience in chemical, metallurgical, and mineralogical research and innovation.  The analytical expertise behind Hephestos was born of the knowledge gained from a history of product development and commercialization in the fields of Civil Works, Waste Management, and Agro-chemicals.

The logo:

Hephestos (Ἥφαιστος) son of Zeus is the god of the smithy and the patron of craftspeople and technologists. His command of the metals is reflected in this micrograph of intergranular fracture in a sheet of tungsten after a 17 MW laser strike.